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 6 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
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 704 556 667
Rank change year-on-year -148 +111 -133
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 90 139 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.67% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 41 93 115
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £72,754
90th Percentile £105,000 £89,750 £80,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -11.06% +2.04% -6.22%

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 26,367 20,828 27,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.20% 42.01% 33.07%
Number of salaries quoted 16,118 11,497 17,314
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,146 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £90,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -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 6 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 6 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 -127 87 £57,500 +1.21% 42
London -70 49 £87,500 +16.67% 24
UK excluding London -96 35 £44,472 -11.06% 23
Work from Home -59 26 £100,000 +78.19% 15
North of England -36 18 £40,000 -20.00% 11
North West +4 10 £42,500 -26.09% 7
South East -38 7 £55,000 +46.67% 4
Midlands -43 5 £44,472 -11.06% 1
East Midlands - 5 £44,472 -
Yorkshire -28 4 £40,000 -13.23% 4
North East -54 4 - -
Scotland +26 2 £39,250 - 1
South West -63 2 £50,000 -10.91% 1
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 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
3 3 (3.33%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (44.44%) Azure
2 35 (38.89%) AWS
3 14 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (13.33%) GCP
5 8 (8.89%) OCI
6 7 (7.78%) Mimecast
7 6 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
7 6 (6.67%) SaaS
7 6 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.33%) Rubrik
10 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.11%) GitHub
10 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 72 (80.00%) Firewall
2 43 (47.78%) Network Security
2 43 (47.78%) WAN
3 40 (44.44%) LAN
4 34 (37.78%) VPN
5 33 (36.67%) Wireless
6 31 (34.44%) SD-WAN
7 24 (26.67%) Cisco ISE
8 23 (25.56%) Cisco ASA
9 19 (21.11%) VLAN
9 19 (21.11%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (20.00%) MPLS
11 17 (18.89%) BGP
12 16 (17.78%) OSPF
13 13 (14.44%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (14.44%) NetScaler
14 12 (13.33%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (12.22%) EIGRP
15 11 (12.22%) Software-Defined Networking
16 10 (11.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) Big Data
2 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.33%) MySQL
4 2 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Git
1 5 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Moq
2 1 (1.11%) MSTest
2 1 (1.11%) Newman
2 1 (1.11%) NSubstitute
2 1 (1.11%) NUnit
2 1 (1.11%) Postman
2 1 (1.11%) Selenium
General
1 38 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 13 (14.44%) Banking
3 13 (14.44%) Telecoms
4 12 (13.33%) Finance
4 12 (13.33%) Retail
5 10 (11.11%) Marketing
6 9 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (5.56%) Law
8 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.33%) Legal
10 1 (1.11%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 37 (41.11%) Network Engineer
2 18 (20.00%) Senior
3 13 (14.44%) Architect
3 13 (14.44%) Consultant
4 12 (13.33%) Network Architect
5 10 (11.11%) IT Support
6 9 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Principal Architect
8 6 (6.67%) IT Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Network Security Specialist
8 6 (6.67%) Network Specialist
8 6 (6.67%) Presales Consultant
8 6 (6.67%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Security Specialist
8 6 (6.67%) Solutions Consultant
8 6 (6.67%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Network Consultant
9 5 (5.56%) Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) JSON
2 3 (3.33%) Jinja
2 3 (3.33%) YAML
3 2 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.22%) Kafka
4 1 (1.11%) .NET
4 1 (1.11%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.11%) Playwright
4 1 (1.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 39 (43.33%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.78%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (3.33%) FMCG
6 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.22%) Windows
2 17 (18.89%) Linux
3 11 (12.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.44%) Solaris
4 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.00%) Project Delivery
2 23 (25.56%) ITIL
3 20 (22.22%) SIEM
3 20 (22.22%) Zero Trust
4 18 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 18 (20.00%) Presales
5 17 (18.89%) High Availability
5 17 (18.89%) Roadmaps
5 17 (18.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (17.78%) Computer Science
6 16 (17.78%) Customer Requirements
6 16 (17.78%) Network Architecture
7 15 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (16.67%) Network Design
7 15 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (14.44%) Incident Response
10 12 (13.33%) Agile
11 11 (12.22%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.78%) Python
2 7 (7.78%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.78%) SQL
3 2 (2.22%) Java
3 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 51 (56.67%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (54.44%) CCNP
3 24 (26.67%) CCIE
4 19 (21.11%) Degree
5 16 (17.78%) CCSE
5 16 (17.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (16.67%) CCNA
7 13 (14.44%) Security Cleared
8 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
9 9 (10.00%) Azure Certification
9 9 (10.00%) CCSA
9 9 (10.00%) JNCIP
10 8 (8.89%) AWS Certification
10 8 (8.89%) CCIE Security
10 8 (8.89%) JNCIE
11 7 (7.78%) CISM
11 7 (7.78%) CISSP
12 6 (6.67%) APMG
13 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) PMO
2 8 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.44%) GDPR
3 4 (4.44%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.33%) GRC
4 3 (3.33%) NIST
5 2 (2.22%) SLA
6 1 (1.11%) QA
6 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (15.56%) Active Directory
1 14 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.89%) ProxySG
3 5 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.11%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.11%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 16 (17.78%) Ansible
2 9 (10.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) CASB
3 3 (3.33%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.33%) VxRail
3 3 (3.33%) WSUS
4 2 (2.22%) Grafana
4 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.11%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 78 (86.67%) Cisco
2 38 (42.22%) Palo Alto
3 32 (35.56%) F5
3 32 (35.56%) Fortinet
4 23 (25.56%) Meraki
5 18 (20.00%) VMware
6 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 14 (15.56%) SolarWinds
7 14 (15.56%) Zscaler
8 12 (13.33%) ServiceNow
9 11 (12.22%) Splunk
10 9 (10.00%) Blue Coat
10 9 (10.00%) Infoblox
11 8 (8.89%) Motorola
12 7 (7.78%) Arista
13 6 (6.67%) Aruba
13 6 (6.67%) Dynatrace
13 6 (6.67%) Sophos
14 4 (4.44%) Citrix
14 4 (4.44%) HP