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 27 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
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 709 538 663
Rank change year-on-year -171 +125 -171
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 73 134 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.63% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 33 79 101
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £44,166 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £107,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £50,000 £48,250
% change year-on-year -11.06% +3.63% -5.36%

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 26,710 21,305 27,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.42% 42.56% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 16,683 11,607 16,324
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,968 £29,250
25th Percentile £39,818 £32,951 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -8.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £92,398
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -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 27 August 2026.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 13 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 27 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 -152 72 £61,250 +11.36% 67
London -81 42 £92,500 +15.63% 47
UK excluding London -117 28 £44,472 -11.06% 24
Work from Home -63 25 £100,000 +60.00% 25
North of England -46 15 £40,000 -20.00% 9
North West -7 9 £42,500 -15.84% 4
South East -31 6 £60,000 +60.00% 4
Midlands -33 4 £44,472 -11.06% 4
Yorkshire -38 4 £40,000 -25.58% 5
East Midlands - 4 £44,472 -
North East -63 2 - -
South West -74 2 £50,000 -5.66% 1
East of England - 1 £62,500 - 2

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 10 (13.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (9.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.11%) Apache
3 3 (4.11%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.73%) Azure
2 27 (36.99%) AWS
3 11 (15.07%) GCP
3 11 (15.07%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (10.96%) OCI
5 6 (8.22%) Mimecast
6 4 (5.48%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (5.48%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.48%) SaaS
6 4 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (4.11%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.37%) GitHub
8 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.37%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 58 (79.45%) Firewall
2 34 (46.58%) Network Security
2 34 (46.58%) WAN
3 31 (42.47%) LAN
4 27 (36.99%) Wireless
5 26 (35.62%) VPN
6 25 (34.25%) SD-WAN
7 20 (27.40%) Cisco ISE
8 18 (24.66%) Cisco ASA
9 17 (23.29%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (19.18%) MPLS
11 13 (17.81%) VLAN
12 11 (15.07%) BGP
12 11 (15.07%) Software-Defined Networking
13 10 (13.70%) NetScaler
13 10 (13.70%) OSPF
14 9 (12.33%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (10.96%) Cisco Firepower
16 7 (9.59%) EIGRP
16 7 (9.59%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) Big Data
1 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.11%) MySQL
3 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.74%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Git
1 5 (6.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Moq
2 1 (1.37%) MSTest
2 1 (1.37%) Newman
2 1 (1.37%) NSubstitute
2 1 (1.37%) NUnit
2 1 (1.37%) Postman
2 1 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 36 (49.32%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.81%) Finance
3 12 (16.44%) Public Sector
4 11 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.07%) Banking
4 11 (15.07%) Telecoms
5 9 (12.33%) Retail
6 8 (10.96%) Marketing
7 7 (9.59%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (9.59%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (6.85%) Law
10 4 (5.48%) Manufacturing
11 3 (4.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (38.36%) Network Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Senior
3 11 (15.07%) Architect
3 11 (15.07%) Consultant
3 11 (15.07%) Network Architect
4 10 (13.70%) IT Support
5 7 (9.59%) Principal Architect
6 6 (8.22%) IT Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Network Consultant
7 5 (6.85%) Network Security Specialist
7 5 (6.85%) Network Specialist
7 5 (6.85%) Security Specialist
7 5 (6.85%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Firewall Specialist
8 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) Terraform
2 3 (4.11%) Jinja
2 3 (4.11%) JSON
2 3 (4.11%) YAML
3 2 (2.74%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.74%) Kafka
4 1 (1.37%) .NET
4 1 (1.37%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.37%) Playwright
4 1 (1.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (43.84%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (6.85%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) FMCG
5 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.74%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.40%) Windows
2 17 (23.29%) Linux
3 11 (15.07%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.48%) Solaris
4 4 (5.48%) Windows 10
4 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (4.11%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.14%) Project Delivery
2 20 (27.40%) ITIL
3 19 (26.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (23.29%) High Availability
4 17 (23.29%) Zero Trust
5 16 (21.92%) Network Architecture
5 16 (21.92%) Presales
6 15 (20.55%) Roadmaps
6 15 (20.55%) SIEM
6 15 (20.55%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (19.18%) Customer Requirements
7 14 (19.18%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (19.18%) Network Design
8 13 (17.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (16.44%) Agile
9 12 (16.44%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (16.44%) Incident Response
10 11 (15.07%) Load Balancing
11 10 (13.70%) Computer Science
11 10 (13.70%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.77%) Python
2 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.59%) SQL
3 2 (2.74%) Java
3 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 43 (58.90%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (54.79%) CCNP
3 18 (24.66%) CCIE
4 15 (20.55%) CCNA
5 14 (19.18%) CCSE
6 13 (17.81%) Degree
7 10 (13.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (12.33%) Azure Certification
8 9 (12.33%) CCSA
8 9 (12.33%) JNCIP
9 8 (10.96%) AWS Certification
9 8 (10.96%) CCIE Security
9 8 (10.96%) JNCIE
10 7 (9.59%) Security Cleared
11 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
12 4 (5.48%) APMG
12 4 (5.48%) CISM
12 4 (5.48%) CISSP
13 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.85%) PMO
3 4 (5.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (5.48%) GDPR
4 3 (4.11%) GRC
4 3 (4.11%) NIST
4 3 (4.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.37%) QA
5 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (19.18%) Active Directory
2 13 (17.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.48%) ProxySG
3 4 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.48%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.37%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 15 (20.55%) Ansible
2 3 (4.11%) CASB
2 3 (4.11%) VxRail
2 3 (4.11%) WSUS
3 2 (2.74%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.74%) Grafana
3 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.74%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.37%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 61 (83.56%) Cisco
2 30 (41.10%) Palo Alto
3 23 (31.51%) F5
3 23 (31.51%) Fortinet
4 20 (27.40%) Meraki
5 16 (21.92%) VMware
6 13 (17.81%) Zscaler
7 12 (16.44%) Microsoft
8 8 (10.96%) SolarWinds
9 7 (9.59%) Splunk
10 6 (8.22%) ServiceNow
11 5 (6.85%) Arista
11 5 (6.85%) Aruba
11 5 (6.85%) Infoblox
11 5 (6.85%) Sophos
12 4 (5.48%) Blue Coat
12 4 (5.48%) Citrix
12 4 (5.48%) Dynatrace
12 4 (5.48%) iManage
12 4 (5.48%) Motorola