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 30 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
30 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 64 92
Rank change year-on-year -26 +28 +29
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 3 20 8
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.24% 1.93% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 0.59% 4.16% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £544 £372 £524
25th Percentile £579 £386 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £419 £700
Median % change year-on-year +61.19% -40.18% +72.84%
75th Percentile £731 £463 -
90th Percentile £743 £508 -
North West median daily rate £448 £500 £700
% change year-on-year -10.50% -28.57% +64.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £43.75

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 505 481 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 40.34% 46.38% 38.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 307 428
10th Percentile £306 £325 £255
25th Percentile £363 £400 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £669 £693 £700
North West median daily rate £457 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 38
10th Percentile £16.50 £28.80 £11.79
25th Percentile £19.75 £31.25 £12.77
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +83.41% -72.74%
75th Percentile £31.40 £33.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £32.25 £54.75 £46.88
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year -8.92% +28.71% -15.83%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in Manchester

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) Broadcom
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Netskope
3 1 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) Zscaler
46 CheckPoint jobs in England