CheckPoint Jobs

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 28 May 2025, 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 689 608
Rank change year-on-year +126 -81 +132
Permanent jobs citing CheckPoint 150 223 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.22% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 0.61% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 113 172 199
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £86,250 £69,063 £69,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £82,548
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.53% -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 21,623 36,459 40,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 39.54% 35.69% 41.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11,663 24,885 23,701
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,306 £45,828 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.41% -8.34% +5.26%

CheckPoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CheckPoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CheckPoint.

Salary trend for CheckPoint in the UK

CheckPoint
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CheckPoint over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 +107 143 £60,000 +9.09% 84
London +116 62 £85,000 +21.43% 42
UK excluding London +108 59 £50,000 -2.53% 57
Work from Home +74 51 £56,121 -2.40% 21
Midlands +6 19 £50,000 -4.76% 8
West Midlands +9 18 £50,000 -4.76% 7
North of England +38 17 £57,500 +35.29% 31
South West +123 14 £56,121 +24.71% 2
North West +5 8 £63,750 +53.61% 9
South East +91 7 £37,500 -36.17% 13
Yorkshire +59 7 £52,350 -16.24% 13
North East +44 2 £50,000 +24.22% 11
Wales +34 2 £48,117 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £80,000 -

CheckPoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.00%) IIS
2 3 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (6.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 88 (58.67%) Azure
2 29 (19.33%) AWS
2 29 (19.33%) GCP
2 29 (19.33%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (8.67%) AWS Direct Connect
4 5 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.67%) IaaS
5 4 (2.67%) SaaS
6 3 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.00%) Cloudflare
6 3 (2.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.00%) Rubrik
6 3 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 126 (84.00%) Firewall
2 96 (64.00%) WAN
3 76 (50.67%) LAN
4 63 (42.00%) SD-WAN
5 57 (38.00%) VPN
6 44 (29.33%) OSPF
7 41 (27.33%) BGP
8 39 (26.00%) Cisco Firepower
9 36 (24.00%) Cisco ASA
9 36 (24.00%) Cisco ISE
10 32 (21.33%) Network Security
11 29 (19.33%) IPsec
12 28 (18.67%) Wi-Fi
13 27 (18.00%) Ethernet
14 25 (16.67%) MPLS
15 20 (13.33%) EIGRP
16 17 (11.33%) WLAN
17 15 (10.00%) NX-OS
18 13 (8.67%) SNMP
18 13 (8.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) GitLab
1 1 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 22 (14.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.00%) Banking
2 18 (12.00%) Finance
3 12 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.33%) Police
5 7 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Back Office
8 2 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Local Government
8 2 (1.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 29 (19.33%) Architect
3 27 (18.00%) Network Architect
4 23 (15.33%) Support Engineer
5 18 (12.00%) Senior
6 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (9.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 13 (8.67%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 13 (8.67%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
8 13 (8.67%) 3rd Line Support
8 13 (8.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 13 (8.67%) Senior Network Engineer
9 12 (8.00%) Consultant
9 12 (8.00%) Operations Engineer
10 11 (7.33%) Network Consultant
10 11 (7.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (7.33%) Network Operations Engineer
10 11 (7.33%) Network Security Consultant
10 11 (7.33%) Security Consultant
10 11 (7.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.00%) JSON
2 5 (3.33%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.67%) PySpark
3 1 (0.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 61 (40.67%) Data Centre
2 30 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 15 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 13 (8.67%) Driving Licence
4 13 (8.67%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.00%) IPTV
6 2 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.33%) PKI
6 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.67%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.00%) Windows
2 25 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 18 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 18 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (6.00%) Linux
5 4 (2.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.67%) Change Management
2 26 (17.33%) Due Diligence
3 21 (14.00%) Network Design
4 18 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 18 (12.00%) Mentoring
4 18 (12.00%) Network Management
5 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (10.67%) Runbook
6 15 (10.00%) Data Security
6 15 (10.00%) Inventory Management
6 15 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (9.33%) Migration
8 13 (8.67%) Cloud Security
9 12 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (8.00%) Incident Response
9 12 (8.00%) Load Balancing
10 11 (7.33%) Network Monitoring
11 10 (6.67%) ITIL
11 10 (6.67%) Process Improvement
12 9 (6.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.67%) Python
2 25 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.67%) SQL
4 1 (0.67%) Bash
4 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 50 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (27.33%) Security Cleared
3 39 (26.00%) CCNP
4 37 (24.67%) SC Cleared
5 24 (16.00%) Degree
6 23 (15.33%) CCNA
7 19 (12.67%) CCSA
8 10 (6.67%) CCIE
9 6 (4.00%) CCSE
10 5 (3.33%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.33%) Check Point Certification
11 4 (2.67%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.67%) CCDP
13 1 (0.67%) CISSP
13 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.67%) SLA
2 2 (1.33%) QA
3 1 (0.67%) COBIT
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 25 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (16.00%) Active Directory
4 15 (10.00%) XenApp
5 13 (8.67%) Firmware
6 3 (2.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (2.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.00%) vSphere
7 1 (0.67%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 36 (24.00%) Terraform
2 35 (23.33%) Ansible
3 27 (18.00%) FortiGate
4 18 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.00%) SCCM
6 3 (2.00%) VxRail
7 2 (1.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 135 (90.00%) Cisco
2 57 (38.00%) VMware
3 46 (30.67%) Fortinet
4 45 (30.00%) F5
5 41 (27.33%) Meraki
6 37 (24.67%) SolarWinds
7 34 (22.67%) Palo Alto
8 28 (18.67%) Google
9 27 (18.00%) Blue Coat
10 24 (16.00%) Citrix
11 17 (11.33%) Microsoft
12 15 (10.00%) Infoblox
12 15 (10.00%) SonicWALL
13 13 (8.67%) Dynatrace
14 9 (6.00%) Arista
14 9 (6.00%) Zscaler
15 6 (4.00%) Bloomberg
15 6 (4.00%) Dell
15 6 (4.00%) Refinitiv
16 3 (2.00%) Sophos