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 31 August 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
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 721 552 666
Rank change year-on-year -169 +114 -185
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 72 136 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.64% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 33 79 100
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £107,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -11.06% +2.04% -3.89%

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 26,813 21,288 26,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.39% 42.48% 32.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16,746 11,612 15,513
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,639 £32,951 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -5.00%

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 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 13 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 31 August 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 -145 71 £55,000 -2.00% 36
London -79 40 £100,000 +17.65% 21
UK excluding London -129 29 £44,472 -11.06% 17
Work from Home -62 23 £100,000 +60.00% 10
North of England -69 16 £40,000 -20.00% 6
North West -3 10 £42,500 -15.84% 3
South East -32 6 £60,000 +60.00% 3
Midlands -38 4 £44,472 -11.06% 4
Yorkshire -40 4 £40,000 -25.58% 3
East Midlands - 4 £44,472 -
North East -64 2 - -
South West -72 2 £50,000 -5.66%
East of England -13 1 £62,500 +8.70% 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 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (9.72%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.56%) Apache
3 4 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (40.28%) Azure
2 27 (37.50%) AWS
3 12 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (15.28%) GCP
5 8 (11.11%) OCI
6 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.94%) Mimecast
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (5.56%) SaaS
7 4 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (4.17%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.39%) GitHub
9 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.39%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 56 (77.78%) Firewall
2 34 (47.22%) WAN
3 33 (45.83%) Network Security
4 30 (41.67%) LAN
5 26 (36.11%) VPN
5 26 (36.11%) Wireless
6 25 (34.72%) SD-WAN
7 18 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
7 18 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
7 18 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (19.44%) MPLS
8 14 (19.44%) VLAN
9 11 (15.28%) BGP
9 11 (15.28%) Software-Defined Networking
10 10 (13.89%) NetScaler
10 10 (13.89%) OSPF
11 8 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (11.11%) TCP/IP
12 7 (9.72%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.56%) Big Data
2 4 (5.56%) MySQL
3 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Git
1 5 (6.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Moq
2 1 (1.39%) MSTest
2 1 (1.39%) Newman
2 1 (1.39%) NSubstitute
2 1 (1.39%) NUnit
2 1 (1.39%) Postman
2 1 (1.39%) Selenium
General
1 36 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.67%) Finance
2 12 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.28%) Banking
3 11 (15.28%) Telecoms
4 9 (12.50%) Retail
5 8 (11.11%) Marketing
6 7 (9.72%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (9.72%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (6.94%) Law
9 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
10 3 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) Network Engineer
2 14 (19.44%) Senior
3 11 (15.28%) Architect
3 11 (15.28%) IT Support
3 11 (15.28%) Network Architect
4 10 (13.89%) Consultant
5 7 (9.72%) IT Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Principal Architect
5 7 (9.72%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Network Consultant
7 4 (5.56%) Network Specialist
7 4 (5.56%) Support Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) Terraform
2 3 (4.17%) Jinja
2 3 (4.17%) JSON
2 3 (4.17%) YAML
3 2 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.78%) Kafka
4 1 (1.39%) .NET
4 1 (1.39%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.39%) Playwright
4 1 (1.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (43.06%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (6.94%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.17%) FMCG
5 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.78%) Windows
2 18 (25.00%) Linux
3 12 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.56%) Solaris
4 4 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.56%) Project Delivery
2 21 (29.17%) ITIL
3 19 (26.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (23.61%) High Availability
5 16 (22.22%) Network Architecture
5 16 (22.22%) Presales
5 16 (22.22%) Zero Trust
6 15 (20.83%) Roadmaps
6 15 (20.83%) SIEM
7 14 (19.44%) Customer Requirements
7 14 (19.44%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (19.44%) Network Design
7 14 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (16.67%) Agile
8 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (15.28%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (15.28%) Incident Response
9 11 (15.28%) Load Balancing
10 10 (13.89%) Computer Science
10 10 (13.89%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) Python
2 7 (9.72%) SQL
3 6 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.78%) Java
4 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 41 (56.94%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (52.78%) CCNP
3 17 (23.61%) CCIE
4 14 (19.44%) CCNA
4 14 (19.44%) CCSE
5 13 (18.06%) Degree
6 10 (13.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (12.50%) Azure Certification
7 9 (12.50%) CCSA
8 8 (11.11%) AWS Certification
8 8 (11.11%) CCIE Security
8 8 (11.11%) JNCIE
8 8 (11.11%) JNCIP
9 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
10 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared
11 4 (5.56%) APMG
11 4 (5.56%) CISM
11 4 (5.56%) CISSP
11 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.94%) PMO
3 4 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (5.56%) GDPR
4 3 (4.17%) GRC
4 3 (4.17%) NIST
4 3 (4.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.39%) QA
5 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 14 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.94%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.56%) ProxySG
4 4 (5.56%) VMware NSX
5 3 (4.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.39%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 15 (20.83%) Ansible
2 4 (5.56%) WSUS
3 3 (4.17%) CASB
3 3 (4.17%) VxRail
4 2 (2.78%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.78%) Grafana
4 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.39%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 59 (81.94%) Cisco
2 30 (41.67%) Palo Alto
3 23 (31.94%) F5
4 21 (29.17%) Fortinet
5 20 (27.78%) Meraki
6 17 (23.61%) VMware
7 13 (18.06%) Microsoft
8 12 (16.67%) Zscaler
9 8 (11.11%) SolarWinds
10 6 (8.33%) Aruba
10 6 (8.33%) ServiceNow
10 6 (8.33%) Splunk
11 5 (6.94%) Infoblox
12 4 (5.56%) Blue Coat
12 4 (5.56%) Citrix
12 4 (5.56%) Dell
12 4 (5.56%) HP
12 4 (5.56%) Motorola
12 4 (5.56%) SonicWALL
12 4 (5.56%) Veeam