CheckPoint Contract Job Trends in England

CheckPoint
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 315 356
Rank change year-on-year -169 +41 -26
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 130 198 182
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.72% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 1.52% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 111 115
10th Percentile £343 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £511 £575 £595
90th Percentile £600 £638 £739
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £45.63 £76.59 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £84.97 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £89.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% - -
75th Percentile £78.69 - -
90th Percentile £78.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £89.63 -
% change year-on-year -14.09% - -

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,885 13,061 14,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.43% 47.18% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,889 8,265 9,244
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £623 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,030 631 758
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -16.98% -19.21%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.77
% change year-on-year +29.22% -15.52% -27.06%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in England

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in England

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CheckPoint in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CheckPoint in England

CheckPoint
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -112 53 £425 +3.03% 54
North of England -88 31 £488 -13.33% 13
South East -64 24 £463 +2.78% 6
North West -46 22 £450 -23.24% 9
Midlands -61 10 £378 -5.63% 1
West Midlands -55 8 £375 -1.32% 1
Yorkshire -60 8 £500 -9.09% 3
East of England -18 5 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -8 2 £475 -17.39%
South West -46 1 £450 +13.28% 3
North East - 1 - - 1
CheckPoint
UK

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.08%) SAS
2 2 (1.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.77%) nginx
3 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (2.31%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.77%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.00%) Azure
2 21 (16.15%) AWS
3 6 (4.62%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.08%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.08%) GCP
5 4 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.31%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.54%) OCI
7 2 (1.54%) SaaS
7 2 (1.54%) Serverless
8 1 (0.77%) Akamai
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.77%) Kong
8 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.77%) PaaS
8 1 (0.77%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 106 (81.54%) Firewall
2 49 (37.69%) Network Security
3 45 (34.62%) WAN
4 43 (33.08%) Cisco ASA
5 39 (30.00%) VPN
6 38 (29.23%) LAN
7 32 (24.62%) BGP
8 31 (23.85%) OSPF
8 31 (23.85%) Wireless
9 28 (21.54%) VLAN
10 26 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
10 26 (20.00%) DNS
11 22 (16.92%) EIGRP
11 22 (16.92%) IPsec
12 21 (16.15%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (13.85%) Cisco Nexus
14 17 (13.08%) DHCP
14 17 (13.08%) TCP/IP
15 13 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
15 13 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.77%) MySQL
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (0.77%) Git
General
1 22 (16.92%) Finance
2 20 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.15%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.38%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.62%) Retail
7 5 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.85%) Police
8 4 (3.08%) Banking
9 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.77%) Legal
10 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 23 (17.69%) Security Engineer
3 21 (16.15%) Senior
4 18 (13.85%) Network Security Engineer
5 12 (9.23%) Architect
6 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Network Architect
9 7 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Firewall Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (3.85%) NOC Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) Network Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (3.08%) Network Manager
11 4 (3.08%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.31%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.31%) Design Engineer
12 3 (2.31%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.23%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.85%) LDAP
3 4 (3.08%) SAML
4 1 (0.77%) JWT
4 1 (0.77%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.31%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.62%) PKI
5 5 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.77%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.77%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.77%) NHS
8 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.77%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.23%) Linux
1 12 (9.23%) Windows
2 6 (4.62%) Unix
3 3 (2.31%) Check Point GAiA
4 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.77%) CatOS
5 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.69%) Change Management
2 18 (13.85%) ITIL
3 13 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 12 (9.23%) Project Delivery
4 12 (9.23%) Validation
5 10 (7.69%) ITSM
5 10 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (7.69%) Zero Trust
6 9 (6.92%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (6.92%) Incident Management
6 9 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (6.92%) Network Design
6 9 (6.92%) Network Monitoring
6 9 (6.92%) SIEM
7 8 (6.15%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (6.15%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (6.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (5.38%) Agile
8 7 (5.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.62%) Python
2 3 (2.31%) Bash
3 2 (1.54%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.77%) Bicep
4 1 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 51 (39.23%) Security Cleared
2 47 (36.15%) SC Cleared
3 30 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (20.77%) CCNP
5 16 (12.31%) Degree
6 12 (9.23%) CCSE
7 6 (4.62%) CCNA
8 5 (3.85%) CCSM
8 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.31%) CCSA
9 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.77%) APMP
11 1 (0.77%) CCIE
11 1 (0.77%) CEH
11 1 (0.77%) CISM
11 1 (0.77%) CISSP
11 1 (0.77%) ISEB
11 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) SLA
2 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.54%) QA
3 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.77%) NCSC
3 1 (0.77%) NIST
3 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.77%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (13.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.15%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.85%) vSphere
5 4 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.77%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.77%) Docker
6 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.77%) NFS
6 1 (0.77%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (6.92%) FortiGate
2 5 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.31%) Terraform
4 2 (1.54%) Ansible
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.54%) SCCM
5 1 (0.77%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.77%) Grafana
5 1 (0.77%) Istio
5 1 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.77%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 90 (69.23%) Cisco
2 75 (57.69%) Palo Alto
3 41 (31.54%) F5
4 38 (29.23%) Fortinet
5 21 (16.15%) VMware
6 20 (15.38%) Juniper
7 15 (11.54%) Microsoft
8 13 (10.00%) Aruba
9 11 (8.46%) Blue Coat
9 11 (8.46%) Meraki
10 9 (6.92%) SolarWinds
11 8 (6.15%) Zscaler
12 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow
13 5 (3.85%) Ekahau
13 5 (3.85%) Infoblox
14 4 (3.08%) BT
14 4 (3.08%) Citrix
14 4 (3.08%) Commvault
14 4 (3.08%) NetApp
14 4 (3.08%) Veeam