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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 517 696
Rank change year-on-year -127 +179 -38
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 108 146 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.44% 0.74% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 47 109 164
10th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £40,900
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 £90,000 £86,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -1.93%

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 24,330 19,604 36,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.80% 43.60% 33.61%
Number of salaries quoted 14,311 10,612 25,162
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% -8.00%

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 June 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 June 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 -103 106 £57,500 -4.17% 22
London -16 59 £100,000 +17.65% 7
UK excluding London -85 41 £45,000 -10.00% 18
Work from Home -6 37 £95,000 +69.28% 12
North of England -31 17 £41,250 -29.79% 7
South East -21 11 £55,000 +46.67% 5
North West +4 8 £42,500 -39.29% 2
North East -44 6 - - 1
East Midlands -21 5 £44,472 -44.41% 1
Midlands -32 5 £44,472 -11.06% 1
South West -65 5 £50,000 -10.91% 1
Yorkshire -41 3 £40,000 -23.59% 4
Scotland - 2 £39,250 -
East of England - 2 £53,750 - 3

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 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (47.22%) Azure
2 46 (42.59%) AWS
3 14 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (12.04%) AWS Direct Connect
4 13 (12.04%) SaaS
5 11 (10.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (9.26%) GCP
7 8 (7.41%) OCI
8 7 (6.48%) Mimecast
9 4 (3.70%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.93%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.93%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 93 (86.11%) Firewall
2 53 (49.07%) WAN
3 51 (47.22%) LAN
4 48 (44.44%) Network Security
5 45 (41.67%) Cisco ASA
6 40 (37.04%) VPN
7 37 (34.26%) Wireless
8 33 (30.56%) BGP
9 30 (27.78%) Cisco ISE
9 30 (27.78%) OSPF
9 30 (27.78%) SD-WAN
10 27 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
11 26 (24.07%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (21.30%) MPLS
13 21 (19.44%) VLAN
14 20 (18.52%) Cisco Nexus
15 18 (16.67%) NX-OS
16 17 (15.74%) EIGRP
16 17 (15.74%) WLAN
17 15 (13.89%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.70%) Big Data
2 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.85%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (1.85%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.30%) Finance
3 15 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 11 (10.19%) Banking
5 11 (10.19%) Telecoms
6 10 (9.26%) Retail
7 8 (7.41%) Marketing
8 7 (6.48%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.93%) Advertising
11 1 (0.93%) Law
11 1 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (47.22%) Network Engineer
2 25 (23.15%) Senior
3 16 (14.81%) Senior Network Engineer
4 15 (13.89%) Cisco Engineer
4 15 (13.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 14 (12.96%) Architect
6 13 (12.04%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (12.04%) Network Architect
7 12 (11.11%) Consultant
7 12 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
8 11 (10.19%) Security Engineer
9 10 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (9.26%) Network Operations Engineer
9 10 (9.26%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (8.33%) Network Security Specialist
10 9 (8.33%) Network Specialist
10 9 (8.33%) Security Specialist
11 8 (7.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (6.48%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.85%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (1.85%) JSON
1 2 (1.85%) Kafka
2 1 (0.93%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 58 (53.70%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.41%) Security Posture
3 7 (6.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (6.48%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.78%) FMCG
6 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.85%) CMDB
7 2 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.93%) PKI
8 1 (0.93%) PMI
8 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.74%) Windows
2 13 (12.04%) Linux
3 9 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.70%) Solaris
5 3 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.85%) Unix
7 1 (0.93%) Android
7 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 26 (24.07%) Computer Science
3 25 (23.15%) High Availability
3 25 (23.15%) Zero Trust
4 20 (18.52%) Kalman Filter
5 19 (17.59%) ITIL
6 18 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 18 (16.67%) SIEM
7 17 (15.74%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (15.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (15.74%) Network Segmentation
7 17 (15.74%) Roadmaps
7 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (14.81%) Network Architecture
9 15 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (12.96%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (12.96%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (12.04%) Presales
11 13 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.22%) Python
2 11 (10.19%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.48%) SQL
4 2 (1.85%) Java
4 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 53 (49.07%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (46.30%) CCNP
3 36 (33.33%) CCIE
4 29 (26.85%) Degree
5 26 (24.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (21.30%) Security Cleared
7 22 (20.37%) CCSE
8 21 (19.44%) CCNA
9 20 (18.52%) SC Cleared
10 17 (15.74%) CCSA
11 9 (8.33%) Azure Certification
11 9 (8.33%) JNCIP
12 8 (7.41%) AWS Certification
12 8 (7.41%) CCIE Security
12 8 (7.41%) JNCIE
13 5 (4.63%) CISM
13 5 (4.63%) CISSP
14 4 (3.70%) APMG
15 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
16 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.04%) PMO
2 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.70%) SLA
3 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.78%) QA
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.11%) ProxySG
3 6 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (2.78%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.93%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.93%) Firmware
6 1 (0.93%) NLBS
6 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (12.04%) Ansible
2 10 (9.26%) FortiGate
2 10 (9.26%) Terraform
3 4 (3.70%) VxRail
4 2 (1.85%) Grafana
4 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.85%) Nagios
4 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 96 (88.89%) Cisco
2 44 (40.74%) Fortinet
3 36 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 28 (25.93%) F5
4 28 (25.93%) Meraki
4 28 (25.93%) SolarWinds
5 21 (19.44%) ServiceNow
6 18 (16.67%) Splunk
6 18 (16.67%) VMware
7 16 (14.81%) Microsoft
8 15 (13.89%) Blue Coat
9 13 (12.04%) Dynatrace
9 13 (12.04%) Infoblox
10 12 (11.11%) Motorola
11 9 (8.33%) Zscaler
12 8 (7.41%) Sophos
13 7 (6.48%) LogRhythm
13 7 (6.48%) Tenable
14 5 (4.63%) Arista
15 4 (3.70%) Okta