Check Point Security Master (CCSM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCSM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 709 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing CCSM 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.011% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £61,875 - -
90th Percentile £63,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCSM falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,222 27,508 33,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.18% 27.71% 32.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,371 17,307 15,034
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%
75th Percentile £68,525 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £51,603
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.11% +3.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCSM in the UK

CCSM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCSM.

Salary trend for CCSM in the UK

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Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCSM within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. 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
England - 3 £60,000 - 4
Work from Home - 3 £60,000 - 1
London - 2 £60,000 -
South East - 1 £62,500 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £62,500 - 4

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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (100.00%) Presales
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) CCSE
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (100.00%) VMware