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 18 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 743 542 644
Rank change year-on-year -201 +102 -189
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 61 134 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.22% 0.64% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 33 66 93
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £107,000 £91,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,486 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.03% -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 28,091 21,067 25,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.37% 42.62% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 17,643 11,302 13,598
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £31,000
25th Percentile £39,818 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,650
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 18 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 18 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 -164 60 £48,750 -18.75% 85
London -99 33 £90,000 +5.88% 49
UK excluding London -147 27 £43,486 -13.03% 37
Work from Home -59 18 £100,000 +33.33% 27
North of England -67 14 £40,000 -20.00% 8
North West -8 10 £41,250 -18.32% 2
South East -40 5 £55,000 +3.29% 10
Midlands -45 5 £44,472 -11.06% 7
East Midlands - 5 £44,472 - 1
Yorkshire -47 4 £40,000 -33.33% 6
South West -89 2 £50,000 -5.66% 4
East of England -30 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 (19.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (11.48%) SharePoint
3 6 (9.84%) Apache
3 6 (9.84%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 21 (34.43%) Azure
2 19 (31.15%) AWS
3 14 (22.95%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (14.75%) GCP
5 7 (11.48%) Entra ID
6 6 (9.84%) OCI
7 4 (6.56%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (6.56%) Mimecast
7 4 (6.56%) SaaS
7 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.28%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.64%) GitHub
9 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 44 (72.13%) Firewall
2 25 (40.98%) WAN
3 23 (37.70%) Network Security
4 22 (36.07%) SD-WAN
5 21 (34.43%) LAN
5 21 (34.43%) VPN
6 18 (29.51%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (29.51%) Wireless
7 15 (24.59%) Cisco ISE
8 12 (19.67%) MPLS
9 10 (16.39%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (16.39%) NetScaler
10 9 (14.75%) Software-Defined Networking
10 9 (14.75%) TCP/IP
10 9 (14.75%) VLAN
11 8 (13.11%) DNS
12 7 (11.48%) DHCP
13 6 (9.84%) NX-OS
14 5 (8.20%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (8.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.84%) MySQL
3 4 (6.56%) Big Data
4 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.64%) Moq
3 1 (1.64%) MSTest
3 1 (1.64%) Newman
3 1 (1.64%) NSubstitute
3 1 (1.64%) NUnit
3 1 (1.64%) Postman
3 1 (1.64%) Selenium
General
1 31 (50.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Public Sector
3 9 (14.75%) Banking
3 9 (14.75%) Finance
3 9 (14.75%) Telecoms
4 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Marketing
4 7 (11.48%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Retail
5 6 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (8.20%) Law
7 3 (4.92%) Legal
7 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (29.51%) Network Engineer
2 13 (21.31%) IT Support
3 10 (16.39%) Consultant
4 9 (14.75%) Architect
4 9 (14.75%) IT Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) Network Architect
4 9 (14.75%) Senior
4 9 (14.75%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Firewall Specialist
5 5 (8.20%) Principal Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) IT Support Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Presales Consultant
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 4 (6.56%) Solutions Consultant
6 4 (6.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) Terraform
2 3 (4.92%) Jinja
2 3 (4.92%) JSON
2 3 (4.92%) YAML
3 2 (3.28%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (3.28%) Kafka
4 1 (1.64%) .NET
4 1 (1.64%) Playwright
4 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (34.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (6.56%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) FMCG
4 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.79%) Windows
2 18 (29.51%) Linux
3 13 (21.31%) Windows Server
4 6 (9.84%) Ubuntu
4 6 (9.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (6.56%) Solaris
5 4 (6.56%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Continuous Improvement
1 19 (31.15%) ITIL
2 15 (24.59%) Project Delivery
3 14 (22.95%) Network Design
3 14 (22.95%) SIEM
4 13 (21.31%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (21.31%) Network Architecture
4 13 (21.31%) Presales
4 13 (21.31%) Roadmaps
5 12 (19.67%) Customer Requirements
5 12 (19.67%) High Availability
5 12 (19.67%) Zero Trust
6 11 (18.03%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (16.39%) Agile
7 10 (16.39%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 9 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (14.75%) Incident Response
9 8 (13.11%) Change Management
9 8 (13.11%) PRINCE2
9 8 (13.11%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) Python
2 7 (11.48%) SQL
3 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.28%) Java
4 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (47.54%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (44.26%) CCNP
3 10 (16.39%) CCIE
3 10 (16.39%) CCNA
3 10 (16.39%) CCSE
4 7 (11.48%) Azure Certification
4 7 (11.48%) Degree
5 6 (9.84%) AWS Certification
5 6 (9.84%) CCIE Security
5 6 (9.84%) CCSA
5 6 (9.84%) JNCIE
5 6 (9.84%) JNCIP
5 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
7 4 (6.56%) APMG
7 4 (6.56%) CISM
7 4 (6.56%) CISSP
7 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
9 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.56%) GDPR
3 3 (4.92%) GRC
3 3 (4.92%) NIST
3 3 (4.92%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.64%) PMO
4 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Active Directory
2 13 (21.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.84%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.92%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.92%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.64%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Ansible
2 6 (9.84%) WSUS
3 3 (4.92%) CASB
4 2 (3.28%) Grafana
4 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.28%) VxRail
5 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.64%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 47 (77.05%) Cisco
2 26 (42.62%) Palo Alto
3 19 (31.15%) Meraki
4 18 (29.51%) F5
5 16 (26.23%) VMware
6 15 (24.59%) Fortinet
6 15 (24.59%) Microsoft
7 10 (16.39%) Zscaler
8 7 (11.48%) Aruba
9 6 (9.84%) Dell
9 6 (9.84%) HP
9 6 (9.84%) NetApp
9 6 (9.84%) SonicWALL
9 6 (9.84%) Veeam
10 4 (6.56%) Arista
10 4 (6.56%) Citrix
10 4 (6.56%) Dynatrace
10 4 (6.56%) iManage
10 4 (6.56%) SolarWinds
10 4 (6.56%) Splunk