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 12 September 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
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 335 322
Rank change year-on-year -167 -13 +51
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 137 179 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.64% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 1.37% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 104 122
10th Percentile £344 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -13.46% +15.56%
75th Percentile £510 £586 £622
90th Percentile £628 £668 £719
UK median daily rate £453 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile £49.38 £76.59 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £84.97 -
Median hourly rate £77.25 £89.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.81% +348.15% -54.29%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £20.14
90th Percentile - - £20.39
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £89.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year -13.53% +348.15% -57.89%

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 19,344 13,085 14,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.73% 47.03% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,057 8,294 8,946
10th Percentile £312 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £619 £616 £631
90th Percentile £707 £706 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,113 617 610
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.75 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.90 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.80
% change year-on-year +9.34% -18.33% -27.54%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -108 48 £425 -2.86% 30
North of England -72 38 £466 -15.36% 11
South East -53 26 £463 +2.78% 12
North West -39 25 £450 -24.69% 4
Midlands -71 13 £350 -9.09% 13
Yorkshire -52 12 £500 -9.09% 6
West Midlands -70 10 £350 -7.89% 7
East of England - 5 £530 - 8
East Midlands -17 3 - - 6
South West -44 2 £400 -25.23% 11
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 8 (5.84%) SAS
2 2 (1.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.73%) nginx
3 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.73%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.63%) Azure
2 24 (17.52%) AWS
3 8 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (2.92%) GCP
5 4 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.19%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.46%) OCI
7 2 (1.46%) SaaS
7 2 (1.46%) Serverless
8 1 (0.73%) Akamai
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.73%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.73%) Kong
8 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (81.02%) Firewall
2 51 (37.23%) Network Security
3 48 (35.04%) Cisco ASA
4 47 (34.31%) VPN
5 43 (31.39%) WAN
6 37 (27.01%) Cisco Firepower
7 36 (26.28%) BGP
8 35 (25.55%) OSPF
9 33 (24.09%) LAN
10 32 (23.36%) DNS
11 29 (21.17%) Wireless
12 27 (19.71%) VLAN
13 25 (18.25%) IPsec
14 23 (16.79%) EIGRP
15 22 (16.06%) DHCP
16 21 (15.33%) Wi-Fi
17 20 (14.60%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (10.22%) SSL
19 13 (9.49%) Cisco ISE
19 13 (9.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.73%) MySQL
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.65%) JIRA
2 1 (0.73%) Git
General
1 22 (16.06%) Finance
2 19 (13.87%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.22%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.57%) Banking
5 8 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.84%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.38%) Police
7 4 (2.92%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.92%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.92%) Retail
8 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.73%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Legal
9 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (55.47%) Network Engineer
2 31 (22.63%) Security Engineer
3 24 (17.52%) Network Security Engineer
4 22 (16.06%) Senior
5 14 (10.22%) Architect
6 13 (9.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 12 (8.76%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (7.30%) Network Architect
9 7 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (2.92%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) NOC Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.19%) Data Centre Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) Network Security Consultant
11 3 (2.19%) Operations Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) Security Architect
11 3 (2.19%) Security Hacker
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.30%) 802.1X
2 6 (4.38%) Terraform
3 4 (2.92%) LDAP
4 3 (2.19%) SAML
5 1 (0.73%) JWT
5 1 (0.73%) OpenID
5 1 (0.73%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (24.82%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.57%) PKI
4 8 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.19%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.73%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.73%) NHS
8 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.73%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.76%) Windows
2 11 (8.03%) Linux
3 5 (3.65%) Unix
4 3 (2.19%) Check Point GAiA
4 3 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.46%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.73%) CatOS
6 1 (0.73%) CentOS
6 1 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (17.52%) Change Management
2 22 (16.06%) ITIL
3 14 (10.22%) Zero Trust
4 13 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (9.49%) Validation
5 12 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (8.03%) Incident Management
6 11 (8.03%) Load Balancing
6 11 (8.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (7.30%) ITSM
7 10 (7.30%) Migration
7 10 (7.30%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (7.30%) SIEM
8 9 (6.57%) Cloud Security
8 9 (6.57%) Network Segmentation
8 9 (6.57%) Project Delivery
8 9 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (5.84%) Patch Management
9 8 (5.84%) Security Operations
10 7 (5.11%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.57%) Python
2 6 (4.38%) Bash
3 5 (3.65%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.73%) Bicep
4 1 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 57 (41.61%) Security Cleared
2 51 (37.23%) SC Cleared
3 33 (24.09%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (22.63%) CCNP
5 13 (9.49%) CCSE
5 13 (9.49%) Degree
6 6 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.92%) CCIE
7 4 (2.92%) CCSA
7 4 (2.92%) CCSM
7 4 (2.92%) CISSP
8 2 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.46%) CCIE Security
8 2 (1.46%) CCSP
8 2 (1.46%) GCIA
8 2 (1.46%) GCIH
8 2 (1.46%) GIAC
8 2 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.73%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) SLA
2 5 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.92%) NIST
3 4 (2.92%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.92%) QA
4 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.73%) NCSC
4 1 (0.73%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (11.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.38%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (4.38%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.38%) vSphere
4 4 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.73%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.73%) Docker
5 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.73%) NFS
5 1 (0.73%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (6.57%) FortiGate
2 4 (2.92%) Ansible
3 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.46%) SCCM
5 1 (0.73%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.73%) Istio
5 1 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.73%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 101 (73.72%) Cisco
2 79 (57.66%) Palo Alto
3 42 (30.66%) Fortinet
4 37 (27.01%) F5
5 23 (16.79%) Juniper
6 19 (13.87%) VMware
7 18 (13.14%) Microsoft
8 14 (10.22%) Blue Coat
9 13 (9.49%) Meraki
9 13 (9.49%) Zscaler
10 9 (6.57%) Aruba
11 8 (5.84%) SolarWinds
12 6 (4.38%) Infoblox
13 5 (3.65%) AlgoSec
13 5 (3.65%) NetApp
13 5 (3.65%) ServiceNow
14 4 (2.92%) BT
14 4 (2.92%) Citrix
14 4 (2.92%) Commvault
14 4 (2.92%) Xerox