CheckPoint Contracts in the Thames Valley

CheckPoint
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 92 108 132
Rank change year-on-year +16 +24 +1
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 10 37 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 1.38% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.26% 2.87% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 13
10th Percentile £403 - £452
25th Percentile £431 £506 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £560
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -8.48% +21.74%
75th Percentile £464 £519 £688
90th Percentile £476 £550 £700
South East median daily rate £450 £513 £465
% change year-on-year -12.20% +10.22% +20.00%
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
South East median hourly rate - - £78.50

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CheckPoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CheckPoint in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for CheckPoint in the Thames Valley

CheckPoint
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +5 6 £450 -12.20% 5
Buckinghamshire +15 4 £469 -14.77% 2
CheckPoint
South East

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
1 7 (70.00%) Network Security
2 5 (50.00%) VPN
3 4 (40.00%) BGP
3 4 (40.00%) OSPF
3 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (40.00%) VLAN
4 2 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (10.00%) DMVPN
5 1 (10.00%) DNS
5 1 (10.00%) IPsec
5 1 (10.00%) LAN
5 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (10.00%) SSL
5 1 (10.00%) Wireless
5 1 (10.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (10.00%) Automotive
1 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Audit Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (40.00%) SIEM
2 3 (30.00%) Test Assurance
3 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (20.00%) Demand Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Change Control
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (10.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CCNP
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (40.00%) CCSA
2 4 (40.00%) CCSE
2 4 (40.00%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
1 5 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy
3 1 (10.00%) Tufin