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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 305 367
Rank change year-on-year -150 +62 -9
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 145 182 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.76% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 0.85% 1.60% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 90 128
10th Percentile £292 £375 £350
25th Percentile £390 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £523 £575 £550
90th Percentile £585 £626 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.10% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £26.95 - -
25th Percentile £36.25 £31.32 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £36.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +63.73% - -
75th Percentile £78.50 £41.97 -
90th Percentile £78.65 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £36.65 -
% change year-on-year +86.93% - -

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 17,035 11,395 15,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.77% 47.50% 41.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,932 7,255 9,788
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £514
% change year-on-year -1.48% -1.22% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 917 495 1,025
10th Percentile £15.70 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.38 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% +15.02% -39.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.13 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.52 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.56
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.24% -46.92%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -99 63 £400 -11.11% 16
South East -40 39 £463 +2.78% 10
North of England -101 15 £500 -13.04% 5
Midlands -64 14 £363 -34.09% 2
West Midlands -59 12 £345 -41.28%
North West -44 8 £518 -10.00% 1
Yorkshire -74 6 £500 -13.04% 3
East of England -32 5 £530 -3.64% 3
East Midlands -28 2 £488 -11.36% 2
South West -37 2 £375 -9.09% 2
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 4 (2.76%) Confluence
1 4 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.21%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.69%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.00%) Azure
2 24 (16.55%) AWS
3 6 (4.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.45%) GCP
5 3 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.07%) SaaS
6 2 (1.38%) Cloudflare
6 2 (1.38%) IaaS
6 2 (1.38%) OCI
6 2 (1.38%) PaaS
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.69%) GitHub
7 1 (0.69%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.69%) Route 53
7 1 (0.69%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 114 (78.62%) Firewall
2 69 (47.59%) WAN
3 62 (42.76%) LAN
4 47 (32.41%) Network Security
5 43 (29.66%) VPN
6 39 (26.90%) BGP
6 39 (26.90%) OSPF
7 30 (20.69%) Wireless
8 29 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
9 26 (17.93%) IPsec
10 23 (15.86%) VLAN
11 22 (15.17%) MPLS
12 21 (14.48%) DNS
13 18 (12.41%) Cisco Nexus
14 17 (11.72%) SSL
15 16 (11.03%) Wi-Fi
16 15 (10.34%) SD-WAN
17 14 (9.66%) BIG-IP
18 13 (8.97%) EIGRP
18 13 (8.97%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.69%) MySQL
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.07%) JIRA
1 3 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.69%) Git
2 1 (0.69%) GitLab
2 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (19.31%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.17%) Finance
3 17 (11.72%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (8.97%) Telecoms
5 12 (8.28%) Manufacturing
6 9 (6.21%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.83%) Retail
9 5 (3.45%) Banking
10 2 (1.38%) Aviation
10 2 (1.38%) Legal
10 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Police
11 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (46.90%) Network Engineer
2 22 (15.17%) Senior
3 18 (12.41%) Architect
4 14 (9.66%) Security Engineer
5 12 (8.28%) Network Architect
6 11 (7.59%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) Network Security Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Cisco Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Firewall Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.45%) Network Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.45%) Network Manager
9 5 (3.45%) NOC Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Network Operations Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.90%) 802.1X
2 8 (5.52%) LDAP
3 7 (4.83%) SAML
4 2 (1.38%) CSS
4 2 (1.38%) HTML
5 1 (0.69%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.69%) Flask
5 1 (0.69%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (28.97%) Data Centre
2 16 (11.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.76%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.07%) PKI
5 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.69%) CESG
6 1 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.69%) NHS
6 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.69%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.41%) Linux
2 16 (11.03%) Windows
3 9 (6.21%) Unix
4 3 (2.07%) CatOS
4 3 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.69%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (12.41%) Change Management
1 18 (12.41%) Project Delivery
2 16 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
3 15 (10.34%) ITIL
3 15 (10.34%) Validation
4 14 (9.66%) Load Balancing
4 14 (9.66%) Migration
5 12 (8.28%) Incident Response
5 12 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (7.59%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (7.59%) Network Segmentation
7 10 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (6.90%) Network Design
8 9 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (6.21%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (6.21%) Network Monitoring
8 9 (6.21%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (6.21%) SIEM
8 9 (6.21%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.59%) Python
2 3 (2.07%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.38%) Bash
3 2 (1.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 49 (33.79%) Cisco Certification
1 49 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 46 (31.72%) SC Cleared
3 45 (31.03%) CCNP
4 28 (19.31%) Degree
5 18 (12.41%) CCSE
6 15 (10.34%) CCNA
7 7 (4.83%) CCIE
8 5 (3.45%) CCSM
9 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.38%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.38%) CCIP
10 2 (1.38%) CCSA
10 2 (1.38%) CISM
10 2 (1.38%) CISSP
10 2 (1.38%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.38%) JNCIE
10 2 (1.38%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.69%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.21%) SLA
2 5 (3.45%) NCSC
2 5 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.38%) NIST
4 2 (1.38%) PMO
5 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) GRC
5 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.69%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (15.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (9.66%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.59%) VMware NSX
4 6 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.45%) vSphere
6 4 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.07%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.38%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.69%) Firmware
9 1 (0.69%) NFS
9 1 (0.69%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (11.72%) Ansible
2 8 (5.52%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (5.52%) Terraform
3 7 (4.83%) FortiGate
3 7 (4.83%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.14%) Grafana
5 5 (3.45%) Salt
6 4 (2.76%) SCCM
7 2 (1.38%) AirWatch
7 2 (1.38%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.38%) Iperf
7 2 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.38%) Nmap
8 1 (0.69%) CASB
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 106 (73.10%) Cisco
2 92 (63.45%) Palo Alto
3 45 (31.03%) F5
4 42 (28.97%) Fortinet
5 40 (27.59%) Aruba
6 27 (18.62%) VMware
7 25 (17.24%) Juniper
8 17 (11.72%) Microsoft
9 13 (8.97%) SolarWinds
10 11 (7.59%) Arista
10 11 (7.59%) ServiceNow
11 10 (6.90%) Zscaler
12 8 (5.52%) Meraki
13 7 (4.83%) Blue Coat
14 6 (4.14%) BigPanda
14 6 (4.14%) Splunk
15 5 (3.45%) BT
15 5 (3.45%) Ekahau
16 4 (2.76%) Commvault
16 4 (2.76%) NetApp