CheckPoint Contract Job Trends in Reading

CheckPoint
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 June 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
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 57 82
Rank change year-on-year -27 +25 -6
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 2 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.19% 1.14% 1.34%
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% 2.00% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% -24.07%
75th Percentile - - £519
90th Percentile - - £544
Berkshire median daily rate £443 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -1.56% -12.20% -24.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.50 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.00 - -

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 510 300 590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 49.51% 56.82% 49.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 206 321
10th Percentile £303 £350 £213
25th Percentile £421 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £527 £513
% change year-on-year -5.12% +2.83% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 4 28
10th Percentile £31.25 £18.35 £14.50
25th Percentile £77.07 £23.75 £52.49
Median hourly rate £88.00 £36.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +139.46% -36.96% -9.86%
75th Percentile - £54.92 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £68.28 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £85.00 £32.31 £58.30
% change year-on-year +163.08% -44.58% -7.46%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in Reading

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CheckPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CheckPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) 5G
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (50.00%) IOS XR
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) IPv6
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (50.00%) NX-OS
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SIGTRAN
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Core Network Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Core Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IP Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) NetScout