FortiGate Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Fortinet FortiGate
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 66 70
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.53% 0.14% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.09% 1.11% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile - - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.06%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £607 - -
South West median daily rate £556 £433 £650
% change year-on-year +28.55% -33.46% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.79 -
South West median hourly rate - £17.79 -

All Systems Management Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 115 90 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.65% 13.02% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 60 53
10th Percentile £381 £235 £227
25th Percentile £449 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -7.50% +6.95%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £624
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 9
10th Percentile - £18.33 £62.20
25th Percentile - £32.28 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £76.85 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -4.52%
75th Percentile - £79.68 £74.44
90th Percentile - £81.48 £77.60
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £60.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% -18.92% -5.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing FortiGate

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing FortiGate

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) BGP
2 5 (71.43%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Azure Consultant
1 6 (85.71%) Consultant
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Security Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Jinja
1 1 (14.29%) NETCONF
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Change Control
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
2 5 (71.43%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (71.43%) Log Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Requirements Workshops
2 5 (71.43%) Runbook
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Discovery
2 5 (71.43%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) Zscaler
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) VMware