FortiGate Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Fortinet FortiGate
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 70 84
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +23
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 10 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.00% 1.27% 1.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.71% 6.37% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 2
10th Percentile £458 £420 £449
25th Percentile £525 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -11.58% -15.93%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £695
90th Percentile £678 £788 £743
South East median daily rate £563 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.08% +35.91%

All Systems Management Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 175 251 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.47% 19.94% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 179 110
10th Percentile £411 £360 £345
25th Percentile £458 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.57% -0.76%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £624
90th Percentile £638 £740 £689
South East median daily rate £484 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -3.25% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 16
10th Percentile - - £23.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £24.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -55.45% +150.00%
75th Percentile £21.00 £26.75 £62.37
90th Percentile - - £76.50
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £35.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.99% -36.21% +14.86%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in Hampshire

FortiGate
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in Hampshire over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in Hampshire

FortiGate
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Basingstoke +7 5 £575 +12.20%
Farnborough - 2 £465 - 2
Portsmouth -3 1 £700 +47.37%
Winchester - 1 £593 -
FortiGate
South East

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) Junos
2 5 (50.00%) LAN
3 4 (40.00%) VLAN
4 2 (20.00%) BGP
4 2 (20.00%) OSPF
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (30.00%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (20.00%) Change Control
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (20.00%) Operational Stability
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (20.00%) CCNP
4 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (10.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Juniper
3 5 (50.00%) Citrix
3 5 (50.00%) F5
4 4 (40.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (20.00%) Aruba
5 2 (20.00%) Dell
5 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (20.00%) VMware