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 31 January 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 322 404
Rank change year-on-year -89 +82 +6
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 141 176 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.66% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.93% 1.43% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 77 98
10th Percentile £271 £300 £350
25th Percentile £350 £394 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £521 £580 £525
90th Percentile £650 £625 £606
UK median daily rate £441 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -15.95% +5.00% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - - £42.81
25th Percentile - £20.00 £46.09
Median hourly rate £20.75 £20.19 £53.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -62.00% -32.32%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £58.59
90th Percentile - - £60.94
UK median hourly rate £20.75 £20.19 £53.13
% change year-on-year +2.79% -62.00% -31.89%

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 15,197 12,293 16,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.96% 46.34% 43.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,971 7,396 10,705
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £716 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 725 354 819
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.53 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £15.88
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £57.99
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -14.91% -6.67% +1.69%

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 31 January 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
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 31 January 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 -57 47 £443 -15.71% 13
South East -12 36 £440 -4.86% 14
Midlands -36 26 £380 -24.00% 4
West Midlands -26 24 £375 -29.71% 2
North of England -77 20 £500 +19.40% 3
Yorkshire -45 14 £500 +81.82% 2
North West -58 6 £448 -10.50% 1
South West -31 4 £325 -31.58% 3
East of England -21 3 - - 9
East Midlands -31 2 £500 +11.11% 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 (4.96%) Confluence
2 5 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) JBoss
3 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (7.09%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (26.95%) AWS
2 21 (14.89%) Azure
2 21 (14.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 18 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (12.77%) Amazon ELB
3 18 (12.77%) Amazon S3
4 8 (5.67%) GCP
5 6 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.84%) OCI
7 3 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.13%) IaaS
7 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.13%) PaaS
7 3 (2.13%) SaaS
8 2 (1.42%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.71%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.71%) GitHub
9 1 (0.71%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 117 (82.98%) Firewall
2 59 (41.84%) VPN
2 59 (41.84%) WAN
3 53 (37.59%) Network Security
4 47 (33.33%) LAN
5 39 (27.66%) BGP
5 39 (27.66%) OSPF
6 38 (26.95%) DNS
7 36 (25.53%) SSL
8 31 (21.99%) IPsec
9 29 (20.57%) TCP/IP
10 22 (15.60%) Cisco ASA
11 18 (12.77%) Wireless
12 17 (12.06%) Structured Cabling
13 13 (9.22%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (9.22%) SD-WAN
14 12 (8.51%) Wireshark
15 11 (7.80%) MPLS
16 10 (7.09%) BIG-IP
17 9 (6.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (14.18%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.48%) Git
3 17 (12.06%) GitLab
4 4 (2.84%) JIRA
5 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (16.31%) Documentation Skills
2 22 (15.60%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.06%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.51%) Telecoms
6 11 (7.80%) Manufacturing
7 10 (7.09%) Finance
8 6 (4.26%) Retail
9 5 (3.55%) Banking
10 4 (2.84%) Legal
10 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.13%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.13%) Military
12 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.71%) Aviation
12 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.71%) Police
12 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (45.39%) Network Engineer
2 30 (21.28%) Senior
3 18 (12.77%) Architect
4 17 (12.06%) Security Engineer
5 15 (10.64%) Network Architect
6 12 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (8.51%) Senior DevOps
6 12 (8.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) Network Security Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 9 (6.38%) Lead
9 8 (5.67%) Firewall Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Security Architect
9 8 (5.67%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Cisco Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Analyst
11 6 (4.26%) Network Security Architect
12 5 (3.55%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.26%) 802.1X
1 6 (4.26%) LDAP
1 6 (4.26%) SAML
2 4 (2.84%) VML
3 2 (1.42%) CSS
3 2 (1.42%) HTML
3 2 (1.42%) Spring
4 1 (0.71%) .NET
4 1 (0.71%) eBPF
4 1 (0.71%) REST
4 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.08%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.55%) PKI
3 5 (3.55%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.84%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.84%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.13%) SCADA
6 2 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) CSOC
7 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.38%) Windows
2 4 (2.84%) CatOS
2 4 (2.84%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.13%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.42%) Unix
5 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (17.02%) Incident Response
2 22 (15.60%) DevOps
3 21 (14.89%) High Availability
4 20 (14.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (13.48%) Migration
6 18 (12.77%) CI/CD
7 17 (12.06%) Change Management
8 16 (11.35%) DevSecOps
8 16 (11.35%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (11.35%) Mentoring
9 15 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (9.22%) Project Delivery
11 11 (7.80%) Customer Requirements
11 11 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (7.80%) Network Design
11 11 (7.80%) Validation
12 10 (7.09%) ITIL
12 10 (7.09%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.70%) Python
2 24 (17.02%) Bash
3 2 (1.42%) Java
3 2 (1.42%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (43.97%) Security Cleared
2 57 (40.43%) Cisco Certification
3 54 (38.30%) SC Cleared
4 51 (36.17%) CCNP
5 19 (13.48%) Degree
6 18 (12.77%) CCNA
7 17 (12.06%) CCIE
8 10 (7.09%) CCSE
9 9 (6.38%) CISSP
10 4 (2.84%) CCSA
10 4 (2.84%) JNCIE
11 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
11 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.13%) JNCIP
11 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.42%) CCSM
12 2 (1.42%) CCSP
12 2 (1.42%) CISM
12 2 (1.42%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.67%) NIST
1 8 (5.67%) QA
2 6 (4.26%) GDPR
3 5 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.55%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.84%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.13%) NCSC
5 3 (2.13%) PMO
6 2 (1.42%) COBIT
6 2 (1.42%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.71%) RMADS
7 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (14.18%) Docker
2 13 (9.22%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.67%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.42%) Firmware
5 2 (1.42%) vSphere
6 1 (0.71%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 35 (24.82%) Ansible
2 30 (21.28%) Terraform
3 8 (5.67%) FortiGate
4 6 (4.26%) SCCM
4 6 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.84%) Iperf
5 4 (2.84%) Nmap
6 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.42%) Grafana
7 2 (1.42%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.42%) Salt
7 2 (1.42%) SCOM
8 1 (0.71%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.71%) QRadar
Vendors
1 94 (66.67%) Cisco
2 83 (58.87%) Palo Alto
3 54 (38.30%) F5
4 35 (24.82%) Aruba
5 30 (21.28%) Fortinet
6 22 (15.60%) Juniper
7 16 (11.35%) SolarWinds
8 15 (10.64%) Microsoft
8 15 (10.64%) Zscaler
9 13 (9.22%) VMware
10 9 (6.38%) Meraki
11 6 (4.26%) Arista
11 6 (4.26%) Blue Coat
11 6 (4.26%) ServiceNow
12 5 (3.55%) Oracle
13 4 (2.84%) Remedy
13 4 (2.84%) Tenable
14 3 (2.13%) Broadcom
14 3 (2.13%) Extreme Networks
14 3 (2.13%) Netskope