CheckPoint Contracts in the Midlands

CheckPoint
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 113 105
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 +74
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 20 18 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.81% 0.68% 1.55%
As % of the Vendors category 1.77% 1.50% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 33
10th Percentile £350 £425 £320
25th Percentile £366 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £638 £375
Median % change year-on-year -37.25% +70.00% -21.05%
75th Percentile £594 £775 £463
90th Percentile £625 - £588
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.00%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,127 1,201 1,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.41% 45.49% 50.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 831 1,043
10th Percentile £208 £263 £207
25th Percentile £325 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -2.06%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £594
90th Percentile £648 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 39 38
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.74 £13.11
25th Percentile £15.74 £13.39 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.00 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -29.67% +22.97%
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.88 £65.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £93.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% -18.31% +57.78%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing CheckPoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in the Midlands

CheckPoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CheckPoint in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the Midlands

CheckPoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CheckPoint in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
West Midlands -2 17 £380 -49.33% 8
East Midlands -5 3 £575 +27.78% 1
CheckPoint
England

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 19 (95.00%) Firewall
2 12 (60.00%) Network Security
3 11 (55.00%) IPsec
3 11 (55.00%) SSL
3 11 (55.00%) VPN
4 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
5 8 (40.00%) DNS
6 6 (30.00%) BGP
6 6 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (30.00%) OSPF
6 6 (30.00%) VLAN
7 5 (25.00%) Cisco IPT
7 5 (25.00%) DMVPN
7 5 (25.00%) WAN
7 5 (25.00%) Wireless
8 4 (20.00%) BIG-IP
8 4 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (15.00%) DHCP
10 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (45.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Check Point Expert
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Principal Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) SCADA Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Security Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Switch Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Change Management
2 6 (30.00%) High Availability
2 6 (30.00%) SIEM
3 5 (25.00%) Inventory Management
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (5.00%) Information Security
7 1 (5.00%) Remediation Plan
7 1 (5.00%) Risk Management
7 1 (5.00%) Runbook
7 1 (5.00%) Security Operations
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (5.00%) User Experience
7 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) CCSE
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (15.00%) CCNA
4 3 (15.00%) CCNP
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.00%) CCIE
5 1 (5.00%) CCIE Security
5 1 (5.00%) CCSM
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) FortiGate
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Cisco
2 10 (50.00%) F5
3 6 (30.00%) Fortinet
4 5 (25.00%) Blue Coat
4 5 (25.00%) Juniper
4 5 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
6 1 (5.00%) Zscaler