FortiGate Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Fortinet FortiGate
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 127 122
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +33
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.01% 1.05% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £475 -
25th Percentile £450 £494 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £550 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Systems Management Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 298 286 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.44% 15.31% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 195 217
10th Percentile £292 £281 £350
25th Percentile £450 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £726 £775 £755
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £56.73 £30.26 -
25th Percentile £58.11 £35.53 -
Median hourly rate £63.88 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.55% +70.77% -25.52%
75th Percentile £71.18 £56.74 -
90th Percentile £73.47 £62.04 -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £28.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +102.68% +5.56% +8.00%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the City of London

FortiGate
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FortiGate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FortiGate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DMZ
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Server Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Nessus
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Tenable
2 2 (66.67%) Zscaler