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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 316 360
Rank change year-on-year -172 +44 -22
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 134 201 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.72% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 1.53% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 113 115
10th Percentile £343 £327 £350
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £595
90th Percentile £600 £635 £739
UK median daily rate £456 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +1.39% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £45.63 £76.59 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £84.97 -
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 18,838 13,144 14,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.35% 47.23% 43.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,821 8,314 9,244
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £621 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £506 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,042 634 758
10th Percentile £15.01 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.30 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.54
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -30.12%

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 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -122 58 £425 +3.03% 27
North of England -79 29 £500 -11.11% 9
South East -70 25 £463 +2.78% 5
North West -44 20 £450 -23.24% 8
Midlands -58 10 £378 -5.63%
Yorkshire -58 8 £500 -9.09% 1
West Midlands -59 8 £375 -1.32%
East of England -17 5 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -9 2 £475 -17.39%
South West -47 1 £450 +13.28% 2
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 (2.24%) SAS
2 1 (0.75%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (2.24%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.75%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.40%) Azure
2 21 (15.67%) AWS
3 7 (5.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.73%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.99%) GCP
6 4 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.24%) Cloudflare
7 3 (2.24%) SaaS
8 2 (1.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.49%) IaaS
8 2 (1.49%) OCI
8 2 (1.49%) PaaS
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.75%) Datadog
9 1 (0.75%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 106 (79.10%) Firewall
2 49 (36.57%) Network Security
3 47 (35.07%) WAN
4 43 (32.09%) VPN
5 42 (31.34%) Cisco ASA
6 38 (28.36%) LAN
7 36 (26.87%) Wireless
8 32 (23.88%) BGP
9 31 (23.13%) OSPF
10 28 (20.90%) VLAN
11 26 (19.40%) DNS
12 25 (18.66%) Cisco Firepower
13 23 (17.16%) IPsec
14 21 (15.67%) EIGRP
14 21 (15.67%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (14.18%) Cisco Nexus
16 17 (12.69%) DHCP
16 17 (12.69%) TCP/IP
17 16 (11.94%) MPLS
18 14 (10.45%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.75%) MySQL
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.99%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) Git
2 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (15.67%) Finance
1 21 (15.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.70%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.72%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.22%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.48%) Retail
6 5 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.73%) Police
7 4 (2.99%) Banking
8 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (51.49%) Network Engineer
2 23 (17.16%) Security Engineer
3 21 (15.67%) Senior
4 18 (13.43%) Network Security Engineer
5 13 (9.70%) Architect
6 9 (6.72%) Network Architect
6 9 (6.72%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 9 (6.72%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Firewall Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.73%) NOC Engineer
10 4 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (2.99%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 4 (2.99%) Network Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (2.99%) Network Manager
10 4 (2.99%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.24%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.24%) Network Operations Engineer
11 3 (2.24%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.70%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.73%) LDAP
3 4 (2.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.39%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.73%) PKI
4 5 (3.73%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.75%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) NHS
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.69%) Linux
2 13 (9.70%) Windows
3 10 (7.46%) Unix
4 3 (2.24%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.75%) CatOS
6 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.75%) VMS
6 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.16%) Change Management
2 17 (12.69%) ITIL
3 14 (10.45%) Load Balancing
4 13 (9.70%) Validation
5 12 (8.96%) Project Delivery
6 11 (8.21%) Incident Management
7 10 (7.46%) Incident Response
7 10 (7.46%) ITSM
7 10 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (7.46%) SIEM
7 10 (7.46%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (7.46%) Zero Trust
8 9 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (6.72%) Network Design
8 9 (6.72%) Network Monitoring
8 9 (6.72%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (5.97%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (5.97%) Migration
9 8 (5.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.97%) Python
2 3 (2.24%) Bash
3 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.75%) Bicep
4 1 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 51 (38.06%) Security Cleared
2 46 (34.33%) SC Cleared
3 31 (23.13%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (20.90%) CCNP
5 15 (11.19%) Degree
6 12 (8.96%) CCSE
7 7 (5.22%) CCNA
8 6 (4.48%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.73%) CCSM
10 3 (2.24%) CCSA
10 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.49%) CCIE
11 2 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.75%) APMP
12 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.75%) CCDA
12 1 (0.75%) CCDP
12 1 (0.75%) CISSP
12 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.75%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) SLA
2 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.49%) NCSC
3 2 (1.49%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.72%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.97%) VMware NSX
4 6 (4.48%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.73%) vSphere
6 4 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.75%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.75%) Docker
8 1 (0.75%) NFS
8 1 (0.75%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (6.72%) FortiGate
2 6 (4.48%) Ansible
3 5 (3.73%) Prometheus
3 5 (3.73%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.99%) Grafana
4 4 (2.99%) Terraform
5 3 (2.24%) Salt
6 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.49%) SCCM
7 1 (0.75%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.75%) CASB
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 93 (69.40%) Cisco
2 79 (58.96%) Palo Alto
3 44 (32.84%) F5
4 40 (29.85%) Fortinet
5 22 (16.42%) VMware
6 21 (15.67%) Juniper
7 18 (13.43%) Aruba
8 16 (11.94%) Microsoft
9 12 (8.96%) Meraki
10 11 (8.21%) Blue Coat
11 10 (7.46%) SolarWinds
12 9 (6.72%) ServiceNow
12 9 (6.72%) Zscaler
13 7 (5.22%) Arista
14 6 (4.48%) Splunk
15 5 (3.73%) Ekahau
15 5 (3.73%) Infoblox
16 4 (2.99%) BigPanda
16 4 (2.99%) Citrix
16 4 (2.99%) Xerox