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 27 November 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
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 309 414
Rank change year-on-year -97 +105 -10
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 129 223 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.71% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 1.58% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 117 115
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £373 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £528
90th Percentile £650 £635 £633
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile £76.59 - £42.81
25th Percentile £84.97 £20.00 £46.09
Median hourly rate £89.63 £20.19 £53.13
Median % change year-on-year +343.99% -62.00% +58.58%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £58.59
90th Percentile - - £60.94
UK median hourly rate £89.63 £20.19 £53.13
% change year-on-year +343.99% -62.00% +58.58%

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 14,652 14,113 17,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.64% 45.22% 44.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,441 8,487 11,335
10th Percentile £285 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 719 442 617
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.02 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -27.78% +66.67%
75th Percentile £46.50 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +72.95%

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 27 November 2025.

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
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 27 November 2025. 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 -41 50 £434 -17.38% 11
Midlands -23 28 £380 -24.00% 5
West Midlands -13 27 £380 -24.00% 3
North of England -57 26 £550 +12.82% 1
South East -21 20 £425 -15.63% 20
Yorkshire -36 18 £550 +100.00%
North West -51 8 £598 +16.59% 1
South West -16 3 £350 -24.32% 2
East Midlands -24 1 £500 - 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 6 (4.65%) Confluence
2 4 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) JBoss
3 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.56%) AWS
2 23 (17.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 23 (17.83%) Amazon EC2
2 23 (17.83%) Amazon ELB
2 23 (17.83%) Amazon S3
2 23 (17.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 12 (9.30%) Azure
4 5 (3.88%) GCP
4 5 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.10%) OCI
6 3 (2.33%) IaaS
6 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.33%) PaaS
6 3 (2.33%) SaaS
7 2 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 109 (84.50%) Firewall
2 63 (48.84%) VPN
3 59 (45.74%) Network Security
4 54 (41.86%) DNS
5 40 (31.01%) SSL
5 40 (31.01%) TCP/IP
6 29 (22.48%) WAN
7 24 (18.60%) Wireless
8 23 (17.83%) Cisco ASA
9 18 (13.95%) BGP
9 18 (13.95%) DHCP
9 18 (13.95%) OSPF
10 15 (11.63%) IPsec
10 15 (11.63%) SD-WAN
11 14 (10.85%) DMVPN
11 14 (10.85%) LAN
12 12 (9.30%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (8.53%) VLAN
14 10 (7.75%) BIG-IP
14 10 (7.75%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (20.16%) Jenkins
2 24 (18.60%) Git
3 20 (15.50%) GitLab
4 15 (11.63%) JIRA
5 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.73%) Public Sector
3 18 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.85%) Telecoms
5 10 (7.75%) Finance
6 5 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Banking
7 4 (3.10%) Military
7 4 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.33%) Legal
8 3 (2.33%) Retail
9 2 (1.55%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Police
10 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (41.86%) Network Engineer
2 29 (22.48%) Senior
3 23 (17.83%) Security Engineer
4 17 (13.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (13.18%) Network Security Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) Firewall Engineer
6 13 (10.08%) Architect
7 12 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (9.30%) Senior DevOps
7 12 (9.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) Network Architect
9 9 (6.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Lead
11 6 (4.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Analyst
12 5 (3.88%) Cisco Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Security Architect
12 5 (3.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.53%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.55%) Spring
3 1 (0.78%) .NET
3 1 (0.78%) ADO
3 1 (0.78%) REST
3 1 (0.78%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.78%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.78%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.18%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.65%) Operational Technology
3 5 (3.88%) SCADA
4 4 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.33%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.55%) PKI
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.78%) CMDB
7 1 (0.78%) CSOC
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.78%) NHS
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.53%) Windows
2 4 (3.10%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.78%) Linux
5 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.71%) DevOps
2 25 (19.38%) High Availability
3 23 (17.83%) Migration
4 22 (17.05%) Incident Response
5 21 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (15.50%) CI/CD
6 20 (15.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (14.73%) Change Management
7 19 (14.73%) Infrastructure Automation
7 19 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.95%) DevSecOps
8 18 (13.95%) ITIL
9 15 (11.63%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (10.08%) Mentoring
11 11 (8.53%) Agile
11 11 (8.53%) Network Monitoring
12 10 (7.75%) Inventory Management
13 9 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (6.98%) Load Balancing
13 9 (6.98%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.91%) Python
2 28 (21.71%) Bash
3 5 (3.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 54 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 45 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 39 (30.23%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (26.36%) CCNP
5 12 (9.30%) CCIE
5 12 (9.30%) CCNA
6 11 (8.53%) Degree
7 10 (7.75%) CCSA
8 8 (6.20%) CISSP
9 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (4.65%) CCSE
11 4 (3.10%) A+ Certification
11 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (3.10%) JNCIE
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
12 3 (2.33%) JNCIP
13 2 (1.55%) CCSM
13 2 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (1.55%) VCDX
14 1 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.98%) GDPR
2 6 (4.65%) NIST
3 5 (3.88%) QA
4 4 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.55%) COBIT
6 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.55%) PMO
7 1 (0.78%) GRC
7 1 (0.78%) NCSC
7 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (19.38%) Docker
2 5 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.88%) Firmware
2 5 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.55%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (31.78%) Ansible
2 34 (26.36%) Terraform
3 10 (7.75%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.10%) CA Spectrum
4 4 (3.10%) SCCM
5 3 (2.33%) Iperf
5 3 (2.33%) Nmap
6 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.55%) SCOM
6 2 (1.55%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.78%) QRadar
Vendors
1 74 (57.36%) Cisco
2 59 (45.74%) F5
2 59 (45.74%) Palo Alto
3 30 (23.26%) Fortinet
4 23 (17.83%) Juniper
5 21 (16.28%) SolarWinds
6 14 (10.85%) Zscaler
7 12 (9.30%) Microsoft
7 12 (9.30%) ServiceNow
8 10 (7.75%) Blue Coat
8 10 (7.75%) Meraki
9 5 (3.88%) Infoblox
9 5 (3.88%) Oracle
9 5 (3.88%) VMware
10 4 (3.10%) Aruba
10 4 (3.10%) Tenable
11 3 (2.33%) Arista
11 3 (2.33%) Remedy
12 2 (1.55%) Forcepoint
12 2 (1.55%) HP