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 26 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
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 333 332
Rank change year-on-year -161 -1 +27
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 136 188 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.68% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 0.72% 1.45% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 105 118
10th Percentile £337 £341 £350
25th Percentile £400 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -13.46% +15.56%
75th Percentile £503 £575 £625
90th Percentile £603 £638 £731
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £510
% change year-on-year - -11.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £47.50 £76.59 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £84.97 £20.19
Median hourly rate £77.00 £89.63 £20.38
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +339.90% -53.43%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £20.56
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £89.63 £20.38
% change year-on-year -13.81% +339.90% -58.21%

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 18,972 12,987 14,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.53% 47.14% 43.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,900 8,220 9,114
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £628
90th Percentile £700 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 640 692
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.49 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -14.41% -29.19%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -10.18% -36.00%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -119 49 £425 +3.03% 6
North of England -71 40 £466 -17.24% 4
North West -42 27 £450 -23.24% 2
South East -69 25 £463 +2.78% 3
Yorkshire -45 12 £500 -9.09% 2
Midlands -65 10 £338 -15.63% 4
West Midlands -72 7 £338 -11.18% 4
East of England -22 5 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -14 3 - -
South West -47 1 £450 -15.89%
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 8 (5.88%) SAS
2 2 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.74%) nginx
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.74%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.06%) Azure
2 23 (16.91%) AWS
3 8 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (2.94%) GCP
5 4 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.21%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.47%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.47%) OCI
7 2 (1.47%) SaaS
7 2 (1.47%) Serverless
8 1 (0.74%) Akamai
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.74%) Datadog
8 1 (0.74%) Kong
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (81.62%) Firewall
2 51 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
3 49 (36.03%) Network Security
4 45 (33.09%) WAN
5 42 (30.88%) VPN
6 38 (27.94%) BGP
6 38 (27.94%) LAN
7 37 (27.21%) OSPF
8 36 (26.47%) Cisco Firepower
9 30 (22.06%) DNS
10 29 (21.32%) VLAN
10 29 (21.32%) Wireless
11 25 (18.38%) EIGRP
12 23 (16.91%) IPsec
12 23 (16.91%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (16.18%) Cisco Nexus
13 22 (16.18%) DHCP
14 15 (11.03%) TCP/IP
15 13 (9.56%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (8.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.74%) MySQL
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.68%) JIRA
2 1 (0.74%) Git
General
1 24 (17.65%) Finance
2 21 (15.44%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.88%) Banking
5 8 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.41%) Police
6 6 (4.41%) Retail
7 5 (3.68%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.74%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (54.41%) Network Engineer
2 26 (19.12%) Senior
3 25 (18.38%) Security Engineer
4 19 (13.97%) Network Security Engineer
5 13 (9.56%) Architect
5 13 (9.56%) Senior Network Engineer
6 12 (8.82%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Network Architect
8 8 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.68%) NOC Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Network Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (2.94%) Network Manager
10 4 (2.94%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.21%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.21%) Security Consultant
11 3 (2.21%) Security Hacker
11 3 (2.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.68%) LDAP
3 4 (2.94%) SAML
3 4 (2.94%) Terraform
4 1 (0.74%) JWT
4 1 (0.74%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.26%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (6.62%) PKI
3 8 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.21%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.74%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) NHS
7 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.56%) Windows
2 12 (8.82%) Linux
3 5 (3.68%) Unix
4 3 (2.21%) Check Point GAiA
4 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.74%) CatOS
6 1 (0.74%) CentOS
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (16.91%) Change Management
2 22 (16.18%) ITIL
3 13 (9.56%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (9.56%) Load Balancing
3 13 (9.56%) Validation
4 12 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (8.82%) Project Delivery
4 12 (8.82%) Zero Trust
5 11 (8.09%) Incident Management
5 11 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (8.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (7.35%) ITSM
6 10 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (6.62%) Cloud Security
7 9 (6.62%) Migration
7 9 (6.62%) SIEM
8 8 (5.88%) Network Design
8 8 (5.88%) Network Segmentation
8 8 (5.88%) Patch Management
8 8 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.15%) Python
2 4 (2.94%) Bash
3 3 (2.21%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.74%) Bicep
4 1 (0.74%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 55 (40.44%) Security Cleared
2 49 (36.03%) SC Cleared
3 34 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (23.53%) CCNP
5 13 (9.56%) CCSE
5 13 (9.56%) Degree
6 6 (4.41%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.68%) CCSM
8 4 (2.94%) CCSA
8 4 (2.94%) CISSP
9 3 (2.21%) CCIE
9 3 (2.21%) CCNA
10 2 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.47%) CCIE Security
10 2 (1.47%) CCSP
10 2 (1.47%) GCIA
10 2 (1.47%) GCIH
10 2 (1.47%) GIAC
10 2 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) SLA
2 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.94%) QA
3 3 (2.21%) NIST
3 3 (2.21%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) NCSC
4 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.62%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.88%) VMware NSX
4 7 (5.15%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.41%) vSphere
6 4 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.74%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.74%) Docker
7 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.74%) NFS
7 1 (0.74%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (6.62%) FortiGate
2 4 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.47%) Ansible
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.47%) SCCM
4 1 (0.74%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.74%) Istio
4 1 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.74%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 98 (72.06%) Cisco
2 78 (57.35%) Palo Alto
3 40 (29.41%) Fortinet
4 37 (27.21%) F5
5 22 (16.18%) VMware
6 19 (13.97%) Juniper
6 19 (13.97%) Microsoft
7 12 (8.82%) Meraki
8 11 (8.09%) Blue Coat
9 10 (7.35%) Aruba
10 9 (6.62%) SolarWinds
10 9 (6.62%) Zscaler
11 6 (4.41%) Infoblox
12 5 (3.68%) NetApp
12 5 (3.68%) ServiceNow
13 4 (2.94%) BT
13 4 (2.94%) Citrix
13 4 (2.94%) Commvault
13 4 (2.94%) Veeam
13 4 (2.94%) Xerox