CheckPoint Contracts 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 30 May 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 361 351
Rank change year-on-year +62 -10 +81
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 181 184 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.50% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 1.58% 1.19% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 126 219
10th Percentile £375 £350 £288
25th Percentile £400 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £608
90th Percentile £628 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.32 - £76.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 - £78.50
75th Percentile £41.97 - £81.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.65 - £78.50
% change year-on-year - - +45.37%

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 11,439 15,413 20,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.59% 41.91% 42.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,318 9,822 13,774
10th Percentile £279 £263 £269
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -3.27% +1.90%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 1,038 560
10th Percentile £14.71 £12.21 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.48 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.48 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% -40.00% +74.42%
75th Percentile £53.75 £57.50 £62.55
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.08 £42.50
% change year-on-year +15.52% -48.06% +97.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint in England.

Daily rate trend for CheckPoint in England

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in England

CheckPoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 May 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 +65 88 £450 -10.00% 40
North of England +45 44 £575 +19.79% 70
North West +30 24 £575 +9.52% 26
Yorkshire +32 20 £575 +19.79% 30
South East +9 19 £450 -12.20% 78
Midlands +23 17 £550 -26.67% 49
West Midlands +18 12 £588 -21.67% 28
South West +40 7 £413 -17.50% 29
East of England +31 5 £550 +57.14% 36
East Midlands +14 5 £550 +22.22% 18
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 5 (2.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.10%) Azure
2 23 (12.71%) AWS
3 16 (8.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 5 (2.76%) Cloudflare
5 4 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.21%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.21%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.66%) GCP
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.55%) Akamai
8 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.55%) Datadog
8 1 (0.55%) GitHub
8 1 (0.55%) IaaS
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.55%) npm
8 1 (0.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 156 (86.19%) Firewall
2 56 (30.94%) VPN
3 53 (29.28%) BGP
4 52 (28.73%) DNS
4 52 (28.73%) OSPF
5 49 (27.07%) Cisco ASA
5 49 (27.07%) Network Security
6 39 (21.55%) IPsec
7 33 (18.23%) EIGRP
8 32 (17.68%) DHCP
9 31 (17.13%) TCP/IP
10 27 (14.92%) WAN
11 22 (12.15%) Cisco Firepower
11 22 (12.15%) Wireless
12 21 (11.60%) VLAN
13 20 (11.05%) HSRP
13 20 (11.05%) NGFW
14 17 (9.39%) LAN
15 13 (7.18%) SSL
16 11 (6.08%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.10%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (8.29%) JIRA
2 7 (3.87%) GitLab
3 5 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (17.68%) Finance
2 26 (14.36%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.18%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.18%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.55%) Advertising
7 1 (0.55%) Automotive
7 1 (0.55%) Aviation
7 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Legal
7 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.55%) Military
7 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Police
7 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (61.33%) Network Engineer
2 24 (13.26%) Security Engineer
3 22 (12.15%) Network Security Engineer
4 18 (9.94%) Support Engineer
5 17 (9.39%) Network Support
5 17 (9.39%) Network Support Engineer
6 16 (8.84%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (7.18%) Firewall Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) Senior
9 9 (4.97%) Architect
9 9 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Network Architect
9 9 (4.97%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Cisco Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (3.31%) Check Point Expert
12 6 (3.31%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.84%) ADO
2 5 (2.76%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.05%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.84%) Anti-Spyware
3 12 (6.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.10%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.55%) PKI
8 1 (0.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.87%) Windows
2 6 (3.31%) Check Point GAiA
2 6 (3.31%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.76%) CatOS
3 5 (2.76%) Linux
4 4 (2.21%) Unix
4 4 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (19.34%) Migration
2 32 (17.68%) Agile
3 22 (12.15%) ITIL
4 20 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (9.94%) Network Management
5 18 (9.94%) Network Monitoring
6 16 (8.84%) Kalman Filter
6 16 (8.84%) Network Design
7 15 (8.29%) Load Balancing
8 13 (7.18%) SIEM
9 11 (6.08%) DevOps
9 11 (6.08%) High Availability
9 11 (6.08%) Zero Trust
10 10 (5.52%) Change Management
10 10 (5.52%) Security Operations
11 8 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (4.42%) Network Architecture
11 8 (4.42%) Project Delivery
11 8 (4.42%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.57%) Python
2 6 (3.31%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.66%) Bash
4 2 (1.10%) Perl
4 2 (1.10%) SQL
5 1 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 59 (32.60%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (27.07%) CCNP
3 35 (19.34%) Security Cleared
4 30 (16.57%) SC Cleared
5 21 (11.60%) CCSE
6 20 (11.05%) CCNA
7 15 (8.29%) CCSA
8 11 (6.08%) Degree
9 7 (3.87%) CCIE
10 6 (3.31%) Check Point Certification
11 4 (2.21%) APMP
12 3 (1.66%) CISSP
12 3 (1.66%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.66%) JNCIA
13 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.10%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.55%) CCSM
14 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.55%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.76%) QA
2 2 (1.10%) NIST
2 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.76%) Firmware
2 4 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.21%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (19.34%) Ansible
2 26 (14.36%) Terraform
3 12 (6.63%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.66%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (0.55%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.55%) OPNET
6 1 (0.55%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 121 (66.85%) Cisco
2 71 (39.23%) Palo Alto
3 52 (28.73%) F5
4 37 (20.44%) Fortinet
5 32 (17.68%) Infoblox
6 29 (16.02%) Juniper
7 22 (12.15%) SolarWinds
8 20 (11.05%) Zscaler
9 13 (7.18%) Microsoft
10 12 (6.63%) Aruba
11 11 (6.08%) Arista
11 11 (6.08%) Citrix
12 9 (4.97%) VMware
13 7 (3.87%) Extreme Networks
13 7 (3.87%) ServiceNow
14 6 (3.31%) Ruckus Wireless
15 5 (2.76%) CyberArk
15 5 (2.76%) Google
16 4 (2.21%) Blue Coat
16 4 (2.21%) Meraki