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 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
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 315 410
Rank change year-on-year -83 +95 +9
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 141 176 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.65% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.96% 1.42% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 76 92
10th Percentile £290 £300 £350
25th Percentile £350 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +2.63% -6.31%
75th Percentile £521 £576 £538
90th Percentile £650 £625 £629
UK median daily rate £438 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -16.67% +10.53% -5.00%
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% +58.58%
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% +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 14,727 12,366 16,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.30% 46.02% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,672 7,466 10,412
10th Percentile £300 £294 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £405
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 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 690 358 702
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £18.17 £17.00
Median hourly rate £23.79 £30.00 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -21.98% +20.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £61.81
90th Percentile £72.05 £80.75 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year -13.13% -26.87% +29.31%

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 18 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 18 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 -27 49 £515 -1.90% 16
South East -15 32 £438 -7.89% 17
Midlands -35 29 £375 -29.71% 2
West Midlands -16 28 £365 -31.58% 1
North of England -74 19 £481 +14.93% 1
Yorkshire -49 13 £481 +75.00%
North West -55 6 £448 -10.50% 1
South West -16 4 £325 -29.73% 5
East of England -19 3 - - 11
East Midlands -32 1 £500 - 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 8 (5.67%) Confluence
2 6 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) JBoss
3 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (7.80%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (31.21%) AWS
2 26 (18.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 23 (16.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 23 (16.31%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (16.31%) Amazon ELB
3 23 (16.31%) Amazon S3
4 20 (14.18%) Azure
5 8 (5.67%) GCP
6 5 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.84%) OCI
8 3 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.13%) IaaS
8 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.13%) PaaS
8 3 (2.13%) SaaS
9 1 (0.71%) Akamai
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.71%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.71%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 119 (84.40%) Firewall
2 67 (47.52%) VPN
3 58 (41.13%) WAN
4 55 (39.01%) Network Security
5 47 (33.33%) DNS
6 45 (31.91%) SSL
7 41 (29.08%) LAN
8 33 (23.40%) BGP
8 33 (23.40%) IPsec
8 33 (23.40%) OSPF
9 32 (22.70%) TCP/IP
10 22 (15.60%) Wireless
11 17 (12.06%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (9.93%) SD-WAN
12 14 (9.93%) Structured Cabling
13 13 (9.22%) Cisco Nexus
14 11 (7.80%) BIG-IP
14 11 (7.80%) Cisco IPT
14 11 (7.80%) DMVPN
14 11 (7.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (18.44%) Jenkins
2 24 (17.02%) Git
3 20 (14.18%) GitLab
4 5 (3.55%) JIRA
5 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (14.18%) Documentation Skills
1 20 (14.18%) Public Sector
1 20 (14.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.35%) Telecoms
3 12 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.38%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.26%) Finance
5 6 (4.26%) Retail
6 4 (2.84%) Banking
6 4 (2.84%) Legal
6 4 (2.84%) Military
6 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.71%) Police
7 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (46.10%) Network Engineer
2 32 (22.70%) Senior
3 20 (14.18%) Security Engineer
4 19 (13.48%) Architect
5 16 (11.35%) Network Architect
6 13 (9.22%) Network Security Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) Senior DevOps
7 12 (8.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.38%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Firewall Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Lead
10 8 (5.67%) Security Architect
11 6 (4.26%) Analyst
11 6 (4.26%) Cisco Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.80%) 802.1X
2 6 (4.26%) LDAP
2 6 (4.26%) SAML
3 4 (2.84%) VML
4 2 (1.42%) CSS
4 2 (1.42%) HTML
4 2 (1.42%) Spring
5 1 (0.71%) .NET
5 1 (0.71%) eBPF
5 1 (0.71%) REST
5 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.08%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.55%) PKI
4 4 (2.84%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.84%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.84%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.13%) SCADA
6 2 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.71%) CMDB
7 1 (0.71%) CSOC
7 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.71%) NHS
7 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.09%) Windows
2 4 (2.84%) CatOS
2 4 (2.84%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.42%) Unix
3 2 (1.42%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (19.86%) DevOps
2 26 (18.44%) High Availability
3 24 (17.02%) Incident Response
4 23 (16.31%) Change Management
5 21 (14.89%) CI/CD
5 21 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (14.18%) Migration
7 19 (13.48%) DevSecOps
7 19 (13.48%) Infrastructure Automation
8 17 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (11.35%) Mentoring
10 15 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (8.51%) Inventory Management
12 12 (8.51%) ITIL
12 12 (8.51%) Project Delivery
13 11 (7.80%) Security Architecture
14 10 (7.09%) Network Design
15 9 (6.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.24%) Python
2 28 (19.86%) Bash
3 2 (1.42%) Java
3 2 (1.42%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 69 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 62 (43.97%) SC Cleared
3 54 (38.30%) Cisco Certification
4 48 (34.04%) CCNP
5 17 (12.06%) CCIE
6 16 (11.35%) CCNA
6 16 (11.35%) Degree
7 13 (9.22%) CCSE
8 8 (5.67%) CISSP
9 6 (4.26%) JNCIE
10 5 (3.55%) JNCIP
11 4 (2.84%) CCSA
12 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
12 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (1.42%) CCSM
13 2 (1.42%) CCSP
13 2 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (1.42%) VCDX
14 1 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.67%) NIST
2 6 (4.26%) GDPR
2 6 (4.26%) QA
3 5 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.55%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.13%) PMO
6 2 (1.42%) COBIT
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.71%) NCSC
7 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (17.73%) Docker
2 12 (8.51%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.67%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.42%) vSphere
6 1 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (27.66%) Ansible
2 37 (26.24%) Terraform
3 9 (6.38%) FortiGate
4 6 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.55%) SCCM
6 3 (2.13%) Iperf
6 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.13%) Nmap
7 2 (1.42%) Grafana
7 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.42%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.42%) Salt
7 2 (1.42%) SCOM
8 1 (0.71%) QRadar
Vendors
1 90 (63.83%) Cisco
2 79 (56.03%) Palo Alto
3 64 (45.39%) F5
4 32 (22.70%) Aruba
5 28 (19.86%) Fortinet
6 27 (19.15%) Juniper
7 18 (12.77%) Zscaler
8 15 (10.64%) SolarWinds
9 14 (9.93%) Microsoft
10 12 (8.51%) VMware
11 11 (7.80%) Blue Coat
12 9 (6.38%) Meraki
13 7 (4.96%) ServiceNow
14 5 (3.55%) Arista
14 5 (3.55%) Oracle
14 5 (3.55%) Remedy
15 4 (2.84%) Infoblox
15 4 (2.84%) Tenable
16 3 (2.13%) Extreme Networks
16 3 (2.13%) Netskope