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 15 July 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
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 525 697
Rank change year-on-year -126 +172 -96
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 97 150 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.73% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 46 108 148
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,917 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £70,375
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £75,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%

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 25,595 20,666 34,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.91% 42.05% 34.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,337 11,416 23,324
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,697 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -119 95 £55,000 -8.33% 33
London -52 52 £100,000 +17.65% 15
UK excluding London -83 39 £45,000 -10.00% 25
Work from Home -34 31 £100,000 +78.19% 16
North of England -38 18 £40,000 -30.43% 7
North West -5 10 £42,500 -39.29% 2
South East -22 8 £55,000 +46.67% 6
East Midlands -20 5 £44,472 -44.41%
Midlands -39 5 £44,472 -11.06% 1
Yorkshire -38 4 £40,000 -25.58% 5
North East -59 4 - -
South West -69 4 £50,000 -10.91% 2
East of England - 3 £62,500 - 4
Scotland - 2 £39,250 - 1

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 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.09%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (45.36%) Azure
2 38 (39.18%) AWS
3 18 (18.56%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.31%) AWS Direct Connect
4 10 (10.31%) GCP
4 10 (10.31%) SaaS
5 8 (8.25%) Mimecast
5 8 (8.25%) OCI
5 8 (8.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (4.12%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.12%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.03%) GitHub
7 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 81 (83.51%) Firewall
2 45 (46.39%) WAN
3 44 (45.36%) LAN
4 43 (44.33%) Network Security
5 39 (40.21%) VPN
6 34 (35.05%) Wireless
7 32 (32.99%) Cisco ASA
8 29 (29.90%) SD-WAN
9 28 (28.87%) Cisco ISE
10 25 (25.77%) BGP
11 24 (24.74%) OSPF
12 23 (23.71%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (22.68%) MPLS
14 20 (20.62%) Cisco Firepower
14 20 (20.62%) VLAN
15 16 (16.49%) Cisco Nexus
16 15 (15.46%) NX-OS
17 14 (14.43%) WLAN
18 13 (13.40%) EIGRP
19 12 (12.37%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) Big Data
1 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.09%) MySQL
3 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) Moq
3 1 (1.03%) MSTest
3 1 (1.03%) Newman
3 1 (1.03%) NSubstitute
3 1 (1.03%) NUnit
3 1 (1.03%) Postman
3 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 30 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.65%) Finance
3 14 (14.43%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (11.34%) Banking
5 11 (11.34%) Telecoms
6 10 (10.31%) Retail
7 8 (8.25%) Marketing
8 6 (6.19%) Manufacturing
9 4 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.03%) Advertising
11 1 (1.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (41.24%) Network Engineer
2 19 (19.59%) Senior
3 14 (14.43%) Architect
4 13 (13.40%) Network Architect
5 11 (11.34%) Consultant
5 11 (11.34%) Security Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) IT Support
6 10 (10.31%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Cisco Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Firewall Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Network Security Specialist
7 9 (9.28%) Network Specialist
7 9 (9.28%) Security Specialist
8 7 (7.22%) Network Operations Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Operations Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Principal Architect
9 6 (6.19%) IT Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.06%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (2.06%) JSON
1 2 (2.06%) Kafka
2 1 (1.03%) .NET
2 1 (1.03%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.03%) Playwright
2 1 (1.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 47 (48.45%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.19%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.19%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.12%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.09%) FMCG
5 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.03%) CMDB
6 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.59%) Windows
2 15 (15.46%) Linux
3 12 (12.37%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.12%) Solaris
4 4 (4.12%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.09%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.80%) Project Delivery
2 23 (23.71%) High Availability
3 21 (21.65%) SIEM
4 20 (20.62%) ITIL
4 20 (20.62%) Zero Trust
5 19 (19.59%) Computer Science
5 19 (19.59%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (17.53%) Roadmaps
8 14 (14.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (14.43%) Load Balancing
8 14 (14.43%) Network Architecture
8 14 (14.43%) Network Segmentation
8 14 (14.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (13.40%) Incident Response
9 13 (13.40%) Kalman Filter
9 13 (13.40%) Presales
9 13 (13.40%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.71%) Python
2 12 (12.37%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.22%) SQL
4 2 (2.06%) Java
4 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 47 (48.45%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (45.36%) CCNP
3 28 (28.87%) CCIE
4 22 (22.68%) Degree
5 21 (21.65%) CCNA
6 19 (19.59%) CCSE
6 19 (19.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (19.59%) Security Cleared
7 16 (16.49%) SC Cleared
8 14 (14.43%) CCSA
9 9 (9.28%) Azure Certification
9 9 (9.28%) JNCIP
10 8 (8.25%) AWS Certification
10 8 (8.25%) CCIE Security
10 8 (8.25%) JNCIE
11 5 (5.15%) CISM
11 5 (5.15%) CISSP
12 4 (4.12%) APMG
13 3 (3.09%) DV Cleared
13 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) PMO
2 5 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.12%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.03%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (15.46%) Active Directory
1 15 (15.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.25%) ProxySG
3 6 (6.19%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 4 (4.12%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.03%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.03%) Firmware
6 1 (1.03%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 14 (14.43%) Ansible
2 10 (10.31%) Terraform
3 7 (7.22%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.12%) VxRail
5 3 (3.09%) WSUS
6 2 (2.06%) Grafana
6 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.03%) Nagios
Vendors
1 85 (87.63%) Cisco
2 40 (41.24%) Palo Alto
3 39 (40.21%) Fortinet
4 26 (26.80%) F5
4 26 (26.80%) Meraki
5 20 (20.62%) SolarWinds
5 20 (20.62%) VMware
6 19 (19.59%) Microsoft
7 18 (18.56%) Splunk
8 14 (14.43%) ServiceNow
9 11 (11.34%) Blue Coat
10 10 (10.31%) Dynatrace
11 9 (9.28%) Infoblox
11 9 (9.28%) Zscaler
12 8 (8.25%) Motorola
12 8 (8.25%) Sophos
13 7 (7.22%) LogRhythm
13 7 (7.22%) Tenable
14 6 (6.19%) Aruba
15 5 (5.15%) Arista