CheckPoint Jobs

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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 654 613
Rank change year-on-year +135 -41 +126
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 166 234 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.24% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.87% 0.64% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 131 175 200
10th Percentile £43,799 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +0.88% -3.39%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £67,688
90th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £82,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.29% +0.48%

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 19,185 36,439 43,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.78% 37.05% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,735 25,145 24,687
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +145 157 £62,500 +13.64% 51
London +112 75 £75,000 +7.14% 28
UK excluding London +115 62 £52,500 +2.34% 22
Work from Home +136 57 £56,121 -2.40% 24
Midlands +4 19 £50,000 -4.76% 6
West Midlands -7 18 £50,000 -4.76% 6
North of England +80 17 £57,500 +27.78% 8
South West +120 14 £56,121 +24.71% 2
South East +117 9 £37,500 -7.98% 5
North West +36 9 £57,500 +29.21% 3
Yorkshire +68 8 £49,350 -21.04% 5
Wales +23 2 £48,117 -
East of England +34 1 £50,000 +5.26%
East Midlands - 1 £80,000 -

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 30 (18.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.81%) IIS
2 3 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (6.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.60%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.60%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 98 (59.04%) Azure
2 35 (21.08%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (18.07%) AWS
4 29 (17.47%) GCP
5 9 (5.42%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (4.22%) AWS Direct Connect
6 7 (4.22%) IaaS
7 6 (3.61%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.41%) SaaS
9 3 (1.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.81%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.81%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.60%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.60%) Stripe
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 135 (81.33%) Firewall
2 90 (54.22%) WAN
3 76 (45.78%) LAN
4 59 (35.54%) SD-WAN
5 55 (33.13%) VPN
6 40 (24.10%) Cisco Firepower
7 37 (22.29%) BGP
7 37 (22.29%) OSPF
8 34 (20.48%) Cisco ASA
9 32 (19.28%) Cisco ISE
10 31 (18.67%) Network Security
11 26 (15.66%) Ethernet
12 22 (13.25%) MPLS
13 21 (12.65%) Wi-Fi
14 20 (12.05%) IPsec
15 16 (9.64%) EIGRP
16 13 (7.83%) TCP/IP
16 13 (7.83%) WLAN
17 11 (6.63%) DNS
18 10 (6.02%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (1.81%) Big Data
3 1 (0.60%) Power BI
3 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.60%) GitLab
1 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 29 (17.47%) Finance
2 28 (16.87%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.46%) Banking
4 15 (9.04%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.82%) Police
8 7 (4.22%) Retail
9 6 (3.61%) Law
10 5 (3.01%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.41%) Marketing
12 3 (1.81%) Back Office
12 3 (1.81%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.81%) Legal
12 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
13 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.20%) Local Government
14 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (40.36%) Network Engineer
2 28 (16.87%) Architect
3 26 (15.66%) Network Architect
4 24 (14.46%) Senior
5 23 (13.86%) Support Engineer
6 15 (9.04%) Consultant
6 15 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) Senior Network Engineer
8 13 (7.83%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 13 (7.83%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
8 13 (7.83%) 3rd Line Support
8 13 (7.83%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Lead
10 11 (6.63%) Network Consultant
10 11 (6.63%) Network Security Consultant
10 11 (6.63%) Security Consultant
10 11 (6.63%) Security Technical Consultant
10 11 (6.63%) Technical Consultant
10 11 (6.63%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.66%) JSON
2 1 (0.60%) .NET
2 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.60%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.60%) PySpark
2 1 (0.60%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 55 (33.13%) Data Centre
2 29 (17.47%) Public Cloud
3 14 (8.43%) Onboarding
4 13 (7.83%) Driving Licence
5 8 (4.82%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.01%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.81%) IPTV
9 2 (1.20%) PKI
10 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.60%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 41 (24.70%) Windows
2 32 (19.28%) Windows Server
3 17 (10.24%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (10.24%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (7.23%) Linux
5 10 (6.02%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (19.88%) Change Management
2 25 (15.06%) Due Diligence
2 25 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (13.86%) Network Design
4 20 (12.05%) Mentoring
5 19 (11.45%) Migration
5 19 (11.45%) Network Monitoring
6 18 (10.84%) Load Balancing
7 17 (10.24%) Infrastructure Management
7 17 (10.24%) Inventory Management
8 16 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (9.04%) Network Management
10 14 (8.43%) Data Security
10 14 (8.43%) ITIL
11 13 (7.83%) Incident Response
12 12 (7.23%) Runbook
13 11 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (6.63%) Incident Management
14 10 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (6.02%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.48%) Python
2 21 (12.65%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.22%) SQL
4 4 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.60%) Bash
5 1 (0.60%) C#
5 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (32.53%) Cisco Certification
2 45 (27.11%) CCNP
3 42 (25.30%) Security Cleared
4 36 (21.69%) SC Cleared
5 29 (17.47%) Degree
6 20 (12.05%) CCSA
7 16 (9.64%) CCIE
7 16 (9.64%) CCNA
8 14 (8.43%) CCSE
9 11 (6.63%) CISSP
10 8 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (3.61%) DV Cleared
12 4 (2.41%) CCSM
12 4 (2.41%) Check Point Certification
12 4 (2.41%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.81%) APMG
13 3 (1.81%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.81%) CISM
14 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.41%) SLA
2 2 (1.20%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) Basel III
3 1 (0.60%) COBIT
3 1 (0.60%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) MiFID
3 1 (0.60%) NIST
3 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.60%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (18.07%) VMware NSX
2 29 (17.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (16.27%) Active Directory
4 14 (8.43%) XenApp
5 13 (7.83%) Firmware
6 7 (4.22%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.41%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.81%) vSphere
9 1 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.60%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 35 (21.08%) Ansible
1 35 (21.08%) Terraform
2 26 (15.66%) FortiGate
3 20 (12.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.41%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.81%) SCCM
5 3 (1.81%) SCOM
6 2 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.20%) WSUS
7 1 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 139 (83.73%) Cisco
2 63 (37.95%) VMware
3 52 (31.33%) Palo Alto
4 51 (30.72%) F5
5 48 (28.92%) Fortinet
6 33 (19.88%) SolarWinds
7 31 (18.67%) Meraki
8 28 (16.87%) Google
9 26 (15.66%) Blue Coat
9 26 (15.66%) Citrix
10 25 (15.06%) Microsoft
11 14 (8.43%) SonicWALL
12 12 (7.23%) Arista
13 11 (6.63%) Infoblox
14 8 (4.82%) Dell
14 8 (4.82%) Zscaler
15 7 (4.22%) Dynatrace
16 6 (3.61%) Extreme Networks
16 6 (3.61%) Juniper
17 5 (3.01%) LogRhythm