CheckPoint Contract Job Trends

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 11 May 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
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 319 394
Rank change year-on-year -137 +75 -19
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 170 207 191
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.70% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% 1.48% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 109 133
10th Percentile £278 £373 £350
25th Percentile £370 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.75% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £523 £625 £538
90th Percentile £625 £838 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £463 £513
% change year-on-year -3.78% -9.76% +22.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £22.30 - -
25th Percentile £24.63 £31.32 -
Median hourly rate £29.13 £36.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% - -
75th Percentile £34.25 £41.97 -
90th Percentile £36.95 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.75 £36.65 -
% change year-on-year -43.38% - -

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 19,724 13,978 18,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.42% 47.54% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,511 8,753 11,339
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £630
90th Percentile £703 £716 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.01% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 998 569 1,095
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.91% +13.33% -48.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.81 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.05 £23.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +21.93% +6.98% -45.71%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in the UK

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CheckPoint over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 16 Contract Job 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 11 May 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
England -136 152 £438 -6.67% 23
UK excluding London -94 90 £445 -3.78% 14
London -71 65 £400 -13.51% 11
Work from Home -49 50 £450 -17.88% 8
South East -39 40 £445 -1.11% 7
Midlands -59 18 £350 -36.36% 3
West Midlands -51 16 £340 - 2
North of England -98 15 £500 -13.04%
Scotland +10 8 £683 +82.00%
North West -60 8 £518 -10.00%
East of England -29 6 £530 -3.64%
Yorkshire -65 6 £500 -14.89%
East Midlands -36 2 £488 -11.36% 1
South West -39 2 £375 -9.09% 4
North East - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.29%) Confluence
2 5 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.18%) nginx
4 1 (0.59%) JBoss
4 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (7.65%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.24%) Azure
2 24 (14.12%) AWS
3 8 (4.71%) GCP
4 6 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.76%) GitHub
6 3 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.76%) SaaS
7 2 (1.18%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.18%) Google Ads
7 2 (1.18%) IaaS
7 2 (1.18%) OCI
7 2 (1.18%) PaaS
8 1 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.59%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 136 (80.00%) Firewall
2 84 (49.41%) WAN
3 73 (42.94%) LAN
4 53 (31.18%) BGP
5 52 (30.59%) Network Security
6 51 (30.00%) OSPF
7 48 (28.24%) VPN
8 39 (22.94%) IPsec
9 36 (21.18%) Wireless
10 32 (18.82%) Cisco ASA
11 25 (14.71%) MPLS
12 24 (14.12%) Cisco Nexus
13 23 (13.53%) VLAN
14 21 (12.35%) DNS
14 21 (12.35%) SSL
15 18 (10.59%) BIG-IP
15 18 (10.59%) SD-WAN
15 18 (10.59%) Structured Cabling
16 17 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
16 17 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.35%) Data Lake
1 4 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.12%) JIRA
2 3 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.59%) Git
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
General
1 34 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.12%) Documentation Skills
3 22 (12.94%) Finance
4 15 (8.82%) Manufacturing
5 14 (8.24%) Telecoms
6 12 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.29%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.71%) Retail
9 5 (2.94%) Banking
10 3 (1.76%) Legal
10 3 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Aviation
12 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.59%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (50.59%) Network Engineer
2 25 (14.71%) Senior
3 24 (14.12%) Architect
4 17 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 16 (9.41%) Network Architect
5 16 (9.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 9 (5.29%) Cisco Engineer
6 9 (5.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 9 (5.29%) Network Security Engineer
6 9 (5.29%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (4.71%) Firewall Engineer
8 7 (4.12%) Security Architect
9 6 (3.53%) Network Manager
9 6 (3.53%) Network Operations Engineer
9 6 (3.53%) Operations Engineer
10 5 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (2.94%) Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (2.94%) Lead
10 5 (2.94%) Network Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (2.94%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.47%) LDAP
2 10 (5.88%) SAML
3 9 (5.29%) 802.1X
4 4 (2.35%) VML
5 2 (1.18%) CSS
5 2 (1.18%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.18%) Flask
5 2 (1.18%) HTML
6 1 (0.59%) .NET
6 1 (0.59%) eBPF
6 1 (0.59%) REST
6 1 (0.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 45 (26.47%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.53%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.76%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.76%) PKI
8 2 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.18%) NHS
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.59%) 3D Printing
9 1 (0.59%) CESG
9 1 (0.59%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.59%) IoT
9 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.41%) Linux
2 15 (8.82%) Windows
3 9 (5.29%) Unix
4 5 (2.94%) CatOS
5 3 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.59%) VMS
7 1 (0.59%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (12.35%) Change Management
2 20 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
3 19 (11.18%) Project Delivery
4 17 (10.00%) Migration
4 17 (10.00%) Validation
5 16 (9.41%) Load Balancing
6 15 (8.82%) Network Segmentation
7 14 (8.24%) ITIL
8 13 (7.65%) Computer Science
8 13 (7.65%) Customer Requirements
9 12 (7.06%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (7.06%) Incident Response
10 11 (6.47%) ITSM
11 10 (5.88%) Cloud Security
11 10 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (5.88%) Mentoring
11 10 (5.88%) Network Design
12 9 (5.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.82%) Python
2 4 (2.35%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.18%) Bash
3 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.59%) Java
Qualifications
1 65 (38.24%) Cisco Certification
2 59 (34.71%) CCNP
3 53 (31.18%) Security Cleared
4 51 (30.00%) SC Cleared
5 33 (19.41%) Degree
6 21 (12.35%) CCNA
7 15 (8.82%) CCSE
8 13 (7.65%) CCIE
9 7 (4.12%) CISSP
10 6 (3.53%) CISM
11 5 (2.94%) CCSM
11 5 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.76%) JNCIE
13 3 (1.76%) JNCIP
14 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
14 2 (1.18%) BC Cleared
14 2 (1.18%) CCIP
14 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
14 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.12%) QA
1 7 (4.12%) SLA
2 5 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.94%) NCSC
3 4 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.35%) NIST
4 3 (1.76%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.76%) PMO
5 2 (1.18%) GDPR
5 2 (1.18%) GRC
6 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.59%) RMADS
System Software
1 22 (12.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 15 (8.82%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.76%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.18%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.18%) Firmware
6 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.59%) Docker
7 1 (0.59%) NFS
7 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (10.59%) Ansible
2 11 (6.47%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (5.29%) Terraform
4 8 (4.71%) FortiGate
5 7 (4.12%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.53%) Grafana
7 5 (2.94%) Salt
8 4 (2.35%) SCCM
9 2 (1.18%) AirWatch
9 2 (1.18%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (1.18%) Iperf
9 2 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
9 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.18%) Nmap
10 1 (0.59%) CASB
10 1 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 125 (73.53%) Cisco
2 106 (62.35%) Palo Alto
3 57 (33.53%) F5
4 50 (29.41%) Aruba
5 43 (25.29%) Fortinet
6 27 (15.88%) Juniper
7 26 (15.29%) VMware
8 20 (11.76%) Microsoft
9 14 (8.24%) Zscaler
10 12 (7.06%) ServiceNow
11 11 (6.47%) Arista
11 11 (6.47%) SolarWinds
12 10 (5.88%) Meraki
13 7 (4.12%) Splunk
14 6 (3.53%) BigPanda
14 6 (3.53%) Blue Coat
15 5 (2.94%) BiZZdesign
15 5 (2.94%) Ekahau
16 4 (2.35%) Broadcom
16 4 (2.35%) Tufin