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 8 October 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
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 750 515 645
Rank change year-on-year -235 +130 -224
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 60 139 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.28% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.65% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 36 58 84
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,375 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,563 £74,125
90th Percentile £106,250 £90,375 £85,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £52,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year -15.29% -6.67% +10.33%

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 28,077 21,533 24,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.85% 43.36% 33.16%
Number of salaries quoted 17,848 11,050 12,407
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £75,988
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -

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 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 12 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 8 October 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 -184 59 £47,500 -20.83% 123
UK excluding London -129 30 £44,472 -15.29% 49
London -113 29 £90,000 +12.50% 75
Work from Home -80 17 £100,000 +45.45% 34
North of England -62 16 £40,000 -18.78% 10
North West -13 11 £40,000 -16.67% 4
Yorkshire -33 5 £40,000 -27.27% 6
Midlands -41 5 £44,472 -11.06% 7
South East -47 5 £55,000 +1.85% 12
East Midlands - 5 £44,472 - 3
East of England -31 2 £53,750 +2.38% 4
South West -76 2 £50,000 -5.66% 12

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 13 (21.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (11.67%) Apache
2 7 (11.67%) IIS
2 7 (11.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) Azure
2 17 (28.33%) AWS
3 15 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 7 (11.67%) GCP
6 4 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (6.67%) Mimecast
6 4 (6.67%) OCI
6 4 (6.67%) SaaS
6 4 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.33%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 45 (75.00%) Firewall
2 23 (38.33%) VPN
2 23 (38.33%) WAN
3 22 (36.67%) Network Security
4 20 (33.33%) SD-WAN
5 19 (31.67%) LAN
5 19 (31.67%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (26.67%) Wireless
7 15 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
8 12 (20.00%) MPLS
9 11 (18.33%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (16.67%) NetScaler
10 10 (16.67%) TCP/IP
10 10 (16.67%) VLAN
11 9 (15.00%) DNS
12 8 (13.33%) DHCP
12 8 (13.33%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (10.00%) NX-OS
14 5 (8.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.67%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) Big Data
3 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) Moq
3 1 (1.67%) MSTest
3 1 (1.67%) Newman
3 1 (1.67%) NSubstitute
3 1 (1.67%) NUnit
3 1 (1.67%) Postman
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 27 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.00%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Banking
5 6 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (10.00%) Law
5 6 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (8.33%) Marketing
6 5 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Retail
7 3 (5.00%) Legal
7 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) IT Support
3 10 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) Senior
3 10 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Architect
4 8 (13.33%) Network Architect
5 7 (11.67%) Consultant
6 5 (8.33%) Firewall Specialist
7 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Principal Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 4 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) Jinja
2 3 (5.00%) JSON
2 3 (5.00%) YAML
3 2 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (3.33%) Kafka
4 1 (1.67%) .NET
4 1 (1.67%) Playwright
4 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.67%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (5.00%) FMCG
3 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (35.00%) Windows
2 19 (31.67%) Linux
3 14 (23.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (11.67%) Ubuntu
4 7 (11.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (6.67%) Solaris
5 4 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (30.00%) ITIL
3 15 (25.00%) SIEM
4 14 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 12 (20.00%) Network Design
5 12 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 12 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 11 (18.33%) High Availability
6 11 (18.33%) Zero Trust
7 10 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 9 (15.00%) Agile
8 9 (15.00%) Change Management
8 9 (15.00%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (15.00%) Presales
8 9 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (11.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.33%) Python
2 7 (11.67%) SQL
3 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.33%) Java
4 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (43.33%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (40.00%) CCNP
3 11 (18.33%) CCNA
4 7 (11.67%) CCSE
4 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (10.00%) CCIE
5 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 5 (8.33%) CCSA
6 5 (8.33%) Degree
7 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
7 4 (6.67%) CCIE Security
7 4 (6.67%) JNCIE
7 4 (6.67%) JNCIP
8 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
9 2 (3.33%) APMG
9 2 (3.33%) CISM
9 2 (3.33%) CISSP
9 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.67%) GDPR
3 3 (5.00%) GRC
3 3 (5.00%) NIST
3 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.67%) PMO
4 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 17 (28.33%) Active Directory
2 14 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (11.67%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.67%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Ansible
2 7 (11.67%) WSUS
3 3 (5.00%) CASB
4 2 (3.33%) Grafana
4 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.33%) VxRail
5 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.67%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (75.00%) Cisco
2 25 (41.67%) Palo Alto
3 19 (31.67%) Meraki
4 17 (28.33%) VMware
5 16 (26.67%) F5
5 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
6 12 (20.00%) Fortinet
7 10 (16.67%) Zscaler
8 8 (13.33%) Aruba
9 7 (11.67%) Dell
9 7 (11.67%) HP
9 7 (11.67%) NetApp
9 7 (11.67%) SonicWALL
9 7 (11.67%) Veeam
10 4 (6.67%) Citrix
10 4 (6.67%) Dynatrace
10 4 (6.67%) iManage
10 4 (6.67%) SolarWinds
10 4 (6.67%) Splunk
11 3 (5.00%) Netskope