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 31 July 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
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 318 346
Rank change year-on-year -179 +28 -14
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 137 199 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.72% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 0.74% 1.54% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 111 127
10th Percentile £335 £335 £350
25th Percentile £400 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £516 £575 £581
90th Percentile £600 £638 £702
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £45.63 £47.19 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.00 -
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 18,626 12,961 14,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.10% 47.10% 43.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,755 8,217 9,445
10th Percentile £313 £280 £298
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +0.50% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,000 626 805
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.51 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -10.18% -27.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.93% -8.55% -33.97%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -107 54 £425 +3.03% 25
North of England -87 31 £500 -13.04% 7
South East -56 30 £463 +2.78% 6
North West -56 20 £450 -24.69% 4
Midlands -64 10 £378 -11.18% 1
Yorkshire -66 10 £500 -9.09% 3
West Midlands -71 8 £375 -1.32% 1
East of England -19 5 £530 -3.64% 3
East Midlands -14 2 £475 -15.56%
South West -45 1 £450 +13.28% 1
North East - 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 3 (2.19%) SAS
2 2 (1.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) nginx
3 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.73%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.44%) Azure
2 22 (16.06%) AWS
3 7 (5.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.65%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.65%) GCP
6 4 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) Cloudflare
7 3 (2.19%) SaaS
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.46%) IaaS
8 2 (1.46%) OCI
8 2 (1.46%) PaaS
9 1 (0.73%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.73%) Datadog
9 1 (0.73%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.73%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 108 (78.83%) Firewall
2 49 (35.77%) Network Security
3 48 (35.04%) WAN
4 46 (33.58%) VPN
5 40 (29.20%) Cisco ASA
6 38 (27.74%) LAN
7 36 (26.28%) Wireless
8 34 (24.82%) BGP
9 33 (24.09%) OSPF
10 29 (21.17%) VLAN
11 25 (18.25%) Cisco Firepower
11 25 (18.25%) DNS
11 25 (18.25%) IPsec
12 21 (15.33%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (14.60%) EIGRP
14 18 (13.14%) Cisco Nexus
15 17 (12.41%) MPLS
15 17 (12.41%) TCP/IP
16 16 (11.68%) DHCP
17 14 (10.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.73%) MySQL
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (4.38%) JIRA
2 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.73%) Git
3 1 (0.73%) GitLab
3 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (17.52%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.33%) Finance
3 13 (9.49%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.76%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.38%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.38%) Retail
6 5 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.65%) Police
7 4 (2.92%) Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Aviation
8 1 (0.73%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Legal
8 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (49.64%) Network Engineer
2 24 (17.52%) Security Engineer
3 23 (16.79%) Senior
4 18 (13.14%) Network Security Engineer
5 16 (11.68%) Architect
6 11 (8.03%) Network Architect
7 10 (7.30%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Senior Network Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Firewall Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (3.65%) NOC Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Security Architect
11 4 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (2.92%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 4 (2.92%) Network Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (2.92%) Network Manager
11 4 (2.92%) Network Security Architect
11 4 (2.92%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.19%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.49%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.65%) LDAP
3 4 (2.92%) SAML
4 1 (0.73%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.73%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 31 (22.63%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.65%) PKI
4 5 (3.65%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.73%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.73%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.73%) NHS
7 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.14%) Linux
2 13 (9.49%) Windows
3 10 (7.30%) Unix
4 3 (2.19%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.73%) CatOS
6 1 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.73%) VMS
6 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (16.79%) Change Management
2 17 (12.41%) ITIL
3 15 (10.95%) Validation
4 14 (10.22%) Project Delivery
5 13 (9.49%) Load Balancing
6 12 (8.76%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (8.03%) Incident Management
7 11 (8.03%) Zero Trust
8 10 (7.30%) ITSM
8 10 (7.30%) Network Design
8 10 (7.30%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (7.30%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (7.30%) SIEM
9 9 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (6.57%) Network Monitoring
9 9 (6.57%) Network Segmentation
10 8 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (5.84%) Migration
10 8 (5.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.30%) Python
2 4 (2.92%) Bash
3 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.73%) Bicep
4 1 (0.73%) Groovy
4 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 53 (38.69%) Security Cleared
2 49 (35.77%) SC Cleared
3 33 (24.09%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (22.63%) CCNP
5 17 (12.41%) Degree
6 13 (9.49%) CCSE
7 8 (5.84%) CCNA
8 6 (4.38%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.65%) CCSM
10 3 (2.19%) CCSA
10 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.46%) CCIE
11 2 (1.46%) CCIP
11 2 (1.46%) CISM
11 2 (1.46%) CISSP
11 2 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.73%) CCDA
12 1 (0.73%) CCDP
12 1 (0.73%) ISEB
12 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) SLA
2 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.19%) NCSC
3 2 (1.46%) PMO
3 2 (1.46%) QA
4 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (13.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.57%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.84%) VMware NSX
4 6 (4.38%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.65%) vSphere
6 4 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.46%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.73%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.73%) Docker
8 1 (0.73%) NFS
8 1 (0.73%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (5.84%) FortiGate
2 7 (5.11%) Ansible
3 5 (3.65%) Prometheus
3 5 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (3.65%) Terraform
4 4 (2.92%) Grafana
5 3 (2.19%) Salt
6 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.46%) SCCM
7 1 (0.73%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.73%) CASB
7 1 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.73%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.73%) Iperf
7 1 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.73%) Nmap
Vendors
1 93 (67.88%) Cisco
2 81 (59.12%) Palo Alto
3 44 (32.12%) Fortinet
4 41 (29.93%) F5
5 22 (16.06%) Juniper
5 22 (16.06%) VMware
6 20 (14.60%) Aruba
7 16 (11.68%) Microsoft
8 11 (8.03%) Blue Coat
8 11 (8.03%) SolarWinds
9 10 (7.30%) Meraki
9 10 (7.30%) Zscaler
10 9 (6.57%) ServiceNow
11 6 (4.38%) Arista
11 6 (4.38%) Splunk
12 5 (3.65%) BT
12 5 (3.65%) Ekahau
13 4 (2.92%) Citrix
13 4 (2.92%) Commvault
13 4 (2.92%) Veeam