CheckPoint Contract Job Trends in the North West

CheckPoint
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 84 124
Rank change year-on-year -48 +40 +34
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 9 37 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.37% 1.71% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 3.68% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 7
10th Percentile £354 £384 £325
25th Percentile £372 £408 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -28.57% +68.67%
75th Percentile £656 £547 -
90th Percentile £724 £577 -
England median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -10.00%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £89.63 £20.19 £53.13
% change year-on-year +343.99% -62.00% +58.58%

All Vendors
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,267 1,006 1,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 51.57% 46.40% 47.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 550 817
10th Percentile £250 £302 £236
25th Percentile £360 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £588 £577 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 50 85
10th Percentile £16.49 £16.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.52 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% -7.14% +74.43%
75th Percentile £56.27 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.81 £52.60
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in the North West

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CheckPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in the North West over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the North West

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CheckPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Manchester -23 6 £625 +47.06% 2
Cheshire -22 2 £375 -35.34%
Lancashire -11 1 £335 -33.00%
CheckPoint
England

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (22.22%) LAN
4 2 (22.22%) SSL
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
5 1 (11.11%) BGP
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (11.11%) DNS
5 1 (11.11%) Internet
5 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (11.11%) MPLS
5 1 (11.11%) OSPF
5 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 1 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) CMDB
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Network Management
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Network Design
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (22.22%) CCNA
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) CCNA CyberOps
4 1 (11.11%) CCSA
4 1 (11.11%) CCSE
4 1 (11.11%) Check Point Certification
4 1 (11.11%) CISSP
4 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) Palo Alto
3 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (22.22%) F5
4 2 (22.22%) Zscaler
5 1 (11.11%) Aruba
5 1 (11.11%) Broadcom
5 1 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (11.11%) Netskope
5 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 1 (11.11%) Symantec