CheckPoint Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

CheckPoint
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 307 295
Rank change year-on-year +72 -12 +166
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 69 38 186
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.25% 0.72%
As % of the Vendors category 1.52% 0.58% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 21 125
10th Percentile £350 - £413
25th Percentile £388 £350 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.89% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £838 £519 £650
90th Percentile - £675 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £58.85
25th Percentile - - £76.50
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 - £78.50

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

CheckPoint
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CheckPoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CheckPoint trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CheckPoint.

CheckPoint daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CheckPoint
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CheckPoint over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

CheckPoint daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CheckPoint.

CheckPoint hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (49.28%) Azure
2 25 (36.23%) AWS
3 19 (27.54%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (27.54%) IaaS
3 19 (27.54%) PaaS
4 18 (26.09%) GCP
4 18 (26.09%) SaaS
5 9 (13.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (4.35%) Cloudflare
7 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.45%) Akamai
8 1 (1.45%) Datadog
8 1 (1.45%) GitHub
8 1 (1.45%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 57 (82.61%) Firewall
2 33 (47.83%) BGP
2 33 (47.83%) DNS
3 32 (46.38%) OSPF
4 27 (39.13%) TCP/IP
5 25 (36.23%) DHCP
6 22 (31.88%) VPN
7 18 (26.09%) HTTP
7 18 (26.09%) HTTPS
8 17 (24.64%) Network Security
9 13 (18.84%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (17.39%) IPsec
11 9 (13.04%) WAN
12 8 (11.59%) EIGRP
12 8 (11.59%) NGFW
12 8 (11.59%) SSL
12 8 (11.59%) VLAN
13 7 (10.14%) Wireless
14 5 (7.25%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (7.25%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.45%) GitLab
1 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 11 (15.94%) Finance
2 6 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.45%) Advertising
4 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.45%) Automotive
4 1 (1.45%) Banking
4 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.45%) Military
4 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (47.83%) Network Engineer
2 23 (33.33%) Architect
3 19 (27.54%) Cloud Architect
4 18 (26.09%) Cloud Native Architect
4 18 (26.09%) Technical Architect
5 12 (17.39%) Network Security Engineer
5 12 (17.39%) Security Engineer
6 11 (15.94%) Network Security Architect
6 11 (15.94%) Security Architect
7 9 (13.04%) AWS Architect
7 9 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (13.04%) Security Technical Architect
8 7 (10.14%) Network Support
8 7 (10.14%) Network Support Engineer
8 7 (10.14%) Support Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Field Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Network Architect
9 5 (7.25%) Network Field Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) ADO
2 1 (1.45%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.14%) Anti-Spyware
3 6 (8.70%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) PKI
5 1 (1.45%) SCADA
5 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.45%) Linux
1 1 (1.45%) VMS
1 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (26.09%) Sprint Planning
2 18 (26.09%) Test Automation
3 10 (14.49%) Agile
4 8 (11.59%) Change Management
4 8 (11.59%) Load Balancing
4 8 (11.59%) Migration
5 7 (10.14%) Kalman Filter
5 7 (10.14%) Zero Trust
6 5 (7.25%) ITIL
6 5 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (7.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (5.80%) Network Architecture
8 3 (4.35%) DevOps
8 3 (4.35%) High Availability
8 3 (4.35%) Network Design
8 3 (4.35%) Network Management
8 3 (4.35%) Network Security Management
8 3 (4.35%) Project Management
8 3 (4.35%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.54%) Bicep
2 9 (13.04%) Python
3 2 (2.90%) SQL
4 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (18.84%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
2 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
3 10 (14.49%) CCNP
4 5 (7.25%) CCIE
5 3 (4.35%) CISSP
6 2 (2.90%) CCNA
7 1 (1.45%) CCSA
7 1 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.45%) Degree
7 1 (1.45%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) NIST
2 2 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.45%) Firmware
1 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (39.13%) Terraform
2 8 (11.59%) Ansible
3 1 (1.45%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 48 (69.57%) Cisco
2 41 (59.42%) Palo Alto
3 31 (44.93%) Fortinet
4 21 (30.43%) F5
5 12 (17.39%) Infoblox
6 7 (10.14%) Zscaler
7 6 (8.70%) SolarWinds
8 5 (7.25%) Arista
8 5 (7.25%) Citrix
9 4 (5.80%) Aruba
9 4 (5.80%) Juniper
9 4 (5.80%) VMware
10 3 (4.35%) Blue Coat
10 3 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (4.35%) Meraki
10 3 (4.35%) Ruckus Wireless
11 2 (2.90%) Forcepoint
11 2 (2.90%) NetScout
11 2 (2.90%) Splunk
12 1 (1.45%) Microsoft