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 14 October 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
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 118 144
Rank change year-on-year +2 +26 +10
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 3 19 8
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.15% 0.76% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 1.69% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 5
10th Percentile - £419 £351
25th Percentile - £433 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.68% +2.78% +2.27%
75th Percentile - £488 £475
90th Percentile - £515 £513
England median daily rate £450 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
England median hourly rate £89.63 £20.00 £53.13
% change year-on-year +348.15% -62.35% -1.62%

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 867 1,125 1,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.59% 44.80% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 642 849
10th Percentile £220 £225 £275
25th Percentile £358 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 93 113
10th Percentile £14.98 £26.81 £19.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £58.00 £46.92
Median hourly rate £22.57 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.76% +27.27% -0.81%
75th Percentile £38.94 - £65.98
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.11 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.26% -21.35% +82.68%

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 14 October 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
Wiltshire +12 2 - -
Somerset - 1 £535 - 1
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 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) IGMP
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) Multicast
2 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) LAN Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco