CheckPoint Job Trends

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 19 March 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
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 475 613
Rank change year-on-year -78 +138 +26
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 142 167 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.39% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.68% 1.00% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 54 129 174
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,810 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +13.04% -2.09%
75th Percentile £86,875 £82,500 £71,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,121 £51,900
% change year-on-year -6.45% +8.13% -1.14%

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 20,834 16,750 32,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.75% 39.39% 37.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,354 9,881 24,401
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,058 £46,250
% change year-on-year -11.86% +10.40% -7.50%

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 19 March 2026.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 16 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 19 March 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 -44 132 £57,800 -11.08% 21
London +9 73 £86,250 +16.55% 6
UK excluding London -41 58 £52,500 -6.45% 16
Work from Home +5 47 £85,000 +51.46% 13
South East -22 19 £55,000 -4.35% 7
North of England -45 14 £48,750 -15.22% 2
Scotland -14 9 £42,500 -34.62% 2
North East - 8 - -
South West -35 7 £56,121 -
North West -11 5 £52,500 -25.00% 2
Midlands -32 5 £52,500 +5.00% 2
East of England -10 4 £50,000 -13.04% 5
West Midlands -15 4 £52,500 +5.00%
Wales -17 1 £38,500 -34.19%
East Midlands -44 1 £62,500 -21.88% 2
Yorkshire -45 1 £45,000 -8.81%

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 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (13.38%) MS Visio
2 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (52.11%) Azure
2 50 (35.21%) AWS
3 12 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (7.75%) AWS Direct Connect
4 11 (7.75%) SaaS
5 9 (6.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (3.52%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.52%) GCP
6 5 (3.52%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.82%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.41%) OCI
8 2 (1.41%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 127 (89.44%) Firewall
2 79 (55.63%) WAN
3 77 (54.23%) LAN
4 62 (43.66%) Cisco ASA
5 54 (38.03%) VPN
6 48 (33.80%) Network Security
7 45 (31.69%) Wireless
8 42 (29.58%) BGP
9 38 (26.76%) SD-WAN
10 37 (26.06%) OSPF
11 35 (24.65%) Cisco Firepower
12 32 (22.54%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (20.42%) VLAN
14 28 (19.72%) MPLS
15 25 (17.61%) Cisco ISE
15 25 (17.61%) Cisco Nexus
16 21 (14.79%) EIGRP
17 20 (14.08%) WLAN
18 19 (13.38%) NX-OS
19 18 (12.68%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.41%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.52%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (32.39%) Finance
2 33 (23.24%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.68%) Telecoms
5 14 (9.86%) Banking
6 13 (9.15%) Public Sector
7 10 (7.04%) Retail
8 8 (5.63%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.93%) Marketing
10 4 (2.82%) Advertising
11 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.41%) Police
12 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.70%) Law
13 1 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 88 (61.97%) Network Engineer
2 29 (20.42%) Senior
3 25 (17.61%) Cisco Engineer
3 25 (17.61%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 25 (17.61%) Senior Network Engineer
4 21 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (14.08%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (14.08%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) LAN Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) Network Operations Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) Operations Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) WAN Engineer
7 14 (9.86%) Firewall Engineer
8 13 (9.15%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (8.45%) Analyst
9 12 (8.45%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
10 11 (7.75%) Support Analyst
11 10 (7.04%) Security Engineer
12 8 (5.63%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.11%) JSON
2 1 (0.70%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 78 (54.93%) Data Centre
2 17 (11.97%) Management Information System
3 15 (10.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (6.34%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.52%) CMDB
5 5 (3.52%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.52%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.52%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.41%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.70%) PKI
8 1 (0.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.79%) Windows
2 14 (9.86%) Linux
2 14 (9.86%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.23%) Unix
4 5 (3.52%) Android
4 5 (3.52%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.76%) Computer Science
2 34 (23.94%) Load Balancing
3 31 (21.83%) Kalman Filter
4 29 (20.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (18.31%) ITIL
6 24 (16.90%) High Availability
6 24 (16.90%) Project Delivery
7 21 (14.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (14.79%) Zero Trust
8 19 (13.38%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (13.38%) Root Cause Analysis
8 19 (13.38%) SIEM
9 18 (12.68%) Change Management
9 18 (12.68%) Process Improvement
10 17 (11.97%) Analytical Thinking
11 16 (11.27%) Collaborative Working
11 16 (11.27%) WAN Optimisation
12 14 (9.86%) Network Segmentation
12 14 (9.86%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.01%) Python
2 14 (9.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 70 (49.30%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (40.14%) CCNP
3 47 (33.10%) CCIE
3 47 (33.10%) Degree
4 38 (26.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (22.54%) CCNA
6 28 (19.72%) Security Cleared
7 27 (19.01%) SC Cleared
8 26 (18.31%) CCSE
9 23 (16.20%) CCSA
10 6 (4.23%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (2.82%) CISSP
12 4 (2.82%) JNCIP
13 3 (2.11%) CISM
14 2 (1.41%) APMG
14 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
14 2 (1.41%) Azure Certification
14 2 (1.41%) CCIE Security
14 2 (1.41%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.27%) PMO
2 7 (4.93%) SLA
3 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.41%) QA
4 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (14.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (11.27%) ProxySG
3 14 (9.86%) Active Directory
4 9 (6.34%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.52%) Firmware
6 4 (2.82%) XenApp
7 2 (1.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.70%) NLBS
8 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (12.68%) FortiGate
2 7 (4.93%) Ansible
2 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.23%) Terraform
4 4 (2.82%) Nagios
5 2 (1.41%) SCCM
5 2 (1.41%) VxRail
6 1 (0.70%) Nessus
Vendors
1 129 (90.85%) Cisco
2 60 (42.25%) Fortinet
3 51 (35.92%) Palo Alto
4 39 (27.46%) F5
4 39 (27.46%) SolarWinds
5 35 (24.65%) Meraki
6 25 (17.61%) ServiceNow
6 25 (17.61%) VMware
7 21 (14.79%) Blue Coat
8 18 (12.68%) Infoblox
9 16 (11.27%) Microsoft
9 16 (11.27%) Motorola
10 15 (10.56%) Splunk
11 11 (7.75%) Dynatrace
12 9 (6.34%) Arista
13 8 (5.63%) Google
13 8 (5.63%) LogRhythm
13 8 (5.63%) Tenable
13 8 (5.63%) Zscaler
14 7 (4.93%) Citrix