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 9 May 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
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 487 656
Rank change year-on-year -124 +169 -23
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 116 168 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.39% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.50% 0.97% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 46 130 176
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,800 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.52% +8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £88,875 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £51,250 £51,300
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -2.29%

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 23,151 17,363 35,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.54% 39.90% 36.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,499 10,298 24,959
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £76,101 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -76 113 £58,099 -7.04% 22
London -32 60 £90,000 +20.00% 9
UK excluding London -76 46 £51,250 - 15
Work from Home -1 39 £90,000 +60.37% 8
South East -10 18 £55,000 +46.67% 7
North of England -63 16 £42,500 -26.09% 1
North West -19 8 £42,500 -26.09%
North East - 8 - -
East of England -4 4 £50,000 -
South West -58 4 £52,800 -5.92% 4
Scotland - 3 £42,500 -
East Midlands -23 2 £53,486 -33.14% 1
Midlands -55 2 £53,486 +6.97% 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 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (14.66%) MS Visio
2 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 60 (51.72%) Azure
2 53 (45.69%) AWS
3 15 (12.93%) AWS Direct Connect
3 15 (12.93%) SaaS
4 13 (11.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.90%) GCP
7 6 (5.17%) OCI
8 5 (4.31%) Google Workspace
9 4 (3.45%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.72%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 99 (85.34%) Firewall
2 63 (54.31%) WAN
3 60 (51.72%) LAN
4 57 (49.14%) Cisco ASA
5 48 (41.38%) Network Security
6 46 (39.66%) VPN
7 39 (33.62%) BGP
7 39 (33.62%) Wireless
8 34 (29.31%) OSPF
9 32 (27.59%) Cisco Firepower
9 32 (27.59%) SD-WAN
10 31 (26.72%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
12 25 (21.55%) Cisco Nexus
13 24 (20.69%) VLAN
14 23 (19.83%) MPLS
15 21 (18.10%) WLAN
16 20 (17.24%) EIGRP
16 20 (17.24%) NX-OS
17 18 (15.52%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (4.31%) JIRA
2 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (24.14%) Finance
2 27 (23.28%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.07%) Banking
5 13 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 13 (11.21%) Telecoms
6 12 (10.34%) Retail
7 9 (7.76%) Manufacturing
7 9 (7.76%) Marketing
8 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.59%) Advertising
10 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Law
11 1 (0.86%) Legal
11 1 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 65 (56.03%) Network Engineer
2 27 (23.28%) Senior
3 23 (19.83%) Senior Network Engineer
4 20 (17.24%) Cisco Engineer
4 20 (17.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 15 (12.93%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (12.93%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Firewall Engineer
7 13 (11.21%) Architect
8 12 (10.34%) Network Architect
8 12 (10.34%) Network Operations Engineer
8 12 (10.34%) Operations Engineer
9 11 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (9.48%) Security Engineer
10 10 (8.62%) LAN Engineer
10 10 (8.62%) LAN/WAN Engineer
10 10 (8.62%) WAN Engineer
11 9 (7.76%) Consultant
11 9 (7.76%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
11 9 (7.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.72%) JSON
2 1 (0.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 66 (56.90%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (7.76%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.90%) Security Posture
5 6 (5.17%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.31%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (4.31%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.59%) FMCG
9 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.72%) CMDB
9 2 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.86%) PKI
10 1 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Windows
2 7 (6.03%) Linux
2 7 (6.03%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.31%) Android
3 5 (4.31%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.17%) Computer Science
2 28 (24.14%) Project Delivery
3 27 (23.28%) Kalman Filter
3 27 (23.28%) Zero Trust
4 24 (20.69%) ITIL
4 24 (20.69%) Load Balancing
5 23 (19.83%) High Availability
6 21 (18.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 20 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (16.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (15.52%) Network Segmentation
9 18 (15.52%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (14.66%) Network Architecture
11 16 (13.79%) Analytical Thinking
11 16 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
11 16 (13.79%) SIEM
11 16 (13.79%) WAN Optimisation
12 15 (12.93%) Roadmaps
13 14 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.83%) Python
2 10 (8.62%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (49.14%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (46.55%) CCNP
3 43 (37.07%) CCIE
4 39 (33.62%) Degree
5 35 (30.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (22.41%) Security Cleared
7 25 (21.55%) SC Cleared
8 24 (20.69%) CCSE
9 20 (17.24%) CCNA
10 19 (16.38%) CCSA
11 8 (6.90%) JNCIP
12 6 (5.17%) AWS Certification
12 6 (5.17%) Azure Certification
12 6 (5.17%) CCIE Security
12 6 (5.17%) JNCIE
13 5 (4.31%) CISM
13 5 (4.31%) CISSP
14 4 (3.45%) APMG
15 1 (0.86%) CCSM
15 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.66%) PMO
2 7 (6.03%) SLA
3 3 (2.59%) QA
4 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (13.79%) ProxySG
2 15 (12.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.62%) Active Directory
4 7 (6.03%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.59%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.72%) Firmware
7 1 (0.86%) NLBS
7 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (10.34%) FortiGate
2 9 (7.76%) Ansible
3 8 (6.90%) Terraform
4 2 (1.72%) Nagios
4 2 (1.72%) VxRail
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 101 (87.07%) Cisco
2 49 (42.24%) Fortinet
3 41 (35.34%) Palo Alto
4 37 (31.90%) F5
5 34 (29.31%) SolarWinds
6 28 (24.14%) Meraki
7 25 (21.55%) ServiceNow
8 20 (17.24%) Blue Coat
9 18 (15.52%) Infoblox
10 17 (14.66%) VMware
11 16 (13.79%) Motorola
12 15 (12.93%) Dynatrace
12 15 (12.93%) Splunk
13 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
14 8 (6.90%) LogRhythm
15 7 (6.03%) Google
15 7 (6.03%) Tenable
15 7 (6.03%) Zscaler
16 6 (5.17%) Sophos
17 5 (4.31%) Aruba