The first table below looks at the demand for CCSE in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CCSE over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
Rank 631 692 736
Rank change year-on-year
+61 +44
Permanent jobs citing CCSE 229 207 135
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.212% 0.171% 0.109%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.769% 0.615% 0.419%
Number of salaries quoted 154 195 108
Average salary £38,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.44% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £39,400 £34,100
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £75,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-17.64% -5.55%
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29773 33643 32244
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.62% 27.82% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 23976 28605 26864
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%

CCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CCSE within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

CCSE Jobs Demand Trend

CCSE
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CCSE within the UK.

CCSE Salary Trend

CCSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CCSE over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

CCSE Salary Histogram

CCSE
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCSE within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +49 211 £37,500 -25.00%
South East +13 99 £38,500 -9.41%
Berkshire +10 69 £37,500 -11.76%
London -8 41 £52,500 -16.00%
Yorkshire +15 34 £32,500 -23.52%
West Yorkshire +30 32 £32,500 -23.52%
Reading - 29 £35,000 -
Leeds - 19 £32,500 -
City of London -5 16 £57,500 -8.00%
Bradford +19 13 £28,000 -34.11%
West Midlands -8 13 £40,000 +3.89%
Birmingham - 13 £40,000 -
Kent -8 11 £45,000 +8.43%
Surrey +21 10 £41,000 +49.09%
North West +8 10 £47,500 +29.25%
Manchester - 10 £47,500 -
Wales +11 7 £55,000 +15.78%
South West +9 7 - -
South Wales +8 7 £55,000 +15.78%
Bristol +5 7 - -
Scotland -7 7 - -
Cardiff -11 7 £55,000 +15.78%
Bracknell - 7 £37,500 -
Glasgow - 7 - -
East of England +6 6 £55,000 +22.22%
Buckinghamshire -1 6 £45,000 -
Doncaster - 6 £32,500 -
South Yorkshire - 6 £32,500 -
Sheffield - 5 £32,500 -
York - 5 £32,500 -

CCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing CCSE also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited CCSE.

1 522 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 427 (81.80%) Cisco
3 358 (68.58%) Cisco Certification
4 343 (65.71%) Juniper
5 333 (63.79%) Firewall
6 329 (63.03%) Network Security
7 328 (62.84%) F5
8 326 (62.45%) CCSA
9 286 (54.79%) CCNP
10 281 (53.83%) Blue Coat
11 274 (52.49%) Cisco ASA
12 234 (44.83%) Cisco PIX
13 167 (31.99%) JNCIA
13 167 (31.99%) JNCIS
14 161 (30.84%) Finance
15 151 (28.93%) TCP/IP
16 129 (24.71%) CISSP
17 125 (23.95%) CCNA
18 124 (23.75%) Websense
19 123 (23.56%) UNIX
19 123 (23.56%) Windows
20 118 (22.61%) Telecoms
21 110 (21.07%) CCSP
22 97 (18.58%) Sourcefire
23 95 (18.20%) Project Management
24 88 (16.86%) CCIE
25 86 (16.48%) WAN
26 83 (15.90%) VPN
27 75 (14.37%) Wireless
27 75 (14.37%) Cisco Nexus

CCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing CCSE also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited CCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (0.575%) CSS
2 2 (0.383%) .NET
2 2 (0.383%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (0.575%) MS Exchange
2 2 (0.383%) Exchange Server 2000
2 2 (0.383%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (0.383%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (0.383%) IIS
3 1 (0.192%) Lync
Applications
1 24 (4.598%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 333 (63.79%) Firewall
2 329 (63.03%) Network Security
3 274 (52.49%) Cisco ASA
4 234 (44.83%) Cisco PIX
5 151 (28.93%) TCP/IP
6 86 (16.48%) WAN
7 83 (15.90%) VPN
8 75 (14.37%) Wireless
8 75 (14.37%) Cisco Nexus
9 53 (10.15%) MPLS
9 53 (10.15%) Internet
10 52 (9.962%) LAN
11 49 (9.387%) Intrusion Detection
12 47 (9.004%) WLAN
13 46 (8.812%) BIG-IP
14 45 (8.621%) FWSM
15 39 (7.471%) OSPF
16 35 (6.705%) DNS
17 34 (6.513%) BGP
18 27 (5.172%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.383%) SQL Server
1 2 (0.383%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (0.383%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (0.383%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 161 (30.84%) Finance
2 118 (22.61%) Telecoms
3 13 (2.490%) French Language
3 13 (2.490%) German Language
4 11 (2.107%) Banking
5 8 (1.533%) Retail
6 7 (1.341%) Billing
7 5 (0.958%) Back Office
8 4 (0.766%) Marketing
9 3 (0.575%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.192%) Military
10 1 (0.192%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 242 (46.36%) Network Engineer
2 230 (44.06%) Security Engineer
3 142 (27.20%) Network Security Engineer
4 118 (22.61%) Firewall Engineer
5 91 (17.43%) Consultant
6 72 (13.79%) Analyst
7 70 (13.41%) Security Analyst
8 64 (12.26%) Support Engineer
9 51 (9.770%) Security Support Engineer
10 49 (9.387%) Security Consultant
11 39 (7.471%) Network Consultant
12 29 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
13 28 (5.364%) Senior Security Analyst
14 27 (5.172%) Cisco Engineer
15 25 (4.789%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 21 (4.023%) Cisco Consultant
17 16 (3.065%) Senior Security Engineer
17 16 (3.065%) Network Support
17 16 (3.065%) Cisco Network Consultant
18 14 (2.682%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (1.724%) SaaS
2 6 (1.149%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (0.766%) Clustering
4 3 (0.575%) Fixed Income
4 3 (0.575%) Derivative
5 2 (0.383%) PKI
6 1 (0.192%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 123 (23.56%) UNIX
1 123 (23.56%) Windows
2 4 (0.766%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (0.575%) Windows 2000 Server
3 3 (0.575%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.192%) AIX
4 1 (0.192%) Solaris
4 1 (0.192%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (18.20%) Project Management
2 63 (12.07%) PRINCE2
3 46 (8.812%) Network Design
4 37 (7.088%) Change Management
5 34 (6.513%) Customer Engagement
6 33 (6.322%) ITIL
7 19 (3.640%) Network Management
8 18 (3.448%) SIEM
9 14 (2.682%) Information Security
10 7 (1.341%) CRM
10 7 (1.341%) Penetration Testing
10 7 (1.341%) Load Balancing
11 6 (1.149%) Data Protection
11 6 (1.149%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 6 (1.149%) Service Delivery
11 6 (1.149%) Business Continuity
11 6 (1.149%) Mobile Device Management
12 5 (0.958%) Business Intelligence
13 4 (0.766%) Disaster Recovery
13 4 (0.766%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (1.916%) SQL
Qualifications
1 358 (68.58%) Cisco Certification
2 326 (62.45%) CCSA
3 286 (54.79%) CCNP
4 167 (31.99%) JNCIA
4 167 (31.99%) JNCIS
5 129 (24.71%) CISSP
6 125 (23.95%) CCNA
7 110 (21.07%) CCSP
8 88 (16.86%) CCIE
9 61 (11.69%) JNCIE
10 52 (9.962%) CCDP
11 44 (8.429%) Check Point Certification
12 34 (6.513%) CCIP
13 32 (6.130%) CCDA
13 32 (6.130%) CCVP
14 28 (5.364%) Security Cleared
15 23 (4.406%) SC Cleared
16 14 (2.682%) MCSE
16 14 (2.682%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (2.490%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.215%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (1.916%) ISO 9000
3 6 (1.149%) SLA
4 4 (0.766%) QA
System Software
1 13 (2.490%) ProxySG
2 12 (2.299%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.533%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.575%) Forefront TMG
4 3 (0.575%) UAG
5 1 (0.192%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.192%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.192%) XenApp
5 1 (0.192%) XenServer
5 1 (0.192%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.192%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (1.724%) CiscoWorks
2 6 (1.149%) SolarWinds Orion
3 3 (0.575%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (0.383%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.383%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 522 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 427 (81.80%) Cisco
3 343 (65.71%) Juniper
4 328 (62.84%) F5
5 281 (53.83%) Blue Coat
6 124 (23.75%) Websense
7 97 (18.58%) Sourcefire
8 61 (11.69%) IBM
8 61 (11.69%) McAfee
9 46 (8.812%) HP
10 45 (8.621%) Microsoft
10 45 (8.621%) Fortinet
11 34 (6.513%) ProCurve
12 28 (5.364%) VMware
13 19 (3.640%) Twitter
14 16 (3.065%) Nokia
15 12 (2.299%) Mitel
16 5 (0.958%) Radware
17 4 (0.766%) Aruba
17 4 (0.766%) Huawei
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