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 4 April 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
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 452 648
Rank change year-on-year -121 +196 -5
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 125 179 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.44% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.59% 1.11% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 47 145 167
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,100
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £71,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £87,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,560 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% +3.26%

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 21,328 16,099 33,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.50% 39.34% 37.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11,832 10,028 25,011
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,188 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +11.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 4 April 2026.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 16 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 4 April 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 -91 121 £55,000 -15.38% 21
London -21 66 £87,500 +17.90% 7
UK excluding London -101 49 £52,500 -5.51% 15
Work from Home -13 35 £85,000 +51.46% 12
South East -28 19 £55,000 +15.79% 6
North of England -67 14 £48,750 -15.22% 2
North East - 8 - -
North West -30 5 £52,500 -8.70% 2
Midlands -59 5 £52,500 +5.00% 2
East of England -22 4 £50,000 -13.04% 5
West Midlands -29 4 £52,500 +5.00%
South West -44 4 £52,800 -5.92%
Scotland -25 3 £42,500 -34.62% 2
Wales -30 1 £38,500 -34.19%
East Midlands -44 1 £62,500 -21.88% 2
Yorkshire -63 1 £45,000 -16.67%

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 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (14.40%) MS Visio
2 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (49.60%) Azure
2 50 (40.00%) AWS
3 12 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (8.80%) AWS Direct Connect
4 11 (8.80%) SaaS
5 9 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (4.80%) GCP
7 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.00%) Google Workspace
8 4 (3.20%) Mimecast
8 4 (3.20%) OCI
9 2 (1.60%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 107 (85.60%) Firewall
2 66 (52.80%) WAN
3 65 (52.00%) LAN
4 58 (46.40%) Cisco ASA
5 50 (40.00%) VPN
6 46 (36.80%) Network Security
7 40 (32.00%) BGP
8 38 (30.40%) Wireless
9 35 (28.00%) OSPF
10 33 (26.40%) Cisco Firepower
11 30 (24.00%) SD-WAN
11 30 (24.00%) Wi-Fi
12 29 (23.20%) VLAN
13 28 (22.40%) MPLS
14 25 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
15 24 (19.20%) Cisco ISE
16 21 (16.80%) EIGRP
17 18 (14.40%) Cisco Wireless
17 18 (14.40%) WLAN
18 17 (13.60%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) JIRA
2 2 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (26.40%) Finance
2 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.00%) Banking
4 15 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.40%) Telecoms
6 12 (9.60%) Retail
7 9 (7.20%) Marketing
8 6 (4.80%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.40%) Advertising
11 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.80%) Law
12 1 (0.80%) Legal
12 1 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (58.40%) Network Engineer
2 28 (22.40%) Senior
3 24 (19.20%) Senior Network Engineer
4 23 (18.40%) Cisco Engineer
4 23 (18.40%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 18 (14.40%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (14.40%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (13.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (11.20%) Firewall Engineer
8 13 (10.40%) LAN Engineer
8 13 (10.40%) LAN/WAN Engineer
8 13 (10.40%) Network Operations Engineer
8 13 (10.40%) Operations Engineer
8 13 (10.40%) WAN Engineer
9 12 (9.60%) Analyst
10 11 (8.80%) Support Analyst
11 10 (8.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
11 10 (8.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (8.00%) Security Engineer
12 8 (6.40%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.60%) JSON
2 1 (0.80%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 64 (51.20%) Data Centre
2 13 (10.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (7.20%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.40%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.80%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.60%) CMDB
8 2 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.80%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) PKI
9 1 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.60%) Windows
2 12 (9.60%) Linux
2 12 (9.60%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.80%) Unix
4 5 (4.00%) Android
4 5 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.40%) Computer Science
2 28 (22.40%) Kalman Filter
3 26 (20.80%) ITIL
4 25 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 25 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 23 (18.40%) High Availability
6 21 (16.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 21 (16.80%) Zero Trust
7 19 (15.20%) Root Cause Analysis
8 18 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (13.60%) SIEM
10 16 (12.80%) Analytical Thinking
10 16 (12.80%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (12.80%) Process Improvement
10 16 (12.80%) WAN Optimisation
11 15 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (11.20%) Network Segmentation
13 13 (10.40%) Vulnerability Management
14 12 (9.60%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.60%) Python
2 14 (11.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 68 (54.40%) Cisco Certification
2 58 (46.40%) CCNP
3 46 (36.80%) CCIE
3 46 (36.80%) Degree
4 38 (30.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (24.00%) CCNA
6 27 (21.60%) CCSE
7 26 (20.80%) Security Cleared
8 25 (20.00%) SC Cleared
9 22 (17.60%) CCSA
10 6 (4.80%) JNCIP
10 6 (4.80%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (4.00%) CISM
11 5 (4.00%) CISSP
11 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (3.20%) APMG
12 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
12 4 (3.20%) Azure Certification
12 4 (3.20%) CCIE Security
12 4 (3.20%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.80%) PMO
2 7 (5.60%) SLA
3 2 (1.60%) QA
4 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (12.80%) ProxySG
3 12 (9.60%) Active Directory
4 8 (6.40%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.20%) XenApp
6 3 (2.40%) Firmware
7 2 (1.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.80%) NLBS
8 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (12.00%) FortiGate
2 7 (5.60%) Ansible
3 6 (4.80%) Terraform
4 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.60%) Nagios
5 2 (1.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 113 (90.40%) Cisco
2 57 (45.60%) Fortinet
3 46 (36.80%) Palo Alto
4 37 (29.60%) F5
5 30 (24.00%) SolarWinds
6 25 (20.00%) Meraki
6 25 (20.00%) ServiceNow
7 22 (17.60%) VMware
8 20 (16.00%) Blue Coat
9 18 (14.40%) Infoblox
10 16 (12.80%) Microsoft
10 16 (12.80%) Motorola
11 15 (12.00%) Splunk
12 11 (8.80%) Arista
12 11 (8.80%) Dynatrace
13 8 (6.40%) LogRhythm
14 7 (5.60%) Google
14 7 (5.60%) Juniper
14 7 (5.60%) Tenable
14 7 (5.60%) Zscaler