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 25 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
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 317 411
Rank change year-on-year -90 +94 +2
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 144 175 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.66% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.96% 1.42% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 77 98
10th Percentile £273 £300 £350
25th Percentile £350 £394 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £520 £580 £525
90th Percentile £650 £625 £622
UK median daily rate £438 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.00% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - - £42.81
25th Percentile - £20.00 £46.09
Median hourly rate £20.75 £20.19 £53.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -62.00% +58.58%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £58.59
90th Percentile - - £60.94
UK median hourly rate £20.75 £20.19 £53.13
% change year-on-year +2.79% -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 14,960 12,296 16,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.16% 46.12% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,830 7,401 10,612
10th Percentile £300 £288 £250
25th Percentile £411 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £713 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 712 356 785
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -12.36% +6.14%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £71.95 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.36% -19.12% +15.25%

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 25 January 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
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 25 January 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 -40 48 £515 -1.90% 9
South East -9 34 £438 -5.41% 14
Midlands -33 30 £375 -25.00% 3
West Midlands -23 29 £365 -31.58% 1
North of England -82 18 £500 +19.40% 2
Yorkshire -48 12 £500 +81.82% 1
North West -56 6 £448 -10.50% 1
South West -26 4 £325 -30.67% 3
East of England -23 3 - - 8
East Midlands -37 1 £500 +11.11% 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 7 (4.86%) Confluence
2 5 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) JBoss
3 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (6.94%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.56%) AWS
2 26 (18.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 23 (15.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 23 (15.97%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (15.97%) Amazon ELB
3 23 (15.97%) Amazon S3
4 21 (14.58%) Azure
5 8 (5.56%) GCP
6 6 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.78%) OCI
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.08%) IaaS
8 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.08%) PaaS
8 3 (2.08%) SaaS
9 2 (1.39%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.69%) GitHub
10 1 (0.69%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 120 (83.33%) Firewall
2 66 (45.83%) VPN
3 59 (40.97%) WAN
4 56 (38.89%) Network Security
5 48 (33.33%) DNS
6 46 (31.94%) SSL
7 42 (29.17%) LAN
8 35 (24.31%) BGP
8 35 (24.31%) OSPF
9 34 (23.61%) IPsec
10 33 (22.92%) TCP/IP
11 22 (15.28%) Wireless
12 18 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (10.42%) Structured Cabling
14 13 (9.03%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (9.03%) SD-WAN
15 11 (7.64%) Cisco IPT
15 11 (7.64%) DMVPN
15 11 (7.64%) Wireshark
16 10 (6.94%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (18.06%) Jenkins
2 24 (16.67%) Git
3 20 (13.89%) GitLab
4 4 (2.78%) JIRA
5 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (15.97%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.58%) Documentation Skills
3 20 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.72%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.94%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.86%) Finance
7 6 (4.17%) Retail
8 4 (2.78%) Banking
8 4 (2.78%) Legal
8 4 (2.78%) Military
8 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Police
9 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (45.14%) Network Engineer
2 34 (23.61%) Senior
3 20 (13.89%) Security Engineer
4 18 (12.50%) Architect
5 15 (10.42%) Network Architect
6 13 (9.03%) Network Security Engineer
7 12 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 12 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
7 12 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Lead
9 9 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Security Architect
11 6 (4.17%) Analyst
11 6 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) 802.1X
2 6 (4.17%) LDAP
2 6 (4.17%) SAML
3 4 (2.78%) VML
4 2 (1.39%) CSS
4 2 (1.39%) HTML
4 2 (1.39%) Spring
5 1 (0.69%) .NET
5 1 (0.69%) eBPF
5 1 (0.69%) REST
5 1 (0.69%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.86%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.47%) PKI
4 4 (2.78%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.08%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.08%) SCADA
6 2 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) CSOC
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.25%) Windows
2 4 (2.78%) CatOS
2 4 (2.78%) Linux
2 4 (2.78%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.39%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (19.44%) DevOps
2 25 (17.36%) High Availability
2 25 (17.36%) Incident Response
3 22 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (14.58%) Change Management
4 21 (14.58%) CI/CD
5 20 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (13.19%) DevSecOps
6 19 (13.19%) Infrastructure Automation
6 19 (13.19%) Migration
7 17 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 16 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
9 14 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (8.33%) Inventory Management
10 12 (8.33%) Project Delivery
11 11 (7.64%) ITIL
12 10 (6.94%) Network Design
12 10 (6.94%) Security Architecture
12 10 (6.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (24.31%) Python
2 28 (19.44%) Bash
3 2 (1.39%) Java
3 2 (1.39%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (47.92%) Security Cleared
2 61 (42.36%) SC Cleared
3 54 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
4 48 (33.33%) CCNP
5 18 (12.50%) Degree
6 17 (11.81%) CCNA
7 16 (11.11%) CCIE
8 11 (7.64%) CCSE
9 9 (6.25%) CISSP
10 4 (2.78%) CCSA
10 4 (2.78%) JNCIE
11 3 (2.08%) Azure Certification
11 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.08%) JNCIP
11 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.39%) CCSM
12 2 (1.39%) CCSP
12 2 (1.39%) CISM
12 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.56%) NIST
2 7 (4.86%) QA
3 6 (4.17%) GDPR
4 5 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.47%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.08%) PMO
7 2 (1.39%) COBIT
7 2 (1.39%) NCSC
8 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.69%) GRC
8 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.69%) RMADS
8 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (17.36%) Docker
2 13 (9.03%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.39%) vSphere
6 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (27.08%) Ansible
2 36 (25.00%) Terraform
3 9 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 6 (4.17%) SCCM
4 6 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.08%) Iperf
5 3 (2.08%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.08%) Nmap
6 2 (1.39%) Grafana
6 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.39%) Salt
6 2 (1.39%) SCOM
7 1 (0.69%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 91 (63.19%) Cisco
2 82 (56.94%) Palo Alto
3 64 (44.44%) F5
4 33 (22.92%) Aruba
5 29 (20.14%) Fortinet
6 27 (18.75%) Juniper
7 17 (11.81%) Zscaler
8 15 (10.42%) Microsoft
8 15 (10.42%) SolarWinds
9 13 (9.03%) VMware
10 11 (7.64%) Blue Coat
11 9 (6.25%) Meraki
12 6 (4.17%) Arista
12 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
13 5 (3.47%) Oracle
14 4 (2.78%) Infoblox
14 4 (2.78%) Remedy
14 4 (2.78%) Tenable
15 3 (2.08%) Extreme Networks
15 3 (2.08%) Netskope