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 5 January 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
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 319 416
Rank change year-on-year -85 +97 -6
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 144 184 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.67% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.98% 1.47% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 82 90
10th Percentile £304 £305 £350
25th Percentile £355 £364 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £526 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £624 £620
UK median daily rate £441 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -15.95% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile £40.85 - £42.81
25th Percentile £71.00 £20.00 £46.09
Median hourly rate £89.63 £20.19 £53.13
Median % change year-on-year +343.99% -62.00% +58.58%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £58.59
90th Percentile - - £60.94
UK median hourly rate £89.63 £20.19 £53.13
% change year-on-year +343.99% -62.00% +58.58%

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 14,767 12,547 15,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.91% 45.93% 43.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,658 7,591 10,336
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £409 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 684 357 613
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.40 £14.01
25th Percentile £18.16 £17.08 £18.95
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +54.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £63.29
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £44.50
% change year-on-year -12.89% -38.54% +64.06%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -25 47 £495 -5.71% 20
South East -15 36 £438 -7.89% 7
Midlands -31 28 £380 -28.77% 3
West Midlands -21 27 £380 -28.77% 2
North of England -70 23 £500 +19.40% 5
Yorkshire -46 14 £463 +68.18% 1
North West -53 9 £559 +11.75% 4
South West -19 4 £325 -29.73%
East of England -23 2 - - 12
East Midlands -37 1 £500 - 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 7 (4.86%) Confluence
2 5 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) JBoss
3 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.86%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.86%) AWS
2 26 (18.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 23 (15.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 23 (15.97%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (15.97%) Amazon ELB
3 23 (15.97%) Amazon S3
4 19 (13.19%) Azure
5 8 (5.56%) GCP
6 5 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.78%) OCI
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.08%) IaaS
8 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.08%) PaaS
8 3 (2.08%) SaaS
9 1 (0.69%) Akamai
9 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.69%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.69%) GitHub
9 1 (0.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 122 (84.72%) Firewall
2 69 (47.92%) VPN
3 53 (36.81%) Network Security
4 51 (35.42%) WAN
5 49 (34.03%) DNS
6 41 (28.47%) SSL
7 37 (25.69%) TCP/IP
8 34 (23.61%) LAN
9 31 (21.53%) BGP
9 31 (21.53%) OSPF
10 30 (20.83%) IPsec
11 22 (15.28%) Wireless
12 17 (11.81%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (9.72%) Structured Cabling
14 12 (8.33%) SD-WAN
15 11 (7.64%) Cisco IPT
15 11 (7.64%) DMVPN
16 10 (6.94%) Cisco Nexus
17 9 (6.25%) DHCP
18 8 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (18.06%) Jenkins
2 24 (16.67%) Git
3 20 (13.89%) GitLab
4 9 (6.25%) JIRA
5 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.89%) Documentation Skills
2 20 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 18 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.25%) Finance
5 9 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.17%) Retail
7 4 (2.78%) Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Military
7 4 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.08%) Legal
8 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Police
10 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (43.75%) Network Engineer
2 31 (21.53%) Senior
3 22 (15.28%) Security Engineer
4 17 (11.81%) Architect
5 14 (9.72%) Network Architect
5 14 (9.72%) Network Security Engineer
5 14 (9.72%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 13 (9.03%) Firewall Engineer
7 12 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
7 12 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Lead
8 9 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Cisco Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Security Architect
11 6 (4.17%) Analyst
11 6 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.78%) VML
3 3 (2.08%) LDAP
3 3 (2.08%) SAML
4 2 (1.39%) Spring
5 1 (0.69%) .NET
5 1 (0.69%) ADO
5 1 (0.69%) CSS
5 1 (0.69%) eBPF
5 1 (0.69%) HTML
5 1 (0.69%) REST
5 1 (0.69%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.08%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 5 (3.47%) SCADA
5 4 (2.78%) PKI
5 4 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.08%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.69%) Anti-Spyware
8 1 (0.69%) CSOC
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.69%) NHS
8 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.33%) Windows
2 4 (2.78%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.39%) CatOS
4 2 (1.39%) Linux
4 2 (1.39%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (20.14%) DevOps
2 26 (18.06%) High Availability
3 25 (17.36%) Incident Response
4 23 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (15.28%) Change Management
5 22 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (14.58%) CI/CD
6 21 (14.58%) Migration
7 19 (13.19%) DevSecOps
7 19 (13.19%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (10.42%) Mentoring
9 15 (10.42%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (9.03%) ITIL
11 12 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (8.33%) Inventory Management
12 11 (7.64%) Project Delivery
13 10 (6.94%) Network Design
13 10 (6.94%) Security Architecture
14 9 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.00%) Python
2 28 (19.44%) Bash
3 2 (1.39%) Java
4 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 72 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 65 (45.14%) SC Cleared
3 52 (36.11%) Cisco Certification
4 45 (31.25%) CCNP
5 19 (13.19%) Degree
6 16 (11.11%) CCIE
7 15 (10.42%) CCNA
8 10 (6.94%) CCSE
9 8 (5.56%) CISSP
10 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (3.47%) CCSA
11 5 (3.47%) JNCIE
12 4 (2.78%) A+ Certification
12 4 (2.78%) JNCIP
13 3 (2.08%) Azure Certification
13 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (1.39%) CCSM
14 2 (1.39%) CCSP
14 2 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (1.39%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.94%) GDPR
2 9 (6.25%) NIST
3 6 (4.17%) QA
4 5 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.47%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.08%) PMO
7 2 (1.39%) COBIT
8 1 (0.69%) GRC
8 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (17.36%) Docker
2 8 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.47%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.39%) vSphere
6 1 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (25.69%) Ansible
1 37 (25.69%) Terraform
2 9 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.78%) SCCM
4 3 (2.08%) Iperf
4 3 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.08%) Nmap
4 3 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.39%) SCOM
5 2 (1.39%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.69%) Grafana
6 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.69%) QRadar
6 1 (0.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 88 (61.11%) Cisco
2 78 (54.17%) Palo Alto
3 59 (40.97%) F5
4 32 (22.22%) Fortinet
5 29 (20.14%) Aruba
6 24 (16.67%) Juniper
7 16 (11.11%) Zscaler
8 15 (10.42%) Microsoft
9 13 (9.03%) SolarWinds
10 11 (7.64%) Blue Coat
11 9 (6.25%) ServiceNow
12 8 (5.56%) Meraki
12 8 (5.56%) VMware
13 5 (3.47%) Infoblox
13 5 (3.47%) Oracle
14 4 (2.78%) Arista
14 4 (2.78%) Remedy
14 4 (2.78%) Tenable
15 2 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
15 2 (1.39%) Netskope