CheckPoint Contract Job Trends in the South West

CheckPoint
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 3 March 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
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 107 139
Rank change year-on-year -29 +32 +33
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 2 15 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.070% 0.88% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 1.85% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £303 £382 £451
25th Percentile £306 £388 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -12.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £356 £482 -
90th Percentile £368 £487 £523
England median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
England median hourly rate £20.75 £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -40.71% -44.00% -20.38%

All Vendors
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 988 811 1,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 34.79% 47.45% 41.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 522 841
10th Percentile £275 £215 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -1.34% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £646
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
England median daily rate £507 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.43% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 39 170
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.45 £14.54
25th Percentile £23.12 £25.26 £38.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £72.63 £70.89 £71.04
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.42 £25.50
% change year-on-year -23.62% +23.23% -27.14%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in the South West

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

CheckPoint
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 March 2026. 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
Dorset -9 1 £300 -36.00%
Devon - 1 £350 -
CheckPoint
England

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) VMware