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 11 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
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 531 694
Rank change year-on-year -114 +163 -101
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 103 151 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.73% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 45 109 151
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £90,000 £86,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,736 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% - -4.76%

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 25,656 20,664 34,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.09% 42.15% 34.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,363 11,379 23,489
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £87,500
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 11 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 11 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 -112 101 £55,000 -8.33% 26
London -36 54 £100,000 +17.65% 12
UK excluding London -70 42 £44,736 -10.53% 16
Work from Home -34 34 £100,000 +78.19% 11
North of England -36 20 £40,000 -30.43% 7
North West -2 11 £42,500 -39.29% 3
South East -26 10 £55,000 +46.67% 3
East Midlands -25 5 £44,472 -44.41%
Midlands -43 5 £44,472 -11.06%
North East -50 5 - -
Yorkshire -32 4 £40,000 -25.58% 4
South West -67 3 £48,750 -13.13% 2
East of England - 3 £62,500 - 3
Scotland - 2 £39,250 -

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 (10.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.91%) Apache
3 3 (2.91%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (9.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (45.63%) Azure
2 42 (40.78%) AWS
3 18 (17.48%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (10.68%) AWS Direct Connect
4 11 (10.68%) SaaS
5 10 (9.71%) GCP
6 9 (8.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (7.77%) Mimecast
7 8 (7.77%) OCI
8 4 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.88%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.97%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 87 (84.47%) Firewall
2 49 (47.57%) WAN
3 48 (46.60%) LAN
4 45 (43.69%) Network Security
5 42 (40.78%) VPN
6 38 (36.89%) Cisco ASA
7 36 (34.95%) Wireless
8 30 (29.13%) BGP
8 30 (29.13%) SD-WAN
9 29 (28.16%) Cisco ISE
10 27 (26.21%) OSPF
11 25 (24.27%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (22.33%) MPLS
13 22 (21.36%) Cisco Firepower
13 22 (21.36%) VLAN
14 18 (17.48%) Cisco Nexus
15 16 (15.53%) NX-OS
16 15 (14.56%) EIGRP
16 15 (14.56%) WLAN
17 13 (12.62%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) Big Data
1 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.91%) MySQL
3 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.94%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) JIRA
2 2 (1.94%) Git
General
1 32 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.36%) Finance
3 16 (15.53%) Public Sector
4 14 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (12.62%) Banking
5 13 (12.62%) Telecoms
6 12 (11.65%) Retail
7 10 (9.71%) Marketing
8 6 (5.83%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.97%) Advertising
11 1 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 46 (44.66%) Network Engineer
2 22 (21.36%) Senior
3 14 (13.59%) Architect
4 13 (12.62%) Network Architect
4 13 (12.62%) Senior Network Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) Cisco Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) Consultant
5 11 (10.68%) Security Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Firewall Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) IT Support
7 9 (8.74%) Network Security Specialist
7 9 (8.74%) Network Specialist
7 9 (8.74%) Security Specialist
8 8 (7.77%) Network Operations Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Operations Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Principal Architect
10 6 (5.83%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.94%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (1.94%) JSON
1 2 (1.94%) Kafka
2 1 (0.97%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 53 (51.46%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.77%) Security Posture
3 6 (5.83%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.88%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.91%) FMCG
7 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.97%) CMDB
8 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.97%) PKI
8 1 (0.97%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.45%) Windows
2 15 (14.56%) Linux
3 12 (11.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.88%) Solaris
4 4 (3.88%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.91%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.18%) Project Delivery
2 24 (23.30%) High Availability
3 23 (22.33%) Zero Trust
4 22 (21.36%) Computer Science
5 21 (20.39%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (20.39%) SIEM
6 20 (19.42%) ITIL
7 18 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (16.50%) Roadmaps
8 17 (16.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (15.53%) Kalman Filter
9 16 (15.53%) Load Balancing
9 16 (15.53%) Network Architecture
10 15 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (14.56%) Network Segmentation
11 14 (13.59%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (13.59%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (12.62%) Incident Response
12 13 (12.62%) Presales
12 13 (12.62%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.27%) Python
2 12 (11.65%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.80%) SQL
4 2 (1.94%) Java
4 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (48.54%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (45.63%) CCNP
3 31 (30.10%) CCIE
4 25 (24.27%) Degree
5 22 (21.36%) CCNA
5 22 (21.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (20.39%) Security Cleared
7 20 (19.42%) CCSE
8 18 (17.48%) SC Cleared
9 15 (14.56%) CCSA
10 9 (8.74%) Azure Certification
10 9 (8.74%) JNCIP
11 8 (7.77%) AWS Certification
11 8 (7.77%) CCIE Security
11 8 (7.77%) JNCIE
12 5 (4.85%) CISM
12 5 (4.85%) CISSP
13 4 (3.88%) APMG
14 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
14 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) PMO
2 5 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.88%) SLA
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.97%) QA
4 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (14.56%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.71%) ProxySG
4 8 (7.77%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.88%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 4 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.97%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.97%) Firmware
7 1 (0.97%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) Ansible
2 10 (9.71%) Terraform
3 8 (7.77%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.88%) VxRail
5 3 (2.91%) WSUS
6 2 (1.94%) Grafana
6 2 (1.94%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.97%) Nagios
Vendors
1 91 (88.35%) Cisco
2 41 (39.81%) Fortinet
3 40 (38.83%) Palo Alto
4 28 (27.18%) F5
5 27 (26.21%) Meraki
6 23 (22.33%) SolarWinds
7 22 (21.36%) VMware
8 19 (18.45%) Microsoft
9 18 (17.48%) Splunk
10 17 (16.50%) ServiceNow
11 13 (12.62%) Blue Coat
12 11 (10.68%) Dynatrace
12 11 (10.68%) Infoblox
13 10 (9.71%) Motorola
14 9 (8.74%) Zscaler
15 8 (7.77%) Sophos
16 7 (6.80%) LogRhythm
16 7 (6.80%) Tenable
17 6 (5.83%) Aruba
18 5 (4.85%) Arista