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 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
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 532 544
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 +85
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 142 168 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.33% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.73% 0.87% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 51 103 207
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £40,127
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,121 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.66% +18.18% -9.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,000 £70,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £84,876
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £51,300
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.09% -2.29%

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 19,586 19,382 28,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 37.98% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,871 9,804 22,023
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £51,364
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +11.95% -10.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% -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 4 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 4 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 +7 124 £56,121 -13.66% 42
London +41 71 £86,250 +15.89% 14
UK excluding London +4 63 £52,500 -8.70% 39
Work from Home +38 54 £85,000 +47.83% 14
Scotland -3 17 £75,000 +15.38% 6
South East +4 16 £54,000 -6.09% 15
South West +3 11 £53,000 -11.67% 2
North of England -12 9 £48,000 -16.52% 4
East of England +22 5 £47,500 -17.39% 8
West Midlands +19 4 £52,500 +5.00% 3
North West +6 4 £48,500 -15.65% 1
Midlands -1 4 £52,500 +5.00% 5
North East - 4 - -
Wales -3 1 £38,500 -40.77%
Yorkshire -20 1 £45,000 -21.74% 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 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (13.38%) MS Visio
2 14 (9.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (52.82%) Azure
2 37 (26.06%) AWS
3 10 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (7.04%) SaaS
4 9 (6.34%) AWS Direct Connect
5 7 (4.93%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (3.52%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.82%) GCP
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.70%) IaaS
8 1 (0.70%) OCI
8 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 128 (90.14%) Firewall
2 83 (58.45%) LAN
3 81 (57.04%) WAN
4 55 (38.73%) Cisco ASA
5 48 (33.80%) SD-WAN
6 46 (32.39%) Wireless
7 40 (28.17%) BGP
7 40 (28.17%) VPN
8 36 (25.35%) OSPF
9 33 (23.24%) Cisco Firepower
9 33 (23.24%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (22.54%) Network Security
11 24 (16.90%) Wireshark
12 22 (15.49%) MPLS
13 19 (13.38%) EIGRP
13 19 (13.38%) IPsec
14 18 (12.68%) NX-OS
14 18 (12.68%) VLAN
15 15 (10.56%) Cisco ISE
15 15 (10.56%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (2.82%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (45.77%) Finance
2 43 (30.28%) Social Skills
3 30 (21.13%) Telecoms
4 13 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.75%) Banking
6 10 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.93%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.93%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.23%) Marketing
8 6 (4.23%) Retail
9 4 (2.82%) Advertising
10 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.41%) Law
10 2 (1.41%) Legal
10 2 (1.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 92 (64.79%) Network Engineer
2 22 (15.49%) Cisco Engineer
2 22 (15.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 22 (15.49%) Senior
3 20 (14.08%) Analyst
4 19 (13.38%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (13.38%) Support Analyst
5 18 (12.68%) Senior Network Engineer
6 16 (11.27%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (11.27%) Network Support
7 14 (9.86%) LAN Engineer
7 14 (9.86%) LAN/WAN Engineer
7 14 (9.86%) Network Analyst
7 14 (9.86%) Network Support Analyst
7 14 (9.86%) WAN Engineer
8 11 (7.75%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (7.75%) Security Engineer
9 10 (7.04%) Network Operations Engineer
9 10 (7.04%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.11%) JSON
1 3 (2.11%) REST
2 2 (1.41%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 80 (56.34%) Data Centre
2 31 (21.83%) Management Information System
3 14 (9.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.23%) CMDB
5 5 (3.52%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.52%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.41%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.08%) Windows
2 13 (9.15%) Windows Server
3 12 (8.45%) Linux
4 6 (4.23%) Unix
5 5 (3.52%) Android
5 5 (3.52%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (32.39%) Load Balancing
2 33 (23.24%) Change Management
3 29 (20.42%) Asset Management
4 28 (19.72%) Computer Science
5 26 (18.31%) Coaching
5 26 (18.31%) Customer Service
5 26 (18.31%) Problem Management
6 25 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (17.61%) Kalman Filter
6 25 (17.61%) Network Monitoring
7 24 (16.90%) Capacity Planning
7 24 (16.90%) Network Planning
7 24 (16.90%) Network Virtualisation
8 22 (15.49%) ITIL
9 18 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (11.97%) High Availability
10 17 (11.97%) Process Improvement
11 15 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (9.86%) Change Control
13 13 (9.15%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.38%) Python
2 9 (6.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 53 (37.32%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (30.28%) Degree
3 41 (28.87%) CCIE
4 40 (28.17%) CCNP
5 28 (19.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (19.72%) Security Cleared
6 25 (17.61%) SC Cleared
7 24 (16.90%) CCNA
7 24 (16.90%) CCSA
7 24 (16.90%) CCSE
8 6 (4.23%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.41%) Check Point Certification
10 2 (1.41%) CISSP
10 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.70%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.70%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) PMO
2 5 (3.52%) SLA
3 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.41%) QA
5 1 (0.70%) COBIT
5 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (13.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (9.15%) Active Directory
3 10 (7.04%) ProxySG
4 8 (5.63%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.52%) Firmware
6 4 (2.82%) XenApp
7 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (12.68%) FortiGate
2 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.93%) Nagios
4 6 (4.23%) Ansible
5 4 (2.82%) Terraform
6 2 (1.41%) Nessus
6 2 (1.41%) SCCM
7 1 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 128 (90.14%) Cisco
2 59 (41.55%) Palo Alto
3 49 (34.51%) SolarWinds
4 48 (33.80%) Meraki
5 44 (30.99%) Fortinet
6 37 (26.06%) F5
7 24 (16.90%) VMware
8 17 (11.97%) Blue Coat
9 15 (10.56%) Microsoft
9 15 (10.56%) ServiceNow
10 12 (8.45%) Infoblox
11 10 (7.04%) Dynatrace
11 10 (7.04%) Motorola
12 9 (6.34%) Arista
13 8 (5.63%) Citrix
13 8 (5.63%) Google
14 7 (4.93%) Splunk
15 6 (4.23%) Juniper
15 6 (4.23%) LogRhythm
15 6 (4.23%) Tenable