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 21 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
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 675 607
Rank change year-on-year +160 -68 +97
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 173 224 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.23% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.89% 0.62% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 139 165 208
10th Percentile £43,799 £40,950 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £80,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.86% - -

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 19,495 36,190 44,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.38% 37.28% 41.76%
Number of salaries quoted 11,625 25,125 25,200
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £31,105
25th Percentile £38,750 £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 £71,250 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
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 21 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 21 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 +142 164 £65,000 +18.18% 92
London +107 80 £75,000 +7.14% 57
UK excluding London +129 64 £54,000 +2.86% 37
Work from Home +125 56 £57,500 -3.36% 41
Midlands +13 19 £50,000 -4.76% 7
West Midlands -19 18 £50,000 -4.76% 7
North of England +78 17 £57,500 +27.78% 16
South West +126 14 £56,121 +24.71% 4
South East +119 10 £37,500 -7.98% 10
North West +21 9 £57,500 +29.21% 10
Yorkshire +82 8 £49,350 -21.04% 5
East of England +49 2 £57,500 +9.52% 2
Wales +35 2 £48,117 -
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 29 (16.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.73%) IIS
2 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (7.51%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.58%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.58%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.58%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 99 (57.23%) Azure
2 37 (21.39%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (16.18%) AWS
3 28 (16.18%) GCP
4 9 (5.20%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (5.20%) IaaS
5 5 (2.89%) AWS Direct Connect
5 5 (2.89%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.31%) SaaS
7 3 (1.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.73%) Cloudflare
7 3 (1.73%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.58%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.58%) Stripe
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 142 (82.08%) Firewall
2 89 (51.45%) WAN
3 75 (43.35%) LAN
4 57 (32.95%) SD-WAN
5 55 (31.79%) VPN
6 42 (24.28%) Cisco Firepower
7 38 (21.97%) BGP
7 38 (21.97%) OSPF
8 34 (19.65%) Network Security
9 32 (18.50%) Cisco ASA
9 32 (18.50%) Cisco ISE
10 25 (14.45%) Ethernet
11 21 (12.14%) MPLS
12 19 (10.98%) IPsec
12 19 (10.98%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (9.83%) TCP/IP
14 16 (9.25%) EIGRP
15 13 (7.51%) DNS
15 13 (7.51%) WLAN
16 11 (6.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.31%) Big Data
3 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.58%) Power BI
4 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.58%) GitLab
1 1 (0.58%) JIRA
General
1 30 (17.34%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.76%) Finance
3 25 (14.45%) Banking
4 15 (8.67%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.36%) Law
5 11 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.62%) Police
6 8 (4.62%) Retail
7 6 (3.47%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.89%) Marketing
8 5 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.31%) Legal
9 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.73%) Back Office
10 3 (1.73%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.16%) Local Government
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (41.62%) Network Engineer
2 28 (16.18%) Architect
3 26 (15.03%) Network Architect
3 26 (15.03%) Senior
4 23 (13.29%) Support Engineer
5 16 (9.25%) Consultant
5 16 (9.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (9.25%) Senior Network Engineer
6 15 (8.67%) Lead
7 14 (8.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 13 (7.51%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 13 (7.51%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
8 13 (7.51%) 3rd Line Support
8 13 (7.51%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 11 (6.36%) Network Consultant
9 11 (6.36%) Network Security Consultant
9 11 (6.36%) Security Consultant
9 11 (6.36%) Security Technical Consultant
9 11 (6.36%) Technical Consultant
9 11 (6.36%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.45%) JSON
2 2 (1.16%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.58%) .NET
3 1 (0.58%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.58%) PySpark
3 1 (0.58%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 53 (30.64%) Data Centre
2 28 (16.18%) Public Cloud
3 14 (8.09%) Onboarding
4 13 (7.51%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (2.89%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.73%) IPTV
8 2 (1.16%) PKI
9 1 (0.58%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.58%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 44 (25.43%) Windows
2 35 (20.23%) Windows Server
3 17 (9.83%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (9.83%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (6.94%) Linux
5 11 (6.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (17.92%) Change Management
2 28 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (14.45%) Due Diligence
4 24 (13.87%) Network Design
5 23 (13.29%) Network Monitoring
6 20 (11.56%) Mentoring
6 20 (11.56%) Migration
7 19 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (9.83%) Infrastructure Management
8 17 (9.83%) Load Balancing
9 16 (9.25%) ITIL
10 15 (8.67%) Inventory Management
10 15 (8.67%) Network Management
11 14 (8.09%) Data Security
12 13 (7.51%) Incident Management
13 12 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (6.94%) Incident Response
14 11 (6.36%) Customer Requirements
14 11 (6.36%) Runbook
15 9 (5.20%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.08%) Python
2 19 (10.98%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.05%) SQL
4 4 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.58%) Bash
5 1 (0.58%) C#
5 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (32.37%) Cisco Certification
2 48 (27.75%) CCNP
3 43 (24.86%) Security Cleared
4 35 (20.23%) SC Cleared
5 29 (16.76%) Degree
6 20 (11.56%) CCSA
7 18 (10.40%) CCIE
8 16 (9.25%) CCNA
9 15 (8.67%) CCSE
10 12 (6.94%) CISSP
11 9 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (4.62%) DV Cleared
13 4 (2.31%) APMG
13 4 (2.31%) CCSM
13 4 (2.31%) CISM
13 4 (2.31%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.73%) Check Point Certification
15 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.16%) QA
1 2 (1.16%) SLA
2 1 (0.58%) Basel III
2 1 (0.58%) COBIT
2 1 (0.58%) GDPR
2 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.58%) MiFID
2 1 (0.58%) NIST
2 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.58%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (17.34%) VMware NSX
2 29 (16.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (15.61%) Active Directory
4 14 (8.09%) XenApp
5 11 (6.36%) Firmware
6 8 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (3.47%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.73%) vSphere
9 1 (0.58%) Docker
9 1 (0.58%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 34 (19.65%) Ansible
1 34 (19.65%) Terraform
2 26 (15.03%) FortiGate
3 21 (12.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.31%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.31%) SCOM
5 3 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.73%) SCCM
6 2 (1.16%) Nagios
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.58%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 142 (82.08%) Cisco
2 63 (36.42%) VMware
3 58 (33.53%) Palo Alto
4 54 (31.21%) F5
5 48 (27.75%) Fortinet
6 35 (20.23%) SolarWinds
7 29 (16.76%) Meraki
8 28 (16.18%) Blue Coat
9 27 (15.61%) Google
9 27 (15.61%) Microsoft
10 26 (15.03%) Citrix
11 14 (8.09%) SonicWALL
12 13 (7.51%) Arista
13 9 (5.20%) Infoblox
14 8 (4.62%) Extreme Networks
14 8 (4.62%) Juniper
15 7 (4.05%) Dell
15 7 (4.05%) Zscaler
16 5 (2.89%) Dynatrace
16 5 (2.89%) LogRhythm