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 17 October 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
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 609 425
Rank change year-on-year +65 -184 +279
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 132 150 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.21% 0.63%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 0.66% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 53 89 292
10th Percentile £46,250 - £38,109
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,988 £74,250
90th Percentile £89,750 £87,250 £104,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,886
% change year-on-year -8.70% +13.00% -3.07%

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 21,218 22,892 23,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 43.44% 32.79% 41.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,059 11,839 18,051
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,443
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +2.68%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -

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 17 October 2025.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 14 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 17 October 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 +63 112 £60,000 - 31
London +75 72 £80,000 +1.27% 12
Work from Home +38 52 £61,250 +6.52% 18
UK excluding London +26 48 £52,500 -8.70% 20
Scotland +12 17 - -
North of England +9 12 £49,250 -17.92% 8
South West +59 8 £53,000 -16.86% 1
West Midlands +44 6 £50,000 -16.67% 3
Midlands +43 6 £50,000 -16.67% 4
North East +17 6 £50,000 +31.58% 1
Yorkshire +12 4 £55,000 -6.38% 5
South East -12 3 £54,000 -6.09% 7
North West -2 2 £48,000 -26.15% 2
East of England -8 2 £52,500 +10.53% 2

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 13 (9.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (13.64%) MS Visio
2 14 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 76 (57.58%) Azure
2 23 (17.42%) AWS
3 15 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.09%) GCP
5 9 (6.82%) AWS Direct Connect
6 5 (3.79%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.79%) Rubrik
7 3 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.52%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.52%) SecurityScorecard
9 1 (0.76%) IaaS
9 1 (0.76%) OCI
9 1 (0.76%) PaaS
9 1 (0.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 113 (85.61%) Firewall
2 88 (66.67%) LAN
3 84 (63.64%) WAN
4 56 (42.42%) SD-WAN
5 47 (35.61%) VPN
6 42 (31.82%) Network Security
7 36 (27.27%) BGP
7 36 (27.27%) OSPF
8 35 (26.52%) Wireless
9 28 (21.21%) Cisco ASA
10 24 (18.18%) Wireshark
11 22 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (15.91%) Cisco ISE
12 21 (15.91%) IPsec
12 21 (15.91%) NX-OS
13 18 (13.64%) EIGRP
13 18 (13.64%) WLAN
14 17 (12.88%) MPLS
15 15 (11.36%) Cisco Firepower
16 14 (10.61%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 47 (35.61%) Finance
2 40 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 30 (22.73%) Telecoms
4 14 (10.61%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (9.85%) Banking
6 6 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.79%) Marketing
8 3 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.52%) Advertising
9 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Aviation
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Police
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (62.88%) Network Engineer
2 16 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (10.61%) Senior
4 12 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 11 (8.33%) Analyst
5 11 (8.33%) Architect
5 11 (8.33%) Network Analyst
5 11 (8.33%) Network Support
5 11 (8.33%) Network Support Analyst
5 11 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 11 (8.33%) Support Analyst
6 10 (7.58%) Network Architect
6 10 (7.58%) Network Security Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Network Operations Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Operations Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.09%) 802.1X
2 11 (8.33%) JSON
3 3 (2.27%) REST
4 1 (0.76%) LDAP
4 1 (0.76%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (55.30%) Data Centre
2 33 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 11 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.03%) CMDB
4 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.27%) IPTV
5 3 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.42%) Windows
2 17 (12.88%) Windows Server
3 11 (8.33%) Linux
4 6 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.27%) Unix
6 2 (1.52%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.61%) Load Balancing
2 45 (34.09%) Change Management
3 30 (22.73%) Customer Service
4 27 (20.45%) Asset Management
4 27 (20.45%) Capacity Planning
5 26 (19.70%) Network Monitoring
5 26 (19.70%) Network Virtualisation
6 24 (18.18%) Coaching
6 24 (18.18%) Network Planning
6 24 (18.18%) Problem Management
7 17 (12.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (12.12%) Change Control
8 16 (12.12%) Kalman Filter
9 15 (11.36%) Inventory Management
10 14 (10.61%) ITIL
11 13 (9.85%) Validation
12 12 (9.09%) Incident Response
12 12 (9.09%) Runbook
13 10 (7.58%) Due Diligence
14 9 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.42%) Python
2 13 (9.85%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 54 (40.91%) Cisco Certification
2 42 (31.82%) CCNP
3 33 (25.00%) Degree
4 28 (21.21%) CCNA
5 26 (19.70%) CCIE
6 21 (15.91%) Security Cleared
7 19 (14.39%) SC Cleared
8 16 (12.12%) CCSA
8 16 (12.12%) CCSE
9 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.03%) AWS Certification
10 4 (3.03%) Check Point Certification
11 3 (2.27%) CISSP
11 3 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.76%) CCDP
13 1 (0.76%) CISM
13 1 (0.76%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) SLA
2 5 (3.79%) PMO
3 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.76%) COBIT
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (14.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (10.61%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 9 (6.82%) Firmware
5 6 (4.55%) XenApp
6 5 (3.79%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 5 (3.79%) ProxySG
6 5 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.52%) pfSense
7 2 (1.52%) Squid
8 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (12.88%) FortiGate
2 15 (11.36%) Ansible
3 13 (9.85%) Terraform
4 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (3.79%) Nagios
6 5 (3.79%) VxRail
7 2 (1.52%) Nessus
7 2 (1.52%) SCCM
8 1 (0.76%) CA Spectrum
8 1 (0.76%) SCOM
8 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 125 (94.70%) Cisco
2 54 (40.91%) Meraki
3 46 (34.85%) SolarWinds
4 43 (32.58%) Palo Alto
5 40 (30.30%) F5
6 35 (26.52%) Fortinet
7 34 (25.76%) VMware
8 17 (12.88%) Blue Coat
9 16 (12.12%) Citrix
10 14 (10.61%) Microsoft
11 11 (8.33%) Arista
11 11 (8.33%) Google
11 11 (8.33%) Infoblox
12 10 (7.58%) Dynatrace
13 8 (6.06%) Juniper
14 6 (4.55%) SonicWALL
14 6 (4.55%) Splunk
14 6 (4.55%) Zscaler
15 5 (3.79%) Motorola
15 5 (3.79%) Sophos