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 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 376 480
Rank change year-on-year -37 +104 -102
Contract jobs citing CheckPoint 189 375 421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.63% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 1.02% 1.47% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 258 306
10th Percentile £350 £288 £310
25th Percentile £411 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £497
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +0.60% +11.94%
75th Percentile £539 £582 £548
90th Percentile £693 £650 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +20.59% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £64.25 -

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 18,582 25,595 35,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.62% 42.88% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,513 17,161 23,519
10th Percentile £263 £273 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.64% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 690 889
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.15 £43.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.43% +108.60% -6.33%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £46.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.08 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.55
% change year-on-year -44.26% +107.55% +0.27%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -9 174 £513 +2.50% 54
UK excluding London +11 110 £513 +20.59% 43
South East +49 67 £513 +10.22% 10
London +12 66 £450 -14.69% 15
Work from Home -24 39 £438 -16.67% 25
South West +8 12 £500 +8.11%
Midlands -5 11 £750 +66.67% 10
West Midlands -1 10 £750 +81.82% 9
Scotland +30 8 £413 -8.33% 3
East of England +14 7 £350 +27.27% 11
North of England -2 6 £525 +55.56% 7
North West -3 5 £613 +75.00% 5
Yorkshire +19 1 £525 +110.00% 1
East Midlands +18 1 £450 -8.02% 1

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 13 (6.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.12%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (3.70%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (15.34%) Azure
2 18 (9.52%) AWS
3 7 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.17%) BigCommerce
5 5 (2.65%) Cloudflare
5 5 (2.65%) OCI
6 4 (2.12%) WhatsApp
7 3 (1.59%) GCP
8 2 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.06%) SaaS
9 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.53%) Kong
9 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 131 (69.31%) Firewall
2 53 (28.04%) WAN
3 50 (26.46%) Network Security
4 48 (25.40%) LAN
5 46 (24.34%) VPN
6 38 (20.11%) Cisco ASA
7 35 (18.52%) DMZ
8 31 (16.40%) Cisco Nexus
9 30 (15.87%) Cisco ISE
10 29 (15.34%) Wireless
11 25 (13.23%) MPLS
12 24 (12.70%) DNS
13 22 (11.64%) SAN
14 20 (10.58%) DHCP
14 20 (10.58%) OSPF
15 19 (10.05%) BGP
16 18 (9.52%) SD-WAN
17 17 (8.99%) EIGRP
18 14 (7.41%) VoIP
18 14 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.06%) MySQL
1 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (2.65%) JIRA
3 1 (0.53%) Hudson
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
General
1 65 (34.39%) Finance
2 54 (28.57%) Banking
3 27 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 15 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.29%) Investment Banking
5 10 (5.29%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.23%) Legal
6 8 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.70%) Marketing
8 6 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.17%) Retail
9 5 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Electronics
11 2 (1.06%) Law
11 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.06%) Military
11 2 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (64.55%) Network Engineer
2 37 (19.58%) Senior
3 36 (19.05%) Senior Network Engineer
4 17 (8.99%) Support Engineer
5 14 (7.41%) Cisco Engineer
6 13 (6.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 11 (5.82%) Juniper Engineer
8 10 (5.29%) Blue Coat Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Consultant
9 9 (4.76%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.70%) Architect
10 7 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 6 (3.17%) Cloud Network Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) Enterprise Architect
12 5 (2.65%) Network Consultant
12 5 (2.65%) Network Security Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.65%) Security Consultant
13 4 (2.12%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.76%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.65%) VML
2 5 (2.65%) Web Services
3 4 (2.12%) LDAP
4 3 (1.59%) EDI
5 2 (1.06%) .NET
5 2 (1.06%) OpenID
5 2 (1.06%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 14 (7.41%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (3.17%) Operational Technology
3 6 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.17%) Replication
4 5 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.59%) CCTV
6 3 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.59%) SCADA
7 2 (1.06%) CSOC
7 2 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.06%) PKI
7 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.53%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.53%) IoT
8 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.23%) Windows
2 13 (6.88%) Windows Server 2012
2 13 (6.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 12 (6.35%) Linux
4 8 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.12%) Unix
6 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (17.46%) Migration
2 31 (16.40%) B2B
3 30 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (13.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (11.11%) ITIL
6 17 (8.99%) Network Architecture
6 17 (8.99%) Project Delivery
7 16 (8.47%) Incident Management
8 15 (7.94%) Business Continuity
9 14 (7.41%) Change Management
10 13 (6.88%) Agile
10 13 (6.88%) High Availability
11 12 (6.35%) Network Design
11 12 (6.35%) Project Management
12 11 (5.82%) Change Control
13 10 (5.29%) Architectural Patterns
13 10 (5.29%) Design Patterns
13 10 (5.29%) ITSM
13 10 (5.29%) Network Monitoring
14 9 (4.76%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.81%) Python
2 7 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.59%) Go
4 2 (1.06%) Bash
4 2 (1.06%) C#
4 2 (1.06%) Java
4 2 (1.06%) Ruby
5 1 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 89 (47.09%) Cisco Certification
2 45 (23.81%) CCNP
3 26 (13.76%) Security Cleared
4 24 (12.70%) CCNA
5 22 (11.64%) CCIE
6 16 (8.47%) SC Cleared
7 10 (5.29%) CCSA
8 9 (4.76%) Degree
9 7 (3.70%) JNCIA
10 6 (3.17%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.65%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.65%) CCIE Data Center
11 5 (2.65%) DV Cleared
12 4 (2.12%) CCSE
12 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.53%) CCIE Service Provider
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.76%) SLA
2 3 (1.59%) PMO
3 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.53%) ISA99
4 1 (0.53%) ITGC
4 1 (0.53%) NCSC
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
4 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.82%) VMware NSX
4 6 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.12%) ProxySG
5 4 (2.12%) Samba
6 2 (1.06%) Firmware
6 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.06%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (10.58%) Ansible
2 15 (7.94%) Terraform
3 13 (6.88%) SCCM
4 7 (3.70%) FortiGate
5 6 (3.17%) vCenter Server
6 5 (2.65%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (1.59%) Netcool
8 2 (1.06%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (1.06%) Nagios
8 2 (1.06%) Nessus
8 2 (1.06%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.06%) Rundeck
8 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.06%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 158 (83.60%) Cisco
2 66 (34.92%) Palo Alto
3 44 (23.28%) F5
4 31 (16.40%) Fortinet
5 30 (15.87%) Juniper
6 28 (14.81%) Arista
6 28 (14.81%) Microsoft
7 26 (13.76%) Blue Coat
8 22 (11.64%) Infoblox
9 21 (11.11%) SolarWinds
10 19 (10.05%) Citrix
11 18 (9.52%) VMware
12 15 (7.94%) HP
12 15 (7.94%) Zscaler
13 14 (7.41%) EMC
14 13 (6.88%) Avaya
14 13 (6.88%) Meraki
15 11 (5.82%) Aruba
15 11 (5.82%) Dell
16 8 (4.23%) SAP