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 21 July 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
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 676 528 673
Rank change year-on-year -148 +145 -102
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 96 152 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% 0.73% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 45 107 132
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £40,750
25th Percentile £44,166 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £71,752
90th Percentile £106,500 £89,250 £76,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -11.06% +1.01% -10.00%

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 25,651 20,701 31,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.64% 42.08% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 15,501 11,454 20,916
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £54,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -11.30%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -1.08% -7.00%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -99 94 £55,000 -10.20% 36
London -27 53 £95,000 +15.15% 25
UK excluding London -90 37 £44,472 -11.06% 15
Work from Home -43 30 £100,000 +78.19% 12
North of England -29 18 £40,000 -30.43% 8
North West 0 10 £42,500 -46.88% 5
South East -31 8 £55,000 +46.67% 2
East Midlands -18 5 £44,472 -44.41%
Midlands -43 5 £44,472 -11.06%
Yorkshire -43 4 £40,000 -25.58% 3
North East -49 4 - -
South West -63 3 £50,000 -10.91%
Scotland - 2 £39,250 -
East of England - 2 £62,500 - 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 11 (11.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.13%) Apache
3 3 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.79%) Azure
2 37 (38.54%) AWS
3 17 (17.71%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.42%) AWS Direct Connect
4 10 (10.42%) GCP
5 9 (9.38%) SaaS
6 8 (8.33%) Mimecast
6 8 (8.33%) OCI
6 8 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.17%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.04%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 79 (82.29%) Firewall
2 46 (47.92%) WAN
3 45 (46.88%) LAN
4 41 (42.71%) Network Security
4 41 (42.71%) VPN
5 34 (35.42%) Wireless
6 31 (32.29%) SD-WAN
7 30 (31.25%) Cisco ISE
8 29 (30.21%) Cisco ASA
9 25 (26.04%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (23.96%) BGP
11 22 (22.92%) MPLS
11 22 (22.92%) OSPF
12 19 (19.79%) Cisco Firepower
12 19 (19.79%) VLAN
13 15 (15.63%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (14.58%) NX-OS
14 14 (14.58%) WLAN
15 13 (13.54%) NetScaler
16 12 (12.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Big Data
2 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.13%) MySQL
4 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.08%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) JIRA
2 3 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) Moq
3 1 (1.04%) MSTest
3 1 (1.04%) Newman
3 1 (1.04%) NSubstitute
3 1 (1.04%) NUnit
3 1 (1.04%) Postman
3 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 33 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Finance
3 15 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 13 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (12.50%) Banking
5 12 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 11 (11.46%) Retail
7 9 (9.38%) Marketing
8 6 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (5.21%) Manufacturing
9 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (3.13%) Law
11 2 (2.08%) Legal
12 1 (1.04%) Advertising
12 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 40 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 19 (19.79%) Senior
3 14 (14.58%) Architect
4 13 (13.54%) Network Architect
5 12 (12.50%) Consultant
6 10 (10.42%) IT Support
6 10 (10.42%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (9.38%) Firewall Engineer
7 9 (9.38%) Network Security Specialist
7 9 (9.38%) Network Specialist
7 9 (9.38%) Security Engineer
7 9 (9.38%) Security Specialist
8 8 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
8 8 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Network Operations Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Operations Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Principal Architect
10 6 (6.25%) IT Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.13%) JSON
2 2 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (1.04%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.04%) Jinja
3 1 (1.04%) Playwright
3 1 (1.04%) REST
3 1 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (46.88%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.29%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.13%) FMCG
6 3 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.79%) Windows
2 15 (15.63%) Linux
3 12 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.17%) Solaris
4 4 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.08%) Project Delivery
2 23 (23.96%) SIEM
3 21 (21.88%) High Availability
3 21 (21.88%) ITIL
4 20 (20.83%) Zero Trust
5 19 (19.79%) Computer Science
5 19 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (17.71%) Roadmaps
8 16 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (16.67%) Load Balancing
8 16 (16.67%) Network Architecture
9 14 (14.58%) Network Segmentation
9 14 (14.58%) Presales
9 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (13.54%) Incident Response
10 13 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (13.54%) Kalman Filter
11 12 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.00%) Python
2 11 (11.46%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.29%) SQL
4 2 (2.08%) Java
4 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (52.08%) Cisco Certification
2 48 (50.00%) CCNP
3 27 (28.13%) CCIE
4 22 (22.92%) Degree
5 20 (20.83%) CCNA
6 19 (19.79%) CCSE
6 19 (19.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (16.67%) Security Cleared
8 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
9 13 (13.54%) CCSA
10 9 (9.38%) Azure Certification
10 9 (9.38%) JNCIP
11 8 (8.33%) AWS Certification
11 8 (8.33%) CCIE Security
11 8 (8.33%) JNCIE
12 6 (6.25%) CISM
12 6 (6.25%) CISSP
13 5 (5.21%) APMG
14 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) PMO
2 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.13%) SLA
5 1 (1.04%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.04%) QA
5 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (15.63%) Active Directory
1 15 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.33%) ProxySG
3 6 (6.25%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 4 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.04%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.04%) Firmware
6 1 (1.04%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 15 (15.63%) Ansible
2 10 (10.42%) Terraform
3 6 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.17%) VxRail
5 3 (3.13%) WSUS
6 2 (2.08%) Grafana
6 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 84 (87.50%) Cisco
2 38 (39.58%) Fortinet
3 37 (38.54%) Palo Alto
4 28 (29.17%) F5
5 27 (28.13%) Meraki
6 20 (20.83%) VMware
7 19 (19.79%) SolarWinds
8 18 (18.75%) Microsoft
9 17 (17.71%) Splunk
10 14 (14.58%) ServiceNow
11 12 (12.50%) Zscaler
12 10 (10.42%) Blue Coat
12 10 (10.42%) Dynatrace
13 8 (8.33%) Infoblox
13 8 (8.33%) Motorola
13 8 (8.33%) Sophos
14 6 (6.25%) Arista
14 6 (6.25%) Aruba
14 6 (6.25%) LogRhythm
14 6 (6.25%) Tenable