Forcepoint Job Trends

Forcepoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Forcepoint products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Forcepoint over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 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 Forcepoint, LLC (formerly Websense).

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 677 695
Rank change year-on-year +34 +18 +223
Permanent jobs citing Forcepoint 10 22 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.041% 0.047%
As % of the Vendors category 0.053% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 10
10th Percentile - - £28,775
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +35.80% +8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £49,876
90th Percentile £76,000 £59,750 £53,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £46,750 £40,500
% change year-on-year -19.79% +15.43% +10.96%

All Vendors
UK

Forcepoint 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 18,903 19,941 21,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.51% 37.26% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,702 10,075 16,773
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £50,000 £47,657
% change year-on-year -14.50% +4.92% -4.69%

Forcepoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Forcepoint relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Forcepoint job vacancy trend in the UK

Forcepoint
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Forcepoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Forcepoint

Forcepoint
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Forcepoint over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Forcepoint in the UK

Forcepoint
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Forcepoint within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 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 +50 10 £50,000 -9.09% 1
UK excluding London +46 6 £37,500 -19.79%
London +53 4 £70,000 +21.74% 1
South East +22 3 £37,500 -19.79%
North East - 3 £50,000 -
North of England - 3 £50,000 -

Forcepoint
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 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (10.00%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) WAN
3 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (20.00%) BGP
4 2 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) LAN
4 2 (20.00%) MPLS
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
4 2 (20.00%) OSPF
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (10.00%) DMARC
5 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
5 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Cabling Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Field Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Field Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Network Field Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) ITSM
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (10.00%) Key Management
5 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Perl
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) CASB
2 1 (10.00%) Nessus
2 1 (10.00%) QRadar
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (30.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) Draytek
3 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (30.00%) Proofpoint
3 3 (30.00%) Sophos
3 3 (30.00%) Zscaler
4 2 (20.00%) ForeScout
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (20.00%) Meraki
4 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (10.00%) Aruba
5 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (10.00%) Qualys
5 1 (10.00%) Splunk
5 1 (10.00%) VMware