The first table below looks at the demand for FortiGate skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FortiGate over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fortinet FortiGate
Rank 504 547 570
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +23
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 9 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.022% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.316% 0.365% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 0
Average daily rate £400 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.51% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £250 £265
% change year-on-year
+30.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
2851 3289 3255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.857% 6.166% 5.793%
Number of daily rates quoted 1633 1702 1593
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 157 222
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -13.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.73 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
FortiGate
UK

FortiGate
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing FortiGate across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

England FortiGate Jobs Demand Trend

FortiGate
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing FortiGate across the England region.

England FortiGate Daily Rate Trend

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing FortiGate across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England FortiGate Daily Rate Histogram

FortiGate
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing FortiGate across the England region.

England FortiGate Hourly Rate Trend

FortiGate
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +36 4 £475 +40.74%
Yorkshire +5 4 £325 +4.00%
West Midlands - 1 - -
FortiGate
UK

FortiGate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing FortiGate also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited FortiGate.

1 24 (96.00%) Firewall
2 21 (84.00%) HP
3 20 (80.00%) Juniper
4 19 (76.00%) Wireless
5 16 (64.00%) Cisco
6 13 (52.00%) WAN
7 12 (48.00%) LAN
7 12 (48.00%) VMware
7 12 (48.00%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (44.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 11 (44.00%) IP Telephony
9 10 (40.00%) F5
9 10 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (36.00%) DNS
10 9 (36.00%) DHCP
10 9 (36.00%) Finance
10 9 (36.00%) Migration
10 9 (36.00%) MPLS
10 9 (36.00%) OSPF
10 9 (36.00%) BGP
10 9 (36.00%) Network Architecture
10 9 (36.00%) Sourcefire
10 9 (36.00%) Fortinet
11 8 (32.00%) VLAN
12 7 (28.00%) Project Planning
12 7 (28.00%) JNCIE
12 7 (28.00%) Network Management
12 7 (28.00%) TippingPoint
12 7 (28.00%) PCI DSS
12 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure

FortiGate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing FortiGate also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited FortiGate. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.000%) .NET
1 2 (8.000%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (8.000%) IIS
2 2 (8.000%) Apache
2 2 (8.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (8.000%) Zimbra
3 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Office
1 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.000%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (96.00%) Firewall
2 19 (76.00%) Wireless
3 13 (52.00%) WAN
4 12 (48.00%) LAN
4 12 (48.00%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (44.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 11 (44.00%) IP Telephony
6 9 (36.00%) DNS
6 9 (36.00%) DHCP
6 9 (36.00%) MPLS
6 9 (36.00%) OSPF
6 9 (36.00%) BGP
7 8 (32.00%) VLAN
8 7 (28.00%) SNMP
9 6 (24.00%) Ethernet
9 6 (24.00%) Junos
10 4 (16.00%) SAN
10 4 (16.00%) Network Security
11 3 (12.00%) VPN
12 2 (8.000%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.000%) MySQL
2 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.000%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Administrator
5 2 (8.000%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.000%) Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (8.000%) Network Specialist
5 2 (8.000%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (4.000%) IT Support
6 1 (4.000%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (4.000%) Windows Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.000%) Network Support
6 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Network Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.000%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (8.000%) EqualLogic
3 1 (4.000%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (12.00%) Linux
4 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Migration
1 9 (36.00%) Network Architecture
2 7 (28.00%) Project Planning
2 7 (28.00%) Network Management
3 5 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (12.00%) Change Management
5 2 (8.000%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (4.000%) WAN Optimisation
6 1 (4.000%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.000%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (28.00%) JNCIE
2 7 (28.00%) CCIE
3 6 (24.00%) CCNP
4 3 (12.00%) JNCIP
5 2 (8.000%) CCNA
6 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
6 1 (4.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.000%) GAMP
2 1 (4.000%) GxP
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (12.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 2 (8.000%) Postfix
3 2 (8.000%) XenApp
3 2 (8.000%) vSphere
4 1 (4.000%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (4.000%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) HP
2 20 (80.00%) Juniper
3 16 (64.00%) Cisco
4 12 (48.00%) VMware
5 10 (40.00%) F5
6 9 (36.00%) Sourcefire
6 9 (36.00%) Fortinet
7 7 (28.00%) TippingPoint
8 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
9 5 (20.00%) Polycom
9 5 (20.00%) Citrix
10 4 (16.00%) Aruba
11 3 (12.00%) Trapeze
12 2 (8.000%) Avaya
12 2 (8.000%) Dell
12 2 (8.000%) CommVault
12 2 (8.000%) NetApp
12 2 (8.000%) Sophos
12 2 (8.000%) SonicWALL
12 2 (8.000%) Veeam