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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 320 343
Rank change year-on-year -151 +23 0
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 148 195 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.72% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 0.81% 1.51% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 105 137
10th Percentile £335 £368 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £523 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £633 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile £43.75 £47.19 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £89.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.06% - -
75th Percentile £78.50 - -
90th Percentile £78.65 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £89.63 -
% change year-on-year -23.57% - -

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 18,365 12,896 15,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.44% 42.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,640 8,142 10,010
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 978 616 1,013
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.84 £12.71
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.54 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -0.40% -29.86%
75th Percentile £65.58 £51.41 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% +0.60% -38.27%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -102 60 £400 -4.48% 16
South East -46 35 £463 +2.78% 2
North of England -105 27 £475 -15.56% 8
North West -62 15 £450 -21.78% 4
Midlands -66 12 £380 -25.85%
Yorkshire -65 11 £500 -9.09% 4
West Midlands -60 9 £375 -21.05%
East of England -21 5 £530 -3.64% 3
East Midlands -13 3 £488 -11.36%
South West -33 1 £450 +9.09% 1
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 4 (2.70%) Confluence
2 3 (2.03%) SAS
2 3 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.68%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.57%) Azure
2 20 (13.51%) AWS
3 7 (4.73%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (4.05%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.70%) GCP
5 4 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.03%) Cloudflare
6 3 (2.03%) SaaS
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.35%) IaaS
7 2 (1.35%) OCI
7 2 (1.35%) PaaS
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.68%) Datadog
8 1 (0.68%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.68%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 118 (79.73%) Firewall
2 59 (39.86%) Network Security
3 56 (37.84%) WAN
4 50 (33.78%) VPN
5 45 (30.41%) LAN
6 40 (27.03%) Cisco ASA
7 39 (26.35%) BGP
8 38 (25.68%) OSPF
9 36 (24.32%) Wireless
10 30 (20.27%) VLAN
11 25 (16.89%) DNS
12 23 (15.54%) IPsec
13 22 (14.86%) MPLS
14 20 (13.51%) Cisco Firepower
15 19 (12.84%) EIGRP
16 18 (12.16%) TCP/IP
17 17 (11.49%) Cisco Nexus
17 17 (11.49%) Wi-Fi
18 16 (10.81%) Cisco ISE
18 16 (10.81%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.68%) MySQL
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (4.05%) JIRA
2 2 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.68%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (17.57%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.89%) Finance
3 14 (9.46%) Telecoms
4 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.08%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (6.08%) Financial Institution
6 8 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.73%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.05%) Retail
9 5 (3.38%) Banking
10 4 (2.70%) Police
11 2 (1.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.68%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (47.30%) Network Engineer
2 26 (17.57%) Senior
3 24 (16.22%) Security Engineer
4 19 (12.84%) Network Security Engineer
5 17 (11.49%) Architect
6 11 (7.43%) Network Architect
7 10 (6.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Senior Network Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Firewall Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Infrastructure Manager
11 5 (3.38%) Network Infrastructure Manager
11 5 (3.38%) Network Manager
11 5 (3.38%) NOC Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) Security Architect
12 4 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (2.70%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
12 4 (2.70%) Network Operations Engineer
12 4 (2.70%) Network Security Architect
12 4 (2.70%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.78%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.38%) LDAP
3 4 (2.70%) SAML
4 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.68%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.30%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.38%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.70%) PKI
6 3 (2.03%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.68%) CESG
8 1 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.68%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.16%) Linux
2 14 (9.46%) Windows
3 10 (6.76%) Unix
4 3 (2.03%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (1.35%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.35%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.68%) CatOS
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.68%) VMS
6 1 (0.68%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (16.22%) Change Management
2 19 (12.84%) ITIL
3 18 (12.16%) Validation
4 15 (10.14%) Project Delivery
5 14 (9.46%) Load Balancing
6 12 (8.11%) Incident Management
6 12 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (7.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (7.43%) ITSM
7 11 (7.43%) Migration
7 11 (7.43%) Network Design
7 11 (7.43%) Zero Trust
8 10 (6.76%) Incident Response
8 10 (6.76%) Network Segmentation
8 10 (6.76%) SIEM
8 10 (6.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.11%) Python
2 4 (2.70%) Bash
3 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.68%) Groovy
4 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 52 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 47 (31.76%) SC Cleared
3 38 (25.68%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (24.32%) CCNP
5 19 (12.84%) Degree
6 13 (8.78%) CCSE
7 10 (6.76%) CCNA
8 7 (4.73%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.38%) CCIE
9 5 (3.38%) CCSM
10 3 (2.03%) CCSA
10 3 (2.03%) CISM
10 3 (2.03%) CISSP
10 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.35%) BC Cleared
11 2 (1.35%) CCIP
11 2 (1.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.68%) CCDA
12 1 (0.68%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) SLA
2 5 (3.38%) NCSC
3 4 (2.70%) QA
4 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.35%) PMO
6 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.68%) GRC
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) RMADS
System Software
1 19 (12.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.41%) VMware NSX
4 6 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.38%) vSphere
6 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.35%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.68%) Firmware
8 1 (0.68%) NFS
8 1 (0.68%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (7.43%) Ansible
2 9 (6.08%) FortiGate
3 6 (4.05%) Terraform
4 5 (3.38%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.70%) Grafana
6 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.03%) Salt
6 3 (2.03%) SCCM
7 2 (1.35%) AirWatch
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.35%) Iperf
7 2 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.35%) Nmap
8 1 (0.68%) CASB
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 103 (69.59%) Cisco
2 87 (58.78%) Palo Alto
3 46 (31.08%) F5
3 46 (31.08%) Fortinet
4 24 (16.22%) Juniper
5 23 (15.54%) VMware
6 22 (14.86%) Aruba
7 17 (11.49%) Microsoft
8 12 (8.11%) SolarWinds
8 12 (8.11%) Zscaler
9 11 (7.43%) Blue Coat
9 11 (7.43%) ServiceNow
10 10 (6.76%) Meraki
11 7 (4.73%) Arista
12 6 (4.05%) Splunk
13 5 (3.38%) BT
13 5 (3.38%) Ekahau
14 4 (2.70%) BigPanda
14 4 (2.70%) Commvault
14 4 (2.70%) Xerox