CheckPoint Contract Job Trends 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 3 November 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 143 191
Rank change year-on-year -14 +48 +21
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 16 36 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.42% 0.87% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 0.81% 1.76% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 13
10th Percentile £337 £325 £299
25th Percentile £403 £433 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £550 £635
90th Percentile £650 £575 £698
England median daily rate £450 £500 £433
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.61% -13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - -
Median hourly rate £89.63 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £89.63 £20.19 £53.13
% change year-on-year +343.99% -62.00% -1.62%

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 1,984 2,049 2,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.27% 49.55% 53.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,346 1,277 1,826
10th Percentile £205 £251 £205
25th Percentile £375 £403 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £606
90th Percentile £650 £689 £678
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 68 127
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.56 £25.31 £20.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -65.31% +27.51% +88.38%
75th Percentile £34.83 £67.14 £65.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.16% -21.35% +74.51%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in the South East

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CheckPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in the South East over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the South East

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CheckPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CheckPoint

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 3 November 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 -9 11 £413 -21.43% 1
Oxfordshire - 7 £425 -
Hampshire -3 6 £500 -9.71%
Buckinghamshire +2 2 £287 -45.43% 1
Berkshire -5 2 £425 -17.07%
CheckPoint
England

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) Firewall
2 9 (56.25%) VPN
3 8 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (37.50%) Network Security
5 5 (31.25%) DNS
5 5 (31.25%) Wireless
6 4 (25.00%) BGP
6 4 (25.00%) DHCP
6 4 (25.00%) OSPF
6 4 (25.00%) VLAN
7 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (18.75%) MPLS
7 3 (18.75%) Multicast
7 3 (18.75%) Wireshark
8 1 (6.25%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (6.25%) DMVPN
8 1 (6.25%) IPsec
8 1 (6.25%) SSL
8 1 (6.25%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
4 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Service Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Service Support Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Validation Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Manual Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) ITSM
2 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 4 (25.00%) Service Management
2 4 (25.00%) Time Management
3 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
3 3 (18.75%) Validation
4 2 (12.50%) Defect Management
4 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Management
4 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Test Assurance
4 2 (12.50%) Test Planning
4 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
4 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (25.00%) A+ Certification
4 4 (25.00%) Degree
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (18.75%) CCNP
6 2 (12.50%) CCIE
7 1 (6.25%) CCSA
7 1 (6.25%) CCSE
7 1 (6.25%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Iperf
2 3 (18.75%) Nmap
3 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Cisco
2 8 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 7 (43.75%) Fortinet
3 7 (43.75%) SolarWinds
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (12.50%) F5
6 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
6 1 (6.25%) Juniper
6 1 (6.25%) Salesforce