CheckPoint Job Trends

CheckPoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 December 2025, 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
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 576 425
Rank change year-on-year +38 -151 +186
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 116 166 309
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.27% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 0.75% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 43 101 252
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £38,109
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £91,250 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +10.58% -0.95%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,014 21,997 21,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.49% 35.41% 41.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,276 11,556 16,437
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,851 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £49,250
% change year-on-year -15.00% +1.52% -1.50%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CheckPoint job vacancy trend in the UK

CheckPoint
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CheckPoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CheckPoint

CheckPoint
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CheckPoint within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 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 +41 97 £58,750 -9.62% 238
London +50 62 £80,000 +7.49% 25
UK excluding London +63 47 £52,500 -8.70% 238
Work from Home +55 40 £75,000 +20.00% 50
Scotland +19 17 - - 13
North of England +24 9 £48,500 -15.65% 46
South West +31 7 £53,000 -18.46% 27
South East +14 7 £54,000 -6.09% 63
Midlands +29 4 £52,500 +5.00% 48
West Midlands +28 4 £52,500 +5.00% 24
North West +37 3 £48,500 -25.38% 24
Yorkshire -9 3 £47,500 -17.39% 19
North East - 3 £50,000 - 3
East of England +24 2 £52,500 -8.70% 35
Wales +4 1 £38,500 -40.77% 9

CheckPoint
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (15.52%) MS Visio
2 15 (12.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (53.45%) Azure
2 19 (16.38%) AWS
3 9 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.03%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.17%) GCP
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.72%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.72%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.72%) Rubrik
6 2 (1.72%) SaaS
6 2 (1.72%) SecurityScorecard
6 2 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.86%) IaaS
7 1 (0.86%) OCI
7 1 (0.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (88.79%) Firewall
2 76 (65.52%) LAN
3 65 (56.03%) WAN
4 42 (36.21%) SD-WAN
5 34 (29.31%) VPN
6 33 (28.45%) Wireless
7 28 (24.14%) Network Security
8 27 (23.28%) Cisco ASA
9 26 (22.41%) BGP
9 26 (22.41%) OSPF
10 24 (20.69%) Wireshark
11 20 (17.24%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (14.66%) Cisco Firepower
13 16 (13.79%) EIGRP
14 14 (12.07%) MPLS
15 13 (11.21%) HSRP
15 13 (11.21%) IPsec
15 13 (11.21%) TCP/IP
16 12 (10.34%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (10.34%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.72%) JIRA
2 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (48.28%) Finance
2 39 (33.62%) Social Skills
3 27 (23.28%) Telecoms
4 14 (12.07%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.90%) Banking
6 6 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.31%) Marketing
8 4 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.72%) Advertising
9 2 (1.72%) Legal
9 2 (1.72%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.86%) Aviation
10 1 (0.86%) Law
10 1 (0.86%) Police
10 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (65.52%) Network Engineer
2 17 (14.66%) Analyst
3 16 (13.79%) Senior
3 16 (13.79%) Support Analyst
4 14 (12.07%) Network Analyst
4 14 (12.07%) Network Support
4 14 (12.07%) Network Support Analyst
5 13 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (10.34%) Senior Network Engineer
7 11 (9.48%) Security Engineer
8 10 (8.62%) Network Security Engineer
9 9 (7.76%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (7.76%) Cisco Engineer
9 9 (7.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Deployment Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Network Deployment Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) LAN Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.03%) 802.1X
2 5 (4.31%) JSON
3 3 (2.59%) REST
4 1 (0.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 59 (50.86%) Data Centre
2 26 (22.41%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.31%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.45%) CMDB
6 3 (2.59%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.52%) Windows
2 13 (11.21%) Windows Server
3 12 (10.34%) Linux
4 6 (5.17%) Unix
5 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.72%) Android
6 2 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.72%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (40.52%) Load Balancing
2 33 (28.45%) Change Management
3 30 (25.86%) Customer Service
4 27 (23.28%) Asset Management
4 27 (23.28%) Network Monitoring
5 25 (21.55%) Network Virtualisation
5 25 (21.55%) Problem Management
6 24 (20.69%) Capacity Planning
6 24 (20.69%) Coaching
6 24 (20.69%) Network Planning
7 17 (14.66%) ITIL
8 16 (13.79%) Change Control
9 15 (12.93%) Inventory Management
10 14 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (11.21%) Computer Science
11 13 (11.21%) Kalman Filter
11 13 (11.21%) Validation
12 12 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (9.48%) High Availability
14 10 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.38%) Python
2 7 (6.03%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.72%) Bash
Qualifications
1 49 (42.24%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (32.76%) CCNP
3 35 (30.17%) Degree
4 31 (26.72%) CCIE
5 21 (18.10%) CCNA
5 21 (18.10%) CCSA
5 21 (18.10%) CCSE
6 16 (13.79%) Security Cleared
7 14 (12.07%) SC Cleared
8 13 (11.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (5.17%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.59%) CISSP
12 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.72%) Check Point Certification
13 1 (0.86%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) PMO
2 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.72%) SLA
4 1 (0.86%) COBIT
4 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (12.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.03%) VMware NSX
4 5 (4.31%) ProxySG
4 5 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.45%) Firmware
5 4 (3.45%) XenApp
6 2 (1.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.72%) pfSense
6 2 (1.72%) Squid
7 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (12.93%) FortiGate
2 9 (7.76%) Ansible
3 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (6.03%) Terraform
5 5 (4.31%) Nagios
6 2 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.72%) Nessus
6 2 (1.72%) SCCM
6 2 (1.72%) VxRail
7 1 (0.86%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (0.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 106 (91.38%) Cisco
2 48 (41.38%) Palo Alto
3 39 (33.62%) Meraki
4 36 (31.03%) SolarWinds
5 34 (29.31%) F5
6 31 (26.72%) Fortinet
7 23 (19.83%) VMware
8 12 (10.34%) Blue Coat
9 11 (9.48%) Arista
9 11 (9.48%) Citrix
9 11 (9.48%) Microsoft
10 10 (8.62%) Juniper
11 7 (6.03%) Google
12 6 (5.17%) Infoblox
13 5 (4.31%) Motorola
13 5 (4.31%) Veeam
14 4 (3.45%) IBM
14 4 (3.45%) SonicWALL
15 3 (2.59%) Riverbed
15 3 (2.59%) Splunk