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 1 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
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 676 530 668
Rank change year-on-year -146 +138 -114
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 92 148 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.71% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 41 103 122
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,175
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 £80,000 £85,000 £71,755
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -11.06% +2.04% -6.67%

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 26,230 20,840 28,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.41% 42.09% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,944 11,543 18,186
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,250 £28,119
25th Percentile £39,818 £34,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
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 1 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 1 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 -122 89 £57,500 -8.00% 47
London -53 51 £87,500 +12.90% 27
UK excluding London -94 35 £44,472 -11.06% 23
Work from Home -38 27 £100,000 +78.19% 17
North of England -44 18 £40,000 -30.43% 8
North West +2 10 £42,500 -46.88% 5
South East -36 7 £55,000 +46.67% 5
East Midlands -24 5 £44,472 -44.41%
Midlands -39 5 £44,472 -11.06% 2
Yorkshire -36 4 £40,000 -25.58% 3
North East -54 4 - -
South West -73 2 £50,000 -10.91% 2
Scotland - 2 £39,250 -
East of England - 2 £62,500 - 4

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 (11.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.26%) Apache
3 3 (3.26%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 41 (44.57%) Azure
2 36 (39.13%) AWS
3 14 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (11.96%) GCP
5 8 (8.70%) Mimecast
5 8 (8.70%) OCI
6 7 (7.61%) AWS Direct Connect
6 7 (7.61%) SaaS
6 7 (7.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.35%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.09%) GitHub
8 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 74 (80.43%) Firewall
2 43 (46.74%) Network Security
2 43 (46.74%) WAN
3 42 (45.65%) LAN
4 37 (40.22%) VPN
5 33 (35.87%) Wireless
6 30 (32.61%) SD-WAN
7 27 (29.35%) Cisco ISE
8 24 (26.09%) Cisco ASA
9 21 (22.83%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (20.65%) MPLS
10 19 (20.65%) VLAN
11 18 (19.57%) BGP
12 17 (18.48%) OSPF
13 14 (15.22%) Cisco Firepower
13 14 (15.22%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (15.22%) NetScaler
14 11 (11.96%) EIGRP
14 11 (11.96%) WLAN
15 10 (10.87%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.52%) Big Data
2 4 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.26%) MySQL
4 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) JIRA
2 5 (5.43%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) Moq
3 1 (1.09%) MSTest
3 1 (1.09%) Newman
3 1 (1.09%) NSubstitute
3 1 (1.09%) NUnit
3 1 (1.09%) Postman
3 1 (1.09%) Selenium
General
1 38 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (16.30%) Public Sector
3 13 (14.13%) Banking
3 13 (14.13%) Finance
3 13 (14.13%) Telecoms
4 12 (13.04%) Retail
5 10 (10.87%) Marketing
6 9 (9.78%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (5.43%) Law
8 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.26%) Legal
10 1 (1.09%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 38 (41.30%) Network Engineer
2 18 (19.57%) Senior
3 13 (14.13%) Architect
3 13 (14.13%) Consultant
4 12 (13.04%) Network Architect
5 10 (10.87%) IT Support
6 9 (9.78%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Network Security Specialist
7 8 (8.70%) Network Specialist
7 8 (8.70%) Security Specialist
8 7 (7.61%) Principal Architect
9 6 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Firewall Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Network Operations Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Presales Consultant
9 6 (6.52%) Security Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Solutions Consultant
9 6 (6.52%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.35%) JSON
2 3 (3.26%) Jinja
2 3 (3.26%) YAML
3 2 (2.17%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.17%) Kafka
4 1 (1.09%) .NET
4 1 (1.09%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.09%) Playwright
4 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 40 (43.48%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.61%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.52%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.26%) FMCG
7 2 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.83%) Windows
2 18 (19.57%) Linux
3 12 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.35%) Solaris
4 4 (4.35%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.26%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.35%) Project Delivery
2 23 (25.00%) ITIL
3 22 (23.91%) SIEM
4 21 (22.83%) Zero Trust
5 19 (20.65%) High Availability
6 18 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (19.57%) Load Balancing
7 17 (18.48%) Computer Science
7 17 (18.48%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (18.48%) Presales
7 17 (18.48%) Roadmaps
8 16 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (17.39%) Network Architecture
8 16 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (16.30%) Customer Requirements
9 15 (16.30%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (15.22%) Incident Response
10 14 (15.22%) Network Design
11 12 (13.04%) Agile
12 11 (11.96%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.17%) Python
2 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.61%) SQL
4 2 (2.17%) Java
4 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 53 (57.61%) Cisco Certification
2 51 (55.43%) CCNP
3 25 (27.17%) CCIE
4 20 (21.74%) Degree
5 17 (18.48%) CCNA
5 17 (18.48%) CCSE
5 17 (18.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
7 11 (11.96%) SC Cleared
8 10 (10.87%) CCSA
9 9 (9.78%) Azure Certification
9 9 (9.78%) JNCIP
10 8 (8.70%) AWS Certification
10 8 (8.70%) CCIE Security
10 8 (8.70%) JNCIE
11 7 (7.61%) CISM
11 7 (7.61%) CISSP
12 6 (6.52%) APMG
13 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) PMO
2 7 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.26%) GDPR
4 3 (3.26%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.17%) GRC
5 2 (2.17%) NIST
5 2 (2.17%) SLA
6 1 (1.09%) QA
6 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (16.30%) Active Directory
1 15 (16.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.70%) ProxySG
3 5 (5.43%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 4 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.26%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.09%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.09%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 16 (17.39%) Ansible
2 9 (9.78%) Terraform
3 4 (4.35%) FortiGate
3 4 (4.35%) VxRail
4 3 (3.26%) WSUS
5 2 (2.17%) CASB
5 2 (2.17%) Grafana
5 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.09%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 80 (86.96%) Cisco
2 36 (39.13%) Palo Alto
3 35 (38.04%) Fortinet
4 31 (33.70%) F5
5 24 (26.09%) Meraki
6 19 (20.65%) VMware
7 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
7 15 (16.30%) SolarWinds
7 15 (16.30%) Zscaler
8 13 (14.13%) ServiceNow
8 13 (14.13%) Splunk
9 9 (9.78%) Blue Coat
10 8 (8.70%) Infoblox
10 8 (8.70%) Motorola
10 8 (8.70%) Sophos
11 7 (7.61%) Arista
11 7 (7.61%) Dynatrace
12 6 (6.52%) Aruba
13 4 (4.35%) Citrix
13 4 (4.35%) HP