Check_MK Job Trends

Check_MK
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Check_MK skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 658 691 793
Rank change year-on-year +33 +102 +205
Permanent jobs citing Check_MK 5 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.004% 0.012%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.035% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile - - £46,250
25th Percentile - £35,000 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £40,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -28.89% +40.63%
75th Percentile - £45,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - - £64,625
UK excluding London median annual salary - £40,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -36.00% +31.58%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Check_MK falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,317 5,724 8,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.53% 11.53% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,993 3,527 7,026
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,738 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -2.65%

Check_MK
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Check_MK relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Check_MK job vacancy trend in the UK

Check_MK
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Check_MK.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Check_MK

Check_MK
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Check_MK within the UK over the 6 months to 11 February 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
England +30 5 £70,000 +75.00% 2
London +40 4 £70,000 - 1
UK excluding London +15 1 - - 1
South West -10 1 - -

Check_MK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco ISE
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) OSPF
1 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (80.00%) VoIP
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Retail Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Author
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (80.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (80.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) VMware