CheckPoint Job Trends

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 25 January 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
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 541 510
Rank change year-on-year +23 -31 +87
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 140 168 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.73% 0.85% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 51 102 214
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -10.57%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,875 £69,781
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,438
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,600
% change year-on-year -8.70% +13.64% -1.75%

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 19,285 19,776 25,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 37.45% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,783 9,977 20,151
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,359 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £70,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,167 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.89% +6.32% -5.00%

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 25 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 15 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 25 January 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 +21 121 £57,500 -11.54% 35
London +36 68 £85,000 +14.21% 9
UK excluding London +22 64 £52,500 -8.70% 36
Work from Home +50 52 £85,000 +44.68% 11
Scotland +4 18 £75,000 +15.38% 6
South East +8 16 £54,000 -6.09% 14
South West 0 11 £53,000 -5.56% 3
North of England -2 9 £48,000 -16.52% 2
East of England +23 5 £47,500 -17.39% 9
West Midlands +16 4 £52,500 +5.00% 1
North West +8 4 £48,500 -15.65% 1
Midlands +2 4 £52,500 +5.00% 3
North East - 4 - - 1
Wales +6 1 £38,500 -40.77%
Yorkshire -23 1 £45,000 -21.74% 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 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 15 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 71 (50.71%) Azure
2 32 (22.86%) AWS
3 9 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.00%) SaaS
5 6 (4.29%) AWS Direct Connect
6 5 (3.57%) Google Workspace
6 5 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.86%) GCP
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.71%) IaaS
9 1 (0.71%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.71%) OCI
9 1 (0.71%) PaaS
9 1 (0.71%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.71%) SecurityScorecard
Communications & Networking
1 126 (90.00%) Firewall
2 81 (57.86%) LAN
3 77 (55.00%) WAN
4 49 (35.00%) Cisco ASA
5 45 (32.14%) SD-WAN
6 44 (31.43%) Wireless
7 40 (28.57%) VPN
8 37 (26.43%) BGP
9 34 (24.29%) Network Security
10 33 (23.57%) OSPF
11 28 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
11 28 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (17.14%) Wireshark
13 20 (14.29%) EIGRP
14 19 (13.57%) MPLS
15 18 (12.86%) VLAN
16 17 (12.14%) IPsec
17 15 (10.71%) NX-OS
18 14 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
18 14 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.86%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (44.29%) Finance
2 43 (30.71%) Social Skills
3 30 (21.43%) Telecoms
4 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.86%) Banking
5 11 (7.86%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.29%) Marketing
7 6 (4.29%) Retail
8 4 (2.86%) Advertising
9 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.43%) Law
9 2 (1.43%) Legal
9 2 (1.43%) Police
10 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 92 (65.71%) Network Engineer
2 23 (16.43%) Senior
3 20 (14.29%) Analyst
4 19 (13.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 19 (13.57%) Support Analyst
5 18 (12.86%) Cisco Engineer
5 18 (12.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 17 (12.14%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (12.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (11.43%) Network Support
8 14 (10.00%) Network Analyst
8 14 (10.00%) Network Support Analyst
9 13 (9.29%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (9.29%) Security Engineer
10 12 (8.57%) LAN Engineer
10 12 (8.57%) LAN/WAN Engineer
10 12 (8.57%) WAN Engineer
11 9 (6.43%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (6.43%) Network Security Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.14%) JSON
1 3 (2.14%) REST
2 2 (1.43%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (53.57%) Data Centre
2 29 (20.71%) Management Information System
3 12 (8.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.29%) CMDB
4 6 (4.29%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.43%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.00%) Windows
2 14 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (9.29%) Linux
4 6 (4.29%) Unix
5 5 (3.57%) Android
5 5 (3.57%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.29%) Load Balancing
2 33 (23.57%) Change Management
3 29 (20.71%) Asset Management
4 27 (19.29%) Customer Service
5 26 (18.57%) Coaching
5 26 (18.57%) Network Monitoring
5 26 (18.57%) Problem Management
6 25 (17.86%) Computer Science
7 24 (17.14%) Capacity Planning
7 24 (17.14%) Network Planning
7 24 (17.14%) Network Virtualisation
8 23 (16.43%) ITIL
8 23 (16.43%) Kalman Filter
9 21 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (11.43%) High Availability
12 15 (10.71%) Change Control
12 15 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (10.00%) Process Improvement
14 13 (9.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.57%) Python
2 9 (6.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 54 (38.57%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (29.29%) CCNP
2 41 (29.29%) Degree
3 40 (28.57%) CCIE
4 27 (19.29%) Security Cleared
5 25 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (17.14%) SC Cleared
7 23 (16.43%) CCNA
7 23 (16.43%) CCSE
8 22 (15.71%) CCSA
9 6 (4.29%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.14%) CISSP
12 2 (1.43%) Check Point Certification
12 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.71%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.71%) CCNA CyberOps
13 1 (0.71%) CISM
13 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) PMO
2 4 (2.86%) SLA
3 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.43%) QA
5 1 (0.71%) COBIT
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (13.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (9.29%) Active Directory
3 10 (7.14%) ProxySG
4 8 (5.71%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.57%) Firmware
6 4 (2.86%) XenApp
7 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.71%) pfSense
8 1 (0.71%) Squid
8 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (11.43%) FortiGate
2 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (5.00%) Nagios
4 6 (4.29%) Ansible
5 4 (2.86%) Terraform
6 2 (1.43%) Nessus
6 2 (1.43%) SCCM
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.71%) SCOM
7 1 (0.71%) VxRail
Vendors
1 125 (89.29%) Cisco
2 58 (41.43%) Palo Alto
3 45 (32.14%) SolarWinds
4 44 (31.43%) Meraki
5 42 (30.00%) Fortinet
6 39 (27.86%) F5
7 25 (17.86%) VMware
8 17 (12.14%) Blue Coat
9 15 (10.71%) Microsoft
10 13 (9.29%) ServiceNow
11 12 (8.57%) Infoblox
12 10 (7.14%) Arista
12 10 (7.14%) Motorola
13 9 (6.43%) Citrix
14 8 (5.71%) Google
15 7 (5.00%) Dynatrace
15 7 (5.00%) Juniper
15 7 (5.00%) Splunk
16 6 (4.29%) HP
17 5 (3.57%) Veeam