CheckPoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of CheckPoint products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CheckPoint over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 409 645 616
Rank change year-on-year +236 -29 -198
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 355 494 549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.39% 0.43%
As % of the Vendors category 1.56% 0.96% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 263 362 418
10th Percentile £37,550 £38,756 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,875 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £106,031 £92,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,600 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.62% +5.00% -

All Vendors
UK

CheckPoint is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,763 51,212 50,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.07% 40.70% 39.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16,651 30,301 33,215
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,072
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +3.26%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CheckPoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint.

Salary trend for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 17 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 29 November 2023. 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 +186 278 £55,000 -8.33% 81
UK excluding London +211 262 £50,600 -3.62% 59
Work from Home +192 187 £55,000 -15.38% 26
London +173 81 £70,073 +7.80% 29
South West +107 65 £50,000 +7.53% 6
Wales +64 55 £30,000 -30.23% 1
North of England +124 46 £57,500 +16.16% 12
Midlands +93 41 £50,000 -16.67% 14
West Midlands +86 38 £50,000 -16.67% 10
South East +107 29 £45,000 -17.43% 16
Yorkshire +89 21 £61,500 +36.67% 2
North West +105 15 £80,813 +46.93% 10
East of England +103 10 £55,000 +10.00% 9
North East +44 10 £26,000 -36.59%
Scotland +58 8 £80,813 +30.34% 3
Northern Ireland +37 7 £68,000 +39.49%
East Midlands +50 3 £32,500 -35.96% 4

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (7.89%) Confluence
2 15 (4.23%) IIS
3 5 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.41%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.85%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 11 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 111 (31.27%) Azure
2 43 (12.11%) AWS
3 37 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.94%) Entra ID
5 13 (3.66%) GCP
6 12 (3.38%) Rubrik
7 11 (3.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 11 (3.10%) Nutanix
8 10 (2.82%) IaaS
9 7 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.69%) PaaS
10 6 (1.69%) SaaS
11 2 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.56%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.56%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.28%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.28%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.28%) Cohesity
12 1 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 287 (80.85%) Firewall
2 190 (53.52%) WAN
3 140 (39.44%) VPN
4 113 (31.83%) Network Security
5 102 (28.73%) Cisco ASA
6 98 (27.61%) LAN
7 96 (27.04%) Wireless
8 93 (26.20%) BGP
9 90 (25.35%) SD-WAN
10 87 (24.51%) OSPF
11 74 (20.85%) MPLS
12 58 (16.34%) Wi-Fi
13 57 (16.06%) Internet
14 49 (13.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 48 (13.52%) Cisco Nexus
16 44 (12.39%) IPsec
17 43 (12.11%) Cisco Firepower
17 43 (12.11%) TCP/IP
18 40 (11.27%) BIG-IP
19 37 (10.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 32 (9.01%) JIRA
2 4 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 73 (20.56%) Finance
2 48 (13.52%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (10.70%) Banking
4 35 (9.86%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.30%) Games
6 28 (7.89%) Retail
7 19 (5.35%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.97%) Front Office
10 4 (1.13%) Law
10 4 (1.13%) Police
11 3 (0.85%) Advertising
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.56%) Electronics
12 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Local Government
12 2 (0.56%) Marketing
13 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 140 (39.44%) Network Engineer
2 116 (32.68%) Senior
3 52 (14.65%) Cisco Engineer
4 44 (12.39%) Analyst
5 41 (11.55%) Senior Network Engineer
6 38 (10.70%) Security Engineer
7 33 (9.30%) SOC Analyst
8 31 (8.73%) Senior Cisco Engineer
9 29 (8.17%) Network Security Engineer
10 28 (7.89%) Consultant
10 28 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (7.89%) Lead
10 28 (7.89%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (7.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 27 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 26 (7.32%) Architect
12 26 (7.32%) Network Architect
13 24 (6.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 24 (6.76%) Project Consultant
14 18 (5.07%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.30%) LDAP
2 28 (7.89%) Spine.js
3 15 (4.23%) REST
3 15 (4.23%) WebRTC
4 14 (3.94%) 802.1X
5 8 (2.25%) JSON
6 1 (0.28%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 153 (43.10%) Data Centre
2 34 (9.58%) PKI
3 33 (9.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 33 (9.30%) Cyber Threat
3 33 (9.30%) Security Operations Centre
4 28 (7.89%) Cloud Native
5 15 (4.23%) Clustering
6 14 (3.94%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.82%) Tandem
8 9 (2.54%) CMDB
9 8 (2.25%) Fibre Optics
10 6 (1.69%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.85%) Replication
12 3 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.56%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.11%) Linux
2 38 (10.70%) Windows
3 29 (8.17%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.66%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.56%) Unix
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (27.89%) ITIL
1 99 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (22.54%) Load Balancing
3 71 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 57 (16.06%) Actionable Insight
5 52 (14.65%) SIEM
6 40 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 38 (10.70%) Kalman Filter
8 36 (10.14%) Security Operations
9 35 (9.86%) Agile
10 34 (9.58%) Data Loss Prevention
10 34 (9.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 33 (9.30%) Blue Team
11 33 (9.30%) Cloud Security
11 33 (9.30%) Compliance Audit
11 33 (9.30%) DevOps
11 33 (9.30%) Problem Management
11 33 (9.30%) Time Management
11 33 (9.30%) Two-Factor Authentication
12 31 (8.73%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 50 (14.08%) Python
2 19 (5.35%) SQL
3 18 (5.07%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.82%) Bash
5 8 (2.25%) Ruby
6 7 (1.97%) Korn
7 3 (0.85%) Go
8 1 (0.28%) C#
8 1 (0.28%) Java
8 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 127 (35.77%) Cisco Certification
2 115 (32.39%) CCNP
3 110 (30.99%) Security Cleared
4 79 (22.25%) CCNA
5 76 (21.41%) SC Cleared
6 33 (9.30%) Degree
7 24 (6.76%) CCIE
8 17 (4.79%) CCSE
9 13 (3.66%) MCP
9 13 (3.66%) MCSE
9 13 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (3.10%) CCSA
10 11 (3.10%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.54%) CISSP
12 5 (1.41%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 4 (1.13%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.85%) CCIE Security
14 3 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.56%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.20%) SLA
2 16 (4.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.13%) NCSC
3 4 (1.13%) NIST
4 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.28%) HL7
5 1 (0.28%) PMO
5 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (12.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.51%) VMware NSX
4 15 (4.23%) vSphere
5 11 (3.10%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.13%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.85%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.28%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.28%) Firmware
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 143 (40.28%) FortiGate
2 39 (10.99%) Ansible
3 36 (10.14%) Terraform
4 9 (2.54%) Nessus
5 8 (2.25%) Cisco CUCM
6 6 (1.69%) SCCM
7 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.13%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.85%) Stealthwatch
9 3 (0.85%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.28%) Nmap
11 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 312 (87.89%) Cisco
2 147 (41.41%) F5
3 115 (32.39%) Fortinet
4 100 (28.17%) Palo Alto
5 82 (23.10%) Meraki
6 73 (20.56%) Microsoft
7 72 (20.28%) Juniper
8 71 (20.00%) VMware
9 41 (11.55%) Splunk
10 40 (11.27%) ArcSight
11 38 (10.70%) SolarWinds
12 37 (10.42%) TippingPoint
13 35 (9.86%) McAfee
14 33 (9.30%) IBM
14 33 (9.30%) Trend Micro
15 32 (9.01%) Forcepoint
15 32 (9.01%) ServiceNow
16 22 (6.20%) Aruba
17 21 (5.92%) Oracle
17 21 (5.92%) Riverbed