CheckPoint Contracts 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 372 371
Rank change year-on-year +58 -1 +84
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 175 172 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 1.51% 1.10% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 120 215
10th Percentile £351 £350 £288
25th Percentile £388 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £54.75
25th Percentile £31.32 - £76.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 - £78.50
75th Percentile £41.97 - £80.81
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 - £78.50

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 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CheckPoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in England

CheckPoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint in England.

Daily rate trend for CheckPoint in England

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in England

CheckPoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +56 84 £475 +5.56% 32
North of England +59 46 £575 +9.52% 11
North West +39 27 £555 -9.39% 4
South East +2 21 £450 -12.20% 12
Yorkshire +26 19 £588 +11.90% 7
Midlands +21 10 £550 -26.67% 6
South West +41 7 £413 -17.50% 2
East of England +28 5 £550 +57.14% 2
East Midlands +14 5 £550 +22.22%
West Midlands +9 5 - - 6
CheckPoint
UK

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (26.86%) Azure
2 24 (13.71%) AWS
3 18 (10.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 7 (4.00%) Cloudflare
5 4 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.29%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.29%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.71%) GCP
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.57%) Akamai
8 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.57%) Datadog
8 1 (0.57%) GitHub
8 1 (0.57%) IaaS
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 152 (86.86%) Firewall
2 59 (33.71%) VPN
3 50 (28.57%) BGP
3 50 (28.57%) DNS
4 49 (28.00%) OSPF
5 45 (25.71%) Network Security
6 42 (24.00%) Cisco ASA
7 38 (21.71%) IPsec
8 35 (20.00%) EIGRP
9 34 (19.43%) WAN
10 30 (17.14%) DHCP
11 26 (14.86%) Wireless
12 24 (13.71%) TCP/IP
13 22 (12.57%) HSRP
13 22 (12.57%) LAN
14 21 (12.00%) Cisco Firepower
15 20 (11.43%) NGFW
15 20 (11.43%) VLAN
16 14 (8.00%) MPLS
17 11 (6.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (4.57%) GitLab
2 7 (4.00%) JIRA
3 3 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (19.43%) Finance
2 27 (15.43%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.29%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.57%) Banking
7 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Advertising
8 1 (0.57%) Automotive
8 1 (0.57%) Aviation
8 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Legal
8 1 (0.57%) Military
8 1 (0.57%) Police
8 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (62.86%) Network Engineer
2 26 (14.86%) Security Engineer
3 24 (13.71%) Network Security Engineer
4 18 (10.29%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (10.29%) Support Engineer
5 17 (9.71%) Network Support
5 17 (9.71%) Network Support Engineer
6 14 (8.00%) Firewall Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Senior
8 12 (6.86%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 10 (5.71%) Architect
9 10 (5.71%) Network Architect
9 10 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
11 5 (2.86%) Cisco Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Field Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Network Field Engineer
12 4 (2.29%) Check Point Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.14%) ADO
2 5 (2.86%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.57%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.14%) Anti-Spyware
3 12 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.43%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.57%) e-Health
8 1 (0.57%) PKI
8 1 (0.57%) SCADA
8 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.00%) Windows
2 6 (3.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.86%) CatOS
3 5 (2.86%) Linux
4 4 (2.29%) Check Point GAiA
4 4 (2.29%) Unix
4 4 (2.29%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (19.43%) Migration
2 28 (16.00%) Agile
3 21 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (10.29%) Network Design
4 18 (10.29%) Network Management
5 17 (9.71%) Network Monitoring
6 16 (9.14%) Kalman Filter
7 15 (8.57%) ITIL
8 13 (7.43%) Zero Trust
9 12 (6.86%) Change Management
9 12 (6.86%) DevOps
10 11 (6.29%) High Availability
11 10 (5.71%) Load Balancing
11 10 (5.71%) Network Architecture
11 10 (5.71%) SIEM
12 9 (5.14%) Service Management
13 8 (4.57%) Project Delivery
13 8 (4.57%) Roadmaps
14 6 (3.43%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.14%) Python
2 3 (1.71%) Bash
3 2 (1.14%) Perl
3 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.14%) SQL
4 1 (0.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 58 (33.14%) Cisco Certification
2 45 (25.71%) CCNP
3 36 (20.57%) Security Cleared
4 31 (17.71%) SC Cleared
5 22 (12.57%) CCNA
6 17 (9.71%) CCSE
7 16 (9.14%) CCSA
8 9 (5.14%) Degree
9 8 (4.57%) CCIE
10 5 (2.86%) Check Point Certification
11 4 (2.29%) APMP
12 3 (1.71%) CISSP
12 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.71%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.71%) JNCIA
13 2 (1.14%) HP APS
13 2 (1.14%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.57%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.86%) QA
2 3 (1.71%) NIST
3 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.86%) Firmware
2 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.29%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (15.43%) Ansible
1 27 (15.43%) Terraform
2 9 (5.14%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.71%) CA Spectrum
5 2 (1.14%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.14%) OPNET
6 1 (0.57%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 114 (65.14%) Cisco
2 69 (39.43%) Palo Alto
3 48 (27.43%) F5
4 36 (20.57%) Fortinet
5 35 (20.00%) Infoblox
6 28 (16.00%) Juniper
7 21 (12.00%) SolarWinds
7 21 (12.00%) Zscaler
8 14 (8.00%) Citrix
9 13 (7.43%) Microsoft
10 12 (6.86%) Aruba
11 11 (6.29%) Arista
12 8 (4.57%) Meraki
12 8 (4.57%) VMware
13 7 (4.00%) Extreme Networks
14 6 (3.43%) Ruckus Wireless
15 5 (2.86%) Blue Coat
15 5 (2.86%) CyberArk
15 5 (2.86%) Google
16 3 (1.71%) HP