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 6 October 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
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 371 306
Rank change year-on-year -143 -65 +79
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 123 144 228
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.52% 0.71%
As % of the Vendors category 0.64% 1.09% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 86 119
10th Percentile £344 £335 £350
25th Percentile £406 £389 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -11.33% +12.78%
75th Percentile £505 £613 £588
90th Percentile £635 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £76.59 -
25th Percentile £65.25 £84.97 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £89.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +348.15% -62.35%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £27.78
90th Percentile - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £89.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year -13.53% +348.15% -62.35%

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 19,213 13,244 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.48% 47.71% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,427 8,570
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £630
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,240 639 535
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.96 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.92 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £25.04 £25.15 £31.50
% change year-on-year -0.45% -20.17% -26.74%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -107 42 £450 - 64
North of England -67 36 £453 -17.64% 10
South East -51 24 £463 +2.78% 11
North West -36 23 £449 -23.50% 4
Yorkshire -43 12 £500 -9.09% 6
Midlands -63 12 £450 +18.42% 7
West Midlands -70 9 £450 +18.42% 3
East Midlands -6 3 - - 4
East of England - 2 - - 4
South West -37 1 £350 -34.58% 12
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 (6.50%) SAS
2 2 (1.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.81%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.81%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.14%) Azure
2 19 (15.45%) AWS
3 7 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (3.25%) GCP
5 2 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.63%) OCI
5 2 (1.63%) SaaS
5 2 (1.63%) Serverless
6 1 (0.81%) Akamai
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.81%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.81%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.81%) Kong
6 1 (0.81%) PaaS
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 105 (85.37%) Firewall
2 49 (39.84%) Network Security
3 47 (38.21%) VPN
4 45 (36.59%) Cisco ASA
5 41 (33.33%) WAN
6 35 (28.46%) Cisco Firepower
7 34 (27.64%) BGP
8 33 (26.83%) DNS
8 33 (26.83%) OSPF
9 32 (26.02%) LAN
10 27 (21.95%) Wireless
11 26 (21.14%) VLAN
12 24 (19.51%) IPsec
13 23 (18.70%) DHCP
13 23 (18.70%) Wi-Fi
14 21 (17.07%) EIGRP
15 18 (14.63%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (10.57%) SSL
16 13 (10.57%) TCP/IP
17 12 (9.76%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.81%) Git
General
1 19 (15.45%) Finance
2 15 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.32%) Banking
5 8 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.88%) Police
6 6 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.25%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.44%) Retail
9 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Legal
10 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (56.91%) Network Engineer
2 31 (25.20%) Security Engineer
3 24 (19.51%) Network Security Engineer
4 15 (12.20%) Senior
5 13 (10.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 12 (9.76%) Architect
7 11 (8.94%) Network Architect
8 9 (7.32%) Senior Network Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.88%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Network Security Architect
11 4 (3.25%) Security Architect
12 3 (2.44%) Consultant
12 3 (2.44%) Data Centre Engineer
12 3 (2.44%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.44%) Design Engineer
12 3 (2.44%) Network Security Consultant
12 3 (2.44%) NOC Engineer
12 3 (2.44%) Security Consultant
12 3 (2.44%) Security Hacker
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.13%) 802.1X
2 7 (5.69%) Terraform
3 3 (2.44%) LDAP
3 3 (2.44%) SAML
4 1 (0.81%) JWT
4 1 (0.81%) OpenID
4 1 (0.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.64%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.32%) PKI
3 7 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.44%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.44%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) SCADA
8 1 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.32%) Linux
2 7 (5.69%) Windows
3 5 (4.07%) Unix
4 3 (2.44%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.81%) CatOS
6 1 (0.81%) CentOS
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.26%) ITIL
2 19 (15.45%) Change Management
3 15 (12.20%) Zero Trust
4 12 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (8.94%) Incident Management
5 11 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (8.94%) Validation
6 10 (8.13%) Load Balancing
6 10 (8.13%) SIEM
7 9 (7.32%) Change Control
7 9 (7.32%) Migration
7 9 (7.32%) Network Segmentation
7 9 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (6.50%) ITSM
8 8 (6.50%) Network Architecture
8 8 (6.50%) Patch Management
8 8 (6.50%) Security Operations
9 7 (5.69%) Network Design
9 7 (5.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.13%) Python
2 7 (5.69%) Bash
3 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.81%) Bicep
4 1 (0.81%) Groovy
4 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 54 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 48 (39.02%) SC Cleared
3 33 (26.83%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (25.20%) CCNP
5 12 (9.76%) CCSE
6 10 (8.13%) Degree
7 6 (4.88%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.07%) CCIE
8 5 (4.07%) CISSP
9 4 (3.25%) CCSA
10 3 (2.44%) CCIE Security
10 3 (2.44%) CCSM
11 2 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.63%) CCSP
11 2 (1.63%) GCIA
11 2 (1.63%) GCIH
11 2 (1.63%) GIAC
11 2 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.81%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (4.07%) NIST
1 5 (4.07%) PCI DSS
1 5 (4.07%) SLA
2 4 (3.25%) QA
3 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.81%) NCSC
3 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.50%) vSphere
3 6 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.07%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.07%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.81%) Docker
6 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.81%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (5.69%) FortiGate
2 5 (4.07%) Ansible
3 3 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.81%) Istio
4 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.81%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 93 (75.61%) Cisco
2 70 (56.91%) Palo Alto
3 41 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 33 (26.83%) F5
5 22 (17.89%) Juniper
6 18 (14.63%) Microsoft
7 17 (13.82%) VMware
8 15 (12.20%) Meraki
9 14 (11.38%) Blue Coat
10 13 (10.57%) Zscaler
11 10 (8.13%) SolarWinds
12 8 (6.50%) Aruba
13 7 (5.69%) NetApp
14 6 (4.88%) AlgoSec
14 6 (4.88%) BT
14 6 (4.88%) Commvault
14 6 (4.88%) Infoblox
14 6 (4.88%) Veeam
14 6 (4.88%) Xerox
15 5 (4.07%) ServiceNow