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 4 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 300 370
Rank change year-on-year -129 +70 -13
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 154 177 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.73% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 0.91% 1.53% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 89 118
10th Percentile £263 £355 £350
25th Percentile £356 £388 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £516 £575 £538
90th Percentile £570 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £440 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -12.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £22.30 - -
25th Percentile £24.63 £31.32 -
Median hourly rate £29.13 £36.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% - -
75th Percentile £34.25 £41.97 -
90th Percentile £36.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.13 £36.65 -
% change year-on-year -20.52% - -

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 16,833 11,576 15,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.78% 47.48% 42.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,956 7,462 9,877
10th Percentile £313 £288 £262
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £631
90th Percentile £713 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 880 468 1,003
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.84 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.57 £17.79 £14.27
Median hourly rate £30.96 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.15% +20.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.09 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.53% +17.56% -48.70%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -69 65 £400 -15.79% 10
South East -36 41 £445 -1.11% 7
Midlands -64 18 £350 -36.36% 3
West Midlands -51 16 £340 - 2
North of England -91 16 £500 -13.04% 6
North West -55 9 £515 -7.21% 1
East of England -35 6 £530 -3.64% 2
Yorkshire -60 6 £500 -14.89% 3
East Midlands -35 2 £488 -11.36% 1
South West -39 2 £375 -9.09% 3
North East - 1 - - 2
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 5 (3.25%) Confluence
1 5 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) JBoss
2 1 (0.65%) nginx
2 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (8.44%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.18%) Azure
2 23 (14.94%) AWS
3 8 (5.19%) GCP
4 6 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (3.25%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.25%) SaaS
6 4 (2.60%) IaaS
6 4 (2.60%) PaaS
7 2 (1.30%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.30%) GitHub
7 2 (1.30%) Google Ads
7 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.30%) OCI
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 123 (79.87%) Firewall
2 80 (51.95%) WAN
3 67 (43.51%) LAN
4 49 (31.82%) BGP
4 49 (31.82%) OSPF
5 47 (30.52%) Network Security
6 46 (29.87%) VPN
7 36 (23.38%) IPsec
8 35 (22.73%) Wireless
9 29 (18.83%) Cisco ASA
10 21 (13.64%) Cisco Nexus
10 21 (13.64%) MPLS
10 21 (13.64%) VLAN
11 20 (12.99%) DNS
11 20 (12.99%) SSL
12 18 (11.69%) Structured Cabling
13 17 (11.04%) BIG-IP
14 16 (10.39%) Wi-Fi
15 15 (9.74%) SD-WAN
15 15 (9.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.65%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.95%) JIRA
1 3 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.65%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) GitLab
2 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.58%) Documentation Skills
3 18 (11.69%) Finance
4 14 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 13 (8.44%) Manufacturing
6 12 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.84%) Financial Institution
8 8 (5.19%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.55%) Retail
10 5 (3.25%) Banking
11 3 (1.95%) Legal
11 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.30%) Aviation
13 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.65%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (51.30%) Network Engineer
2 23 (14.94%) Senior
3 20 (12.99%) Architect
4 15 (9.74%) Security Engineer
5 14 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 12 (7.79%) Network Architect
7 9 (5.84%) Cisco Engineer
7 9 (5.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 9 (5.84%) Network Security Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) Security Architect
8 7 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Firewall Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Network Manager
9 6 (3.90%) Network Operations Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Operations Engineer
10 5 (3.25%) Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (3.25%) Lead
10 5 (3.25%) Network Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (2.60%) Firewall Architect
11 4 (2.60%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.14%) LDAP
2 10 (6.49%) SAML
3 9 (5.84%) 802.1X
4 4 (2.60%) VML
5 2 (1.30%) CSS
5 2 (1.30%) HTML
6 1 (0.65%) .NET
6 1 (0.65%) eBPF
6 1 (0.65%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.65%) Flask
6 1 (0.65%) REST
6 1 (0.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.90%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.95%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.95%) PKI
6 3 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.30%) NHS
7 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.65%) CESG
8 1 (0.65%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.09%) Linux
1 14 (9.09%) Windows
2 9 (5.84%) Unix
3 5 (3.25%) CatOS
4 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.65%) VMS
6 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (12.99%) Project Delivery
2 18 (11.69%) Change Management
2 18 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (11.04%) Validation
4 16 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (9.74%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (8.44%) ITIL
6 13 (8.44%) Load Balancing
7 12 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (7.79%) Customer Requirements
7 12 (7.79%) Incident Response
7 12 (7.79%) Migration
8 11 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
9 10 (6.49%) Cloud Security
9 10 (6.49%) ITSM
10 9 (5.84%) Computer Science
10 9 (5.84%) Incident Management
10 9 (5.84%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (5.84%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.44%) Python
2 3 (1.95%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.30%) Bash
3 2 (1.30%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.65%) Java
Qualifications
1 61 (39.61%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (35.71%) CCNP
3 50 (32.47%) Security Cleared
4 48 (31.17%) SC Cleared
5 29 (18.83%) Degree
6 21 (13.64%) CCNA
7 13 (8.44%) CCIE
7 13 (8.44%) CCSE
8 5 (3.25%) CISSP
9 4 (2.60%) CCSM
9 4 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.95%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.95%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.30%) BC Cleared
11 2 (1.30%) CCSP
11 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.30%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.55%) QA
2 6 (3.90%) NIST
2 6 (3.90%) SLA
3 5 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.25%) NCSC
4 4 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.60%) GDPR
5 3 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.95%) PMO
6 2 (1.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) RMADS
System Software
1 20 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (11.04%) Active Directory
3 15 (9.74%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.95%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.30%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.65%) Docker
6 1 (0.65%) NFS
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (11.04%) Ansible
2 11 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (5.84%) Terraform
4 8 (5.19%) FortiGate
5 7 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.90%) Grafana
6 6 (3.90%) SCCM
7 5 (3.25%) Salt
8 2 (1.30%) AirWatch
8 2 (1.30%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.30%) Iperf
8 2 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.30%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.30%) Nmap
9 1 (0.65%) CASB
9 1 (0.65%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 117 (75.97%) Cisco
2 99 (64.29%) Palo Alto
3 50 (32.47%) F5
4 49 (31.82%) Aruba
5 37 (24.03%) Fortinet
6 24 (15.58%) Juniper
6 24 (15.58%) VMware
7 20 (12.99%) Microsoft
8 12 (7.79%) Zscaler
9 11 (7.14%) Arista
9 11 (7.14%) ServiceNow
9 11 (7.14%) SolarWinds
10 9 (5.84%) Meraki
11 7 (4.55%) Splunk
12 6 (3.90%) BigPanda
12 6 (3.90%) Blue Coat
13 5 (3.25%) Ekahau
14 4 (2.60%) Broadcom
14 4 (2.60%) Remedy
15 3 (1.95%) Symantec