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 12 October 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
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 747 537 620
Rank change year-on-year -210 +83 -196
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 65 135 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.64% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 36 56 81
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,125 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,688 £75,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £90,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.29% -8.70% +12.89%

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 28,122 21,255 24,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.84% 43.24% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 17,921 11,026 12,172
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £50,000 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.52% -1.62%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -

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 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 12 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 12 October 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 -190 64 £47,500 -20.83% 112
UK excluding London -151 35 £44,472 -15.29% 45
London -112 29 £90,000 +20.00% 65
Work from Home -80 21 £100,000 +60.00% 32
North of England -51 17 £40,000 -18.78% 10
North West -18 12 £40,000 -16.67% 4
South East -44 7 £55,000 +1.85% 10
Yorkshire -40 5 £40,000 -27.27% 6
Midlands -44 5 £44,472 -11.06% 6
East Midlands - 5 £44,472 - 3
East of England -36 4 £53,750 +2.38% 5
South West -78 2 £50,000 -5.66% 9

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 14 (21.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (12.31%) Apache
2 8 (12.31%) IIS
3 7 (10.77%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Azure
2 17 (26.15%) AWS
3 16 (24.62%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (13.85%) Entra ID
5 7 (10.77%) GCP
6 4 (6.15%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (6.15%) Mimecast
6 4 (6.15%) OCI
6 4 (6.15%) SaaS
6 4 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.08%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 49 (75.38%) Firewall
2 28 (43.08%) VPN
3 27 (41.54%) WAN
4 26 (40.00%) Network Security
5 24 (36.92%) SD-WAN
5 24 (36.92%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (35.38%) LAN
7 20 (30.77%) Wireless
8 15 (23.08%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
8 15 (23.08%) TCP/IP
8 15 (23.08%) VLAN
9 14 (21.54%) DNS
10 13 (20.00%) DHCP
11 12 (18.46%) MPLS
12 10 (15.38%) NetScaler
13 8 (12.31%) Software-Defined Networking
14 6 (9.23%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (9.23%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (9.23%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.31%) MySQL
3 2 (3.08%) Big Data
3 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) Moq
3 1 (1.54%) MSTest
3 1 (1.54%) Newman
3 1 (1.54%) NSubstitute
3 1 (1.54%) NUnit
3 1 (1.54%) Postman
3 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 31 (47.69%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.23%) Banking
5 6 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (9.23%) Law
5 6 (9.23%) Telecoms
6 5 (7.69%) Marketing
6 5 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.69%) Retail
7 4 (6.15%) French Language
8 3 (4.62%) Legal
8 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (36.92%) Network Engineer
2 15 (23.08%) IT Support
3 11 (16.92%) IT Engineer
3 11 (16.92%) IT Support Engineer
3 11 (16.92%) Support Engineer
4 10 (15.38%) Senior
5 8 (12.31%) Architect
5 8 (12.31%) Network Architect
6 7 (10.77%) Consultant
7 5 (7.69%) Firewall Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Principal Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Security Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Terraform
2 3 (4.62%) Jinja
2 3 (4.62%) JSON
2 3 (4.62%) YAML
3 2 (3.08%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (3.08%) Kafka
4 1 (1.54%) .NET
4 1 (1.54%) Playwright
4 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (35.38%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.62%) FMCG
4 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.54%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 22 (33.85%) Windows
2 20 (30.77%) Linux
3 15 (23.08%) Windows Server
4 8 (12.31%) Ubuntu
4 8 (12.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (6.15%) Solaris
5 4 (6.15%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.38%) ITIL
2 19 (29.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (29.23%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (24.62%) Project Delivery
3 16 (24.62%) SIEM
4 15 (23.08%) High Availability
5 14 (21.54%) Change Management
6 13 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 12 (18.46%) Network Architecture
7 12 (18.46%) Network Design
8 11 (16.92%) Zero Trust
9 10 (15.38%) Incident Response
9 10 (15.38%) Roadmaps
10 9 (13.85%) Agile
10 9 (13.85%) Customer Requirements
10 9 (13.85%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (13.85%) Load Balancing
10 9 (13.85%) Network Segmentation
10 9 (13.85%) Presales
10 9 (13.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.54%) Python
2 7 (10.77%) SQL
3 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.08%) Java
4 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (43.08%) CCNP
3 15 (23.08%) CCNA
4 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (10.77%) CCSE
6 6 (9.23%) CCIE
6 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
7 5 (7.69%) Azure Certification
7 5 (7.69%) CCSA
7 5 (7.69%) Degree
8 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
8 4 (6.15%) CCIE Security
8 4 (6.15%) JNCIE
8 4 (6.15%) JNCIP
9 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
9 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
10 2 (3.08%) APMG
10 2 (3.08%) CISM
10 2 (3.08%) CISSP
10 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.15%) GDPR
3 3 (4.62%) GRC
3 3 (4.62%) NIST
3 3 (4.62%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.54%) PMO
4 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 18 (27.69%) Active Directory
2 15 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.31%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.62%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.62%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.08%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.54%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Ansible
2 8 (12.31%) WSUS
3 3 (4.62%) CASB
4 2 (3.08%) Grafana
4 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.08%) VxRail
5 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 49 (75.38%) Cisco
2 26 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 20 (30.77%) F5
4 19 (29.23%) Meraki
5 18 (27.69%) VMware
6 17 (26.15%) Microsoft
7 16 (24.62%) Fortinet
8 13 (20.00%) Aruba
9 10 (15.38%) Zscaler
10 8 (12.31%) Dell
10 8 (12.31%) HP
10 8 (12.31%) NetApp
10 8 (12.31%) SonicWALL
10 8 (12.31%) Veeam
11 6 (9.23%) Infoblox
12 4 (6.15%) Citrix
12 4 (6.15%) Dynatrace
12 4 (6.15%) iManage
12 4 (6.15%) SolarWinds
12 4 (6.15%) Splunk