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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 867 935 1132
Rank change year-on-year +68 +197 -259
Permanent jobs citing Forcepoint 23 42 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.042% 0.070%
As % of the Vendors category 0.063% 0.10% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14 34 108
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,564 £33,000 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 £37,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +59.33% -23.47% +8.89%
75th Percentile £68,063 £52,875 £64,688
90th Percentile £71,900 £54,363 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £36,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.96% -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 36,536 41,710 62,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.57% 42.06% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,889 23,890 32,938
10th Percentile £26,742 £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 18 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 18 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 +69 21 £57,000 +52.00% 8
London +112 12 £67,000 +33.33% 6
UK excluding London -52 9 £32,500 -10.96% 3
Work from Home +69 8 £49,419 +68.95% 2
South West - 3 £32,500 -
North of England +45 2 - -
West Midlands +12 2 £48,837 +2.81%
Midlands -12 2 £48,837 +2.81%
South East -12 2 £52,500 +55.56% 1
North East -13 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 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) AWS
3 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (21.74%) Mimecast
4 5 (21.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) Firewall
2 9 (39.13%) Network Security
3 8 (34.78%) WAN
4 7 (30.43%) VPN
5 6 (26.09%) Internet
6 5 (21.74%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (21.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (21.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 5 (21.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (21.74%) LAN
6 5 (21.74%) SSL
6 5 (21.74%) Unified Communications
6 5 (21.74%) VoIP
6 5 (21.74%) Wireless
7 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
8 2 (8.70%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Law
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Network Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) IT Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) IT Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Lead Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Help Desk Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.70%) IT Architect
4 2 (8.70%) IT Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.70%) IT Operations Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Senior IT Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 5 (21.74%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Service Delivery
2 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (26.09%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (26.09%) Information Security
3 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
3 5 (21.74%) Line Management
3 5 (21.74%) Load Balancing
3 5 (21.74%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) Security Operations
5 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience
5 2 (8.70%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) IT Strategy
5 2 (8.70%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (8.70%) SIEM
5 2 (8.70%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) C#
1 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.35%) SQL
1 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
1 1 (4.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (21.74%) Azure Certification
2 5 (21.74%) CCNP
3 3 (13.04%) CCNA
4 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Xen
2 2 (8.70%) XenApp
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 13 (56.52%) Cisco
3 8 (34.78%) CheckPoint
4 5 (21.74%) F5
4 5 (21.74%) SolarWinds
5 4 (17.39%) Palo Alto
6 3 (13.04%) Citrix
6 3 (13.04%) Fortinet
6 3 (13.04%) Sophos
6 3 (13.04%) VMware
6 3 (13.04%) WatchGuard
7 2 (8.70%) Darktrace
7 2 (8.70%) Meraki
7 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
7 2 (8.70%) Symantec
8 1 (4.35%) Datto
8 1 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
8 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (4.35%) Varonis