CheckPoint Contracts 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 July 2025, 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 358 346
Rank change year-on-year +33 -12 +103
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 184 205 327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.55% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.46% 1.29% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 140 237
10th Percentile £371 £350 £288
25th Percentile £391 £430 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £460
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +11.41% -7.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £691 £650
UK median daily rate £480 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -6.34% +13.89% -9.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.32 - £76.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 - £78.50
75th Percentile £41.97 - £81.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.65 - £78.50
% change year-on-year - - +45.37%

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 12,604 15,913 20,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.41% 42.81% 42.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,972 10,090 14,131
10th Percentile £280 £275 £265
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 597 1,058 567
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.45 £15.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.30 £25.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -22.60% +50.23%
75th Percentile £51.90 £60.95 £59.01
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.65 £39.60
% change year-on-year +2.03% -37.75% +81.82%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CheckPoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in England

CheckPoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint in England.

Daily rate trend for CheckPoint in England

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in England

CheckPoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 7 July 2025. 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 +36 91 £413 -20.67% 49
North of England +35 46 £550 +10.00% 20
North West +21 23 £575 +9.52% 7
Yorkshire +20 23 £550 +14.58% 9
Midlands +13 17 £550 -13.73% 6
South East -3 17 £450 -12.20% 7
West Midlands +2 12 £588 -21.67% 6
South West +37 7 £413 -17.50% 1
East of England +19 5 £550 +57.14%
East Midlands +5 5 £550 +22.22%
CheckPoint
UK

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.48%) Azure
2 26 (14.13%) AWS
3 16 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (2.17%) Cloudflare
5 3 (1.63%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.63%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.54%) Akamai
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.54%) Datadog
7 1 (0.54%) GCP
7 1 (0.54%) GitHub
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.54%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 163 (88.59%) Firewall
2 60 (32.61%) BGP
2 60 (32.61%) OSPF
3 57 (30.98%) VPN
4 55 (29.89%) DNS
5 53 (28.80%) Cisco ASA
5 53 (28.80%) Network Security
6 42 (22.83%) IPsec
7 37 (20.11%) EIGRP
8 35 (19.02%) DHCP
9 33 (17.93%) TCP/IP
9 33 (17.93%) WAN
10 29 (15.76%) Wireless
11 26 (14.13%) VLAN
12 23 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
13 22 (11.96%) LAN
14 21 (11.41%) HSRP
14 21 (11.41%) NGFW
15 18 (9.78%) SSL
16 15 (8.15%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (8.70%) JIRA
2 6 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (2.17%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
General
1 30 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.76%) Finance
3 26 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.61%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.61%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.26%) Banking
6 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.54%) Advertising
7 1 (0.54%) Aviation
7 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Legal
7 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.54%) Military
7 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 119 (64.67%) Network Engineer
2 27 (14.67%) Security Engineer
3 25 (13.59%) Network Security Engineer
4 18 (9.78%) Support Engineer
5 17 (9.24%) Network Support
5 17 (9.24%) Network Support Engineer
6 16 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (7.07%) Firewall Engineer
8 12 (6.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 11 (5.98%) Cisco Engineer
9 11 (5.98%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 11 (5.98%) Senior
10 9 (4.89%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (3.80%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.26%) Check Point Expert
13 6 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.26%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.70%) ADO
2 6 (3.26%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.41%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.70%) Anti-Spyware
3 10 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.54%) PKI
8 1 (0.54%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.26%) Check Point GAiA
1 6 (3.26%) Windows
2 5 (2.72%) CatOS
2 5 (2.72%) Linux
2 5 (2.72%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.17%) Unix
4 3 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (19.02%) Migration
2 32 (17.39%) Agile
3 24 (13.04%) Network Monitoring
4 23 (12.50%) ITIL
5 22 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (9.78%) Network Management
7 16 (8.70%) Kalman Filter
7 16 (8.70%) Network Design
8 14 (7.61%) Load Balancing
9 13 (7.07%) SIEM
10 10 (5.43%) Change Management
11 9 (4.89%) High Availability
11 9 (4.89%) Security Operations
11 9 (4.89%) Zero Trust
12 8 (4.35%) Network Architecture
13 7 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (3.80%) Proactive Monitoring
13 7 (3.80%) Security Monitoring
13 7 (3.80%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (14.67%) Python
2 5 (2.72%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.09%) Bash
3 2 (1.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 68 (36.96%) Cisco Certification
2 58 (31.52%) CCNP
3 37 (20.11%) Security Cleared
4 30 (16.30%) SC Cleared
5 23 (12.50%) CCNA
6 21 (11.41%) CCSE
7 19 (10.33%) CCSA
8 12 (6.52%) Degree
9 7 (3.80%) CCIE
10 6 (3.26%) Check Point Certification
11 4 (2.17%) APMP
12 3 (1.63%) CISSP
12 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.63%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.63%) JNCIA
13 2 (1.09%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.54%) CCIE Security
14 1 (0.54%) CCSM
14 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.54%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.72%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) NIST
2 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.09%) SLA
3 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (4.89%) Firmware
2 3 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.63%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (19.02%) Ansible
2 22 (11.96%) Terraform
3 12 (6.52%) FortiGate
4 7 (3.80%) CA Spectrum
5 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.54%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.54%) OPNET
6 1 (0.54%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 129 (70.11%) Cisco
2 67 (36.41%) Palo Alto
3 53 (28.80%) F5
4 36 (19.57%) Fortinet
5 34 (18.48%) Juniper
6 29 (15.76%) Infoblox
7 26 (14.13%) SolarWinds
8 19 (10.33%) Zscaler
9 13 (7.07%) Arista
10 12 (6.52%) Aruba
10 12 (6.52%) Microsoft
11 9 (4.89%) Citrix
11 9 (4.89%) Meraki
12 7 (3.80%) ServiceNow
12 7 (3.80%) VMware
13 6 (3.26%) Extreme Networks
13 6 (3.26%) Ruckus Wireless
14 4 (2.17%) Blue Coat
14 4 (2.17%) CyberArk
14 4 (2.17%) Google