CheckPoint Job Trends in the UK excluding London

CheckPoint
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of CheckPoint products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CheckPoint over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Check Point Software Technologies.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 508 567
Rank change year-on-year -131 +59 -180
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 27 40 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.28% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 19 28 56
10th Percentile - £40,625 £39,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +1.01% -2.91%
75th Percentile £49,375 £54,875 £61,438
90th Percentile £60,750 £58,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

CheckPoint falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,700 14,451 16,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.60% 41.80% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 11,636 7,387 8,745
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £69,250 £60,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.65% -6.36% -4.35%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CheckPoint relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CheckPoint
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CheckPoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK excluding London

CheckPoint
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -55 14 £40,000 -20.00% 3
North West -8 9 £42,500 -15.84% 2
South East -22 6 £60,000 +33.33% 2
Yorkshire -46 4 £40,000 -33.33% 1
Midlands -48 4 £44,472 -11.06% 8
East Midlands - 4 £44,472 - 1
South West -83 2 £50,000 -5.66% 2
East of England -29 1 £62,500 +19.05% 2
North East -64 1 - -
CheckPoint
UK

CheckPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (25.93%) SharePoint
3 5 (18.52%) Apache
3 5 (18.52%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
3 4 (14.81%) Mimecast
4 2 (7.41%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (70.37%) Firewall
2 12 (44.44%) Wireless
3 9 (33.33%) VPN
4 8 (29.63%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (25.93%) VLAN
6 5 (18.52%) DHCP
6 5 (18.52%) DNS
6 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
7 4 (14.81%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (14.81%) LAN
7 4 (14.81%) Network Security
7 4 (14.81%) WAN
8 3 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (11.11%) VoIP
9 2 (7.41%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (3.70%) EIGRP
10 1 (3.70%) SNMP
10 1 (3.70%) WAAS
10 1 (3.70%) Wireless Security
10 1 (3.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MySQL
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Moq
2 1 (3.70%) MSTest
2 1 (3.70%) Newman
2 1 (3.70%) NSubstitute
2 1 (3.70%) NUnit
2 1 (3.70%) Postman
2 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Manufacturing
4 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) IT Support
2 9 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) IT Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) IT Support Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) Senior
3 8 (29.63%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Firewall Specialist
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) IT Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) IT Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
4 4 (14.81%) Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Technical Specialist
5 3 (11.11%) Lead Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Jinja
1 3 (11.11%) JSON
1 3 (11.11%) YAML
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) Playwright
2 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) FMCG
2 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 13 (48.15%) Linux
3 9 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (18.52%) Ubuntu
4 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (14.81%) Solaris
5 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
5 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (29.63%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) Change Management
3 6 (22.22%) SIEM
4 5 (18.52%) Antivirus Management
4 5 (18.52%) Customer Service
4 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (18.52%) Incident Management
4 5 (18.52%) ITSM
4 5 (18.52%) Major Incident Management
4 5 (18.52%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (18.52%) Security Testing
4 5 (18.52%) Virtual Environments
4 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
5 4 (14.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 4 (14.81%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (14.81%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 4 (14.81%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (22.22%) CCNP
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (14.81%) Degree
5 3 (11.11%) CCNA
6 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
7 1 (3.70%) CCIE
7 1 (3.70%) CCSE
7 1 (3.70%) CCSM
7 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) PMO
3 1 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.70%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) WSUS
2 3 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Cisco
2 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
3 10 (37.04%) VMware
4 7 (25.93%) Meraki
5 6 (22.22%) Aruba
5 6 (22.22%) F5
5 6 (22.22%) Palo Alto
6 5 (18.52%) Dell
6 5 (18.52%) HP
6 5 (18.52%) NetApp
6 5 (18.52%) SonicWALL
6 5 (18.52%) Veeam
7 4 (14.81%) iManage
8 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
9 1 (3.70%) Blue Coat
9 1 (3.70%) Infoblox
9 1 (3.70%) Motorola
9 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
9 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
9 1 (3.70%) WatchGuard