CheckPoint Contracts

CheckPoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CheckPoint over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 361 458
Rank change year-on-year -17 +97 -49
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 204 365 447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.65% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 1.12% 1.50% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 257 332
10th Percentile £350 £275 £319
25th Percentile £419 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +12.74%
75th Percentile £550 £615 £563
90th Percentile £688 £654 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +28.13% -11.11% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 8
10th Percentile - £49.63 -
25th Percentile - £76.38 £52.00
Median hourly rate - £78.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.37% +35.00%
75th Percentile - £81.00 £56.69
90th Percentile - £85.05 £59.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +45.37% +35.00%

All Vendors
UK

CheckPoint is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

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 1 June 2024.

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 14 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 1 June 2024. 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 -10 187 £513 +2.50% 49
UK excluding London -9 118 £513 +28.13% 37
London +11 70 £500 -7.41% 17
South East +44 69 £513 +7.61% 8
Work from Home +2 59 £475 -9.52% 23
North of England -2 13 £480 +42.22% 5
Midlands -5 12 £750 +100.00% 11
South West +1 11 £500 +8.11% 3
West Midlands -13 11 £750 +100.00% 9
Yorkshire +19 8 £480 +42.22% 1
Scotland +31 7 £413 -8.33% 7
East of England +3 7 £350 +27.27% 3
North West -5 5 £525 +55.56% 4
East Midlands +11 1 £450 -13.21% 2

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 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.47%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (0.98%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (3.43%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.45%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.67%) Azure
2 22 (10.78%) AWS
3 8 (3.92%) GCP
4 7 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.45%) BigCommerce
5 5 (2.45%) Cloudflare
5 5 (2.45%) OCI
6 3 (1.47%) SaaS
6 3 (1.47%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.49%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.49%) Kong
7 1 (0.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 137 (67.16%) Firewall
2 51 (25.00%) WAN
3 47 (23.04%) LAN
4 46 (22.55%) VPN
5 45 (22.06%) Network Security
6 43 (21.08%) Cisco ASA
7 40 (19.61%) DMZ
8 37 (18.14%) Cisco Nexus
9 34 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
10 29 (14.22%) Wireless
11 26 (12.75%) DNS
11 26 (12.75%) MPLS
11 26 (12.75%) SD-WAN
12 21 (10.29%) BGP
12 21 (10.29%) OSPF
12 21 (10.29%) SAN
13 20 (9.80%) DHCP
14 19 (9.31%) EIGRP
15 13 (6.37%) IPsec
15 13 (6.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.47%) MySQL
1 3 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (1.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (3.43%) JIRA
2 6 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.49%) Hudson
3 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
General
1 70 (34.31%) Finance
2 61 (29.90%) Banking
3 33 (16.18%) Social Skills
4 16 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.37%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.90%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.41%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.92%) Marketing
9 7 (3.43%) Legal
10 6 (2.94%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.45%) Retail
12 4 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.47%) Electronics
13 3 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.47%) Military
13 3 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.98%) Law
14 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (65.69%) Network Engineer
2 36 (17.65%) Senior
3 35 (17.16%) Senior Network Engineer
4 24 (11.76%) Cisco Engineer
4 24 (11.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 17 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 14 (6.86%) Juniper Engineer
7 13 (6.37%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 13 (6.37%) Consultant
8 12 (5.88%) Architect
8 12 (5.88%) Security Engineer
9 11 (5.39%) Network Security Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) Network Consultant
11 7 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 7 (3.43%) Security Consultant
12 6 (2.94%) Cloud Network Engineer
13 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Architect
13 5 (2.45%) Network Security Consultant
13 5 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.41%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.45%) VML
2 5 (2.45%) Web Services
3 3 (1.47%) EDI
3 3 (1.47%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.98%) .NET
4 2 (0.98%) LDAP
4 2 (0.98%) OpenID
4 2 (0.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.22%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.37%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (3.43%) Operational Technology
4 6 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.94%) Replication
5 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.45%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.47%) CCTV
7 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.47%) SCADA
8 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.98%) PKI
8 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.49%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (0.49%) IoT
9 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.25%) Windows
2 12 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
2 12 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (5.39%) Linux
4 8 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.98%) Unix
5 2 (0.98%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.49%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (19.61%) Migration
2 30 (14.71%) B2B
2 30 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (12.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (9.31%) ITIL
5 18 (8.82%) Incident Management
5 18 (8.82%) Project Delivery
6 16 (7.84%) Network Architecture
7 15 (7.35%) Change Control
7 15 (7.35%) Change Management
8 14 (6.86%) Business Continuity
8 14 (6.86%) Design Patterns
8 14 (6.86%) High Availability
9 13 (6.37%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (6.37%) ITSM
10 12 (5.88%) Low Latency
11 11 (5.39%) Agile
11 11 (5.39%) Network Monitoring
11 11 (5.39%) Project Management
12 10 (4.90%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.24%) Python
2 7 (3.43%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.47%) Go
4 2 (0.98%) Bash
4 2 (0.98%) C#
4 2 (0.98%) Java
4 2 (0.98%) Ruby
5 1 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 102 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 59 (28.92%) CCNP
3 36 (17.65%) CCNA
4 31 (15.20%) Security Cleared
5 28 (13.73%) CCIE
6 20 (9.80%) SC Cleared
7 13 (6.37%) CCSA
8 8 (3.92%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.92%) Degree
9 7 (3.43%) JNCIA
10 6 (2.94%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.94%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.45%) CCIE Data Center
11 5 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.96%) CCSE
12 4 (1.96%) CISSP
13 3 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.92%) SLA
2 3 (1.47%) PMO
3 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.49%) ISA99
4 1 (0.49%) ITGC
4 1 (0.49%) NCSC
4 1 (0.49%) NIST
4 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.90%) VMware NSX
3 9 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.96%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.98%) Firmware
6 2 (0.98%) Samba
6 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.98%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (10.29%) Ansible
2 15 (7.35%) Terraform
3 12 (5.88%) SCCM
4 8 (3.92%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.43%) SolarWinds Orion
6 6 (2.94%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.47%) Netcool
8 2 (0.98%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.98%) Nessus
8 2 (0.98%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.98%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.98%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 169 (82.84%) Cisco
2 70 (34.31%) Palo Alto
3 63 (30.88%) F5
4 42 (20.59%) Fortinet
5 33 (16.18%) Arista
6 32 (15.69%) Juniper
7 29 (14.22%) Blue Coat
7 29 (14.22%) Microsoft
8 24 (11.76%) SolarWinds
9 21 (10.29%) Infoblox
10 18 (8.82%) Citrix
10 18 (8.82%) Zscaler
11 14 (6.86%) HP
11 14 (6.86%) VMware
12 13 (6.37%) EMC
13 12 (5.88%) Aruba
13 12 (5.88%) Avaya
14 11 (5.39%) Dell
15 10 (4.90%) Meraki
15 10 (4.90%) SAP