FortiGate Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Fortinet FortiGate
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 85 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 22 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.21% 0.17% -
As % of the Systems Management category 7.21% 1.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £207 £529 -
25th Percentile £450 £534 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - -
75th Percentile £530 £584 -
90th Percentile £561 £586 -
South East median daily rate £465 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -19.13% +27.78% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - -
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.02 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

FortiGate falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 305 166 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.83% 14.06% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 111 190
10th Percentile £310 £350 £205
25th Percentile £391 £409 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £526 £630 £600
90th Percentile £613 £688 £620
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -5.37% +7.89% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £18.22 - £53.38
25th Percentile £18.97 - £60.85
Median hourly rate £57.02 - £66.82
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.74%
75th Percentile £80.50 - £68.63
90th Percentile £83.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £15.99 £47.50
% change year-on-year +204.79% -66.35% -13.64%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FortiGate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

FortiGate job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing FortiGate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in Berkshire over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing FortiGate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FortiGate in Berkshire over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for FortiGate in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. 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
Reading 0 10 £498 -13.48% 2
Windsor - 1 £450 -
FortiGate
South East

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (100.00%) Firewall
2 21 (95.45%) DNS
3 19 (86.36%) BGP
3 19 (86.36%) BIG-IP
3 19 (86.36%) DHCP
3 19 (86.36%) Ethernet VPN
3 19 (86.36%) Junos
3 19 (86.36%) LAN
3 19 (86.36%) OSPF
3 19 (86.36%) VXLAN
3 19 (86.36%) WAN
4 14 (63.64%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (4.55%) Network Security
6 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (18.18%) Military
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Firewall Specialist
1 10 (45.45%) Network Specialist
2 7 (31.82%) Network Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 7 (31.82%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Migration Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Network Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Network Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (86.36%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 19 (86.36%) Clustering
2 18 (81.82%) PKI
3 17 (77.27%) Data Centre
4 2 (9.09%) iSeries
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Signage
5 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) High Availability
1 19 (86.36%) Identity Access Management
1 19 (86.36%) Load Balancing
2 18 (81.82%) Observability
3 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (40.91%) Availability Management
5 7 (31.82%) ITIL
5 7 (31.82%) Service Management
6 6 (27.27%) ITSM
7 2 (9.09%) Migration
7 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2
8 1 (4.55%) Project Delivery
8 1 (4.55%) Project Management
8 1 (4.55%) Project Planning
8 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 18 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 15 (68.18%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (54.55%) DV Cleared
4 6 (27.27%) JNCIA
4 6 (27.27%) JNCIP
4 6 (27.27%) JNCIS
5 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) F5
2 20 (90.91%) Cisco
3 19 (86.36%) Juniper
3 19 (86.36%) SolarWinds
3 19 (86.36%) Splunk
4 17 (77.27%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (4.55%) Meraki