CheckPoint Contracts in the West Midlands

CheckPoint
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 July 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
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 98 84
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 +59
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 13 13 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.79% 0.68% 2.11%
As % of the Vendors category 1.70% 1.49% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 30
10th Percentile £413 £485 £313
25th Percentile £431 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £375
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +100.00% -24.85%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £428
90th Percentile £728 - £600
England median daily rate £450 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.32 - -
Median hourly rate £36.65 - -
75th Percentile £41.97 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £89.63 - £78.50
% change year-on-year - - +45.37%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 765 875 1,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 46.56% 45.60% 49.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 614 707
10th Percentile £208 £255 £212
25th Percentile £325 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -2.11% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £643 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 28 23
10th Percentile £13.91 £11.02 £14.54
25th Percentile £23.81 £13.81 £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £16.51 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.76% -26.64% +38.46%
75th Percentile £42.29 £40.44 £48.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £59.63 £91.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.55% -21.43% +55.56%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing CheckPoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in the West Midlands

CheckPoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CheckPoint in the West Midlands

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the West Midlands

CheckPoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CheckPoint in the West Midlands

CheckPoint
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Birmingham +11 6 - - 1
Coventry -5 4 £400 -11.11%
Warwickshire -7 3 £625 -16.67% 6
CheckPoint
England

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) Firewall
2 10 (76.92%) Network Security
3 7 (53.85%) VPN
4 6 (46.15%) BGP
4 6 (46.15%) IPsec
4 6 (46.15%) OSPF
4 6 (46.15%) SSL
4 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
4 6 (46.15%) VLAN
5 4 (30.77%) BIG-IP
5 4 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (30.77%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Check Point Expert
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) SCADA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Security Technical Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Switch Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
1 1 (7.69%) SCADA
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) High Availability
2 6 (46.15%) SIEM
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Asset Management
4 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (7.69%) Change Management
7 1 (7.69%) Information Security
7 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
7 1 (7.69%) Remediation Plan
7 1 (7.69%) Requirements Management
7 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
7 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
7 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (7.69%) User Experience
7 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) CCSE
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) CCIE
3 1 (7.69%) CCIE Security
3 1 (7.69%) CCSM
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) FortiGate
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
1 6 (46.15%) Fortinet
2 5 (38.46%) F5
2 5 (38.46%) Palo Alto
3 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
3 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Zscaler