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 19 April 2026, 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
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 86 94
Rank change year-on-year -30 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 6 5 30
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.32% 0.43% 1.47%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.84% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 17
10th Percentile £402 £415 -
25th Percentile £452 £425 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £485 - £519
90th Percentile £494 - -
South East median daily rate £445 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -1.11% -12.20% +10.22%

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 977 593 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 52.78% 51.34% 49.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 370 578
10th Percentile £306 £350 £213
25th Percentile £413 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £668 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 14 46
10th Percentile £20.79 £18.92 £17.30
25th Percentile £55.63 £25.75 £46.72
Median hourly rate £85.00 £42.78 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +98.71% -26.63% -0.77%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.09 £64.15
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £24.66 £47.50
% change year-on-year +92.62% -48.08% +5.56%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in Berkshire

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 19 April 2026. 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 -22 3 £480 +6.67%
Bracknell - 2 - -
Slough +11 1 £386 -9.18%
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (33.33%) IPsec
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Broadband
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (16.67%) IOS XR
3 1 (16.67%) IPv6
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) RSVP
3 1 (16.67%) SIGTRAN
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
3 1 (16.67%) tcpdump
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (33.33%) IP Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Core Network Design Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) IP Design Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Application Packaging
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
1 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 1 (16.67%) Fault Management
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCIP
2 1 (16.67%) CCSM
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Tenable
4 1 (16.67%) BT
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (16.67%) NetScout
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Zscaler