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 12 July 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
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 89 89
Rank change year-on-year -32 0 +18
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 7 7 34
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.36% 0.57% 1.74%
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 1.00% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 13
10th Percentile £284 £433 -
25th Percentile £334 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% -12.20% -18.00%
75th Percentile £428 - £519
90th Percentile £471 - £524
South East median daily rate £463 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +2.78% -12.20% +10.22%
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 £77.00 -

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 982 703 965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 49.92% 57.39% 49.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 425 508
10th Percentile £307 £350 £240
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% +0.85%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £626
90th Percentile £688 £675 £715
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 27 53
10th Percentile £24.63 - £14.50
25th Percentile £36.75 £14.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £86.00 £27.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +212.73% -52.83% +6.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £42.96 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £66.13 £65.31
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £20.75 £51.50
% change year-on-year +153.01% -59.71% +14.44%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -28 5 £375 -16.67% 1
Slough - 1 £386 -
Bracknell - 1 - -
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 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (57.14%) Network Security
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) BGP
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (28.57%) IPsec
4 2 (28.57%) Junos
4 2 (28.57%) MPLS
4 2 (28.57%) OSPF
4 2 (28.57%) SSL
4 2 (28.57%) VXLAN
5 1 (14.29%) 5G
5 1 (14.29%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (14.29%) IOS XR
5 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
5 1 (14.29%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Implementation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) IP Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Core Network Design Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IP Design Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Change Management
1 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Network Design
1 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
1 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Fault Management
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCIP
3 1 (14.29%) CCSE
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Fortinet
2 5 (71.43%) Juniper
3 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
4 2 (28.57%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) Tufin
5 1 (14.29%) Aruba
5 1 (14.29%) BT
5 1 (14.29%) Google
5 1 (14.29%) NetScout
5 1 (14.29%) Zscaler