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 7 September 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
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 733 549 657
Rank change year-on-year -184 +108 -186
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 70 130 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.26% 0.62% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 32 71 97
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £40,350
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £78,125 £81,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £107,250 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.06% - -1.93%

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 27,262 21,061 25,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.33% 42.49% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,137 11,382 14,699
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,929 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £48,925
% change year-on-year +17.65% -13.13% -2.15%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -179 69 £50,000 -13.04% 64
London -92 38 £90,000 +5.88% 43
UK excluding London -125 29 £44,472 -11.06% 25
Work from Home -62 21 £100,000 +42.86% 26
North of England -57 16 £40,000 -20.00% 5
North West -9 10 £42,500 -15.84% 4
South East -45 6 £60,000 +60.00% 4
Midlands -41 4 £44,472 -11.06% 7
Yorkshire -46 4 £40,000 -33.33% 1
East Midlands - 4 £44,472 -
North East -71 2 - -
South West -81 2 £50,000 -5.66% 2
East of England -32 1 £62,500 +19.05% 2

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 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.14%) Apache
3 5 (7.14%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (41.43%) Azure
2 27 (38.57%) AWS
3 13 (18.57%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (15.71%) GCP
5 8 (11.43%) OCI
6 6 (8.57%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.14%) Mimecast
8 4 (5.71%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (5.71%) SaaS
8 4 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (4.29%) Rubrik
10 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.43%) GitHub
10 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 53 (75.71%) Firewall
2 33 (47.14%) WAN
3 31 (44.29%) Network Security
4 29 (41.43%) LAN
5 26 (37.14%) VPN
6 25 (35.71%) Wireless
7 24 (34.29%) SD-WAN
8 19 (27.14%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (24.29%) Cisco ISE
10 16 (22.86%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (18.57%) VLAN
12 12 (17.14%) MPLS
13 11 (15.71%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (14.29%) NetScaler
15 9 (12.86%) BGP
15 9 (12.86%) OSPF
15 9 (12.86%) TCP/IP
16 8 (11.43%) Cisco Nexus
17 7 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
17 7 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.14%) MySQL
3 4 (5.71%) Big Data
4 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Git
1 5 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) Moq
2 1 (1.43%) MSTest
2 1 (1.43%) Newman
2 1 (1.43%) NSubstitute
2 1 (1.43%) NUnit
2 1 (1.43%) Postman
2 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 35 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Finance
3 10 (14.29%) Banking
3 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 8 (11.43%) Retail
5 7 (10.00%) Marketing
5 7 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (7.14%) Law
8 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
9 3 (4.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 13 (18.57%) Senior
3 12 (17.14%) IT Support
4 11 (15.71%) Architect
4 11 (15.71%) Network Architect
5 10 (14.29%) Consultant
6 8 (11.43%) IT Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Support Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Principal Architect
8 4 (5.71%) Firewall Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (5.71%) IT Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Network Security Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Network Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 4 (5.71%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) Terraform
2 3 (4.29%) Jinja
2 3 (4.29%) JSON
2 3 (4.29%) YAML
3 2 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.86%) Kafka
4 1 (1.43%) .NET
4 1 (1.43%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.43%) Playwright
4 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.29%) FMCG
4 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.00%) Windows
2 19 (27.14%) Linux
3 13 (18.57%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (5.71%) Solaris
5 4 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 4 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.00%) ITIL
1 21 (30.00%) Project Delivery
2 19 (27.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (22.86%) High Availability
3 16 (22.86%) Presales
3 16 (22.86%) SIEM
4 15 (21.43%) Network Architecture
4 15 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 15 (21.43%) Zero Trust
5 14 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
5 14 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (20.00%) Network Design
5 14 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 12 (17.14%) Agile
6 12 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (15.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (15.71%) Incident Response
8 10 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 10 (14.29%) Load Balancing
8 10 (14.29%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.00%) Python
2 7 (10.00%) SQL
3 6 (8.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.86%) Java
4 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 40 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (52.86%) CCNP
3 17 (24.29%) CCIE
4 14 (20.00%) CCNA
4 14 (20.00%) CCSE
5 13 (18.57%) Degree
6 10 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (12.86%) Azure Certification
7 9 (12.86%) CCSA
8 8 (11.43%) AWS Certification
8 8 (11.43%) CCIE Security
8 8 (11.43%) JNCIE
8 8 (11.43%) JNCIP
9 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
10 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (5.71%) APMG
11 4 (5.71%) CISM
11 4 (5.71%) CISSP
11 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
12 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.14%) PMO
3 4 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (5.71%) GDPR
4 3 (4.29%) GRC
4 3 (4.29%) NIST
4 3 (4.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.43%) QA
5 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 14 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.71%) ProxySG
5 3 (4.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.43%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 15 (21.43%) Ansible
2 5 (7.14%) WSUS
3 3 (4.29%) CASB
3 3 (4.29%) VxRail
4 2 (2.86%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.86%) Grafana
4 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.43%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 56 (80.00%) Cisco
2 29 (41.43%) Palo Alto
3 22 (31.43%) F5
4 20 (28.57%) Fortinet
5 19 (27.14%) Meraki
6 17 (24.29%) VMware
7 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 12 (17.14%) Zscaler
9 8 (11.43%) SolarWinds
10 7 (10.00%) Aruba
11 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
11 6 (8.57%) Splunk
12 5 (7.14%) Dell
12 5 (7.14%) HP
12 5 (7.14%) Infoblox
12 5 (7.14%) NetApp
12 5 (7.14%) SonicWALL
12 5 (7.14%) Veeam
13 4 (5.71%) Blue Coat
13 4 (5.71%) Sophos