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 16 September 2025, 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 650 454
Rank change year-on-year +106 -196 +262
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 129 143 349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.18% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.56% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 65 92 283
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,375 £37,813
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £83,750 £69,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £90,750 £82,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,985
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.97% -2.89%

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 20,998 25,342 25,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.62% 32.59% 40.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,217 13,521 19,066
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £91,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +2.04%

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

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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +86 118 £57,500 -4.17% 47
London +77 72 £85,000 +14.86% 15
Work from Home +43 48 £75,000 +30.43% 19
UK excluding London +52 40 £50,000 -4.76% 37
North of England +57 15 £50,000 -13.04% 16
Scotland - 8 - - 1
Midlands +48 6 £50,000 +5.26% 6
West Midlands +39 6 £50,000 +5.26% 6
North East +22 6 £50,000 +31.58%
South West +68 5 £53,000 -16.86% 4
Yorkshire +22 5 £60,000 +4.35% 8
South East +21 4 £53,250 -7.39% 8
North West 0 4 £50,500 -22.31% 8
East of England -19 2 £52,500 +10.53% 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 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (13.95%) MS Visio
2 15 (11.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (54.26%) Azure
2 31 (24.03%) AWS
3 17 (13.18%) GCP
4 15 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (10.85%) AWS Direct Connect
6 5 (3.88%) Rubrik
7 4 (3.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.55%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.55%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.55%) SecurityScorecard
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 109 (84.50%) Firewall
2 78 (60.47%) LAN
3 73 (56.59%) WAN
4 54 (41.86%) VPN
5 49 (37.98%) SD-WAN
6 45 (34.88%) BGP
6 45 (34.88%) OSPF
7 40 (31.01%) Network Security
8 38 (29.46%) Cisco ASA
9 31 (24.03%) IPsec
10 29 (22.48%) Cisco ISE
11 28 (21.71%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (20.93%) Cisco Firepower
13 24 (18.60%) EIGRP
14 23 (17.83%) Wireless
15 22 (17.05%) NX-OS
16 21 (16.28%) WLAN
17 19 (14.73%) HSRP
18 17 (13.18%) MPLS
19 16 (12.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.55%) JIRA
General
1 33 (25.58%) Finance
1 33 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.50%) Telecoms
3 15 (11.63%) Banking
4 14 (10.85%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.88%) Marketing
7 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Aviation
8 1 (0.78%) Law
8 1 (0.78%) Legal
8 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (59.69%) Network Engineer
2 16 (12.40%) Senior
3 14 (10.85%) Architect
3 14 (10.85%) Network Architect
3 14 (10.85%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (10.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (9.30%) Network Operations Engineer
5 12 (9.30%) Operations Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Network Security Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Security Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Lead
8 9 (6.98%) Cisco Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Analyst
9 8 (6.20%) Network Analyst
9 8 (6.20%) Network Support
9 8 (6.20%) Network Support Analyst
9 8 (6.20%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.40%) JSON
2 12 (9.30%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.33%) REST
4 1 (0.78%) LDAP
4 1 (0.78%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 67 (51.94%) Data Centre
2 26 (20.16%) Management Information System
3 16 (12.40%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.65%) IPTV
4 6 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.78%) CMDB
7 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.95%) Windows
2 14 (10.85%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.65%) Linux
3 6 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.55%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.78%) Change Management
2 35 (27.13%) Load Balancing
3 20 (15.50%) Network Monitoring
4 19 (14.73%) Runbook
5 18 (13.95%) Customer Service
6 17 (13.18%) Incident Response
7 16 (12.40%) Inventory Management
8 15 (11.63%) Capacity Planning
8 15 (11.63%) Due Diligence
9 14 (10.85%) Change Control
9 14 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (10.85%) Kalman Filter
9 14 (10.85%) Network Virtualisation
9 14 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (10.08%) Asset Management
10 13 (10.08%) Validation
11 12 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (9.30%) Low Latency
11 12 (9.30%) Network Planning
11 12 (9.30%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.38%) Python
2 12 (9.30%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 50 (38.76%) Cisco Certification
2 42 (32.56%) CCNP
3 28 (21.71%) Degree
4 27 (20.93%) CCNA
5 26 (20.16%) Security Cleared
6 24 (18.60%) SC Cleared
7 21 (16.28%) CCIE
8 14 (10.85%) CCSA
8 14 (10.85%) CCSE
9 5 (3.88%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.10%) Check Point Certification
11 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.78%) CCDP
11 1 (0.78%) CISSP
11 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.78%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.78%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) SLA
2 5 (3.88%) PMO
3 1 (0.78%) COBIT
System Software
1 17 (13.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 17 (13.18%) VMware NSX
2 14 (10.85%) Firmware
3 11 (8.53%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.65%) XenApp
5 5 (3.88%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 5 (3.88%) ProxySG
5 5 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.55%) pfSense
6 2 (1.55%) Squid
Systems Management
1 20 (15.50%) Ansible
2 18 (13.95%) FortiGate
2 18 (13.95%) Terraform
3 6 (4.65%) Cisco CUCM
3 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.88%) VxRail
5 3 (2.33%) Nagios
6 2 (1.55%) WSUS
7 1 (0.78%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 121 (93.80%) Cisco
2 48 (37.21%) Meraki
3 44 (34.11%) SolarWinds
4 43 (33.33%) F5
5 37 (28.68%) Fortinet
6 36 (27.91%) VMware
7 30 (23.26%) Palo Alto
8 22 (17.05%) Blue Coat
9 19 (14.73%) Infoblox
10 16 (12.40%) Google
11 15 (11.63%) Dynatrace
12 12 (9.30%) Arista
12 12 (9.30%) Citrix
13 11 (8.53%) Microsoft
14 7 (5.43%) Zscaler
15 6 (4.65%) Bloomberg
15 6 (4.65%) Refinitiv
15 6 (4.65%) SonicWALL
15 6 (4.65%) Splunk
16 5 (3.88%) Sophos