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 12 February 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
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 525 570
Rank change year-on-year -2 +45 +58
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 145 180 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.73% 0.93% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 52 118 194
10th Percentile £42,625 £47,500 £40,988
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,810 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +18.18% -11.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £71,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £81,398
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,750 £57,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -8.26% +10.58% -0.95%

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 19,953 19,268 28,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.99% 38.66% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10,948 9,865 21,991
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £26,700
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +12.75% -11.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -7 127 £56,810 -12.60% 47
London +30 73 £87,500 +16.67% 16
UK excluding London +7 64 £52,750 -8.26% 46
Work from Home +30 56 £85,000 +47.83% 16
Scotland +5 17 £75,000 +15.38% 7
South East 0 16 £55,000 -4.35% 18
South West -12 11 £53,000 -11.67% 2
North of England -17 10 £48,000 -16.52% 6
East of England +16 5 £47,500 -17.39% 8
North East - 5 - -
North West +6 4 £48,500 -25.38% 4
West Midlands +4 4 £52,500 +5.00% 3
Midlands -18 4 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Wales -3 1 £38,500 -25.05%
Yorkshire -41 1 £45,000 -21.74% 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 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (13.10%) MS Visio
2 14 (9.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 77 (53.10%) Azure
2 38 (26.21%) AWS
3 11 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (7.59%) SaaS
4 10 (6.90%) AWS Direct Connect
5 8 (5.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (4.83%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.45%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.07%) GCP
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.69%) IaaS
9 1 (0.69%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.69%) PaaS
9 1 (0.69%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 131 (90.34%) Firewall
2 84 (57.93%) LAN
3 81 (55.86%) WAN
4 56 (38.62%) Cisco ASA
5 49 (33.79%) SD-WAN
6 46 (31.72%) Wireless
7 42 (28.97%) VPN
8 40 (27.59%) BGP
9 36 (24.83%) OSPF
10 34 (23.45%) Cisco Firepower
10 34 (23.45%) Network Security
11 32 (22.07%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (16.55%) Wireshark
13 23 (15.86%) MPLS
14 20 (13.79%) IPsec
14 20 (13.79%) VLAN
15 19 (13.10%) EIGRP
15 19 (13.10%) NX-OS
16 17 (11.72%) Cisco ISE
17 15 (10.34%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 4 (2.76%) JIRA
2 2 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (44.14%) Finance
2 42 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 30 (20.69%) Telecoms
4 13 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.90%) Banking
6 9 (6.21%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.83%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.45%) Advertising
8 5 (3.45%) Retail
9 4 (2.76%) Marketing
10 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.38%) Law
10 2 (1.38%) Police
11 1 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 92 (63.45%) Network Engineer
2 23 (15.86%) Cisco Engineer
2 23 (15.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 22 (15.17%) Senior
4 20 (13.79%) Analyst
4 20 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (13.10%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (13.10%) Support Analyst
6 18 (12.41%) Senior Network Engineer
7 17 (11.72%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (11.03%) Network Support
9 14 (9.66%) LAN Engineer
9 14 (9.66%) LAN/WAN Engineer
9 14 (9.66%) Network Analyst
9 14 (9.66%) Network Support Analyst
9 14 (9.66%) WAN Engineer
10 12 (8.28%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (7.59%) Firewall Engineer
11 11 (7.59%) Network Operations Engineer
11 11 (7.59%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.07%) JSON
1 3 (2.07%) REST
2 1 (0.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (56.55%) Data Centre
2 32 (22.07%) Management Information System
3 14 (9.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.14%) CMDB
4 6 (4.14%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.07%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.38%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.69%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.69%) PKI
8 1 (0.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.79%) Windows
2 14 (9.66%) Windows Server
3 13 (8.97%) Linux
4 6 (4.14%) Unix
5 5 (3.45%) Android
5 5 (3.45%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (31.72%) Load Balancing
2 33 (22.76%) Change Management
3 29 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 28 (19.31%) Computer Science
5 26 (17.93%) Coaching
5 26 (17.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (17.93%) Kalman Filter
5 26 (17.93%) Problem Management
6 25 (17.24%) Network Monitoring
7 24 (16.55%) Capacity Planning
7 24 (16.55%) Customer Service
7 24 (16.55%) Network Planning
7 24 (16.55%) Network Virtualisation
8 20 (13.79%) ITIL
9 18 (12.41%) High Availability
10 17 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (11.72%) Process Improvement
11 15 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (10.34%) Project Delivery
12 14 (9.66%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.10%) Python
2 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (37.93%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (29.66%) Degree
3 42 (28.97%) CCNP
4 41 (28.28%) CCIE
5 29 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 28 (19.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (17.93%) CCNA
7 26 (17.93%) SC Cleared
8 24 (16.55%) CCSA
8 24 (16.55%) CCSE
9 6 (4.14%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.07%) CISSP
12 2 (1.38%) Check Point Certification
12 2 (1.38%) CISM
12 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.69%) CCNA CyberOps
13 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.69%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.90%) PMO
2 5 (3.45%) SLA
3 4 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.38%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (9.66%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.90%) ProxySG
4 8 (5.52%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.45%) Firmware
6 4 (2.76%) XenApp
7 1 (0.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.69%) NLBS
7 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (12.41%) FortiGate
2 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.83%) Nagios
4 5 (3.45%) Ansible
5 3 (2.07%) Terraform
6 2 (1.38%) Nessus
6 2 (1.38%) SCCM
7 1 (0.69%) SCOM
7 1 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 132 (91.03%) Cisco
2 60 (41.38%) Palo Alto
3 50 (34.48%) SolarWinds
4 49 (33.79%) Meraki
5 46 (31.72%) Fortinet
6 36 (24.83%) F5
7 25 (17.24%) VMware
8 18 (12.41%) ServiceNow
9 17 (11.72%) Blue Coat
10 15 (10.34%) Microsoft
11 12 (8.28%) Infoblox
12 10 (6.90%) Dynatrace
12 10 (6.90%) Motorola
12 10 (6.90%) Splunk
13 9 (6.21%) Arista
14 8 (5.52%) Citrix
14 8 (5.52%) Google
15 7 (4.83%) LogRhythm
15 7 (4.83%) Tenable
16 6 (4.14%) Juniper