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 16 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
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 317 335
Rank change year-on-year -177 +18 +15
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 132 194 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.70% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 1.48% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 108 121
10th Percentile £343 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £510 £575 £590
90th Percentile £600 £638 £723
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 19,083 13,118 14,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.20% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,026 8,297 9,248
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £716 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,028 644 754
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.32 £17.73 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -14.41% -21.64%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.38 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -10.18% -30.71%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -119 50 £425 +3.03% 26
North of England -85 36 £475 -15.56% 8
North West -37 26 £450 -23.24% 5
South East -70 24 £463 +2.78% 4
Midlands -56 10 £378 -0.66%
Yorkshire -58 9 £500 -9.09% 2
West Midlands -61 8 £375 -1.32%
East of England -22 5 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -17 2 £475 -17.39%
South West -52 1 £450 -5.01% 1
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 6 (4.55%) SAS
2 2 (1.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) nginx
3 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.76%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.70%) Azure
2 22 (16.67%) AWS
3 6 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.03%) GCP
5 4 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.27%) Cloudflare
6 3 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.52%) OCI
7 2 (1.52%) SaaS
7 2 (1.52%) Serverless
8 1 (0.76%) Akamai
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.76%) Datadog
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.76%) PaaS
8 1 (0.76%) Route 53
8 1 (0.76%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 108 (81.82%) Firewall
2 47 (35.61%) Cisco ASA
2 47 (35.61%) Network Security
3 45 (34.09%) WAN
4 40 (30.30%) VPN
5 38 (28.79%) LAN
6 35 (26.52%) BGP
7 34 (25.76%) OSPF
8 32 (24.24%) Wireless
9 31 (23.48%) Cisco Firepower
10 29 (21.97%) VLAN
11 27 (20.45%) DNS
12 24 (18.18%) EIGRP
12 24 (18.18%) IPsec
13 23 (17.42%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (14.39%) Cisco Nexus
15 18 (13.64%) DHCP
16 17 (12.88%) TCP/IP
17 13 (9.85%) Cisco ISE
17 13 (9.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.76%) MySQL
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.76%) Git
General
1 22 (16.67%) Finance
1 22 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.61%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.06%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.55%) Police
5 6 (4.55%) Retail
6 5 (3.79%) Banking
6 5 (3.79%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (56.06%) Network Engineer
2 23 (17.42%) Security Engineer
3 21 (15.91%) Senior
4 18 (13.64%) Network Security Engineer
5 12 (9.09%) Architect
6 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 10 (7.58%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) Network Architect
9 7 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (3.79%) NOC Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Firewall Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Network Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (3.03%) Network Manager
11 4 (3.03%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.27%) Network Operations Engineer
12 3 (2.27%) Network Security Architect
12 3 (2.27%) Network Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.09%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.79%) LDAP
3 4 (3.03%) SAML
4 1 (0.76%) JWT
4 1 (0.76%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.73%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.30%) PKI
4 6 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.03%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.76%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.76%) NHS
8 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.09%) Linux
1 12 (9.09%) Windows
2 6 (4.55%) Unix
3 3 (2.27%) Check Point GAiA
4 2 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.76%) CatOS
5 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.42%) Change Management
2 21 (15.91%) ITIL
3 13 (9.85%) Load Balancing
3 13 (9.85%) Validation
4 12 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 11 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 11 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (7.58%) ITSM
6 10 (7.58%) Zero Trust
7 9 (6.82%) Network Design
7 9 (6.82%) Network Monitoring
7 9 (6.82%) SIEM
7 9 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (6.06%) Cloud Security
8 8 (6.06%) Migration
8 8 (6.06%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (6.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.30%) Python
2 4 (3.03%) Bash
3 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.76%) Bicep
4 1 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 54 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 49 (37.12%) SC Cleared
3 32 (24.24%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (21.97%) CCNP
5 16 (12.12%) Degree
6 12 (9.09%) CCSE
7 6 (4.55%) CCNA
8 5 (3.79%) CCSM
8 5 (3.79%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.27%) CCSA
9 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.52%) CCIE
10 2 (1.52%) CISSP
10 2 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.76%) CCSP
11 1 (0.76%) CISM
11 1 (0.76%) GCIA
11 1 (0.76%) GCIH
11 1 (0.76%) GIAC
11 1 (0.76%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) SLA
2 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.52%) NIST
3 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.52%) QA
4 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (12.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.06%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.79%) vSphere
5 4 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.76%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.76%) Docker
6 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.76%) NFS
6 1 (0.76%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (6.82%) FortiGate
2 4 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (3.03%) Terraform
3 3 (2.27%) Ansible
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.52%) SCCM
5 1 (0.76%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Istio
5 1 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.76%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 93 (70.45%) Cisco
2 77 (58.33%) Palo Alto
3 40 (30.30%) F5
4 38 (28.79%) Fortinet
5 21 (15.91%) VMware
6 20 (15.15%) Juniper
7 15 (11.36%) Microsoft
8 13 (9.85%) Aruba
9 11 (8.33%) Blue Coat
9 11 (8.33%) Meraki
10 9 (6.82%) SolarWinds
11 7 (5.30%) Zscaler
12 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
13 5 (3.79%) Ekahau
13 5 (3.79%) Infoblox
14 4 (3.03%) BT
14 4 (3.03%) Citrix
14 4 (3.03%) Commvault
14 4 (3.03%) Veeam
14 4 (3.03%) Xerox