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 15 October 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
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 61 96
Rank change year-on-year -14 +35 +43
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 6 22 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.59% 1.87% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 1.22% 4.51% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £585 £384 £380
25th Percentile £603 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 £700
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -26.79% +73.91%
75th Percentile £722 £541 -
90th Percentile £739 £550 -
North West median daily rate £598 £513 £394
% change year-on-year +16.59% +30.16% -1.56%
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 492 488 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.33% 41.50% 40.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 274 476
10th Percentile £305 £363 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £498 £478
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +4.19% -3.54%
75th Percentile £604 £575 £582
90th Percentile £723 £675 £688
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 18 27
10th Percentile £13.36 £15.89 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £23.63 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.32 £31.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -29.72% +79.18% -56.78%
75th Percentile £31.40 £41.56 £42.50
90th Percentile £32.78 £64.13 £50.13
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% - +45.92%

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 15 October 2025.

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 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (16.67%) Imperva
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Thycotic
3 1 (16.67%) Zscaler