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 24 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
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 546 675
Rank change year-on-year -115 +129 -106
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 91 149 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.72% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 40 106 129
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £40,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £81,250 £86,250 £71,757
90th Percentile £107,500 £89,375 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -11.06% +2.04% -10.91%

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 25,734 20,667 30,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.60% 42.10% 33.80%
Number of salaries quoted 15,540 11,446 20,173
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,137 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,475 £53,000 £51,700
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% +2.51% -10.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,100 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.26% -6.00%

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 24 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 24 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 -132 89 £55,000 -12.00% 37
London -47 51 £100,000 +21.21% 24
UK excluding London -93 35 £44,472 -11.06% 19
Work from Home -39 28 £100,000 +78.19% 11
North of England -41 18 £40,000 -30.43% 8
North West -1 10 £42,500 -46.88% 5
South East -18 7 £55,000 +46.67% 5
East Midlands -22 5 £44,472 -44.41%
Midlands -42 5 £44,472 -11.06%
Yorkshire -38 4 £40,000 -25.58% 3
North East -49 4 - -
South West -65 2 £50,000 -10.91% 1
Scotland - 2 £39,250 -
East of England - 2 £62,500 - 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 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.30%) Apache
3 3 (3.30%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (46.15%) Azure
2 37 (40.66%) AWS
3 15 (16.48%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.99%) GCP
5 9 (9.89%) AWS Direct Connect
5 9 (9.89%) SaaS
6 8 (8.79%) Mimecast
6 8 (8.79%) OCI
6 8 (8.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.40%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.40%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.10%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 74 (81.32%) Firewall
2 44 (48.35%) WAN
3 43 (47.25%) LAN
4 41 (45.05%) Network Security
5 38 (41.76%) VPN
6 34 (37.36%) Wireless
7 30 (32.97%) SD-WAN
8 27 (29.67%) Cisco ASA
8 27 (29.67%) Cisco ISE
9 22 (24.18%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (23.08%) BGP
10 21 (23.08%) MPLS
11 20 (21.98%) OSPF
12 19 (20.88%) VLAN
13 17 (18.68%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (16.48%) Cisco Nexus
15 13 (14.29%) NetScaler
15 13 (14.29%) WLAN
16 12 (13.19%) NX-OS
17 11 (12.09%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Big Data
2 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.30%) MySQL
4 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) JIRA
2 4 (4.40%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Moq
3 1 (1.10%) MSTest
3 1 (1.10%) Newman
3 1 (1.10%) NSubstitute
3 1 (1.10%) NUnit
3 1 (1.10%) Postman
3 1 (1.10%) Selenium
General
1 33 (36.26%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.58%) Finance
3 14 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.19%) Banking
4 12 (13.19%) Telecoms
5 11 (12.09%) Retail
6 9 (9.89%) Marketing
7 7 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.30%) Law
11 2 (2.20%) Legal
12 1 (1.10%) Advertising
12 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 38 (41.76%) Network Engineer
2 18 (19.78%) Senior
3 13 (14.29%) Architect
4 12 (13.19%) Consultant
4 12 (13.19%) Network Architect
5 10 (10.99%) IT Support
6 9 (9.89%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Firewall Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Network Security Specialist
7 8 (8.79%) Network Specialist
7 8 (8.79%) Security Specialist
8 7 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Network Operations Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Principal Architect
8 7 (7.69%) Security Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) JSON
2 2 (2.20%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (2.20%) Jinja
2 2 (2.20%) Kafka
2 2 (2.20%) YAML
3 1 (1.10%) .NET
3 1 (1.10%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.10%) Playwright
3 1 (1.10%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 42 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.59%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.59%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.59%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.40%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (4.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.30%) FMCG
4 3 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.98%) Windows
2 16 (17.58%) Linux
3 12 (13.19%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.40%) Solaris
4 4 (4.40%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.30%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 21 (23.08%) ITIL
2 21 (23.08%) Zero Trust
3 20 (21.98%) High Availability
3 20 (21.98%) SIEM
4 18 (19.78%) Computer Science
4 18 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (18.68%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (18.68%) Roadmaps
6 16 (17.58%) Load Balancing
7 15 (16.48%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (16.48%) Network Architecture
7 15 (16.48%) Presales
7 15 (16.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
9 13 (14.29%) Incident Response
9 13 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
10 12 (13.19%) Kalman Filter
10 12 (13.19%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.37%) Python
2 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.69%) SQL
4 2 (2.20%) Java
4 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (54.95%) Cisco Certification
2 48 (52.75%) CCNP
3 26 (28.57%) CCIE
4 21 (23.08%) Degree
5 19 (20.88%) CCNA
6 18 (19.78%) CCSE
6 18 (19.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
8 12 (13.19%) CCSA
8 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
9 9 (9.89%) Azure Certification
9 9 (9.89%) JNCIP
10 8 (8.79%) AWS Certification
10 8 (8.79%) CCIE Security
10 8 (8.79%) JNCIE
11 6 (6.59%) CISM
11 6 (6.59%) CISSP
12 5 (5.49%) APMG
13 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) PMO
2 6 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.30%) SLA
5 2 (2.20%) GDPR
5 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.10%) GRC
6 1 (1.10%) NIST
6 1 (1.10%) QA
6 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (16.48%) Active Directory
1 15 (16.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.79%) ProxySG
3 5 (5.49%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 4 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.10%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.10%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 15 (16.48%) Ansible
2 9 (9.89%) Terraform
3 5 (5.49%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.40%) VxRail
5 3 (3.30%) WSUS
6 2 (2.20%) Grafana
6 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.10%) CASB
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 79 (86.81%) Cisco
2 36 (39.56%) Fortinet
3 35 (38.46%) Palo Alto
4 28 (30.77%) F5
5 25 (27.47%) Meraki
6 19 (20.88%) VMware
7 18 (19.78%) SolarWinds
8 16 (17.58%) Microsoft
9 14 (15.38%) ServiceNow
9 14 (15.38%) Splunk
10 12 (13.19%) Zscaler
11 9 (9.89%) Blue Coat
11 9 (9.89%) Dynatrace
12 8 (8.79%) Infoblox
12 8 (8.79%) Motorola
12 8 (8.79%) Sophos
13 6 (6.59%) Arista
13 6 (6.59%) Aruba
14 4 (4.40%) iManage
14 4 (4.40%) LogRhythm