CheckPoint Contracts

CheckPoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CheckPoint over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 372 470
Rank change year-on-year -30 +98 -74
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 191 367 427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.63% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 1.04% 1.48% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 251 313
10th Percentile £350 £288 £310
25th Percentile £413 £388 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +1.01% +11.61%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £540
90th Percentile £688 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £419 £429
% change year-on-year +22.39% -2.33% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.50 -

All Vendors
UK

CheckPoint is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,342 24,859 34,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.65% 43.00% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,367 16,623 23,231
10th Percentile £263 £270 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 686 880
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.77 £15.20
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CheckPoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint.

Daily rate trend for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint.

Hourly rate trend for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -1 176 £513 +2.50% 49
UK excluding London -1 111 £513 +22.39% 38
South East +49 67 £513 +10.22% 9
London +6 67 £463 -15.91% 13
Work from Home -10 45 £450 -15.09% 22
South West +8 11 £500 +8.11% 1
Midlands -1 11 £750 +66.67% 11
West Midlands -12 10 £750 +81.82% 8
North of England +5 9 £503 +48.89% 8
Scotland +36 7 £413 -8.33% 2
East of England +12 7 £350 +27.27% 6
Yorkshire +16 5 £480 +63.40% 2
North West -11 4 £525 +50.00% 4
East Midlands +18 1 £450 -13.21% 3

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.09%) MQSeries
3 3 (1.57%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (3.66%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (15.18%) Azure
2 18 (9.42%) AWS
3 7 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.62%) BigCommerce
4 5 (2.62%) Cloudflare
4 5 (2.62%) OCI
5 4 (2.09%) GCP
5 4 (2.09%) WhatsApp
6 3 (1.57%) SaaS
7 2 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.52%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.52%) Kong
8 1 (0.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 127 (66.49%) Firewall
2 50 (26.18%) WAN
3 47 (24.61%) LAN
4 45 (23.56%) VPN
5 43 (22.51%) Network Security
6 37 (19.37%) DMZ
7 36 (18.85%) Cisco ASA
8 34 (17.80%) Cisco Nexus
9 31 (16.23%) Cisco ISE
10 30 (15.71%) Wireless
11 25 (13.09%) DNS
11 25 (13.09%) MPLS
12 21 (10.99%) DHCP
12 21 (10.99%) SAN
13 18 (9.42%) OSPF
13 18 (9.42%) SD-WAN
14 17 (8.90%) BGP
15 16 (8.38%) EIGRP
16 13 (6.81%) IPsec
16 13 (6.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.57%) MySQL
1 3 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (1.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (2.62%) JIRA
3 1 (0.52%) Hudson
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
General
1 65 (34.03%) Finance
2 56 (29.32%) Banking
3 29 (15.18%) Social Skills
4 15 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.28%) Investment Banking
6 11 (5.76%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.19%) Legal
8 8 (4.19%) Marketing
9 6 (3.14%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.62%) Retail
11 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.57%) Electronics
11 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.57%) Military
11 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.05%) Law
12 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (63.87%) Network Engineer
2 36 (18.85%) Senior
3 35 (18.32%) Senior Network Engineer
4 18 (9.42%) Cisco Engineer
4 18 (9.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 16 (8.38%) Support Engineer
6 13 (6.81%) Juniper Engineer
7 12 (6.28%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 11 (5.76%) Architect
9 10 (5.24%) Consultant
10 9 (4.71%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.66%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Cloud Network Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Network Security Engineer
13 5 (2.62%) Enterprise Architect
13 5 (2.62%) Network Consultant
13 5 (2.62%) Project Manager
13 5 (2.62%) Security Consultant
14 4 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.71%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.62%) VML
2 5 (2.62%) Web Services
3 4 (2.09%) LDAP
4 3 (1.57%) EDI
4 3 (1.57%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.05%) .NET
5 2 (1.05%) OpenID
5 2 (1.05%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.23%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.81%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (3.14%) Operational Technology
3 6 (3.14%) Replication
4 5 (2.62%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.62%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.57%) CCTV
6 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.57%) SCADA
7 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.05%) PKI
7 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) CSOC
8 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.52%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.09%) Windows
2 13 (6.81%) Linux
3 12 (6.28%) Windows Server 2012
3 12 (6.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (4.19%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.09%) Unix
6 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (18.85%) Migration
2 30 (15.71%) B2B
2 30 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (13.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (9.95%) ITIL
5 17 (8.90%) Project Delivery
6 16 (8.38%) Incident Management
7 15 (7.85%) Network Architecture
8 14 (7.33%) Business Continuity
8 14 (7.33%) Change Control
8 14 (7.33%) Change Management
9 13 (6.81%) High Availability
10 12 (6.28%) Architectural Patterns
10 12 (6.28%) Design Patterns
10 12 (6.28%) ITSM
10 12 (6.28%) Project Management
11 10 (5.24%) Agile
12 9 (4.71%) Incident Response
12 9 (4.71%) Network Design
12 9 (4.71%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.09%) Python
2 7 (3.66%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.57%) Go
4 2 (1.05%) Bash
4 2 (1.05%) C#
4 2 (1.05%) Java
4 2 (1.05%) Ruby
5 1 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 91 (47.64%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (24.61%) CCNP
3 28 (14.66%) Security Cleared
4 27 (14.14%) CCNA
5 22 (11.52%) CCIE
6 17 (8.90%) SC Cleared
7 10 (5.24%) CCSA
8 8 (4.19%) Degree
9 7 (3.66%) JNCIA
10 6 (3.14%) AWS Certification
10 6 (3.14%) Azure Certification
10 6 (3.14%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.62%) CCIE Data Center
11 5 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (2.09%) CCSE
13 3 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.71%) SLA
2 3 (1.57%) PMO
3 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.52%) ISA99
4 1 (0.52%) ITGC
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (7.85%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.76%) VMware NSX
4 6 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.09%) ProxySG
5 4 (2.09%) Samba
6 2 (1.05%) Firmware
6 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.05%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (9.95%) Ansible
2 14 (7.33%) Terraform
3 12 (6.28%) SCCM
4 8 (4.19%) FortiGate
5 6 (3.14%) SolarWinds Orion
5 6 (3.14%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.57%) Netcool
7 2 (1.05%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (1.05%) Nagios
7 2 (1.05%) Nessus
7 2 (1.05%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.05%) Rundeck
7 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.05%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 155 (81.15%) Cisco
2 65 (34.03%) Palo Alto
3 47 (24.61%) F5
4 34 (17.80%) Fortinet
5 30 (15.71%) Juniper
6 29 (15.18%) Arista
6 29 (15.18%) Microsoft
7 27 (14.14%) Blue Coat
8 21 (10.99%) Infoblox
8 21 (10.99%) SolarWinds
9 18 (9.42%) Citrix
10 17 (8.90%) VMware
11 14 (7.33%) HP
11 14 (7.33%) Zscaler
12 13 (6.81%) EMC
13 12 (6.28%) Avaya
13 12 (6.28%) Meraki
14 11 (5.76%) Dell
15 10 (5.24%) Aruba
16 8 (4.19%) SAP