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 20 August 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
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 709 555 662
Rank change year-on-year -154 +107 -172
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 77 137 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.65% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 36 82 105
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £43,437 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £89,875 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -11.06% +1.01% -2.91%

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 26,648 21,187 27,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.79% 42.46% 32.75%
Number of salaries quoted 16,471 11,536 16,572
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,181 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -4.63% -6.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £92,143
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -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 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Top 14 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 20 August 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 -147 75 £61,250 +6.52% 19
London -81 43 £92,500 +23.33% 7
UK excluding London -104 30 £44,472 -11.06% 16
Work from Home -41 25 £100,000 +60.00% 8
North of England -35 15 £40,000 -23.81% 4
North West -9 9 £42,500 -26.09% 2
South East -34 7 £57,500 +53.33% 5
Midlands -31 4 £44,472 -11.06% 1
Yorkshire -34 4 £40,000 -25.58% 2
East Midlands - 4 £44,472 -
North East -63 2 - -
South West -71 2 £50,000 -10.91% 1
Scotland -2 1 £42,500 - 1
East of England - 1 £62,500 - 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 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.90%) Apache
3 3 (3.90%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (40.26%) Azure
2 27 (35.06%) AWS
3 12 (15.58%) GCP
3 12 (15.58%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (10.39%) OCI
5 6 (7.79%) Mimecast
6 4 (5.19%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (5.19%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.19%) SaaS
6 4 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.90%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.30%) GitHub
8 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.30%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 61 (79.22%) Firewall
2 35 (45.45%) Network Security
2 35 (45.45%) WAN
3 32 (41.56%) LAN
4 27 (35.06%) Wireless
5 26 (33.77%) SD-WAN
5 26 (33.77%) VPN
6 21 (27.27%) Cisco ISE
7 18 (23.38%) Cisco ASA
8 17 (22.08%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (18.18%) MPLS
10 13 (16.88%) VLAN
11 11 (14.29%) BGP
11 11 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
12 10 (12.99%) NetScaler
12 10 (12.99%) OSPF
13 9 (11.69%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (10.39%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (9.09%) NX-OS
15 7 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) Big Data
2 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.90%) MySQL
4 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.60%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Git
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) Moq
2 1 (1.30%) MSTest
2 1 (1.30%) Newman
2 1 (1.30%) NSubstitute
2 1 (1.30%) NUnit
2 1 (1.30%) Postman
2 1 (1.30%) Selenium
General
1 37 (48.05%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Finance
2 13 (16.88%) Public Sector
3 12 (15.58%) Banking
3 12 (15.58%) Telecoms
4 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.99%) Retail
6 9 (11.69%) Marketing
7 8 (10.39%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (10.39%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (6.49%) Law
10 4 (5.19%) Manufacturing
11 3 (3.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (37.66%) Network Engineer
2 14 (18.18%) Senior
3 12 (15.58%) Architect
3 12 (15.58%) Consultant
3 12 (15.58%) Network Architect
4 10 (12.99%) IT Support
5 7 (9.09%) Principal Architect
6 6 (7.79%) IT Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Network Consultant
7 5 (6.49%) Network Security Specialist
7 5 (6.49%) Network Specialist
7 5 (6.49%) Presales Consultant
7 5 (6.49%) Security Specialist
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Solutions Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.69%) Terraform
2 4 (5.19%) JSON
3 3 (3.90%) Jinja
3 3 (3.90%) YAML
4 2 (2.60%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.60%) Kafka
5 1 (1.30%) .NET
5 1 (1.30%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.30%) Playwright
5 1 (1.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (7.79%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.49%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.90%) FMCG
4 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.60%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.97%) Windows
2 17 (22.08%) Linux
3 11 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.19%) Solaris
4 4 (5.19%) Windows 10
4 4 (5.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.90%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.87%) Project Delivery
2 20 (25.97%) ITIL
3 19 (24.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (22.08%) High Availability
4 17 (22.08%) Presales
4 17 (22.08%) Zero Trust
5 16 (20.78%) Network Architecture
5 16 (20.78%) Roadmaps
5 16 (20.78%) SIEM
6 15 (19.48%) Customer Requirements
6 15 (19.48%) Network Design
6 15 (19.48%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (16.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (15.58%) Agile
9 12 (15.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (15.58%) Incident Response
9 12 (15.58%) Load Balancing
10 11 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 10 (12.99%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.57%) Python
2 7 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (2.60%) Java
3 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 45 (58.44%) Cisco Certification
2 42 (54.55%) CCNP
3 19 (24.68%) CCIE
4 16 (20.78%) CCNA
5 15 (19.48%) CCSE
6 14 (18.18%) Degree
7 11 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (11.69%) Azure Certification
8 9 (11.69%) CCSA
8 9 (11.69%) JNCIP
8 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
9 8 (10.39%) AWS Certification
9 8 (10.39%) CCIE Security
9 8 (10.39%) JNCIE
10 7 (9.09%) SC Cleared
11 5 (6.49%) APMG
11 5 (6.49%) CISM
11 5 (6.49%) CISSP
12 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.49%) PMO
3 4 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (5.19%) GDPR
4 3 (3.90%) GRC
4 3 (3.90%) NIST
4 3 (3.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.30%) QA
5 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 13 (16.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.49%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.19%) ProxySG
4 4 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.90%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (3.90%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.30%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 16 (20.78%) Ansible
2 3 (3.90%) CASB
2 3 (3.90%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.90%) VxRail
2 3 (3.90%) WSUS
3 2 (2.60%) Grafana
3 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.30%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 65 (84.42%) Cisco
2 32 (41.56%) Palo Alto
3 26 (33.77%) F5
4 25 (32.47%) Fortinet
5 20 (25.97%) Meraki
6 17 (22.08%) VMware
7 13 (16.88%) Microsoft
7 13 (16.88%) Zscaler
8 8 (10.39%) SolarWinds
8 8 (10.39%) Splunk
9 6 (7.79%) Arista
9 6 (7.79%) ServiceNow
10 5 (6.49%) Aruba
10 5 (6.49%) Blue Coat
10 5 (6.49%) Infoblox
10 5 (6.49%) Sophos
11 4 (5.19%) Citrix
11 4 (5.19%) Dynatrace
11 4 (5.19%) iManage
11 4 (5.19%) Motorola