The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CheckPoint over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors currently tracked.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Check Point Software Technologies.

CheckPoint
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank289311263
Rank change year-on-year
Up+22Down-48
Matching permanent IT job ads1051903774
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.867 %0.740 %0.813 %
As % of the Vendors category1.821 %1.577 %1.831 %
Number of salaries quoted828751637
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£32,000£31,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£67,500£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£40,000£45,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25 %-11.11 %
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
577175724842267
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK47.62 %46.92 %44.39 %
Number of salaries quoted486384748333833
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£26,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

CheckPoint
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

CheckPoint Demand Trend

CheckPoint
Salary Trend

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

CheckPoint Salary Trend

CheckPoint
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CheckPoint over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

CheckPoint Salary Histogram

CheckPoint
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+22990£45,500+1.11 %
LondonUp+47443£55,000-4.34 %
South EastUp+10335£45,000+5.88 %
BerkshireUp+22168£45,000-
City of LondonDown-4110£60,000-
HampshireUp+5183£52,500+23.52 %
YorkshireNo change053£40,000-11.11 %
SurreyUp+944£45,000+5.88 %
East of EnglandDown-3643£39,000+11.42 %
West YorkshireDown-1540£40,000-
West MidlandsDown-4740£35,000-11.39 %
ReadingDown-3635£47,500+5.55 %
ScotlandUp+2831£37,500+4.16 %
EdinburghUp+3329£36,250+6.61 %
South WestDown-429£45,000+12.50 %
LeedsDown-327£40,000-
SloughUp+524£42,500-
North WestDown-3523£40,000+25.00 %
East MidlandsUp+722£27,500-19.11 %
KentDown-821£40,000+5.26 %
ShropshireUp+1520£50,000+11.11 %
TelfordUp+1518£50,000+11.11 %
BedfordshireUp+516£42,500+25.92 %
Docklands, LondonNew entry-16£57,500-
WiltshireUp+1015£37,500-4.45 %
HertfordshireDown-314£30,000-25.00 %
BracknellNew entry-14£30,000-
DerbyshireNew entry-13£27,500-
ManchesterDown-112£40,000+15.10 %
DerbyNew entry-12£26,250-

CheckPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing CheckPoint 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 CheckPoint.

11837 (82.30 %)Cisco
21579 (70.74 %)Firewall
31067 (47.80 %)Cisco Certification
41009 (45.21 %)Juniper
5727 (32.57 %)VPN
6708 (31.72 %)Network Security
7696 (31.18 %)Cisco ASA
8641 (28.72 %)Windows
9597 (26.75 %)CCNA
10594 (26.61 %)CCNP
11547 (24.51 %)F5
12506 (22.67 %)WAN
13474 (21.24 %)Blue Coat
14468 (20.97 %)LAN
15455 (20.39 %)TCP/IP
16431 (19.31 %)Finance
17412 (18.46 %)OSPF
18406 (18.19 %)Cisco PIX
19388 (17.38 %)BGP
20386 (17.29 %)VMware
21370 (16.58 %)CCSE
22367 (16.44 %)Nokia
23365 (16.35 %)Active Directory
24336 (15.05 %)Microsoft
25334 (14.96 %)Linux
26296 (13.26 %)CCSA
27294 (13.17 %)DNS
28283 (12.68 %)ITIL
29281 (12.59 %)EIGRP
30279 (12.50 %)CCSP

CheckPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing CheckPoint 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 CheckPoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
156 (2.509 %)CSS
248 (2.151 %).NET
315 (0.672 %)XML
414 (0.627 %)Forefront TMG
513 (0.582 %)ODBC
611 (0.493 %)Web Services
611 (0.493 %)Regular Expression
79 (0.403 %)WPF
79 (0.403 %)Silverlight
87 (0.314 %)Middleware
96 (0.269 %)COM
105 (0.224 %)JSP
105 (0.224 %)WebSphere
113 (0.134 %)XSLT
113 (0.134 %)ASP.NET
113 (0.134 %)XHTML
122 (0.090 %)HTML
131 (0.045 %)DCOM
131 (0.045 %)FIX Protocol
131 (0.045 %)MDX
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1258 (11.56 %)MS Exchange
2138 (6.183 %)Exchange Server 2003
3131 (5.869 %)Exchange Server 2007
4117 (5.242 %)Exchange Server 2010
587 (3.898 %)SharePoint
669 (3.091 %)IIS
724 (1.075 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
821 (0.941 %)Apache
919 (0.851 %)Lotus Notes
1015 (0.672 %)Lync
1112 (0.538 %)Tomcat
128 (0.358 %)Office Communications Server
137 (0.314 %)Moodle
137 (0.314 %)SharePoint 2010
144 (0.179 %)SAS
153 (0.134 %)CMS
161 (0.045 %)Office Project Server
161 (0.045 %)Exchange Server 5.5
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1195 (8.737 %)MS Excel
277 (3.450 %)MS Office
330 (1.344 %)MS Visio
413 (0.582 %)MS PowerPoint
511 (0.493 %)Office 365
610 (0.448 %)MS Project
71 (0.045 %)S-PLUS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
115 (0.672 %)Dynamics CRM
26 (0.269 %)assyst
31 (0.045 %)Oracle Applications
31 (0.045 %)ION MarketView
31 (0.045 %)Dynamics NAV
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11579 (70.74 %)Firewall
2727 (32.57 %)VPN
3708 (31.72 %)Network Security
4696 (31.18 %)Cisco ASA
5506 (22.67 %)WAN
6468 (20.97 %)LAN
7455 (20.39 %)TCP/IP
8412 (18.46 %)OSPF
9406 (18.19 %)Cisco PIX
10388 (17.38 %)BGP
11294 (13.17 %)DNS
12281 (12.59 %)EIGRP
13266 (11.92 %)Internet
14251 (11.25 %)MPLS
15243 (10.89 %)Wireless
16242 (10.84 %)SSL
17217 (9.722 %)VoIP
18190 (8.513 %)IPsec
19175 (7.841 %)SAN
20162 (7.258 %)DHCP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1187 (8.378 %)SQL Server
283 (3.719 %)SQL Server 2005
348 (2.151 %)SQL Server 2000
444 (1.971 %)SQL Server 2008
538 (1.703 %)DB2
622 (0.986 %)MySQL
710 (0.448 %)RDBMS
88 (0.358 %)Oracle 10g
88 (0.358 %)Oracle 8/8i
97 (0.314 %)Data Mining
103 (0.134 %)Informix
103 (0.134 %)Oracle Reports
112 (0.090 %)Data Warehouse
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
110 (0.448 %)Subversion
29 (0.403 %)VSS/SourceSafe
35 (0.224 %)Git (software)
44 (0.179 %)Team Foundation Server
53 (0.134 %)Visual Studio
53 (0.134 %)Oracle Forms
53 (0.134 %)Metasploit
53 (0.134 %)Talend Open Studio
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1431 (19.31 %)Finance
2185 (8.289 %)Telecoms
3143 (6.407 %)Banking
456 (2.509 %)German Language
525 (1.120 %)French Language
623 (1.030 %)Law
722 (0.986 %)Back Office
722 (0.986 %)Investment Banking
820 (0.896 %)Marketing
820 (0.896 %)Pharmaceutical
918 (0.806 %)Retail
1017 (0.762 %)Legal
1112 (0.538 %)Italian Language
1211 (0.493 %)Advertising
1310 (0.448 %)Manufacturing
149 (0.403 %)Financial Institution
156 (0.269 %)Electronics
163 (0.134 %)Billing
163 (0.134 %)Music
163 (0.134 %)Local Government
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1661 (29.61 %)Network Engineer
2379 (16.98 %)Security Engineer
3358 (16.04 %)Analyst
4300 (13.44 %)Consultant
5206 (9.229 %)Support Engineer
6204 (9.140 %)Network Security Engineer
7187 (8.378 %)Security Consultant
8174 (7.796 %)Architect
9143 (6.407 %)Network Analyst
10136 (6.093 %)Security Analyst
11114 (5.108 %)Cisco Engineer
12105 (4.704 %)Senior Network Engineer
13101 (4.525 %)Network Support
1497 (4.346 %)Support Analyst
1589 (3.987 %)Network Consultant
1686 (3.853 %)Network Architect
1783 (3.719 %)Cisco Network Engineer
1867 (3.002 %)Senior Analyst
1965 (2.912 %)Team Leader
2059 (2.643 %)Technical Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
174 (3.315 %)PKI
265 (2.912 %)Statistics
350 (2.240 %)Cryptography
443 (1.927 %)Blackberry
443 (1.927 %)Clustering
535 (1.568 %)Computer Science
627 (1.210 %)SecurID
722 (0.986 %)Management Information System
722 (0.986 %)e-Health
819 (0.851 %)Hedge funds
918 (0.806 %)SaaS
1017 (0.762 %)Firmware
1116 (0.717 %)Video Conferencing
1116 (0.717 %)Replication
1215 (0.672 %)Thin Client
1215 (0.672 %)Fat Client
1215 (0.672 %)Open Source
1312 (0.538 %)EFT
1410 (0.448 %)Mathematics
158 (0.358 %)CLARiiON
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1641 (28.72 %)Windows
2334 (14.96 %)Linux
3261 (11.69 %)Windows Server 2003
3261 (11.69 %)UNIX
4199 (8.916 %)Windows Server 2008
5135 (6.048 %)Solaris
6126 (5.645 %)Windows XP
770 (3.136 %)Windows 7
859 (2.643 %)AIX
952 (2.330 %)Windows Vista
1039 (1.747 %)Windows 2000 Server
1134 (1.523 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1228 (1.254 %)Windows 2000
1315 (0.672 %)Windows NT
1315 (0.672 %)Mac OS
1414 (0.627 %)CentOS
157 (0.314 %)MVS
157 (0.314 %)Windows CE
157 (0.314 %)Ubuntu
166 (0.269 %)Debian
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1283 (12.68 %)ITIL
2168 (7.527 %)Load Balancing
3141 (6.317 %)Project Management
4129 (5.780 %)Network Management
5123 (5.511 %)Network Design
5123 (5.511 %)Incident Management
6109 (4.884 %)Information Security
785 (3.808 %)Service Delivery
883 (3.719 %)Vulnerability Assessment
982 (3.674 %)PRINCE2
1075 (3.360 %)Change Management
1174 (3.315 %)Penetration Testing
1273 (3.271 %)Capacity Planning
1273 (3.271 %)Validation
1371 (3.181 %)SIEM
1469 (3.091 %)Service Management
1561 (2.733 %)Project Planning
1561 (2.733 %)Security Architecture
1656 (2.509 %)Risk Management
1755 (2.464 %)Change Control
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1235 (10.53 %)SQL
239 (1.747 %)C
336 (1.613 %)Perl
422 (0.986 %)Java
517 (0.762 %)Bash shell
614 (0.627 %)Python
712 (0.538 %)PowerShell
712 (0.538 %)JavaScript
712 (0.538 %)C#
712 (0.538 %)Shell Script
87 (0.314 %)JCL
87 (0.314 %)REXX
87 (0.314 %)ActionScript
87 (0.314 %)ActionScript 2.0
96 (0.269 %)Korn
105 (0.224 %)Ruby
114 (0.179 %)VBScript
114 (0.179 %)C++
123 (0.134 %)PL/SQL
131 (0.045 %)Embedded C++
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11067 (47.80 %)Cisco Certification
2597 (26.75 %)CCNA
3594 (26.61 %)CCNP
4370 (16.58 %)CCSE
5296 (13.26 %)CCSA
6279 (12.50 %)CCSP
7229 (10.26 %)CCIE
8201 (9.005 %)Security Cleared
9187 (8.378 %)JNCIA
10157 (7.034 %)Degree
11152 (6.810 %)CISSP
12151 (6.765 %)SC Cleared
13148 (6.631 %)Microsoft Certification
14137 (6.138 %)MCSE
1591 (4.077 %)MCITP
1682 (3.674 %)CCDP
1771 (3.181 %)JNCIS
1864 (2.867 %)Check Point Certification
1962 (2.778 %)MCP
2057 (2.554 %)CCVP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1154 (6.900 %)SLA
264 (2.867 %)ISO/IEC 27001
355 (2.464 %)PCI DSS
424 (1.075 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
521 (0.941 %)QA
68 (0.358 %)COBIT
77 (0.314 %)BS7799
85 (0.224 %)ISO/IEC 17799
85 (0.224 %)ISO 9001
92 (0.090 %)HIPAA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1365 (16.35 %)Active Directory
2218 (9.767 %)VMware Infrastructure
383 (3.719 %)vSphere
461 (2.733 %)Hyper-V
552 (2.330 %)XenApp
642 (1.882 %)VMware ESX
734 (1.523 %)Terminal Services
830 (1.344 %)Squid
927 (1.210 %)Snort
1020 (0.896 %)XenServer
1119 (0.851 %)UAG
1216 (0.717 %)ISA Server
1313 (0.582 %)XenDesktop
1412 (0.538 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1511 (0.493 %)NFS
168 (0.358 %)Xen
168 (0.358 %)Nmap
176 (0.269 %)VMware ESXi
184 (0.179 %)EMC RecoverPoint
192 (0.090 %)FreeRADIUS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
169 (3.091 %)SCCM
251 (2.285 %)CiscoWorks
350 (2.240 %)Nagios
448 (2.151 %)OpenView
537 (1.658 %)Norton AntiVirus
631 (1.389 %)Cisco CUCM
730 (1.344 %)Tivoli
730 (1.344 %)Backup Exec
829 (1.299 %)SCOM
927 (1.210 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1026 (1.165 %)WSUS
1026 (1.165 %)NetBackup
1119 (0.851 %)McAfee ePO
1217 (0.762 %)Nessus
1315 (0.672 %)Cacti
1411 (0.493 %)Zenoss
1510 (0.448 %)SolarWinds Orion
168 (0.358 %)Cisco UCCX
168 (0.358 %)vCenter
168 (0.358 %)WhatsUp Gold
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11837 (82.30 %)Cisco
21009 (45.21 %)Juniper
3547 (24.51 %)F5
4474 (21.24 %)Blue Coat
5386 (17.29 %)VMware
6367 (16.44 %)Nokia
7336 (15.05 %)Microsoft
8216 (9.677 %)McAfee
9205 (9.185 %)HP
10198 (8.871 %)Citrix
11171 (7.661 %)Fortinet
12170 (7.616 %)Symantec
13162 (7.258 %)Websense
1481 (3.629 %)Oracle
1576 (3.405 %)Riverbed
1674 (3.315 %)IBM
1771 (3.181 %)NetApp
1866 (2.957 %)Avaya
1964 (2.867 %)Crossbeam
2059 (2.643 %)IronPort