FortiGate Contracts in Birmingham

Fortinet FortiGate
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring FortiGate skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FortiGate over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 62 74
Rank change year-on-year +19 +12 +18
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 7 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.34% 0.65% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.07% 6.41% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £480 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.58% - -
75th Percentile £540 £488 -
90th Percentile £546 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +2.16% -26.92% +13.04%

All Systems Management Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 58 78 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.11% 10.09% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 62 81
10th Percentile £263 £204 £313
25th Percentile £310 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -27.66% +30.56%
75th Percentile £621 £569 £700
90th Percentile £700 £650 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.45
25th Percentile - - £18.74
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £19.60
Median % change year-on-year - +180.58% -
75th Percentile - - £20.58
90th Percentile - - £20.94
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.19 £55.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -70.56% +197.30% +14.76%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for FortiGate in Birmingham

FortiGate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FortiGate in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for FortiGate in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Network Security
2 5 (71.43%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) BGP
3 4 (57.14%) IPsec
3 4 (57.14%) OSPF
3 4 (57.14%) SSL
3 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 4 (57.14%) VLAN
3 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (14.29%) HTTP
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Check Point Expert
2 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design
2 1 (14.29%) Network Management
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security Management
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (14.29%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCSE
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) logstash
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) QRadar
1 1 (14.29%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Fortinet
2 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Arista
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto