FortiGate Contracts in the UK excluding London

Fortinet FortiGate
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for FortiGate skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FortiGate over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 386 446
Rank change year-on-year +56 +60 -41
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 64 65 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.28% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.77% 1.84% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 47 43
10th Percentile £400 £341 £342
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +3.21%
75th Percentile £506 £588 £540
90th Percentile £575 £675 £598
UK median daily rate £450 £531 £500
% change year-on-year -15.29% +6.25% +16.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £13.50 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -81.69% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

FortiGate is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,314 3,530 4,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.30% 15.09% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 2,575 2,939
10th Percentile £213 £283 £233
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £594
90th Percentile £651 £699 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £562 £565
% change year-on-year -8.36% -0.53% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 137 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £36.94
90th Percentile £70.93 £75.20 £51.45
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.75%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing FortiGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FortiGate in the UK excluding London

FortiGate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FortiGate in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for FortiGate in the UK excluding London

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in the UK excluding London

FortiGate
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FortiGate in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for FortiGate in the UK excluding London

FortiGate
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +46 38 £450 -18.18% 15
Midlands +20 11 £425 -34.62% 7
West Midlands +14 7 £475 -26.92% 4
South West +6 6 £488 +3.17% 7
Scotland +36 4 £550 +22.22%
North of England +28 4 £563 +36.36% 4
East Midlands +24 4 £425 - 3
North West +20 2 £575 +21.05% 2
Yorkshire +16 2 £463 +37.04% 2
East of England - 1 £400 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
FortiGate
UK

FortiGate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.69%) AWS
1 3 (4.69%) Azure
2 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.56%) OCI
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (50.00%) Firewall
2 28 (43.75%) BGP
3 27 (42.19%) OSPF
4 23 (35.94%) EIGRP
5 22 (34.38%) DMVPN
6 12 (18.75%) WAN
7 11 (17.19%) Network Security
8 9 (14.06%) VPN
9 8 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (12.50%) LAN
10 7 (10.94%) DHCP
10 7 (10.94%) DNS
10 7 (10.94%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (9.38%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (7.81%) TCP/IP
13 3 (4.69%) SNMP
13 3 (4.69%) Wireless
14 2 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 2 (3.13%) MPLS
14 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Git
General
1 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.13%) Legal
3 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 38 (59.38%) Network Engineer
2 17 (26.56%) Network Specialist
3 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (4.69%) Senior
4 3 (4.69%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Architect
5 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Security Engineer
6 1 (1.56%) Analyst
6 1 (1.56%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (1.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (1.56%) Junior
6 1 (1.56%) Junior Network Engineer
6 1 (1.56%) Network Architect
6 1 (1.56%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.56%) Technical Architect
6 1 (1.56%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) JSON
1 1 (1.56%) NETCONF
1 1 (1.56%) XML
1 1 (1.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
1 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.56%) Life Science
2 1 (1.56%) LIMS
2 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.38%) Network Design
2 6 (9.38%) Load Balancing
3 4 (6.25%) ITIL
3 4 (6.25%) Network Management
3 4 (6.25%) Prototyping
4 3 (4.69%) High Availability
4 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (4.69%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (3.13%) Feasibility Study
5 2 (3.13%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (3.13%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (3.13%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (3.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (3.13%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (1.56%) Agile
6 1 (1.56%) Change Management
6 1 (1.56%) Database Migration
6 1 (1.56%) Incident Response
6 1 (1.56%) Migration
6 1 (1.56%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.56%) Python
1 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 19 (29.69%) DV Cleared
3 8 (12.50%) CCNA
3 8 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.81%) CCNP
5 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) Degree
6 1 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.56%) vSphere
2 1 (1.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Nagios
2 1 (1.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 51 (79.69%) Cisco
2 38 (59.38%) Fortinet
3 23 (35.94%) Juniper
4 10 (15.63%) F5
5 7 (10.94%) Aruba
6 6 (9.38%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.69%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.13%) Dell
8 2 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (3.13%) Sophos
8 2 (3.13%) Splunk
8 2 (3.13%) VMware
9 1 (1.56%) Citrix
9 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.56%) HP
9 1 (1.56%) Meraki
9 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.56%) NetApp
9 1 (1.56%) Nokia
9 1 (1.56%) Oracle