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 4 December 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
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 312 403
Rank change year-on-year -105 +91 +2
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 131 215 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.70% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 1.54% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 110 110
10th Percentile £313 £350 £350
25th Percentile £356 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £536
90th Percentile £650 £628 £631
UK median daily rate £443 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -15.71% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile £76.59 - £42.81
25th Percentile £84.97 £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 14,806 13,925 16,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.53% 45.54% 44.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,605 8,419 11,105
10th Percentile £288 £300 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 711 427 611
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £64.08
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.92% -33.97% +73.08%

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 4 December 2025.

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
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 4 December 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 -42 50 £425 -19.05% 14
Midlands -28 26 £380 -24.00% 4
West Midlands -15 25 £380 -24.00% 2
North of England -63 25 £550 +18.92% 2
South East -16 24 £443 -12.16% 23
Yorkshire -29 17 £525 +90.91%
North West -51 8 £598 +19.50% 2
South West -21 3 £350 -24.32% 3
East of England -24 1 - - 4
East Midlands -26 1 £500 - 2
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 (5.34%) Confluence
2 5 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) JBoss
3 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (4.58%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.82%) AWS
2 23 (17.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 23 (17.56%) Amazon EC2
2 23 (17.56%) Amazon ELB
2 23 (17.56%) Amazon S3
2 23 (17.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 13 (9.92%) Azure
4 6 (4.58%) GCP
5 5 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.05%) OCI
7 3 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.29%) IaaS
7 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.29%) PaaS
7 3 (2.29%) SaaS
8 1 (0.76%) Akamai
8 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.76%) GitHub
8 1 (0.76%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 110 (83.97%) Firewall
2 68 (51.91%) VPN
3 56 (42.75%) Network Security
4 55 (41.98%) DNS
5 43 (32.82%) SSL
6 39 (29.77%) TCP/IP
7 38 (29.01%) WAN
8 26 (19.85%) Wireless
9 24 (18.32%) BGP
9 24 (18.32%) OSPF
10 22 (16.79%) IPsec
11 21 (16.03%) LAN
12 18 (13.74%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (12.21%) DHCP
13 16 (12.21%) SD-WAN
14 15 (11.45%) DMVPN
15 11 (8.40%) Cisco IPT
15 11 (8.40%) VLAN
16 9 (6.87%) EIGRP
16 9 (6.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (19.85%) Jenkins
2 24 (18.32%) Git
3 20 (15.27%) GitLab
4 10 (7.63%) JIRA
General
1 23 (17.56%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.03%) Public Sector
3 19 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.45%) Telecoms
5 10 (7.63%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (7.63%) Finance
6 4 (3.05%) Banking
6 4 (3.05%) Military
6 4 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.05%) Retail
7 3 (2.29%) Legal
7 3 (2.29%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Police
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (41.22%) Network Engineer
2 29 (22.14%) Senior
3 24 (18.32%) Security Engineer
4 17 (12.98%) Network Security Engineer
5 14 (10.69%) Architect
6 13 (9.92%) Firewall Engineer
7 12 (9.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (9.16%) Senior DevOps
7 12 (9.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) Network Architect
9 9 (6.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Analyst
11 6 (4.58%) Lead
11 6 (4.58%) Security Architect
11 6 (4.58%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Cisco Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Support Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.16%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.53%) LDAP
2 2 (1.53%) SAML
2 2 (1.53%) Spring
2 2 (1.53%) VML
3 1 (0.76%) .NET
3 1 (0.76%) ADO
3 1 (0.76%) eBPF
3 1 (0.76%) REST
3 1 (0.76%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.79%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.58%) Operational Technology
3 5 (3.82%) SCADA
4 4 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (3.05%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.29%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.53%) PKI
7 1 (0.76%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (0.76%) CMDB
7 1 (0.76%) CSOC
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.76%) NHS
7 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.16%) Windows
2 4 (3.05%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.53%) CatOS
4 2 (1.53%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.76%) Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (22.14%) DevOps
2 25 (19.08%) High Availability
3 23 (17.56%) Incident Response
4 22 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (16.03%) Change Management
5 21 (16.03%) CI/CD
5 21 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (15.27%) Migration
7 19 (14.50%) DevSecOps
7 19 (14.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (11.45%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (9.92%) ITIL
10 13 (9.92%) Mentoring
11 11 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (8.40%) Inventory Management
12 10 (7.63%) Network Monitoring
13 9 (6.87%) Computer Science
13 9 (6.87%) Network Design
13 9 (6.87%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (28.24%) Python
2 28 (21.37%) Bash
3 2 (1.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 57 (43.51%) Security Cleared
2 48 (36.64%) SC Cleared
3 44 (33.59%) Cisco Certification
4 38 (29.01%) CCNP
5 14 (10.69%) CCIE
6 13 (9.92%) CCNA
7 12 (9.16%) Degree
8 10 (7.63%) CCSA
9 8 (6.11%) CISSP
10 7 (5.34%) CCSE
10 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (3.82%) JNCIE
12 4 (3.05%) A+ Certification
12 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (3.05%) JNCIP
13 3 (2.29%) Azure Certification
14 2 (1.53%) CCSM
14 2 (1.53%) CCSP
14 2 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (1.53%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.87%) GDPR
2 7 (5.34%) NIST
3 5 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.82%) QA
4 4 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.53%) COBIT
5 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.53%) PMO
6 1 (0.76%) GRC
6 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.76%) NCSC
6 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (19.08%) Docker
2 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.82%) Firmware
4 4 (3.05%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.29%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (27.48%) Ansible
2 35 (26.72%) Terraform
3 9 (6.87%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.05%) CA Spectrum
4 4 (3.05%) SCCM
5 3 (2.29%) Iperf
5 3 (2.29%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.29%) Nmap
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.53%) SCOM
6 2 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.53%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 75 (57.25%) Cisco
2 59 (45.04%) Palo Alto
3 58 (44.27%) F5
4 29 (22.14%) Fortinet
5 24 (18.32%) Juniper
6 16 (12.21%) SolarWinds
7 15 (11.45%) Microsoft
7 15 (11.45%) Zscaler
8 11 (8.40%) Blue Coat
8 11 (8.40%) Meraki
9 9 (6.87%) Aruba
10 8 (6.11%) ServiceNow
11 7 (5.34%) VMware
12 5 (3.82%) Oracle
13 4 (3.05%) Infoblox
13 4 (3.05%) Remedy
13 4 (3.05%) Tenable
14 3 (2.29%) Arista
15 2 (1.53%) LogicMonitor
15 2 (1.53%) Rapid7