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 7 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
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 310 369
Rank change year-on-year -137 +59 +10
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 137 172 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.67% 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 0.85% 1.43% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 81 113
10th Percentile £277 £325 £350
25th Percentile £356 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% -4.00% -3.57%
75th Percentile £521 £580 £525
90th Percentile £574 £625 £573
UK median daily rate £443 £550 £506
% change year-on-year -19.55% +8.64% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 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 16,208 12,052 16,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.51% 46.89% 42.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,564 7,555 10,521
10th Percentile £306 £289 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £631
90th Percentile £702 £725 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 390 934
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £14.51
Median hourly rate £24.55 £31.17 £25.06
Median % change year-on-year -21.24% +24.40% -26.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £52.71
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -28.57%

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 7 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 7 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 -53 53 £409 -14.84% 7
South East -15 36 £443 +4.12% 7
Midlands -56 21 £363 -27.50% 6
West Midlands -41 19 £345 -35.33% 3
North of England -101 17 £500 - 3
Yorkshire -69 10 £500 +33.33%
North West -62 7 £515 -1.90% 3
East of England -30 3 - - 4
East Midlands -35 2 £488 +8.33% 3
South West -36 2 £325 -21.21%
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 6 (4.38%) Confluence
2 5 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) JBoss
3 1 (0.73%) nginx
3 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (8.03%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.25%) Azure
2 23 (16.79%) AWS
3 9 (6.57%) GCP
4 7 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (2.92%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.92%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (2.92%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.92%) IaaS
5 4 (2.92%) PaaS
5 4 (2.92%) SaaS
6 3 (2.19%) Cloudflare
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.19%) OCI
7 2 (1.46%) GitHub
7 2 (1.46%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.73%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 115 (83.94%) Firewall
2 69 (50.36%) WAN
3 54 (39.42%) LAN
4 49 (35.77%) Network Security
4 49 (35.77%) VPN
5 46 (33.58%) BGP
5 46 (33.58%) OSPF
6 35 (25.55%) IPsec
7 27 (19.71%) Wireless
8 24 (17.52%) Cisco ASA
8 24 (17.52%) SSL
9 23 (16.79%) DNS
10 20 (14.60%) MPLS
11 18 (13.14%) Structured Cabling
12 17 (12.41%) TCP/IP
13 14 (10.22%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (9.49%) EIGRP
14 13 (9.49%) Multicast
14 13 (9.49%) Wireshark
15 12 (8.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (4.38%) GitLab
1 6 (4.38%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.65%) Git
3 4 (2.92%) JIRA
4 3 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (20.44%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.98%) Documentation Skills
3 15 (10.95%) Finance
4 14 (10.22%) Telecoms
5 11 (8.03%) Manufacturing
6 10 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.57%) Public Sector
8 8 (5.84%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.65%) Retail
10 4 (2.92%) Banking
10 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.19%) Legal
12 2 (1.46%) Aviation
12 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (46.72%) Network Engineer
2 22 (16.06%) Senior
3 20 (14.60%) Architect
4 16 (11.68%) Network Architect
4 16 (11.68%) Security Engineer
5 12 (8.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 10 (7.30%) Firewall Engineer
6 10 (7.30%) Security Architect
7 8 (5.84%) Cisco Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) Network Security Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Lead
8 7 (5.11%) Network Security Architect
9 5 (3.65%) Analyst
9 5 (3.65%) Senior Network Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Firewall Support
10 4 (2.92%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (2.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.03%) 802.1X
2 6 (4.38%) LDAP
2 6 (4.38%) SAML
3 4 (2.92%) VML
4 2 (1.46%) CSS
4 2 (1.46%) HTML
5 1 (0.73%) .NET
5 1 (0.73%) eBPF
5 1 (0.73%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.73%) Flask
5 1 (0.73%) REST
5 1 (0.73%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.73%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (30.66%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.11%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.65%) PKI
5 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.92%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.19%) SCADA
7 2 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.73%) CSOC
8 1 (0.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.03%) Linux
2 9 (6.57%) Windows
3 7 (5.11%) Unix
4 4 (2.92%) CatOS
4 4 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.19%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.73%) VMS
7 1 (0.73%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (12.41%) Change Management
2 17 (12.41%) Incident Response
3 15 (10.95%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (10.22%) Migration
4 14 (10.22%) Project Delivery
4 14 (10.22%) Technical Leadership
5 13 (9.49%) Mentoring
6 12 (8.76%) Customer Requirements
6 12 (8.76%) Network Design
6 12 (8.76%) Network Segmentation
6 12 (8.76%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (8.76%) Validation
7 10 (7.30%) AI
7 10 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (7.30%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (7.30%) ITIL
7 10 (7.30%) Security Architecture
8 9 (6.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.87%) Python
2 8 (5.84%) Bash
3 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.73%) Java
4 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (43.80%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (40.15%) CCNP
3 54 (39.42%) Security Cleared
4 48 (35.04%) SC Cleared
5 25 (18.25%) Degree
6 20 (14.60%) CCNA
7 17 (12.41%) CCIE
8 12 (8.76%) CCSE
9 9 (6.57%) CISSP
10 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
12 3 (2.19%) CISM
12 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
12 3 (2.19%) JNCIE
12 3 (2.19%) JNCIP
12 3 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.46%) BC Cleared
13 2 (1.46%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) NIST
2 7 (5.11%) QA
3 6 (4.38%) GDPR
3 6 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.65%) NCSC
5 4 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.19%) PMO
7 2 (1.46%) GRC
7 2 (1.46%) SLA
8 1 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.73%) COBIT
8 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.73%) RMADS
System Software
1 14 (10.22%) Active Directory
1 14 (10.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.84%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.65%) Docker
3 5 (3.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.46%) Firmware
4 2 (1.46%) vSphere
5 1 (0.73%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 24 (17.52%) Ansible
2 16 (11.68%) Terraform
3 7 (5.11%) Prometheus
3 7 (5.11%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (4.38%) FortiGate
4 6 (4.38%) Grafana
4 6 (4.38%) SCCM
5 5 (3.65%) Salt
6 3 (2.19%) Iperf
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.19%) Nmap
7 2 (1.46%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.46%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.46%) SCOM
8 1 (0.73%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.73%) CASB
8 1 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.73%) QRadar
Vendors
1 99 (72.26%) Cisco
2 84 (61.31%) Palo Alto
3 49 (35.77%) F5
4 47 (34.31%) Aruba
5 31 (22.63%) Fortinet
6 26 (18.98%) Juniper
7 17 (12.41%) Microsoft
8 14 (10.22%) VMware
9 12 (8.76%) Arista
9 12 (8.76%) Zscaler
10 10 (7.30%) ServiceNow
11 8 (5.84%) SolarWinds
12 7 (5.11%) Meraki
12 7 (5.11%) Splunk
13 6 (4.38%) BigPanda
13 6 (4.38%) Blue Coat
14 4 (2.92%) Ekahau
14 4 (2.92%) Oracle
14 4 (2.92%) Remedy
14 4 (2.92%) Tenable