CheckPoint Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

CheckPoint
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 4 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
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 69 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.64% 0.17% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.40% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £498 - -
25th Percentile £510 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.27% - -
75th Percentile £648 £388 -
90th Percentile £651 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £586 £525
% change year-on-year -23.24% +11.67% +61.54%

All Vendors
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 356 313 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 45.24% 51.74% 45.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 229 138
10th Percentile £301 £312 £268
25th Percentile £413 £358 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £511
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% -10.81% +4.87%
75th Percentile £590 £520 £583
90th Percentile £653 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 4
10th Percentile £16.88 - -
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £11.00
Median hourly rate £26.75 £47.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.68% +239.29% -37.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £22.25
90th Percentile £86.45 £82.20 £29.90
North West median hourly rate £29.96 £28.43 £16.06
% change year-on-year +5.38% +77.02% -45.19%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in Cheshire

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in Cheshire over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in Cheshire

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Crewe - 3 £510 - 2
Knutsford - 2 £648 -
CheckPoint
North West

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
2 3 (60.00%) HSRP
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) Boundary Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft