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 16 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
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 700 549 654
Rank change year-on-year -151 +105 -155
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 82 141 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.66% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 38 88 105
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £41,979 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £59,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +3.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £79,375 £86,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £105,750 £89,125 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -11.06% +1.01% -2.91%

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 26,681 21,204 27,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.97% 42.39% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16,453 11,626 16,715
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -4.63% -6.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £91,744
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 16 August 2026.

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 16 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 -141 80 £61,250 +7.82% 39
London -75 47 £85,000 +17.24% 26
UK excluding London -112 31 £44,472 -11.06% 19
Work from Home -48 27 £100,000 +78.19% 15
North of England -56 15 £40,000 -21.95% 8
North West -2 9 £42,500 -26.09% 5
South East -44 7 £57,500 +53.33% 4
Midlands -31 5 £44,472 -11.06%
East Midlands - 5 £44,472 -
Yorkshire -34 4 £40,000 -15.79% 2
North East -67 2 - - 1
South West -78 2 £50,000 -10.91% 1
East of England - 2 £62,500 - 2
Scotland +2 1 £42,500 - 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 10 (12.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.66%) Apache
3 3 (3.66%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (40.24%) Azure
2 29 (35.37%) AWS
3 12 (14.63%) GCP
3 12 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.76%) OCI
5 7 (8.54%) Mimecast
6 5 (6.10%) AWS Direct Connect
6 5 (6.10%) SaaS
6 5 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.66%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.22%) GitHub
9 1 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.22%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 64 (78.05%) Firewall
2 38 (46.34%) WAN
3 37 (45.12%) Network Security
4 34 (41.46%) LAN
5 29 (35.37%) VPN
5 29 (35.37%) Wireless
6 28 (34.15%) SD-WAN
7 24 (29.27%) Cisco ISE
8 19 (23.17%) Cisco ASA
9 18 (21.95%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (18.29%) MPLS
11 13 (15.85%) VLAN
12 12 (14.63%) BGP
12 12 (14.63%) NetScaler
13 11 (13.41%) OSPF
13 11 (13.41%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (12.20%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (10.98%) Cisco Firepower
16 8 (9.76%) NX-OS
16 8 (9.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) Big Data
2 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.66%) MySQL
4 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Git
1 5 (6.10%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) Moq
2 1 (1.22%) MSTest
2 1 (1.22%) Newman
2 1 (1.22%) NSubstitute
2 1 (1.22%) NUnit
2 1 (1.22%) Postman
2 1 (1.22%) Selenium
General
1 39 (47.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 13 (15.85%) Banking
3 13 (15.85%) Finance
3 13 (15.85%) Telecoms
4 12 (14.63%) Retail
5 11 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (12.20%) Marketing
7 9 (10.98%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (10.98%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (6.10%) Law
9 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (39.02%) Network Engineer
2 14 (17.07%) Senior
3 13 (15.85%) Consultant
4 12 (14.63%) Architect
4 12 (14.63%) Network Architect
5 10 (12.20%) IT Support
6 7 (8.54%) Principal Architect
7 6 (7.32%) IT Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Network Security Specialist
7 6 (7.32%) Network Specialist
7 6 (7.32%) Presales Consultant
7 6 (7.32%) Security Specialist
7 6 (7.32%) Solutions Consultant
7 6 (7.32%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Network Consultant
8 5 (6.10%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.88%) JSON
2 3 (3.66%) Jinja
2 3 (3.66%) YAML
3 2 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.44%) Kafka
4 1 (1.22%) .NET
4 1 (1.22%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.22%) Playwright
4 1 (1.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (42.68%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.54%) Public Cloud
3 6 (7.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (6.10%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.88%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.66%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.66%) FMCG
7 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.39%) Windows
2 17 (20.73%) Linux
3 11 (13.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.88%) Solaris
4 4 (4.88%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.66%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.27%) Project Delivery
2 22 (26.83%) ITIL
3 20 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (23.17%) Zero Trust
5 18 (21.95%) High Availability
5 18 (21.95%) Presales
6 17 (20.73%) Network Design
6 17 (20.73%) Roadmaps
6 17 (20.73%) SIEM
7 16 (19.51%) Customer Requirements
7 16 (19.51%) Network Architecture
8 15 (18.29%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (18.29%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (15.85%) Incident Response
10 13 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (14.63%) Agile
11 12 (14.63%) Computer Science
11 12 (14.63%) Load Balancing
12 10 (12.20%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.83%) Python
2 8 (9.76%) PowerShell
3 7 (8.54%) SQL
4 2 (2.44%) Java
4 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 47 (57.32%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (53.66%) CCNP
3 20 (24.39%) CCIE
4 17 (20.73%) CCNA
5 16 (19.51%) CCSE
6 15 (18.29%) Degree
7 12 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (12.20%) Security Cleared
9 9 (10.98%) Azure Certification
9 9 (10.98%) CCSA
9 9 (10.98%) JNCIP
10 8 (9.76%) AWS Certification
10 8 (9.76%) CCIE Security
10 8 (9.76%) JNCIE
10 8 (9.76%) SC Cleared
11 6 (7.32%) APMG
11 6 (7.32%) CISM
11 6 (7.32%) CISSP
12 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.10%) PMO
3 4 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.88%) GDPR
4 3 (3.66%) GRC
4 3 (3.66%) NIST
4 3 (3.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.44%) SLA
6 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 14 (17.07%) Active Directory
1 14 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.10%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.88%) ProxySG
3 4 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.66%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.22%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 16 (19.51%) Ansible
2 9 (10.98%) Terraform
3 3 (3.66%) CASB
3 3 (3.66%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.66%) VxRail
3 3 (3.66%) WSUS
4 2 (2.44%) Grafana
4 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.22%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 70 (85.37%) Cisco
2 34 (41.46%) Palo Alto
3 29 (35.37%) F5
3 29 (35.37%) Fortinet
4 22 (26.83%) Meraki
5 18 (21.95%) VMware
6 14 (17.07%) Zscaler
7 13 (15.85%) Microsoft
8 9 (10.98%) SolarWinds
8 9 (10.98%) Splunk
9 7 (8.54%) Arista
9 7 (8.54%) ServiceNow
10 6 (7.32%) Aruba
10 6 (7.32%) Sophos
11 5 (6.10%) Blue Coat
11 5 (6.10%) Dynatrace
11 5 (6.10%) Infoblox
12 4 (4.88%) Citrix
12 4 (4.88%) HP
12 4 (4.88%) iManage