CheckPoint Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

CheckPoint
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of CheckPoint products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CheckPoint over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 94 114
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 2 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.15% 1.07% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 0.24% 2.12% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £405 £479 £477
25th Percentile £413 £484 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £675
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -24.07% +54.29%
75th Percentile £438 £534 £703
90th Percentile £445 £536 £709
South East median daily rate £438 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.00% -

All Vendors
Berkshire

CheckPoint falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 819 803 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.52% 50.38% 53.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 457 555
10th Percentile £293 £330 £205
25th Percentile £425 £430 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £651 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 35
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.20 £18.68
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.25 £45.21
Median hourly rate £20.79 £58.30 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -64.34% -5.65% +43.88%
75th Percentile £38.98 £61.60 £68.63
90th Percentile £65.70 £64.62 £76.63
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £45.21
% change year-on-year -65.31% +27.51% +88.38%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CheckPoint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in Berkshire

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CheckPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CheckPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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
Reading +21 1 £450 -10.00%
CheckPoint
South East

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) DMVPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSA
1 1 (50.00%) CCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Check Point Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto