CheckPoint Contract Job Trends in the City of London

CheckPoint
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 17 January 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
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 103 113
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 +45
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 5 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.84% 0.82%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 1.97% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 19
10th Percentile £447 - £330
25th Percentile £486 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +50.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £599 £588 £481
90th Percentile £615 £598 £528
Central London median daily rate £563 £525 £350
% change year-on-year +7.14% +50.00% -9.68%

All Vendors
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 886 811 1,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 47.97% 42.66% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 493 738
10th Percentile £340 £313 £325
25th Percentile £414 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £765 £750 £762
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £20.02 £23.25 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.99% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £36.25
90th Percentile £44.16 £127.30 £60.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -7.32%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in the City of London

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CheckPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the City of London

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CheckPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) SSL
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (20.00%) CCSP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) OSCP
2 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) GRC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) F5
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable