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 16 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
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 740 551 658
Rank change year-on-year -189 +107 -214
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 63 129 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.61% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 32 65 92
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,125 £83,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £107,250 £90,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +2.97%

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 27,688 21,052 25,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.27% 42.65% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 17,418 11,300 13,571
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £31,000
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 £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -

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 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 12 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 16 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 -167 62 £50,000 -13.04% 105
London -89 36 £90,000 +5.88% 63
UK excluding London -135 26 £42,500 -15.00% 41
Work from Home -56 20 £100,000 +33.33% 38
North of England -67 14 £40,000 -20.00% 9
North West -12 10 £41,250 -18.32% 3
South East -52 5 £55,000 +3.29% 7
Midlands -33 4 £44,472 -11.06% 11
Yorkshire -34 4 £40,000 -33.33% 6
East Midlands - 4 £44,472 - 3
South West -74 2 £50,000 -5.66% 7
East of England -33 1 £62,500 +19.05% 3

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 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (9.52%) Apache
3 6 (9.52%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) Azure
2 21 (33.33%) AWS
3 14 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (17.46%) GCP
5 8 (12.70%) OCI
6 7 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.94%) Mimecast
8 4 (6.35%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (6.35%) SaaS
8 4 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (3.17%) Rubrik
10 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.59%) GitHub
10 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.59%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 46 (73.02%) Firewall
2 27 (42.86%) WAN
3 26 (41.27%) Network Security
4 24 (38.10%) SD-WAN
5 23 (36.51%) LAN
6 22 (34.92%) VPN
7 20 (31.75%) Wireless
8 18 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (25.40%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (19.05%) MPLS
11 11 (17.46%) Software-Defined Networking
12 10 (15.87%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (15.87%) NetScaler
13 9 (14.29%) TCP/IP
13 9 (14.29%) VLAN
14 8 (12.70%) DNS
15 7 (11.11%) DHCP
16 6 (9.52%) NX-OS
17 5 (7.94%) Cisco Firepower
17 5 (7.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.52%) MySQL
3 4 (6.35%) Big Data
4 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) Moq
3 1 (1.59%) MSTest
3 1 (1.59%) Newman
3 1 (1.59%) NSubstitute
3 1 (1.59%) NUnit
3 1 (1.59%) Postman
3 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 33 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Banking
2 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
2 10 (15.87%) Telecoms
3 9 (14.29%) Finance
4 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Marketing
4 7 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Retail
5 6 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (7.94%) Law
7 3 (4.76%) Legal
7 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 13 (20.63%) IT Support
3 11 (17.46%) Architect
3 11 (17.46%) Network Architect
4 10 (15.87%) Consultant
5 9 (14.29%) IT Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Senior
5 9 (14.29%) Support Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) Principal Architect
7 4 (6.35%) Firewall Specialist
7 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Presales Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 4 (6.35%) Solutions Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (4.76%) Jinja
2 3 (4.76%) JSON
2 3 (4.76%) YAML
3 2 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (3.17%) Kafka
4 1 (1.59%) .NET
4 1 (1.59%) Playwright
4 1 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (36.51%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.76%) FMCG
4 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 20 (31.75%) Windows
2 18 (28.57%) Linux
3 13 (20.63%) Windows Server
4 6 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 6 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (6.35%) Solaris
5 4 (6.35%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.33%) ITIL
2 19 (30.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (26.98%) Project Delivery
4 15 (23.81%) Network Architecture
4 15 (23.81%) Presales
4 15 (23.81%) Roadmaps
4 15 (23.81%) SIEM
4 15 (23.81%) Zero Trust
5 14 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
5 14 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (22.22%) High Availability
5 14 (22.22%) Network Design
6 13 (20.63%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (19.05%) Agile
8 10 (15.87%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (15.87%) Incident Response
8 10 (15.87%) PRINCE2
8 10 (15.87%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 9 (14.29%) Scrum
10 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) Python
2 7 (11.11%) SQL
3 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.17%) Java
4 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (50.79%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (47.62%) CCNP
3 12 (19.05%) CCIE
3 12 (19.05%) CCSE
4 11 (17.46%) CCNA
5 9 (14.29%) Azure Certification
6 8 (12.70%) AWS Certification
6 8 (12.70%) CCIE Security
6 8 (12.70%) CCSA
6 8 (12.70%) JNCIE
6 8 (12.70%) JNCIP
7 7 (11.11%) Degree
8 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
10 4 (6.35%) APMG
10 4 (6.35%) CISM
10 4 (6.35%) CISSP
10 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
12 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.35%) GDPR
3 3 (4.76%) GRC
3 3 (4.76%) NIST
3 3 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.59%) PMO
4 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 16 (25.40%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.76%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.59%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Ansible
2 6 (9.52%) WSUS
3 3 (4.76%) CASB
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
4 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.17%) VxRail
5 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.59%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 49 (77.78%) Cisco
2 28 (44.44%) Palo Alto
3 19 (30.16%) Meraki
4 18 (28.57%) F5
4 18 (28.57%) Fortinet
5 16 (25.40%) VMware
6 15 (23.81%) Microsoft
7 11 (17.46%) Zscaler
8 7 (11.11%) Aruba
9 6 (9.52%) Dell
9 6 (9.52%) HP
9 6 (9.52%) NetApp
9 6 (9.52%) SonicWALL
9 6 (9.52%) Veeam
10 5 (7.94%) Splunk
11 4 (6.35%) Arista
11 4 (6.35%) Citrix
11 4 (6.35%) Dynatrace
11 4 (6.35%) iManage
11 4 (6.35%) SolarWinds