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 19 May 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
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 303 355
Rank change year-on-year -125 +52 +1
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 152 178 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.73% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 0.90% 1.54% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 88 122
10th Percentile £271 £371 £350
25th Percentile £365 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £456 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% -10.98% -1.16%
75th Percentile £514 £575 £538
90th Percentile £569 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £445 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -11.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £22.30 - -
25th Percentile £24.63 £31.32 -
Median hourly rate £29.13 £36.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% - -
75th Percentile £34.25 £41.97 -
90th Percentile £36.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.13 £36.65 -
% change year-on-year -20.52% - -

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 16,861 11,593 15,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.08% 47.66% 41.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,923 7,461 9,729
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £407 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £635
90th Percentile £706 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 880 469 1,006
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.84 £12.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.11 £26.34 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.94% +17.04% -40.00%
75th Percentile £58.79 £58.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £75.40 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +25.49% +15.91% -48.02%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -84 65 £400 -11.11% 7
South East -40 41 £445 -1.11% 6
Midlands -58 17 £345 -38.67% 2
West Midlands -49 15 £340 -56.13% 1
North of England -96 15 £500 -13.04% 2
North West -56 8 £518 -10.00% 1
East of England -27 6 £530 -3.64%
Yorkshire -65 6 £500 -14.89% 1
South West -30 2 £375 -9.09% 2
East Midlands -33 2 £488 -11.36% 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 5 (3.29%) Confluence
1 5 (3.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.66%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (8.55%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.76%) Azure
2 22 (14.47%) AWS
3 6 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (3.95%) GCP
3 6 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.32%) Cloudflare
6 2 (1.32%) Google Ads
6 2 (1.32%) SaaS
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.66%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.66%) GitHub
7 1 (0.66%) IaaS
7 1 (0.66%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.66%) PaaS
7 1 (0.66%) Route 53
7 1 (0.66%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 123 (80.92%) Firewall
2 82 (53.95%) WAN
3 70 (46.05%) LAN
4 50 (32.89%) VPN
5 49 (32.24%) BGP
5 49 (32.24%) OSPF
6 46 (30.26%) Network Security
7 36 (23.68%) IPsec
8 34 (22.37%) Wireless
9 31 (20.39%) Cisco ASA
10 23 (15.13%) Cisco Nexus
10 23 (15.13%) DNS
11 22 (14.47%) VLAN
12 21 (13.82%) MPLS
13 20 (13.16%) SSL
14 19 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (11.84%) Structured Cabling
16 17 (11.18%) BIG-IP
16 17 (11.18%) SD-WAN
17 15 (9.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.66%) MySQL
2 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.97%) JIRA
1 3 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.66%) GitLab
2 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
3 20 (13.16%) Finance
4 15 (9.87%) Manufacturing
5 14 (9.21%) Telecoms
6 10 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.92%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.92%) Retail
8 7 (4.61%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.29%) Banking
10 2 (1.32%) Aviation
10 2 (1.32%) Legal
10 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (51.97%) Network Engineer
2 23 (15.13%) Senior
3 16 (10.53%) Architect
4 14 (9.21%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 14 (9.21%) Security Engineer
5 10 (6.58%) Network Architect
6 9 (5.92%) Cisco Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) Network Security Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Senior Network Engineer
8 6 (3.95%) Firewall Engineer
8 6 (3.95%) Network Manager
9 5 (3.29%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.29%) Network Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.29%) Network Operations Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Security Architect
10 4 (2.63%) Firewall Architect
10 4 (2.63%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.24%) LDAP
2 10 (6.58%) SAML
3 9 (5.92%) 802.1X
4 4 (2.63%) VML
5 2 (1.32%) CSS
5 2 (1.32%) HTML
6 1 (0.66%) eBPF
6 1 (0.66%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.66%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 47 (30.92%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.29%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.97%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.97%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.97%) PKI
6 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.66%) CESG
7 1 (0.66%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.66%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
7 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.53%) Linux
1 16 (10.53%) Windows
2 9 (5.92%) Unix
3 5 (3.29%) CatOS
4 3 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.66%) VMS
6 1 (0.66%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (12.50%) Change Management
1 19 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 16 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (9.87%) ITIL
3 15 (9.87%) Technical Leadership
3 15 (9.87%) Validation
4 14 (9.21%) Load Balancing
4 14 (9.21%) Migration
5 13 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (7.89%) Customer Requirements
6 12 (7.89%) Incident Response
7 11 (7.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (7.24%) Network Segmentation
8 10 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (5.92%) Cloud Security
9 9 (5.92%) Incident Management
9 9 (5.92%) ITSM
9 9 (5.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (5.92%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.89%) Python
2 3 (1.97%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.32%) Bash
3 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 58 (38.16%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (34.87%) CCNP
3 49 (32.24%) Security Cleared
4 47 (30.92%) SC Cleared
5 29 (19.08%) Degree
6 19 (12.50%) CCNA
7 16 (10.53%) CCSE
8 11 (7.24%) CCIE
9 4 (2.63%) CCSM
9 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.97%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.97%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.32%) BC Cleared
11 2 (1.32%) CCIP
11 2 (1.32%) CCSA
11 2 (1.32%) CISM
11 2 (1.32%) CISSP
11 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) SLA
2 6 (3.95%) QA
3 4 (2.63%) NCSC
4 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.97%) NIST
4 3 (1.97%) PMO
5 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.66%) GDPR
6 1 (0.66%) GRC
6 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.66%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (15.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (11.18%) Active Directory
3 13 (8.55%) VMware NSX
4 5 (3.29%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.63%) vSphere
6 3 (1.97%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.32%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.66%) Firmware
8 1 (0.66%) NFS
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (11.18%) Ansible
2 11 (7.24%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (5.26%) Terraform
4 7 (4.61%) FortiGate
4 7 (4.61%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.95%) Grafana
6 5 (3.29%) Salt
7 4 (2.63%) SCCM
8 2 (1.32%) AirWatch
8 2 (1.32%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.32%) Iperf
8 2 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.32%) Nmap
9 1 (0.66%) CASB
9 1 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 117 (76.97%) Cisco
2 98 (64.47%) Palo Alto
3 50 (32.89%) F5
4 48 (31.58%) Aruba
5 35 (23.03%) Fortinet
6 27 (17.76%) VMware
7 24 (15.79%) Juniper
8 21 (13.82%) Microsoft
9 13 (8.55%) SolarWinds
10 12 (7.89%) Meraki
10 12 (7.89%) Zscaler
11 11 (7.24%) Arista
11 11 (7.24%) ServiceNow
12 7 (4.61%) Splunk
13 6 (3.95%) BigPanda
13 6 (3.95%) Blue Coat
14 5 (3.29%) BT
14 5 (3.29%) Ekahau
15 4 (2.63%) Broadcom
15 4 (2.63%) Xerox