CheckPoint Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

CheckPoint
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 2 December 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
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 5 0 18
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.70% - 2.38%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% - 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £380
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.57%
75th Percentile £738 - £385
90th Percentile - - £393
West Midlands median daily rate £380 £500 £385
% change year-on-year -24.00% +29.87% -19.37%

All Vendors
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 399 386 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 55.65% 53.76% 53.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 274 262
10th Percentile £258 £192 £258
25th Percentile £366 £351 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £634 £746 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £511 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +2.25% +7.53% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 4
10th Percentile £17.21 £14.09 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.85 £22.98 £18.69
Median hourly rate £20.00 £29.50 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.20% -20.81% -48.08%
75th Percentile £27.25 £30.68 £58.44
90th Percentile £51.15 £39.47 £64.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year -9.30% +31.87% +37.88%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in Birmingham

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon ELB
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) SSL
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (80.00%) F5