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 30 August 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
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 95 86
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 +24
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 9 6 23
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.49% 0.50% 1.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.99% 0.86% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £300 - £483
25th Percentile £351 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £380 - £653
90th Percentile £384 - £723
South East median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.50 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £77.00 £89.63 -
% change year-on-year -14.09% - -

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 910 696 878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 49.19% 58.05% 51.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 435 481
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £426 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £651
90th Percentile £725 £695 £738
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 25 37
10th Percentile £16.81 £14.48 £14.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £81.00 £20.75 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +290.36% -64.52% -2.52%
75th Percentile £88.00 £32.31 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £44.76 £75.02
South East median hourly rate £50.49 £18.87 £57.35
% change year-on-year +167.54% -67.10% +15.86%

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 30 August 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 -20 7 £378 -16.11% 1
Wokingham - 2 £355 -
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 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) Network Security
2 6 (66.67%) SSL
2 6 (66.67%) VPN
3 5 (55.56%) DMVPN
3 5 (55.56%) IPsec
3 5 (55.56%) WAN
3 5 (55.56%) Wireless
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco IPT
4 4 (44.44%) DNS
5 3 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (22.22%) Junos
7 1 (11.11%) BIG-IP
7 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Security Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Implementation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Change Management
2 3 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Change Control
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) CCSE
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (88.89%) Juniper
3 6 (66.67%) F5
3 6 (66.67%) Palo Alto
4 5 (55.56%) Blue Coat
4 5 (55.56%) Zscaler
5 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
6 2 (22.22%) Tufin
7 1 (11.11%) Aruba
7 1 (11.11%) Infoblox