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 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 380 355
Rank change year-on-year +50 -25 +124
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 202 215 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.49% 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% 1.16% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 153 266
10th Percentile £379 £350 £275
25th Percentile £402 £430 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £459
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +11.66% -8.20%
75th Percentile £634 £550 £596
90th Percentile £838 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £513 £375
% change year-on-year -7.32% +36.67% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £49.63
25th Percentile £31.32 - £76.38
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 - £78.50
% change year-on-year - - +45.37%

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 14,351 18,572 24,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.57% 42.63% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,804 11,529 16,058
10th Percentile £280 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,182 638
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.27 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.71 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.23 £23.80 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -41.23% +85.95%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.70 £63.62
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.94 £22.50 £32.15
% change year-on-year +1.94% -30.02% +64.87%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +51 175 £450 -12.20% 83
UK excluding London +21 91 £475 -7.32% 42
London +50 84 £450 -12.20% 49
Work from Home +37 61 £575 +15.00% 51
North of England +48 44 £575 +15.00% 18
North West +19 23 £575 +9.52% 8
Yorkshire +20 21 £563 +17.19% 9
Midlands +15 17 £550 -13.73% 6
South East -5 17 £450 -12.20% 7
West Midlands +5 12 £588 -21.67% 4
South West +45 7 £413 -17.50% 2
East of England +23 5 £550 +57.14%
East Midlands +10 5 £550 +22.22% 2
Scotland 0 1 £375 -9.09% 11
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 (2.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 54 (26.73%) Azure
2 42 (20.79%) AWS
3 19 (9.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (9.41%) GCP
4 18 (8.91%) IaaS
4 18 (8.91%) PaaS
4 18 (8.91%) SaaS
5 16 (7.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (2.48%) Cloudflare
7 3 (1.49%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.49%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.50%) Akamai
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.50%) Datadog
9 1 (0.50%) GitHub
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 176 (87.13%) Firewall
2 77 (38.12%) BGP
3 76 (37.62%) OSPF
4 68 (33.66%) DNS
5 56 (27.72%) VPN
6 53 (26.24%) TCP/IP
7 52 (25.74%) Network Security
8 51 (25.25%) Cisco ASA
9 48 (23.76%) DHCP
10 44 (21.78%) IPsec
11 33 (16.34%) EIGRP
12 27 (13.37%) WAN
13 24 (11.88%) VLAN
14 23 (11.39%) Cisco Firepower
14 23 (11.39%) Wireless
15 20 (9.90%) HSRP
15 20 (9.90%) NGFW
16 18 (8.91%) HTTP
16 18 (8.91%) HTTPS
16 18 (8.91%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (8.42%) JIRA
2 6 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (2.48%) GitLab
4 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (14.85%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.36%) Finance
3 22 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.44%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.44%) Telecoms
5 6 (2.97%) Banking
6 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.50%) Advertising
7 1 (0.50%) Aviation
7 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.50%) Legal
7 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.50%) Military
7 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 118 (58.42%) Network Engineer
2 26 (12.87%) Security Engineer
3 24 (11.88%) Architect
3 24 (11.88%) Network Security Engineer
4 19 (9.41%) Cloud Architect
5 18 (8.91%) Cloud Native Architect
5 18 (8.91%) Support Engineer
5 18 (8.91%) Technical Architect
6 17 (8.42%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (8.42%) Network Support
6 17 (8.42%) Network Support Engineer
7 13 (6.44%) Firewall Engineer
8 12 (5.94%) Cisco Engineer
8 12 (5.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 12 (5.94%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 11 (5.45%) Network Security Architect
9 11 (5.45%) Security Architect
9 11 (5.45%) Senior
10 9 (4.46%) AWS Architect
10 9 (4.46%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.92%) ADO
2 5 (2.48%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.99%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.41%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.91%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.92%) Anti-Spyware
4 11 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.99%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.50%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.50%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.50%) PKI
8 1 (0.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.97%) Check Point GAiA
1 6 (2.97%) Windows
2 5 (2.48%) CatOS
2 5 (2.48%) Linux
2 5 (2.48%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.98%) Unix
4 3 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 34 (16.83%) Migration
3 32 (15.84%) Agile
4 25 (12.38%) ITIL
5 22 (10.89%) Test Automation
6 20 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (9.41%) Network Monitoring
8 18 (8.91%) Network Management
8 18 (8.91%) Sprint Planning
9 16 (7.92%) Kalman Filter
9 16 (7.92%) Network Design
10 13 (6.44%) Load Balancing
10 13 (6.44%) SIEM
11 11 (5.45%) Zero Trust
12 10 (4.95%) Change Management
12 10 (4.95%) High Availability
13 9 (4.46%) Network Architecture
13 9 (4.46%) Security Operations
14 7 (3.47%) Proactive Monitoring
14 7 (3.47%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.86%) Python
2 19 (9.41%) Bicep
3 5 (2.48%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.99%) Bash
4 2 (0.99%) Perl
Qualifications
1 64 (31.68%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (26.24%) CCNP
3 37 (18.32%) Security Cleared
4 32 (15.84%) SC Cleared
5 21 (10.40%) CCNA
5 21 (10.40%) CCSE
6 14 (6.93%) CCSA
7 10 (4.95%) Degree
8 8 (3.96%) CCIE
9 6 (2.97%) Check Point Certification
10 4 (1.98%) APMP
11 3 (1.49%) CISSP
11 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.49%) JNCIA
12 2 (0.99%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.50%) CCSM
13 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.50%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.48%) QA
2 3 (1.49%) NIST
3 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) PMO
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.97%) Firmware
2 3 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.49%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (20.30%) Terraform
2 35 (17.33%) Ansible
3 12 (5.94%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.49%) CA Spectrum
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.50%) OPNET
5 1 (0.50%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 146 (72.28%) Cisco
2 90 (44.55%) Palo Alto
3 57 (28.22%) Fortinet
4 52 (25.74%) F5
5 30 (14.85%) Juniper
6 29 (14.36%) Infoblox
7 23 (11.39%) SolarWinds
8 21 (10.40%) Zscaler
9 13 (6.44%) Arista
10 12 (5.94%) Aruba
11 11 (5.45%) Microsoft
12 10 (4.95%) Citrix
13 8 (3.96%) ServiceNow
14 7 (3.47%) VMware
15 6 (2.97%) Extreme Networks
15 6 (2.97%) Ruckus Wireless
16 4 (1.98%) Blue Coat
16 4 (1.98%) CyberArk
16 4 (1.98%) Google
16 4 (1.98%) Meraki