CheckPoint Contracts

CheckPoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 413 376
Rank change year-on-year +91 -37 +104
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 206 189 375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.43% 0.63%
As % of the Vendors category 1.49% 1.02% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 132 258
10th Percentile £363 £350 £288
25th Percentile £403 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +0.60%
75th Percentile £625 £539 £582
90th Percentile £838 £693 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -7.32% +20.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £46.25
25th Percentile £31.32 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £36.65 - £78.50
75th Percentile £41.97 - £81.00
90th Percentile - - £85.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.65 - £64.25

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CheckPoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +61 176 £475 -7.32% 51
UK excluding London +35 91 £475 -7.32% 22
London +54 85 £463 +2.78% 28
Work from Home +80 69 £549 +25.37% 24
North of England +68 46 £575 +9.52% 8
North West +33 27 £555 -9.39% 3
South East -3 21 £450 -12.20% 5
Yorkshire +33 19 £588 +11.90% 5
Midlands +23 10 £550 -26.67% 6
South West +40 7 £413 -17.50% 2
East of England +31 5 £550 +57.14%
East Midlands +14 5 £550 +22.22%
West Midlands +11 5 - - 6
Scotland +3 2 £375 -9.09% 1
Wales - 1 £475 -

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.52%) Azure
2 44 (21.36%) AWS
3 21 (10.19%) GCP
4 19 (9.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (9.22%) IaaS
4 19 (9.22%) PaaS
5 18 (8.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 18 (8.74%) SaaS
6 9 (4.37%) Cloudflare
7 4 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.94%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.94%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.97%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.49%) Datadog
9 1 (0.49%) GitHub
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.49%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 176 (85.44%) Firewall
2 74 (35.92%) BGP
3 73 (35.44%) OSPF
4 68 (33.01%) DNS
5 66 (32.04%) VPN
6 52 (25.24%) Network Security
7 48 (23.30%) DHCP
8 47 (22.82%) TCP/IP
9 43 (20.87%) Cisco ASA
9 43 (20.87%) IPsec
10 36 (17.48%) WAN
11 35 (16.99%) EIGRP
12 26 (12.62%) Wireless
13 25 (12.14%) VLAN
14 23 (11.17%) LAN
15 22 (10.68%) HSRP
16 21 (10.19%) Cisco Firepower
17 20 (9.71%) NGFW
18 18 (8.74%) HTTP
18 18 (8.74%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.97%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.88%) GitLab
2 7 (3.40%) JIRA
3 3 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (16.99%) Finance
2 32 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.34%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.37%) Banking
7 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.97%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Advertising
8 1 (0.49%) Automotive
8 1 (0.49%) Aviation
8 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Legal
8 1 (0.49%) Military
8 1 (0.49%) Police
8 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (55.83%) Network Engineer
2 28 (13.59%) Architect
3 27 (13.11%) Security Engineer
4 25 (12.14%) Network Security Engineer
5 20 (9.71%) Cloud Architect
6 19 (9.22%) Support Engineer
7 18 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (8.74%) Cloud Native Architect
7 18 (8.74%) Technical Architect
8 17 (8.25%) Network Support
8 17 (8.25%) Network Support Engineer
9 14 (6.80%) Firewall Engineer
10 13 (6.31%) Senior
11 12 (5.83%) Network Security Architect
11 12 (5.83%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 12 (5.83%) Security Architect
12 10 (4.85%) Network Architect
12 10 (4.85%) Senior Network Engineer
13 9 (4.37%) AWS Architect
13 9 (4.37%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.77%) ADO
2 5 (2.43%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.68%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.74%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.77%) Anti-Spyware
4 12 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.49%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.49%) e-Health
9 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.49%) PKI
9 1 (0.49%) SCADA
9 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.88%) Windows
2 6 (2.91%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.43%) CatOS
3 5 (2.43%) Linux
4 4 (1.94%) Check Point GAiA
4 4 (1.94%) Unix
4 4 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 35 (16.99%) Migration
3 28 (13.59%) Agile
4 21 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (9.71%) Test Automation
6 18 (8.74%) Network Design
6 18 (8.74%) Network Management
6 18 (8.74%) Sprint Planning
7 17 (8.25%) Network Monitoring
8 16 (7.77%) ITIL
8 16 (7.77%) Kalman Filter
9 15 (7.28%) Zero Trust
10 12 (5.83%) Change Management
10 12 (5.83%) DevOps
10 12 (5.83%) Network Architecture
11 11 (5.34%) High Availability
12 10 (4.85%) Load Balancing
12 10 (4.85%) SIEM
13 9 (4.37%) Root Cause Analysis
13 9 (4.37%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.53%) Python
2 19 (9.22%) Bicep
3 3 (1.46%) Bash
4 2 (0.97%) Perl
4 2 (0.97%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.97%) SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (30.10%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (22.82%) CCNP
3 39 (18.93%) Security Cleared
4 34 (16.50%) SC Cleared
5 23 (11.17%) CCNA
6 17 (8.25%) CCSE
7 16 (7.77%) CCSA
8 10 (4.85%) CCIE
9 9 (4.37%) Degree
10 5 (2.43%) Check Point Certification
11 4 (1.94%) APMP
12 3 (1.46%) CISSP
12 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.46%) JNCIA
13 2 (0.97%) HP APS
13 2 (0.97%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.49%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.43%) NIST
1 5 (2.43%) QA
2 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.91%) Firmware
2 5 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.94%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.97%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (21.84%) Terraform
2 29 (14.08%) Ansible
3 9 (4.37%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.46%) CA Spectrum
6 2 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (0.97%) OPNET
7 1 (0.49%) SCCM
7 1 (0.49%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 143 (69.42%) Cisco
2 93 (45.15%) Palo Alto
3 57 (27.67%) Fortinet
4 56 (27.18%) F5
5 35 (16.99%) Infoblox
6 29 (14.08%) Juniper
7 23 (11.17%) Zscaler
8 22 (10.68%) SolarWinds
9 17 (8.25%) Citrix
10 13 (6.31%) Microsoft
11 12 (5.83%) Aruba
12 11 (5.34%) Arista
13 9 (4.37%) VMware
14 8 (3.88%) Meraki
15 7 (3.40%) Extreme Networks
16 6 (2.91%) Ruckus Wireless
17 5 (2.43%) Blue Coat
17 5 (2.43%) CyberArk
17 5 (2.43%) Google
18 4 (1.94%) HP