FortiGate Contracts in England

Fortinet FortiGate
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 405 428 506
Rank change year-on-year +23 +78 +153
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 80 114 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.12% 2.60% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 87 96
10th Percentile £416 £390 £363
25th Percentile £469 £414 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -16.28% +2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £650
90th Percentile £613 £665 £763
UK median daily rate £514 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +14.17% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £40.20
25th Percentile - £12.75 £51.38
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -80.71% -
75th Percentile - £14.25 £76.88
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -80.71% -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for FortiGate in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for FortiGate in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FortiGate in England.

Hourly rate trend for FortiGate in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +24 36 £513 -1.91% 9
Midlands +25 14 £485 +14.18% 6
West Midlands +19 12 £485 +2.16% 4
South East +20 11 £575 +27.78% 11
North of England +24 9 £425 -24.44% 6
East of England +35 6 £525 +31.25% 3
Yorkshire +12 6 - - 3
North West +18 3 £425 -26.09% 1
East Midlands +8 2 - - 1
South West +41 1 £425 -12.82% 16
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FortiGate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Camunda
2 1 (1.25%) CMS
2 1 (1.25%) IIS
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.00%) AWS
2 27 (33.75%) Azure
3 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.25%) GitHub
5 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 54 (67.50%) Firewall
2 27 (33.75%) Network Security
3 26 (32.50%) BGP
3 26 (32.50%) WAN
4 25 (31.25%) VPN
5 19 (23.75%) LAN
6 18 (22.50%) OSPF
7 16 (20.00%) SD-WAN
8 10 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (12.50%) MPLS
9 9 (11.25%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (11.25%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (11.25%) TCP/IP
9 9 (11.25%) Wireless
10 8 (10.00%) DNS
10 8 (10.00%) IPsec
11 7 (8.75%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (8.75%) DHCP
11 7 (8.75%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (7.50%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) MySQL
2 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) GitLab
3 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.00%) Finance
3 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.25%) Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.50%) Aviation
7 2 (2.50%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (2.50%) Police
7 2 (2.50%) Retail
7 2 (2.50%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Swedish Language
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) Senior
3 7 (8.75%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (8.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 7 (8.75%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) Consultant
4 6 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
4 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Network Consultant
5 5 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) WAN Specialist
6 4 (5.00%) Architect
6 4 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Check Point Expert
6 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Network Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.00%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) Kafka
2 1 (1.25%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.00%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.75%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.50%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) Robotics
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.50%) Windows
2 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.25%) Linux
4 4 (5.00%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (1.25%) CentOS
5 1 (1.25%) Rocky
5 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (11.25%) Agile
3 9 (11.25%) High Availability
3 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (10.00%) Network Management
4 8 (10.00%) SIEM
5 7 (8.75%) DevOps
5 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (8.75%) Load Balancing
6 6 (7.50%) Auto-Scaling
6 6 (7.50%) CI/CD
6 6 (7.50%) Mentoring
6 6 (7.50%) Preventative Maintenance
7 5 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (6.25%) Network Design
7 5 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (6.25%) Security Operations
7 5 (6.25%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.00%) Python
2 6 (7.50%) VB
3 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 13 (16.25%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (13.75%) CCNP
5 8 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.00%) APMP
6 4 (5.00%) CCSE
7 3 (3.75%) CCIE
7 3 (3.75%) CCNA
8 2 (2.50%) CISA
8 2 (2.50%) CISM
8 2 (2.50%) CISSP
8 2 (2.50%) Degree
8 2 (2.50%) GIAC
8 2 (2.50%) ISACA
8 2 (2.50%) SANS
8 2 (2.50%) VCAP
8 2 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 7 (8.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.25%) Firmware
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) Terraform
2 11 (13.75%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Puppet
3 4 (5.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 3 (3.75%) logstash
4 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.75%) QRadar
5 2 (2.50%) Grafana
5 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.25%) OfficeScan
6 1 (1.25%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 42 (52.50%) Cisco
2 41 (51.25%) Fortinet
3 12 (15.00%) VMware
4 10 (12.50%) F5
5 9 (11.25%) CheckPoint
6 8 (10.00%) Juniper
6 8 (10.00%) Palo Alto
7 6 (7.50%) Arista
7 6 (7.50%) Citrix
7 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
8 5 (6.25%) Meraki
9 4 (5.00%) Aruba
9 4 (5.00%) Tenable
9 4 (5.00%) Zscaler
10 3 (3.75%) Broadcom
10 3 (3.75%) Mitel
11 2 (2.50%) HP
11 2 (2.50%) McAfee
11 2 (2.50%) Ribbon
11 2 (2.50%) Symantec