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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 432 484
Rank change year-on-year +45 +52 +151
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 84 105 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.24% 2.39% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 83 95
10th Percentile £417 £400 £331
25th Percentile £459 £420 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -16.28% +2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £650
90th Percentile £595 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +13.89% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £70.13
25th Percentile - £12.75 £70.31
Median hourly rate £17.79 £13.50 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.78% -81.69% -
75th Percentile - £14.25 £80.31
90th Percentile - - £82.38
UK median hourly rate £17.79 £13.50 £73.75
% change year-on-year +31.78% -81.69% -

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 3,755 4,385 7,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.64% 12.04% 15.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,582 3,229 5,354
10th Percentile £311 £262 £355
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% -
75th Percentile £623 £625 £684
90th Percentile £715 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £513 £560
% change year-on-year +1.46% -8.48% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 98 177
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £16.43
25th Percentile £23.20 £18.34 £25.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.38 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.03% -49.75% +144.19%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.69 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.48 £71.25 £84.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% -47.73% +150.00%

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

FortiGate
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

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in England over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in England

FortiGate
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 24 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 +61 38 £513 -2.38% 38
Midlands +14 16 £485 +14.18% 22
West Midlands +19 14 £485 +2.16% 11
North of England +18 9 £425 -24.44% 28
South East +15 9 £575 +27.78% 40
East of England +30 6 £525 +31.25% 20
Yorkshire +14 6 - - 10
South West +38 3 £433 -11.28% 22
North West +11 3 £425 -26.09% 11
East Midlands +5 2 - - 9
FortiGate
UK

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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Camunda
2 1 (1.19%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 30 (35.71%) Azure
2 28 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.19%) GitHub
5 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (69.05%) Firewall
2 31 (36.90%) Network Security
3 29 (34.52%) VPN
4 28 (33.33%) WAN
5 26 (30.95%) BGP
6 21 (25.00%) LAN
7 18 (21.43%) OSPF
8 15 (17.86%) SD-WAN
9 14 (16.67%) TCP/IP
10 11 (13.10%) Cisco Firepower
10 11 (13.10%) DNS
10 11 (13.10%) Wireless
11 10 (11.90%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (11.90%) IPsec
11 10 (11.90%) MPLS
12 9 (10.71%) DHCP
13 7 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (8.33%) Junos
13 7 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) MySQL
2 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (9.52%) JIRA
2 3 (3.57%) GitLab
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.19%) Git
General
1 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.52%) Finance
4 7 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.95%) Banking
5 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.38%) Aviation
6 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.38%) Police
6 2 (2.38%) Retail
6 2 (2.38%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.38%) Swedish Language
7 1 (1.19%) Electronics
7 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) Network Engineer
2 12 (14.29%) Senior
3 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Consultant
5 6 (7.14%) Check Point Expert
5 6 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
5 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Network Consultant
6 5 (5.95%) Architect
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) WAN Specialist
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Network Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (1.19%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.19%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.95%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.76%) Hedge funds
5 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.38%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.38%) Clustering
6 2 (2.38%) Robotics
7 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.86%) Windows
2 6 (7.14%) Check Point GAiA
2 6 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.76%) Linux
4 1 (1.19%) CentOS
4 1 (1.19%) Rocky
4 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (15.48%) High Availability
3 11 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (11.90%) Agile
4 10 (11.90%) SIEM
5 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 8 (9.52%) Network Management
7 7 (8.33%) DevOps
7 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (8.33%) Load Balancing
7 7 (8.33%) Preventative Maintenance
7 7 (8.33%) Security Operations
8 6 (7.14%) Auto-Scaling
8 6 (7.14%) Business Continuity
8 6 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 6 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (5.95%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.71%) Python
2 7 (8.33%) VB
3 1 (1.19%) Bash
3 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (13.10%) CCNP
5 8 (9.52%) DV Cleared
6 6 (7.14%) CCSE
7 4 (4.76%) APMP
8 3 (3.57%) CCNA
8 3 (3.57%) Degree
9 2 (2.38%) CCIE
9 2 (2.38%) CISA
9 2 (2.38%) CISM
9 2 (2.38%) CISSP
9 2 (2.38%) GIAC
9 2 (2.38%) ISACA
9 2 (2.38%) SANS
9 2 (2.38%) VCAP
9 2 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) SLA
2 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.19%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (10.71%) VMware NSX
2 6 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.38%) Firmware
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (23.81%) Terraform
2 12 (14.29%) Ansible
3 4 (4.76%) Puppet
4 3 (3.57%) logstash
4 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.57%) QRadar
4 3 (3.57%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 2 (2.38%) Grafana
6 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.19%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 43 (51.19%) Cisco
2 42 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 12 (14.29%) F5
3 12 (14.29%) VMware
4 11 (13.10%) CheckPoint
5 9 (10.71%) Palo Alto
6 8 (9.52%) Juniper
7 7 (8.33%) Citrix
8 6 (7.14%) Arista
8 6 (7.14%) Meraki
9 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
9 5 (5.95%) Zscaler
10 4 (4.76%) Tenable
11 3 (3.57%) Aruba
11 3 (3.57%) Broadcom
12 2 (2.38%) Atempo
12 2 (2.38%) Databricks
12 2 (2.38%) HP
12 2 (2.38%) Mellanox
12 2 (2.38%) Ribbon