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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 310 367
Rank change year-on-year -41 +57 +54
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 164 223 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.68% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% 1.53% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 125 186
10th Percentile £346 £350 £313
25th Percentile £388 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £587 £614 £555
90th Percentile £686 £688 £644
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - £40.63
Median hourly rate £89.63 £20.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +348.15% -54.29% -18.98%
75th Percentile - £20.42 £46.88
90th Percentile - £27.78 -
UK median hourly rate £89.63 £20.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +348.15% -57.89% -12.04%

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 13,130 14,554 18,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.25% 44.19% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,343 8,881 12,211
10th Percentile £275 £300 £262
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £732 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 620 595 579
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.26 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.62 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% -23.58% +83.33%
75th Percentile £46.39 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.69 £70.00 £75.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -16.17% -31.66% +83.61%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +2 69 £438 -16.67% 22
North of England -14 36 £550 +15.79% 17
Midlands -10 34 £380 -27.62% 4
West Midlands +7 32 £380 -40.39% 4
South East +1 21 £450 -14.29% 9
Yorkshire -18 18 £550 +15.79% 10
North West -20 18 £598 +16.59% 7
South West +8 3 £535 +15.68% 4
East Midlands -13 2 £525 +16.67%
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 6 (3.66%) Confluence
2 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.00%) AWS
2 20 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 20 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
2 20 (12.20%) Amazon ELB
2 20 (12.20%) Amazon S3
2 20 (12.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 17 (10.37%) Azure
4 7 (4.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (1.83%) GCP
5 3 (1.83%) OCI
6 2 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.61%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 143 (87.20%) Firewall
2 74 (45.12%) VPN
3 69 (42.07%) Network Security
4 59 (35.98%) DNS
5 50 (30.49%) TCP/IP
6 43 (26.22%) BGP
6 43 (26.22%) OSPF
7 42 (25.61%) Cisco ASA
8 41 (25.00%) SSL
9 31 (18.90%) IPsec
10 30 (18.29%) WAN
11 27 (16.46%) Wireless
12 23 (14.02%) VLAN
13 22 (13.41%) DHCP
14 19 (11.59%) LAN
15 17 (10.37%) EIGRP
15 17 (10.37%) SD-WAN
16 14 (8.54%) DMVPN
17 13 (7.93%) Cisco Firepower
17 13 (7.93%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (14.02%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.20%) Git
3 18 (10.98%) GitLab
4 17 (10.37%) JIRA
5 4 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.02%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.59%) Telecoms
5 15 (9.15%) Finance
6 5 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.44%) Banking
7 4 (2.44%) Military
8 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.22%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.22%) Legal
9 2 (1.22%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Police
10 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (48.17%) Network Engineer
2 29 (17.68%) Senior
3 22 (13.41%) Security Engineer
4 18 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (10.98%) Network Security Engineer
5 13 (7.93%) Firewall Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 11 (6.71%) Support Engineer
8 10 (6.10%) Cisco Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) Architect
9 9 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (5.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Network Architect
10 8 (4.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.71%) 802.1X
2 7 (4.27%) ADO
3 1 (0.61%) JSON
3 1 (0.61%) Spring
3 1 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.20%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.27%) Anti-Spyware
3 4 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.44%) Operational Technology
3 4 (2.44%) SCADA
4 3 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.22%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.22%) PKI
5 2 (1.22%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.61%) CMDB
6 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.32%) Windows
2 6 (3.66%) Check Point GAiA
3 4 (2.44%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.83%) Linux
4 3 (1.83%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) CatOS
5 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (17.68%) Migration
2 28 (17.07%) High Availability
3 26 (15.85%) DevOps
4 22 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (13.41%) ITIL
4 22 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (11.59%) Incident Response
7 17 (10.37%) Network Monitoring
8 16 (9.76%) CI/CD
8 16 (9.76%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (9.76%) SIEM
9 15 (9.15%) Agile
10 14 (8.54%) Change Management
10 14 (8.54%) DevSecOps
11 11 (6.71%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (6.10%) Network Design
13 9 (5.49%) Inventory Management
13 9 (5.49%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.49%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 44 (26.83%) Python
2 25 (15.24%) Bash
3 5 (3.05%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.61%) Java
Qualifications
1 62 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 53 (32.32%) SC Cleared
3 50 (30.49%) Cisco Certification
4 45 (27.44%) CCNP
5 19 (11.59%) CCSE
6 16 (9.76%) CCSA
7 12 (7.32%) Degree
8 11 (6.71%) CCNA
9 10 (6.10%) CCIE
10 7 (4.27%) Check Point Certification
11 4 (2.44%) A+ Certification
11 4 (2.44%) JNCIE
11 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.83%) CISSP
12 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.83%) JNCIP
13 2 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.61%) CCIE Security
14 1 (0.61%) CCSM
14 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.44%) GDPR
1 4 (2.44%) QA
2 3 (1.83%) NIST
2 3 (1.83%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.22%) COBIT
4 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.61%) PMO
4 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (12.80%) Docker
2 5 (3.05%) Firmware
3 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.83%) vSphere
4 2 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (31.71%) Ansible
2 37 (22.56%) Terraform
3 14 (8.54%) FortiGate
4 5 (3.05%) CA Spectrum
5 3 (1.83%) Iperf
5 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.83%) Nmap
6 2 (1.22%) SCCM
6 2 (1.22%) SCOM
6 2 (1.22%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.61%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (61.59%) Cisco
2 76 (46.34%) Palo Alto
3 63 (38.41%) F5
4 38 (23.17%) Fortinet
5 27 (16.46%) Juniper
6 26 (15.85%) SolarWinds
7 17 (10.37%) Zscaler
8 14 (8.54%) ServiceNow
9 13 (7.93%) Microsoft
10 12 (7.32%) Infoblox
11 10 (6.10%) Blue Coat
12 9 (5.49%) Meraki
13 7 (4.27%) Arista
14 5 (3.05%) VMware
15 4 (2.44%) AlgoSec
16 3 (1.83%) Oracle
16 3 (1.83%) Remedy
17 2 (1.22%) Dell
17 2 (1.22%) HP
17 2 (1.22%) Tufin