The first table below looks at the demand for FortiGate skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FortiGate over the 3 months to 23 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 West Sussex 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fortinet FortiGate
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex - - -
As % of the Systems Management category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
39 20 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 10.66% 3.035% 9.513%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 17
Average daily rate £300 £338 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £388 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 13
Average hourly rate £96.88 - £24.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
FortiGate
South East

FortiGate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Avaya
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) CommVault
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000

FortiGate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Zimbra
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (100.00%) Postfix
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Avaya
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) CommVault
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos
1 2 (100.00%) VMware