CheckPoint Contracts in the South East

CheckPoint
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 140 186
Rank change year-on-year +2 +46 +9
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 21 65 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.70% 1.17% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 1.33% 2.47% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 47 27
10th Percentile £320 £420 £273
25th Percentile £344 £455 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £465
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +10.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £459 £519 £563
90th Percentile £515 £551 £693
England median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £45.95
25th Percentile - - £65.75
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £80.44
90th Percentile - - £80.78
England median hourly rate £36.65 - £78.50

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in the South East

CheckPoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for CheckPoint in the South East

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the South East

CheckPoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for CheckPoint in the South East

CheckPoint
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +16 10 £450 -12.20% 8
Hampshire +15 7 £330 -32.99% 5
Berkshire +5 6 £450 -12.20% 5
Buckinghamshire +15 4 £469 -14.77% 2
Kent +9 2 £438 +2.94% 3
Surrey -1 2 £295 -42.44% 2
CheckPoint
England

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Cloudflare
3 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (66.67%) Firewall
2 11 (52.38%) VPN
3 8 (38.10%) WAN
4 7 (33.33%) Network Security
5 6 (28.57%) VLAN
6 5 (23.81%) BGP
6 5 (23.81%) OSPF
7 4 (19.05%) MPLS
7 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
8 3 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (14.29%) DNS
8 3 (14.29%) LAN
8 3 (14.29%) Wireless
9 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (9.52%) DHCP
9 2 (9.52%) IP Telephony
9 2 (9.52%) IPsec
10 1 (4.76%) DMVPN
10 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
10 1 (4.76%) Structured Cabling
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Network Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Network Security Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Security Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) IT Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Field Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) IT Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Network Migration Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Audit Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) Architecture Roadmap
1 4 (19.05%) Change Management
1 4 (19.05%) Network Architecture
1 4 (19.05%) Network Design
1 4 (19.05%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
1 4 (19.05%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (19.05%) Security Operations
1 4 (19.05%) Service Design
1 4 (19.05%) SIEM
1 4 (19.05%) Zero Trust
2 3 (14.29%) Test Assurance
3 2 (9.52%) Defect Management
3 2 (9.52%) Demand Management
3 2 (9.52%) Migration
3 2 (9.52%) Test Strategy
4 1 (4.76%) Change Control
4 1 (4.76%) Regression Testing
4 1 (4.76%) Test Automation
4 1 (4.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (33.33%) CCNP
3 4 (19.05%) CCIE
3 4 (19.05%) CCSA
3 4 (19.05%) CCSE
3 4 (19.05%) Check Point Certification
4 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) CCNA
5 2 (9.52%) HP APS
5 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Cisco
2 9 (42.86%) Palo Alto
3 6 (28.57%) F5
4 5 (23.81%) Fortinet
5 4 (19.05%) Citrix
5 4 (19.05%) Zscaler
6 2 (9.52%) Aruba
6 2 (9.52%) HP
6 2 (9.52%) Infoblox
6 2 (9.52%) Juniper
6 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
6 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.76%) Blue Coat
7 1 (4.76%) Remedy
7 1 (4.76%) Tufin