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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 365 475
Rank change year-on-year -24 +110 -93
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 193 369 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.64% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 1.07% 1.50% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 255 324
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £413 £375 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £499
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +0.20% +12.51%
75th Percentile £542 £608 £550
90th Percentile £688 £656 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £413 £429
% change year-on-year +24.24% -3.79% +3.00%
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 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +4 178 £513 +2.50% 57
UK excluding London -1 114 £513 +24.24% 41
South East +51 68 £513 +10.22% 11
London +7 66 £475 -13.64% 20
Work from Home -10 48 £450 -15.09% 23
South West +5 11 £500 +8.11% 1
North of England +4 11 £480 +44.91% 6
Midlands -10 11 £750 +66.67% 14
West Midlands -5 10 £750 +81.82% 12
Scotland +34 7 £413 -8.33% 5
Yorkshire +20 7 £480 +63.40% 4
East of England +10 7 £350 +27.27% 6
North West -11 4 £525 +55.56% 1
East Midlands +15 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 (6.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.07%) MQSeries
3 3 (1.55%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (3.63%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.54%) Azure
2 19 (9.84%) AWS
3 7 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.59%) BigCommerce
4 5 (2.59%) Cloudflare
4 5 (2.59%) GCP
4 5 (2.59%) OCI
5 3 (1.55%) SaaS
5 3 (1.55%) WhatsApp
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.52%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.52%) Kong
7 1 (0.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 127 (65.80%) Firewall
2 50 (25.91%) WAN
3 46 (23.83%) LAN
4 45 (23.32%) VPN
5 42 (21.76%) Network Security
6 38 (19.69%) DMZ
7 36 (18.65%) Cisco ASA
8 35 (18.13%) Cisco Nexus
9 31 (16.06%) Cisco ISE
10 29 (15.03%) Wireless
11 24 (12.44%) DNS
11 24 (12.44%) MPLS
12 21 (10.88%) SAN
13 20 (10.36%) DHCP
14 19 (9.84%) SD-WAN
15 18 (9.33%) OSPF
16 17 (8.81%) BGP
17 16 (8.29%) EIGRP
18 13 (6.74%) IPsec
18 13 (6.74%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.55%) MySQL
1 3 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (2.59%) JIRA
3 1 (0.52%) Hudson
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
General
1 65 (33.68%) Finance
2 58 (30.05%) Banking
3 31 (16.06%) Social Skills
4 15 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.74%) Investment Banking
6 10 (5.18%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.15%) Marketing
9 7 (3.63%) Legal
10 6 (3.11%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.59%) Retail
12 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.55%) Electronics
12 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.55%) Military
12 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.04%) Law
13 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (63.73%) Network Engineer
2 36 (18.65%) Senior
3 35 (18.13%) Senior Network Engineer
4 20 (10.36%) Cisco Engineer
4 20 (10.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 16 (8.29%) Support Engineer
6 14 (7.25%) Juniper Engineer
7 13 (6.74%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 12 (6.22%) Architect
9 10 (5.18%) Consultant
10 9 (4.66%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Network Security Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 6 (3.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Enterprise Architect
13 5 (2.59%) Network Consultant
13 5 (2.59%) Security Consultant
13 5 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
14 4 (2.07%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.66%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.59%) VML
2 5 (2.59%) Web Services
3 4 (2.07%) LDAP
4 3 (1.55%) EDI
4 3 (1.55%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.04%) .NET
5 2 (1.04%) OpenID
5 2 (1.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.54%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.74%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (3.11%) Operational Technology
3 6 (3.11%) Replication
4 5 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.59%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.55%) CCTV
6 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.55%) SCADA
7 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.04%) PKI
7 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.52%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.52%) IoT
8 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.95%) Windows
2 13 (6.74%) Linux
3 12 (6.22%) Windows Server 2012
3 12 (6.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (4.15%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.07%) Unix
6 2 (1.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (19.17%) Migration
2 30 (15.54%) B2B
2 30 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (12.95%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (9.84%) ITIL
5 17 (8.81%) Project Delivery
6 16 (8.29%) Incident Management
7 15 (7.77%) Change Control
7 15 (7.77%) Network Architecture
8 14 (7.25%) Business Continuity
8 14 (7.25%) Change Management
8 14 (7.25%) High Availability
9 13 (6.74%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (6.74%) Design Patterns
9 13 (6.74%) ITSM
10 11 (5.70%) Project Management
11 9 (4.66%) Agile
11 9 (4.66%) Incident Response
11 9 (4.66%) Information Security
11 9 (4.66%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.95%) Python
2 7 (3.63%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.55%) Go
4 2 (1.04%) Bash
4 2 (1.04%) C#
4 2 (1.04%) Java
4 2 (1.04%) Ruby
5 1 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 91 (47.15%) Cisco Certification
2 48 (24.87%) CCNP
3 28 (14.51%) CCNA
3 28 (14.51%) Security Cleared
4 22 (11.40%) CCIE
5 17 (8.81%) SC Cleared
6 10 (5.18%) CCSA
7 8 (4.15%) Degree
8 7 (3.63%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.63%) JNCIA
9 6 (3.11%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.59%) CCIE Data Center
10 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.07%) CCSE
12 3 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.52%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.15%) SLA
2 3 (1.55%) PMO
3 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.52%) ISA99
4 1 (0.52%) ITGC
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (7.77%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.70%) VMware NSX
4 6 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.07%) ProxySG
5 4 (2.07%) Samba
6 2 (1.04%) Firmware
6 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.04%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (9.84%) Ansible
2 14 (7.25%) Terraform
3 12 (6.22%) SCCM
4 8 (4.15%) FortiGate
5 6 (3.11%) SolarWinds Orion
5 6 (3.11%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.55%) Netcool
7 2 (1.04%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (1.04%) Nagios
7 2 (1.04%) Nessus
7 2 (1.04%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.04%) Rundeck
7 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.04%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 157 (81.35%) Cisco
2 64 (33.16%) Palo Alto
3 50 (25.91%) F5
4 33 (17.10%) Fortinet
5 30 (15.54%) Arista
5 30 (15.54%) Juniper
6 28 (14.51%) Microsoft
7 27 (13.99%) Blue Coat
8 21 (10.88%) SolarWinds
9 20 (10.36%) Infoblox
10 18 (9.33%) Citrix
11 17 (8.81%) VMware
12 15 (7.77%) Zscaler
13 14 (7.25%) HP
14 13 (6.74%) EMC
15 12 (6.22%) Avaya
16 11 (5.70%) Dell
16 11 (5.70%) Meraki
17 9 (4.66%) Aruba
17 9 (4.66%) SAP