CheckPoint Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 February 2026, 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 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 106 110
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +45
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 3 14 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.16% 0.75% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 1.74% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 18
10th Percentile £434 - £320
25th Percentile £454 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £546 £588 £472
90th Percentile £563 £599 £530
Central London median daily rate £503 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -4.29% +50.00% -

All Vendors
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 890 803 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 47.57% 42.94% 42.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 486 747
10th Percentile £340 £305 £310
25th Percentile £414 £463 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £20.02 £55.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £76.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.99% +489.47% -7.78%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £23.75
90th Percentile £44.16 - £54.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -8.23%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CheckPoint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CheckPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CheckPoint

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CheckPoint in the City of London

CheckPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CheckPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CheckPoint

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Akamai
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Firewall Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) OSCP
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) GRC
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Rapid7
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable
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