FortiGate Contract Job Trends in London

Fortinet FortiGate
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 318 342
Rank change year-on-year -25 +24 +110
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 51 33 50
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.07% 1.62% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 21 33
10th Percentile £365 £475 £404
25th Percentile £475 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £688
90th Percentile - £575 £873
England median daily rate £519 £518 £475
% change year-on-year +0.15% +9.00% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.36 - £13.50
75th Percentile £20.53 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.03 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -73.91%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,461 2,034 2,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.76% 16.08% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 1,390 1,614
10th Percentile £350 £365 £325
25th Percentile £429 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £794 £750
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 40
10th Percentile £22.07 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.73 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +71.33% +7.84% -59.83%
75th Percentile £63.32 £55.00 £58.19
90th Percentile - £62.80 £62.95
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -45.45%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in London

FortiGate
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in London over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in London

FortiGate
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the London region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. 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
South London - 8 £519 -
Central London -15 3 - -
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (17.65%) nginx
2 7 (13.73%) Confluence
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) AWS
3 10 (19.61%) Amazon S3
3 10 (19.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (17.65%) Route 53
4 9 (17.65%) Serverless
5 5 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.96%) GCP
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub
7 1 (1.96%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 41 (80.39%) Firewall
2 22 (43.14%) WAN
3 20 (39.22%) Network Security
4 19 (37.25%) SD-WAN
5 16 (31.37%) BGP
5 16 (31.37%) VPN
6 13 (25.49%) LAN
7 12 (23.53%) DNS
8 11 (21.57%) TCP/IP
9 10 (19.61%) OSPF
10 9 (17.65%) OpenVPN
11 8 (15.69%) VLAN
12 7 (13.73%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (13.73%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (11.76%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (11.76%) NX-OS
13 6 (11.76%) TACACS
14 5 (9.80%) MPLS
14 5 (9.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.96%) Redis
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Bitbucket
1 7 (13.73%) JIRA
1 7 (13.73%) SonarQube
2 5 (9.80%) Git
3 1 (1.96%) GitLab
General
1 15 (29.41%) Finance
2 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (13.73%) Legal
5 6 (11.76%) Financial Institution
6 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.92%) Law
9 1 (1.96%) Billing
9 1 (1.96%) Local Government
9 1 (1.96%) Military
9 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (37.25%) Network Engineer
2 18 (35.29%) Architect
3 7 (13.73%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (11.76%) Technical Architect
5 5 (9.80%) AWS Architect
5 5 (9.80%) Network Operations Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Design Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Network Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Network Design Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
7 3 (5.88%) Operations Manager
7 3 (5.88%) Senior
8 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) LDAP
1 9 (17.65%) OpenID
2 2 (3.92%) JSON
2 2 (3.92%) NETCONF
2 2 (3.92%) XML
2 2 (3.92%) YANG
3 1 (1.96%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.96%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.96%) OpenConfig
3 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) PKI
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.96%) Life Science
4 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Windows
2 6 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) DevOps
1 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (27.45%) Roadmaps
3 13 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (19.61%) Load Balancing
5 9 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 9 (17.65%) Network Design
6 7 (13.73%) Change Management
7 6 (11.76%) Break/Fix
7 6 (11.76%) ITIL
7 6 (11.76%) ITSM
7 6 (11.76%) Performance Management
7 6 (11.76%) Validation
8 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (9.80%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (7.84%) Business Strategy
9 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (7.84%) Migration
10 3 (5.88%) CI/CD
10 3 (5.88%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) Python
2 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 9 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (15.69%) CCNP
5 7 (13.73%) CCNA
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.96%) CISSP
7 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.96%) HP ASE
7 1 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) SLA
2 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) NCSC
4 1 (1.96%) NIST
4 1 (1.96%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Squid
2 8 (15.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.96%) Docker
4 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (29.41%) Terraform
2 10 (19.61%) Grafana
2 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (19.61%) Prometheus
2 10 (19.61%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (13.73%) Consul
4 3 (5.88%) Ansible
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.96%) SCCM
5 1 (1.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (50.98%) Cisco
2 21 (41.18%) Palo Alto
3 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 13 (25.49%) Fortinet
5 11 (21.57%) F5
6 9 (17.65%) Dynatrace
6 9 (17.65%) Red Hat
7 7 (13.73%) Atlassian
8 5 (9.80%) Aruba
8 5 (9.80%) CheckPoint
8 5 (9.80%) Nokia
8 5 (9.80%) Zscaler
9 3 (5.88%) Juniper
9 3 (5.88%) VMware
10 2 (3.92%) Citrix
10 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.96%) 3PAR
11 1 (1.96%) Nimble Storage
11 1 (1.96%) Okta
11 1 (1.96%) Splunk