CheckPoint Contract Job Trends in Manchester

CheckPoint
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 28 August 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
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 82 76
Rank change year-on-year -34 -6 +24
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 9 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.45% 0.39% 0.66%
As % of the Vendors category 1.17% 0.81% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £423 £578 £378
25th Percentile £438 £583 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £611 £513
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% +19.27% +46.43%
75th Percentile £463 £633 £547
90th Percentile £485 £636 £550
North West median daily rate £450 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -21.74% +12.20% +57.69%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 771 496 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 38.76% 48.96% 37.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 317 281
10th Percentile £266 £307 £363
25th Percentile £376 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £603
90th Percentile £664 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 36 20
10th Percentile £21.39 £13.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £24.19 £19.07 £19.21
Median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.05% -26.84% +72.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £31.40 £51.56
90th Percentile £87.00 £61.88 £64.00
North West median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £18.65
% change year-on-year +15.33% +34.86% -46.73%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CheckPoint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in Manchester

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CheckPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CheckPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Akamai
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Kong
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 4 (44.44%) BGP
3 4 (44.44%) EIGRP
3 4 (44.44%) Network Security
3 4 (44.44%) OSPF
4 3 (33.33%) NetScaler
4 3 (33.33%) Wireless
5 1 (11.11%) HSRP
5 1 (11.11%) IPsec
5 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JWT
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Change Management
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Bicep
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) CCNP
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (22.22%) CISSP
4 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (11.11%) CCIE
4 1 (11.11%) CCIE Security
4 1 (11.11%) CCSA
4 1 (11.11%) CCSE
4 1 (11.11%) CCSP
4 1 (11.11%) CEH
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) GCIA
4 1 (11.11%) GCIH
4 1 (11.11%) GIAC
4 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 1 (11.11%) SANS
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Istio
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 4 (44.44%) F5
4 3 (33.33%) Citrix
4 3 (33.33%) Meraki
5 2 (22.22%) AlgoSec
6 1 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
6 1 (11.11%) Intel
6 1 (11.11%) Zscaler