CheckPoint Contract Job Trends 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 29 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
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 104 132
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 +25
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 15 24 10
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.76% 1.13% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 1.27% 2.29% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 3
10th Percentile £223 £381 £520
25th Percentile £350 £458 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -12.50% +30.43%
75th Percentile £438 £547 £656
90th Percentile £480 £550 £690
South East median daily rate £443 £504 £518
% change year-on-year -12.16% -2.66% +3.50%
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 - - -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 - -

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 1,179 1,048 1,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 59.46% 49.16% 53.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 662 877
10th Percentile £260 £301 £205
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £523 £518
% change year-on-year -4.31% +0.97% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 26 59
10th Percentile £14.58 £18.63 £16.37
25th Percentile £16.72 £21.56 £24.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.08 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.84% -33.85% +229.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.30 £64.15
90th Percentile £89.63 £66.75 £72.07
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £40.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.35% -23.33% +111.78%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CheckPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the Thames Valley

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CheckPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CheckPoint

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 29 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
Oxfordshire - 8 £425 - 6
Berkshire -10 4 £480 -4.00% 2
Buckinghamshire -6 3 £223 -57.52%
CheckPoint
South East

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (6.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) IaaS
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (13.33%) PaaS
1 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) VPN
2 5 (33.33%) Wireless
3 4 (26.67%) DHCP
3 4 (26.67%) Network Security
3 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (13.33%) WAN
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (6.67%) DMVPN
5 1 (6.67%) IPsec
5 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
5 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
5 1 (6.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Security Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Service Support Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Driving Licence
1 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Mac OS
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (26.67%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) ITSM
2 4 (26.67%) Service Management
2 4 (26.67%) Time Management
3 3 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 3 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Test Assurance
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (26.67%) A+ Certification
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (26.67%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CCNP
4 2 (13.33%) CISSP
4 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (6.67%) CCIE
5 1 (6.67%) CCNA
5 1 (6.67%) CCSM
5 1 (6.67%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (13.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
1 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (26.67%) SolarWinds
5 2 (13.33%) Tenable
6 1 (6.67%) Blue Coat
6 1 (6.67%) Citrix
6 1 (6.67%) F5
6 1 (6.67%) Juniper
6 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (6.67%) VMware