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 4 June 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
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 515 675
Rank change year-on-year -101 +160 -38
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 115 154 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.35% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% 0.83% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 47 115 166
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £41,875 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £51,300
% change year-on-year - -2.53% +0.62%

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 23,676 18,551 35,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.55% 42.47% 34.93%
Number of salaries quoted 13,410 10,146 24,876
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £36,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,125 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £45,828
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.74% -8.34%

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 4 June 2026.

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 4 June 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 -96 112 £55,000 -8.33% 34
London -27 58 £95,000 +11.76% 16
UK excluding London -80 47 £50,000 - 22
Work from Home -5 38 £90,000 +60.37% 9
North of England -45 18 £42,500 -26.09% 5
South East -14 15 £55,000 +46.67% 10
North West +1 8 £42,500 -33.33% 1
North East -31 8 - - 1
South West -61 5 £50,000 -10.91% 2
East of England - 4 £50,000 - 3
East Midlands -23 3 £44,472 -44.41% 2
Midlands -57 3 £44,472 -11.06% 2
Scotland - 3 £42,500 - 1
Yorkshire -50 2 £40,000 -23.59% 3

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 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (13.91%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 58 (50.43%) Azure
2 53 (46.09%) AWS
3 14 (12.17%) AWS Direct Connect
3 14 (12.17%) SaaS
4 12 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (10.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (7.83%) GCP
6 7 (6.09%) OCI
7 6 (5.22%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.61%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.61%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 98 (85.22%) Firewall
2 61 (53.04%) WAN
3 57 (49.57%) LAN
4 53 (46.09%) Cisco ASA
5 51 (44.35%) Network Security
6 44 (38.26%) VPN
7 42 (36.52%) Wireless
8 38 (33.04%) BGP
9 33 (28.70%) OSPF
10 32 (27.83%) SD-WAN
11 29 (25.22%) Cisco Firepower
11 29 (25.22%) Cisco ISE
11 29 (25.22%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (21.74%) VLAN
13 24 (20.87%) Cisco Nexus
14 22 (19.13%) MPLS
15 20 (17.39%) EIGRP
16 19 (16.52%) WLAN
17 18 (15.65%) Cisco Wireless
17 18 (15.65%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.48%) Big Data
2 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (6.09%) JIRA
2 1 (0.87%) Git
2 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.87%) Finance
3 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.17%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.43%) Banking
5 12 (10.43%) Retail
5 12 (10.43%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.83%) Marketing
7 8 (6.96%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.61%) Advertising
10 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.87%) Law
11 1 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 62 (53.91%) Network Engineer
2 27 (23.48%) Senior
3 21 (18.26%) Senior Network Engineer
4 18 (15.65%) Cisco Engineer
4 18 (15.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 14 (12.17%) Architect
5 14 (12.17%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) Firewall Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) Network Architect
7 11 (9.57%) Network Operations Engineer
7 11 (9.57%) Operations Engineer
7 11 (9.57%) Security Engineer
8 10 (8.70%) Consultant
9 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (7.83%) LAN Engineer
9 9 (7.83%) LAN/WAN Engineer
9 9 (7.83%) WAN Engineer
10 8 (6.96%) Network Security Specialist
10 8 (6.96%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.74%) JSON
2 1 (0.87%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.87%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 64 (55.65%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (7.83%) Security Posture
3 8 (6.96%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.22%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.61%) FMCG
7 3 (2.61%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.74%) CMDB
8 2 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.87%) PKI
9 1 (0.87%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.17%) Windows
2 9 (7.83%) Linux
3 8 (6.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.61%) Android
4 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.74%) Solaris
5 2 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.70%) Computer Science
2 29 (25.22%) Project Delivery
3 27 (23.48%) Zero Trust
4 25 (21.74%) Kalman Filter
5 24 (20.87%) High Availability
6 22 (19.13%) ITIL
6 22 (19.13%) Load Balancing
7 20 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (15.65%) Network Architecture
8 18 (15.65%) Network Segmentation
8 18 (15.65%) Root Cause Analysis
9 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (14.78%) SIEM
10 16 (13.91%) Analytical Thinking
10 16 (13.91%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (13.91%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (13.91%) Roadmaps
10 16 (13.91%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.74%) Python
2 10 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.61%) SQL
4 1 (0.87%) Java
4 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 56 (48.70%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (46.09%) CCNP
3 42 (36.52%) CCIE
4 36 (31.30%) Degree
5 33 (28.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (23.48%) Security Cleared
7 25 (21.74%) SC Cleared
8 23 (20.00%) CCSE
9 20 (17.39%) CCNA
10 18 (15.65%) CCSA
11 9 (7.83%) JNCIP
12 7 (6.09%) AWS Certification
12 7 (6.09%) Azure Certification
12 7 (6.09%) CCIE Security
12 7 (6.09%) JNCIE
13 5 (4.35%) CISM
13 5 (4.35%) CISSP
14 4 (3.48%) APMG
15 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
16 1 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.78%) PMO
2 7 (6.09%) SLA
3 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.61%) QA
4 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (13.91%) ProxySG
2 15 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.57%) Active Directory
4 7 (6.09%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.61%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (2.61%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.87%) Firmware
6 1 (0.87%) NLBS
6 1 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (10.43%) FortiGate
2 10 (8.70%) Ansible
3 9 (7.83%) Terraform
4 3 (2.61%) VxRail
5 2 (1.74%) Nagios
6 1 (0.87%) Grafana
6 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 101 (87.83%) Cisco
2 48 (41.74%) Fortinet
3 40 (34.78%) Palo Alto
4 35 (30.43%) F5
5 33 (28.70%) SolarWinds
6 29 (25.22%) Meraki
7 25 (21.74%) ServiceNow
8 20 (17.39%) Blue Coat
9 17 (14.78%) Infoblox
9 17 (14.78%) Splunk
9 17 (14.78%) VMware
10 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
10 16 (13.91%) Motorola
11 14 (12.17%) Dynatrace
12 8 (6.96%) LogRhythm
12 8 (6.96%) Zscaler
13 7 (6.09%) Sophos
13 7 (6.09%) Tenable
14 6 (5.22%) Aruba
15 5 (4.35%) Google