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 20 June 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
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 323 365
Rank change year-on-year -137 +42 -25
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 140 177 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.71% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 0.80% 1.50% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 91 134
10th Percentile £300 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -12.20% +10.51%
75th Percentile £523 £575 £552
90th Percentile £600 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £447 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.55% -2.44% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 £31.32 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £36.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +63.73% - -
75th Percentile £78.50 £41.97 -
90th Percentile £78.65 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £36.65 -
% change year-on-year +86.93% - -

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 17,517 11,831 15,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.55% 47.51% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,216 7,519 10,058
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £404 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 935 530 1,067
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.50 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.94 £27.13 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.81% +13.02% -39.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £59.76
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.23 £23.80
% change year-on-year +34.75% +5.99% -44.65%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -94 62 £400 -11.11% 9
South East -45 36 £463 +2.78% 5
North of England -104 16 £500 -13.04% 6
Midlands -62 13 £375 -31.82% 1
West Midlands -60 11 £340 -42.13%
North West -59 8 £508 -11.74% 2
Yorkshire -73 7 £500 -11.11% 3
East of England -32 6 £530 -3.64% 4
East Midlands -20 2 £488 -11.36% 1
South West -34 1 £450 +9.09% 2
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 5 (3.57%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.43%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.71%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.86%) Azure
2 21 (15.00%) AWS
3 6 (4.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (2.86%) GCP
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.14%) SaaS
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.43%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.43%) IaaS
7 2 (1.43%) OCI
7 2 (1.43%) PaaS
8 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.71%) GitHub
8 1 (0.71%) Route 53
8 1 (0.71%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 111 (79.29%) Firewall
2 63 (45.00%) WAN
3 55 (39.29%) LAN
4 53 (37.86%) Network Security
5 42 (30.00%) VPN
6 35 (25.00%) BGP
7 34 (24.29%) OSPF
8 29 (20.71%) Wireless
9 28 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
10 25 (17.86%) IPsec
10 25 (17.86%) VLAN
11 22 (15.71%) MPLS
12 21 (15.00%) DNS
13 16 (11.43%) Cisco Nexus
14 15 (10.71%) BIG-IP
14 15 (10.71%) SD-WAN
14 15 (10.71%) SSL
15 14 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
15 14 (10.00%) TCP/IP
15 14 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.71%) MySQL
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.71%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) GitLab
3 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.14%) Finance
3 16 (11.43%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (7.86%) Manufacturing
4 11 (7.86%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.43%) Financial Institution
6 8 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.29%) Retail
8 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.86%) Banking
10 2 (1.43%) Aviation
10 2 (1.43%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Police
11 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (46.43%) Network Engineer
2 22 (15.71%) Senior
3 18 (12.86%) Architect
4 16 (11.43%) Security Engineer
5 13 (9.29%) Network Security Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) Network Architect
7 10 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Infrastructure Manager
11 5 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Manager
11 5 (3.57%) Network Manager
11 5 (3.57%) NOC Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Security Architect
11 5 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
12 4 (2.86%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
12 4 (2.86%) Network Operations Engineer
12 4 (2.86%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.14%) 802.1X
2 8 (5.71%) LDAP
3 7 (5.00%) SAML
4 1 (0.71%) CSS
4 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.71%) Flask
4 1 (0.71%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (9.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) CESG
7 1 (0.71%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.71%) NHS
7 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.71%) PKI
7 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.29%) Linux
2 16 (11.43%) Windows
3 11 (7.86%) Unix
4 3 (2.14%) CatOS
4 3 (2.14%) Check Point GAiA
4 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.71%) VMS
6 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (12.86%) Change Management
2 17 (12.14%) Project Delivery
3 16 (11.43%) Validation
4 15 (10.71%) ITIL
4 15 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
5 13 (9.29%) Load Balancing
5 13 (9.29%) Migration
6 11 (7.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (7.86%) ITSM
6 11 (7.86%) Network Design
7 10 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (7.14%) Incident Response
7 10 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
7 10 (7.14%) Zero Trust
8 9 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (6.43%) Network Monitoring
8 9 (6.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (6.43%) SIEM
8 9 (6.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.29%) Python
2 4 (2.86%) Bash
3 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 44 (31.43%) Cisco Certification
1 44 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 41 (29.29%) CCNP
3 40 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 23 (16.43%) Degree
5 16 (11.43%) CCSE
6 13 (9.29%) CCNA
7 6 (4.29%) CCIE
7 6 (4.29%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.57%) CCSM
9 3 (2.14%) CCSA
9 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.43%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.43%) CCIP
10 2 (1.43%) CISM
10 2 (1.43%) CISSP
10 2 (1.43%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.43%) JNCIE
10 2 (1.43%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) SLA
2 5 (3.57%) NCSC
3 3 (2.14%) QA
4 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) GRC
5 1 (0.71%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) PMO
5 1 (0.71%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (16.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.86%) VMware NSX
4 6 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.57%) vSphere
6 4 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.14%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.43%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.71%) Firmware
9 1 (0.71%) NFS
9 1 (0.71%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (10.00%) Ansible
2 9 (6.43%) FortiGate
3 8 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (5.71%) Terraform
4 6 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.57%) Grafana
6 4 (2.86%) Salt
6 4 (2.86%) SCCM
7 2 (1.43%) AirWatch
7 2 (1.43%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.43%) Iperf
7 2 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.43%) Nmap
8 1 (0.71%) CASB
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 98 (70.00%) Cisco
2 88 (62.86%) Palo Alto
3 43 (30.71%) Fortinet
4 41 (29.29%) F5
5 32 (22.86%) Aruba
6 27 (19.29%) VMware
7 21 (15.00%) Juniper
8 18 (12.86%) Microsoft
9 14 (10.00%) SolarWinds
10 13 (9.29%) ServiceNow
11 11 (7.86%) Zscaler
12 9 (6.43%) Arista
13 8 (5.71%) Blue Coat
14 7 (5.00%) Meraki
15 6 (4.29%) Splunk
16 5 (3.57%) BigPanda
16 5 (3.57%) BT
16 5 (3.57%) Ekahau
17 4 (2.86%) Commvault
17 4 (2.86%) NetApp