Forcepoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Forcepoint products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Forcepoint over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 877 916 1114
Rank change year-on-year +39 +198 -237
Permanent jobs citing Forcepoint 24 43 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.042% 0.070%
As % of the Vendors category 0.066% 0.10% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15 36 107
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,628 £30,500 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £37,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.67% -21.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £67,375 £52,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,700 £53,938 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,669 £36,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.42% -18.89% -30.77%

All Vendors
UK

Forcepoint is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,548 42,576 61,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.82% 42.02% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 24,365 32,872
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Forcepoint
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Forcepoint in the UK

Forcepoint
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Forcepoint in the UK

Forcepoint
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Forcepoint over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Forcepoint in the UK

Forcepoint
Top 10 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 12 May 2024. 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 +65 22 £52,500 +40.00% 7
London +130 12 £67,000 +33.33% 5
UK excluding London -29 10 £40,669 +11.42% 2
Work from Home +80 9 £50,000 +70.94% 1
South East -7 3 £52,500 +69.35%
South West - 3 £32,500 -
North of England +44 2 - -
West Midlands +24 2 £48,837 +2.81%
Midlands -6 2 £48,837 +2.81%
North East -12 2 - -

Forcepoint
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 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (20.83%) Mimecast
4 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) Firewall
2 9 (37.50%) Network Security
3 8 (33.33%) WAN
4 7 (29.17%) Internet
4 7 (29.17%) VPN
5 5 (20.83%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (20.83%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (20.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 5 (20.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (20.83%) LAN
5 5 (20.83%) SSL
5 5 (20.83%) Unified Communications
5 5 (20.83%) VoIP
5 5 (20.83%) Wireless
6 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
7 2 (8.33%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Security Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) IT Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Lead Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Help Desk Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) IT Architect
5 2 (8.33%) IT Operations Manager
5 2 (8.33%) IT Security Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) IT Security Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Operations Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 5 (20.83%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 6 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (25.00%) Information Security
3 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
3 5 (20.83%) Line Management
3 5 (20.83%) Load Balancing
3 5 (20.83%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 3 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (12.50%) Data Security
5 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) SIEM
6 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (8.33%) TOGAF
6 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) C#
1 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.17%) SQL
1 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
1 1 (4.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (20.83%) Azure Certification
2 5 (20.83%) CCNP
3 3 (12.50%) CCNA
4 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Xen
2 2 (8.33%) XenApp
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (54.17%) Cisco
3 8 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 5 (20.83%) F5
4 5 (20.83%) SolarWinds
5 4 (16.67%) Palo Alto
6 3 (12.50%) Citrix
6 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 3 (12.50%) Sophos
6 3 (12.50%) VMware
6 3 (12.50%) WatchGuard
7 2 (8.33%) Darktrace
7 2 (8.33%) LogRhythm
7 2 (8.33%) Meraki
7 2 (8.33%) Qualys
7 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
7 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
7 2 (8.33%) Symantec
7 2 (8.33%) Varonis
8 1 (4.17%) Datto