Fortinet FortiGate
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for FortiGate skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FortiGate over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 710 716 957
Rank change year-on-year +6 +241 -188
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 186 259 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.87% 1.67% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 155 183 243
10th Percentile £32,600 £33,750 £35,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £65,709 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.74% -15.00% +19.24%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,961 15,465 27,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 14.78% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,202 9,470 14,208
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,675 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FortiGate over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +53 166 £47,500 -2.56% 42
UK excluding London -35 144 £45,000 -3.74% 30
South East +58 64 £47,000 -21.67% 15
Work from Home +57 56 £45,000 -25.00% 9
London +124 38 £60,000 - 16
North of England -26 29 £40,578 -9.83% 2
Yorkshire +77 20 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Midlands +6 13 £35,000 -54.84% 6
South West -2 13 £45,000 +5.88% 4
Scotland -53 13 £50,000 +42.86% 2
West Midlands +22 8 £38,750 -50.00% 3
East of England -4 7 £47,500 -39.68% 2
North West -49 6 £48,750 +2.63% 1
Wales +4 5 - -
East Midlands -12 5 £33,500 -44.17% 3
North East -8 3 £42,155 -45.61%

FortiGate
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 27 (14.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) IIS
3 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 75 (40.32%) Azure
2 50 (26.88%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (13.98%) Entra ID
4 19 (10.22%) AWS
5 18 (9.68%) IaaS
6 17 (9.14%) PaaS
7 15 (8.06%) GCP
8 5 (2.69%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.15%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.08%) SaaS
10 2 (1.08%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.54%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (0.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 140 (75.27%) Firewall
2 93 (50.00%) WAN
3 54 (29.03%) BGP
4 53 (28.49%) SD-WAN
5 51 (27.42%) VPN
6 42 (22.58%) OSPF
7 38 (20.43%) LAN
8 37 (19.89%) MPLS
9 33 (17.74%) DNS
10 30 (16.13%) DHCP
11 29 (15.59%) EIGRP
12 23 (12.37%) DMVPN
12 23 (12.37%) Internet
13 21 (11.29%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (11.29%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (10.22%) VLAN
14 19 (10.22%) Wireless
15 18 (9.68%) TCP/IP
16 16 (8.60%) Network Security
17 12 (6.45%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.08%) GitLab
1 2 (1.08%) JIRA
2 1 (0.54%) Git
General
1 56 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.22%) Finance
3 13 (6.99%) Telecoms
4 7 (3.76%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (3.23%) Legal
6 5 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.15%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.61%) Automotive
8 3 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.61%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.61%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.08%) Billing
9 2 (1.08%) Games
9 2 (1.08%) Law
9 2 (1.08%) Military
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 75 (40.32%) Network Engineer
2 41 (22.04%) Senior
3 30 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (13.44%) Senior Network Engineer
5 18 (9.68%) Lead
6 13 (6.99%) Analyst
7 11 (5.91%) IT Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) IT Support
8 10 (5.38%) Network Specialist
8 10 (5.38%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) Technical Leader
10 7 (3.76%) Network Analyst
10 7 (3.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (2.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 5 (2.69%) Core Network Engineer
11 5 (2.69%) IT Analyst
11 5 (2.69%) Senior Core Network Engineer
11 5 (2.69%) Senior IT Engineer
11 5 (2.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.61%) JSON
1 3 (1.61%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.28%) Data Centre
2 30 (16.13%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.60%) Public Cloud
4 15 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (6.99%) Clustering
5 13 (6.99%) Replication
6 12 (6.45%) IoT
7 11 (5.91%) Management Information System
8 9 (4.84%) ARM Cortex
9 4 (2.15%) PKI
9 4 (2.15%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.61%) CCTV
10 3 (1.61%) EPoS
10 3 (1.61%) iPad
10 3 (1.61%) Media Streaming
10 3 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.08%) Digital Media
11 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (36.02%) Windows
2 49 (26.34%) Windows Server
3 36 (19.35%) Linux
4 10 (5.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (5.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (4.84%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.69%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.54%) Unix
8 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (19.35%) Network Design
3 34 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (17.20%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (11.83%) Customer Service
7 21 (11.29%) ITIL
7 21 (11.29%) Project Delivery
8 20 (10.75%) Mentoring
9 16 (8.60%) DevOps
10 14 (7.53%) Project Management
11 13 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (6.99%) Kalman Filter
11 13 (6.99%) Network Virtualisation
11 13 (6.99%) Presales
12 12 (6.45%) Change Control
12 12 (6.45%) Data Management
12 12 (6.45%) High Availability
13 11 (5.91%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (5.91%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.53%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.76%) Python
3 4 (2.15%) SQL
4 2 (1.08%) Bash
4 2 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (26.88%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (21.51%) CCNA
3 33 (17.74%) Security Cleared
4 22 (11.83%) CCNP
5 13 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.91%) Degree
7 10 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (5.38%) CTC Cleared
7 10 (5.38%) MCSE
8 8 (4.30%) Azure Certification
8 8 (4.30%) SC Cleared
9 6 (3.23%) JNCIS
9 6 (3.23%) MCP
10 5 (2.69%) MCSA
11 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.61%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.61%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.61%) HND
12 2 (1.08%) SANS
12 2 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (8.60%) GDPR
3 15 (8.06%) SLA
4 9 (4.84%) COSHH
5 7 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 58 (31.18%) Hyper-V
2 47 (25.27%) Active Directory
3 45 (24.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (8.06%) VMware NSX
5 12 (6.45%) vSphere
6 6 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.69%) Firmware
8 3 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.54%) Docker
10 1 (0.54%) Squid
10 1 (0.54%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (9.14%) Terraform
2 16 (8.60%) Ansible
2 16 (8.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.30%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (3.23%) Nagios
5 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 5 (2.69%) SCOM
6 3 (1.61%) SCCM
7 2 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.08%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.08%) Rundeck
7 2 (1.08%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.54%) Graylog
8 1 (0.54%) MobiControl
8 1 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 129 (69.35%) Cisco
2 64 (34.41%) Microsoft
2 64 (34.41%) VMware
3 53 (28.49%) Juniper
4 33 (17.74%) Fortinet
5 29 (15.59%) Palo Alto
6 25 (13.44%) CheckPoint
7 24 (12.90%) HP
8 21 (11.29%) Meraki
8 21 (11.29%) Veeam
9 20 (10.75%) Draytek
10 17 (9.14%) Aruba
11 14 (7.53%) McAfee
12 13 (6.99%) NetApp
13 12 (6.45%) Darktrace
13 12 (6.45%) NEC
14 11 (5.91%) F5
15 10 (5.38%) Mitel
16 9 (4.84%) Ribbon
16 9 (4.84%) SolarWinds