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 22 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
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 296 367
Rank change year-on-year -131 +71 -13
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 153 172 177
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.72% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 0.90% 1.51% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 83 121
10th Percentile £273 £375 £350
25th Percentile £368 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -12.20% -1.16%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £538
90th Percentile £571 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £445 £491 £513
% change year-on-year -9.41% -4.15% +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 16,925 11,422 15,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.98% 47.63% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,946 7,331 9,728
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -3.74%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 893 467 1,003
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.84 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.79 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £59.00 £58.72 £57.33
90th Percentile £76.73 £73.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.23 £26.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year +23.09% +19.00% -48.24%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -81 63 £400 -8.57% 12
South East -33 42 £448 -0.56% 5
Midlands -63 17 £345 -38.67% 3
West Midlands -48 15 £340 -56.13% 2
North of England -97 15 £500 -13.04% 3
North West -59 8 £518 -10.00% 1
East of England -27 6 £530 -3.64%
Yorkshire -64 6 £500 -13.04% 1
East Midlands -27 2 £488 -11.36% 1
South West -32 2 £375 -9.09% 3
North East - 1 - - 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 (3.27%) Confluence
1 5 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (8.50%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.99%) Azure
2 21 (13.73%) AWS
3 6 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (3.92%) GCP
3 6 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (3.27%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.31%) Cloudflare
6 2 (1.31%) Google Ads
6 2 (1.31%) SaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.65%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.65%) GitHub
7 1 (0.65%) OCI
7 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.65%) PaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Route 53
7 1 (0.65%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 123 (80.39%) Firewall
2 82 (53.59%) WAN
3 72 (47.06%) LAN
4 49 (32.03%) BGP
4 49 (32.03%) OSPF
4 49 (32.03%) VPN
5 47 (30.72%) Network Security
6 37 (24.18%) IPsec
7 34 (22.22%) Wireless
8 31 (20.26%) Cisco ASA
9 24 (15.69%) DNS
10 23 (15.03%) VLAN
11 22 (14.38%) Cisco Nexus
11 22 (14.38%) MPLS
12 21 (13.73%) SSL
13 18 (11.76%) Structured Cabling
13 18 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (11.11%) BIG-IP
15 16 (10.46%) SD-WAN
16 15 (9.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.65%) MySQL
2 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.96%) JIRA
1 3 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.65%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) GitLab
2 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (20.26%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.69%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (12.42%) Finance
4 15 (9.80%) Manufacturing
5 14 (9.15%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.23%) Retail
8 7 (4.58%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.61%) Banking
10 2 (1.31%) Aviation
10 2 (1.31%) Legal
10 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.65%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Police
11 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (50.98%) Network Engineer
2 22 (14.38%) Senior
3 16 (10.46%) Architect
4 14 (9.15%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 14 (9.15%) Security Engineer
5 10 (6.54%) Network Architect
6 9 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Senior Network Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Firewall Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.27%) Network Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.27%) Network Manager
9 5 (3.27%) Network Operations Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Security Architect
10 4 (2.61%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.19%) 802.1X
1 11 (7.19%) LDAP
2 10 (6.54%) SAML
3 3 (1.96%) VML
4 2 (1.31%) CSS
4 2 (1.31%) HTML
5 1 (0.65%) eBPF
5 1 (0.65%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.65%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 48 (31.37%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.27%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.96%) PKI
6 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.65%) CESG
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.65%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.65%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.65%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.11%) Linux
2 16 (10.46%) Windows
3 9 (5.88%) Unix
4 5 (3.27%) CatOS
5 3 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.31%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.31%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.31%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.65%) VMS
7 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (13.07%) Project Delivery
2 19 (12.42%) Change Management
3 16 (10.46%) Technical Leadership
4 15 (9.80%) Load Balancing
4 15 (9.80%) Migration
4 15 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (9.80%) Validation
5 14 (9.15%) ITIL
6 12 (7.84%) Customer Requirements
6 12 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (7.84%) Incident Response
7 11 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (7.19%) Network Segmentation
8 10 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (6.54%) Zero Trust
9 9 (5.88%) Cloud Security
9 9 (5.88%) Incident Management
9 9 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (5.88%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.84%) Python
2 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.31%) Bash
3 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (36.60%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (33.99%) Security Cleared
3 51 (33.33%) CCNP
4 49 (32.03%) SC Cleared
5 29 (18.95%) Degree
6 18 (11.76%) CCNA
7 16 (10.46%) CCSE
8 10 (6.54%) CCIE
9 4 (2.61%) CCSM
9 4 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.96%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.96%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.31%) BC Cleared
11 2 (1.31%) CCIP
11 2 (1.31%) CCSA
11 2 (1.31%) CISM
11 2 (1.31%) CISSP
11 2 (1.31%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.23%) SLA
2 5 (3.27%) QA
3 4 (2.61%) NCSC
4 3 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.96%) NIST
5 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.31%) PMO
6 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) GRC
6 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) RMADS
System Software
1 25 (16.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 14 (9.15%) VMware NSX
4 5 (3.27%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.27%) vSphere
5 4 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.96%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.31%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.65%) Firmware
8 1 (0.65%) NFS
8 1 (0.65%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (11.76%) Ansible
2 11 (7.19%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (5.23%) Terraform
4 7 (4.58%) FortiGate
4 7 (4.58%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.92%) Grafana
6 5 (3.27%) Salt
7 4 (2.61%) SCCM
8 2 (1.31%) AirWatch
8 2 (1.31%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.31%) Iperf
8 2 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.31%) Nmap
9 1 (0.65%) CASB
9 1 (0.65%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 116 (75.82%) Cisco
2 98 (64.05%) Palo Alto
3 51 (33.33%) F5
4 47 (30.72%) Aruba
5 35 (22.88%) Fortinet
6 29 (18.95%) VMware
7 25 (16.34%) Juniper
8 21 (13.73%) Microsoft
9 14 (9.15%) SolarWinds
10 11 (7.19%) Arista
10 11 (7.19%) ServiceNow
10 11 (7.19%) Zscaler
11 10 (6.54%) Meraki
12 7 (4.58%) Blue Coat
12 7 (4.58%) Splunk
13 6 (3.92%) BigPanda
14 5 (3.27%) BT
14 5 (3.27%) Ekahau
15 4 (2.61%) Commvault
15 4 (2.61%) Remedy