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 10 March 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
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 305 372
Rank change year-on-year -126 +67 +29
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 129 168 179
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.68% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 0.80% 1.44% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 83 114
10th Percentile £286 £325 £350
25th Percentile £356 £385 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £517 £575 £524
90th Percentile £562 £623 £571
UK median daily rate £440 £548 £500
% change year-on-year -19.71% +9.60% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Median hourly rate £20.75 £35.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.71% -44.00% -20.38%
UK median hourly rate £20.75 £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -40.71% -44.00% -20.38%

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 16,054 11,668 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.36% 47.13% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,476 7,412 10,439
10th Percentile £306 £290 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 388 949
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.04 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.68 £83.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -29.57%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -49 53 £409 -13.95% 7
South East -24 35 £443 +4.12% 7
Midlands -61 17 £375 -25.00% 6
West Midlands -51 15 £350 -34.40% 3
North of England -100 13 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -69 7 £500 +33.33%
North West -59 6 £508 -3.33% 2
East of England -39 3 - - 6
South West -33 2 £325 -18.19%
East Midlands -35 2 £488 +8.33% 3
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 5 (3.88%) Confluence
1 5 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.78%) JBoss
2 1 (0.78%) nginx
2 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (9.30%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.05%) Azure
2 20 (15.50%) AWS
3 8 (6.20%) GCP
4 6 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.10%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.10%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.10%) IaaS
6 4 (3.10%) PaaS
6 4 (3.10%) SaaS
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.33%) Cloudflare
7 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.55%) GitHub
8 2 (1.55%) Google Ads
8 2 (1.55%) OCI
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 108 (83.72%) Firewall
2 70 (54.26%) WAN
3 55 (42.64%) LAN
4 46 (35.66%) VPN
5 45 (34.88%) BGP
5 45 (34.88%) Network Security
5 45 (34.88%) OSPF
6 36 (27.91%) IPsec
7 28 (21.71%) Wireless
8 24 (18.60%) SSL
9 23 (17.83%) Cisco ASA
10 20 (15.50%) DNS
11 19 (14.73%) MPLS
12 18 (13.95%) Structured Cabling
13 15 (11.63%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (10.85%) TCP/IP
15 13 (10.08%) EIGRP
15 13 (10.08%) Wireshark
16 12 (9.30%) Multicast
17 11 (8.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) GitLab
2 4 (3.10%) Git
2 4 (3.10%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.33%) JIRA
3 3 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.38%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (10.85%) Finance
4 13 (10.08%) Telecoms
5 11 (8.53%) Manufacturing
6 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
8 8 (6.20%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.10%) Retail
10 3 (2.33%) Banking
11 2 (1.55%) Aviation
11 2 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.55%) Legal
12 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 64 (49.61%) Network Engineer
2 20 (15.50%) Senior
3 18 (13.95%) Architect
4 16 (12.40%) Security Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) Network Architect
6 12 (9.30%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Cisco Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Firewall Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Network Security Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.65%) Lead
9 5 (3.88%) Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Network Security Architect
9 5 (3.88%) Senior Network Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) Test Leader
11 3 (2.33%) Firewall Architect
11 3 (2.33%) Network Operations Engineer
11 3 (2.33%) Operations Engineer
11 3 (2.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.53%) 802.1X
2 7 (5.43%) LDAP
2 7 (5.43%) SAML
3 4 (3.10%) VML
4 2 (1.55%) CSS
4 2 (1.55%) HTML
5 1 (0.78%) .NET
5 1 (0.78%) eBPF
5 1 (0.78%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.78%) Flask
5 1 (0.78%) REST
5 1 (0.78%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (32.56%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.43%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.33%) PKI
6 2 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.55%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) CESG
7 1 (0.78%) CSOC
7 1 (0.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.78%) NHS
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.53%) Linux
2 7 (5.43%) Unix
3 6 (4.65%) Windows
4 4 (3.10%) CatOS
5 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.78%) VMS
6 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (13.18%) Change Management
3 15 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (11.63%) Incident Response
4 14 (10.85%) Project Delivery
4 14 (10.85%) Technical Leadership
5 12 (9.30%) Customer Requirements
5 12 (9.30%) Mentoring
6 11 (8.53%) Migration
6 11 (8.53%) Root Cause Analysis
6 11 (8.53%) Validation
7 10 (7.75%) AI
7 10 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (7.75%) Network Design
7 10 (7.75%) Network Segmentation
7 10 (7.75%) Security Architecture
8 9 (6.98%) Computer Science
8 9 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (6.98%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.40%) Python
2 5 (3.88%) Bash
3 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.78%) Java
4 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (43.41%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (40.31%) Security Cleared
3 51 (39.53%) CCNP
4 48 (37.21%) SC Cleared
5 25 (19.38%) Degree
6 19 (14.73%) CCNA
7 14 (10.85%) CCIE
8 12 (9.30%) CCSE
9 7 (5.43%) CISSP
10 5 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
12 3 (2.33%) CISM
12 3 (2.33%) DV Cleared
12 3 (2.33%) JNCIE
12 3 (2.33%) JNCIP
12 3 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (1.55%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.55%) BC Cleared
13 2 (1.55%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) NIST
2 7 (5.43%) QA
3 6 (4.65%) GDPR
3 6 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.88%) NCSC
5 4 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.33%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.33%) PMO
7 2 (1.55%) GRC
7 2 (1.55%) SLA
8 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.78%) RMADS
System Software
1 13 (10.08%) Active Directory
1 13 (10.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.98%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.10%) Docker
4 3 (2.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.55%) Firmware
6 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 21 (16.28%) Ansible
2 13 (10.08%) Terraform
3 8 (6.20%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (5.43%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.65%) Grafana
6 5 (3.88%) Salt
7 4 (3.10%) FortiGate
7 4 (3.10%) SCCM
8 2 (1.55%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.55%) Iperf
8 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.55%) Nmap
9 1 (0.78%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.78%) CASB
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.78%) QRadar
Vendors
1 98 (75.97%) Cisco
2 80 (62.02%) Palo Alto
3 47 (36.43%) Aruba
3 47 (36.43%) F5
4 30 (23.26%) Fortinet
5 26 (20.16%) Juniper
6 16 (12.40%) Microsoft
7 13 (10.08%) VMware
8 12 (9.30%) Arista
9 11 (8.53%) Zscaler
10 10 (7.75%) ServiceNow
11 8 (6.20%) SolarWinds
12 7 (5.43%) Meraki
12 7 (5.43%) Splunk
13 6 (4.65%) BigPanda
13 6 (4.65%) Blue Coat
14 4 (3.10%) Ekahau
14 4 (3.10%) Remedy
14 4 (3.10%) Tenable
15 3 (2.33%) Netskope