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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 316 355
Rank change year-on-year -154 +39 -7
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 144 182 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.70% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 0.80% 1.47% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 96 141
10th Percentile £300 £369 £350
25th Percentile £400 £388 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -12.20% +11.11%
75th Percentile £517 £575 £553
90th Percentile £583 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £480 £513
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.34% +12.76%
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 17,911 12,355 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.79% 47.34% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,379 7,820 10,109
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £627
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 571 1,051
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.56 £14.84
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -32.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.95 £60.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
% change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -97 62 £400 -3.03% 20
South East -47 30 £463 +2.78% 6
North of England -90 25 £450 -21.74% 7
North West -50 15 £450 -21.78% 2
Midlands -65 13 £375 -31.82% 1
West Midlands -63 11 £340 -42.13% 1
Yorkshire -64 9 £500 -11.11% 4
East of England -21 6 £530 -3.64% 3
East Midlands -17 2 £488 -11.36%
South West -32 1 £450 +9.09% 3
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 (3.47%) Confluence
2 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.08%) SAS
4 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.69%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.06%) Azure
2 21 (14.58%) AWS
3 7 (4.86%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.78%) GCP
5 4 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.08%) Cloudflare
6 3 (2.08%) SaaS
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.39%) IaaS
7 2 (1.39%) OCI
7 2 (1.39%) PaaS
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.69%) Datadog
8 1 (0.69%) GitHub
8 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 115 (79.86%) Firewall
2 59 (40.97%) WAN
3 54 (37.50%) Network Security
4 50 (34.72%) LAN
5 48 (33.33%) VPN
6 38 (26.39%) BGP
7 37 (25.69%) Cisco ASA
7 37 (25.69%) OSPF
8 35 (24.31%) Wireless
9 28 (19.44%) VLAN
10 23 (15.97%) DNS
11 22 (15.28%) MPLS
12 21 (14.58%) IPsec
13 19 (13.19%) EIGRP
14 18 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
15 17 (11.81%) Cisco Firepower
16 16 (11.11%) TCP/IP
17 15 (10.42%) BIG-IP
17 15 (10.42%) SSL
17 15 (10.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.69%) MySQL
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (4.17%) JIRA
2 2 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.69%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) GitLab
3 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.67%) Finance
3 11 (7.64%) Telecoms
4 10 (6.94%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.86%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.17%) Retail
8 4 (2.78%) Banking
9 3 (2.08%) Police
10 2 (1.39%) Aviation
10 2 (1.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (47.22%) Network Engineer
2 24 (16.67%) Senior
3 19 (13.19%) Architect
4 16 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 13 (9.03%) Network Architect
5 13 (9.03%) Network Security Engineer
6 8 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Firewall Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Senior Network Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (4.17%) Security Architect
9 5 (3.47%) Network Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (3.47%) Network Manager
9 5 (3.47%) Network Security Architect
9 5 (3.47%) NOC Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Network Operations Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.94%) 802.1X
2 8 (5.56%) LDAP
3 7 (4.86%) SAML
4 1 (0.69%) CSS
4 1 (0.69%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.69%) Flask
4 1 (0.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.47%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.08%) PKI
6 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.69%) CESG
7 1 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.69%) NHS
7 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.69%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.89%) Linux
2 16 (11.11%) Windows
3 11 (7.64%) Unix
4 3 (2.08%) CatOS
4 3 (2.08%) Check Point GAiA
4 3 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.69%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (15.28%) Change Management
1 22 (15.28%) ITIL
2 16 (11.11%) Validation
3 15 (10.42%) Project Delivery
3 15 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (9.03%) Load Balancing
5 12 (8.33%) Migration
5 12 (8.33%) Network Design
6 11 (7.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (7.64%) Incident Management
6 11 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (7.64%) ITSM
7 10 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (6.94%) Incident Response
7 10 (6.94%) Network Segmentation
7 10 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (6.94%) SIEM
7 10 (6.94%) Zero Trust
8 9 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.03%) Python
2 4 (2.78%) Bash
3 2 (1.39%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 48 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 43 (29.86%) SC Cleared
3 41 (28.47%) Cisco Certification
4 38 (26.39%) CCNP
5 21 (14.58%) Degree
6 16 (11.11%) CCSE
7 11 (7.64%) CCNA
8 7 (4.86%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.17%) CCIE
10 5 (3.47%) CCSM
11 3 (2.08%) CCSA
11 3 (2.08%) CISM
11 3 (2.08%) CISSP
11 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.39%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.39%) CCIP
12 2 (1.39%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.39%) JNCIE
12 2 (1.39%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) SLA
2 5 (3.47%) NCSC
3 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.08%) QA
4 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.69%) GRC
5 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.69%) PMO
5 1 (0.69%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (15.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (9.72%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.64%) VMware NSX
4 6 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.47%) vSphere
6 4 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.08%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.39%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.69%) Firmware
9 1 (0.69%) NFS
9 1 (0.69%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (9.03%) Ansible
2 9 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 8 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (4.86%) Terraform
5 6 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.47%) Grafana
7 4 (2.78%) Salt
7 4 (2.78%) SCCM
8 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.39%) AirWatch
9 2 (1.39%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (1.39%) Iperf
9 2 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.39%) Nmap
10 1 (0.69%) CASB
10 1 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 101 (70.14%) Cisco
2 91 (63.19%) Palo Alto
3 45 (31.25%) F5
4 44 (30.56%) Fortinet
5 27 (18.75%) VMware
6 25 (17.36%) Aruba
7 22 (15.28%) Juniper
8 19 (13.19%) Microsoft
9 14 (9.72%) SolarWinds
10 13 (9.03%) ServiceNow
11 11 (7.64%) Meraki
11 11 (7.64%) Zscaler
12 8 (5.56%) Arista
12 8 (5.56%) Blue Coat
13 7 (4.86%) Splunk
14 5 (3.47%) BigPanda
14 5 (3.47%) BT
14 5 (3.47%) Ekahau
15 4 (2.78%) Citrix
15 4 (2.78%) Xerox