CheckPoint Contracts 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 8 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
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 111 125
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +45
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 22 10 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.01% 0.42% 0.97%
As % of the Vendors category 2.03% 1.08% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 10
10th Percentile £483 £426 £286
25th Percentile £556 £475 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £525 £338
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% +55.56% -16.15%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £381
90th Percentile £641 - £390
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.00%

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 1,082 927 1,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 49.43% 39.08% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 537 831
10th Percentile £302 £276 £225
25th Percentile £393 £406 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £588
90th Percentile £673 £665 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 96 97
10th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £11.07 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.38 £16.06 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +70.45% -45.19% +42.48%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.52 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £57.89 £54.01
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% -14.29% +55.56%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for CheckPoint in the North West

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in the North West over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the North West

CheckPoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for CheckPoint in the North West

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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 8 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
Cumbria - 13 £575 -
Manchester +4 6 £625 +19.05% 6
Merseyside -7 1 £535 -
Cheshire - 1 £375 -
CheckPoint
England

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
1 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
1 2 (9.09%) Google Workspace
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (86.36%) Firewall
2 17 (77.27%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (59.09%) BGP
3 13 (59.09%) Cisco Firepower
3 13 (59.09%) EIGRP
3 13 (59.09%) HSRP
3 13 (59.09%) IPsec
3 13 (59.09%) OSPF
4 2 (9.09%) Network Security
4 2 (9.09%) VPN
4 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (4.55%) IGMP
5 1 (4.55%) Internet
5 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.55%) LAN
5 1 (4.55%) Multicast
5 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Network Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) LAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
1 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
1 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Network Management
2 3 (13.64%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (9.09%) ITIL
3 2 (9.09%) Migration
3 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (9.09%) RBAC
3 2 (9.09%) User Experience
3 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (4.55%) Agile
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.55%) Data Management
4 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.55%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.55%) ITSM
4 1 (4.55%) Network Design
4 1 (4.55%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (4.55%) SIEM
4 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) SC Cleared
1 15 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) CCSA
2 2 (9.09%) CCSE
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA CyberOps
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CISSP
3 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Cisco
2 15 (68.18%) Palo Alto
3 3 (13.64%) CyberArk
3 3 (13.64%) Fortinet
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Zscaler
4 2 (9.09%) Citrix
4 2 (9.09%) Google
4 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.55%) F5
5 1 (4.55%) Imperva
5 1 (4.55%) Thycotic