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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 326 342
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +144
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 40 30 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.80% 1.47% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 36
10th Percentile £356 £475 £252
25th Percentile £416 £494 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £675 £556 £659
90th Percentile - £606 £856
England median daily rate £538 £513 £425
% change year-on-year +4.88% +20.59% -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - -
Median hourly rate £20.36 - -
75th Percentile £20.53 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +86.57%

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 2,219 2,039 2,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.53% 14.69% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,518 1,336 1,806
10th Percentile £350 £360 £325
25th Percentile £429 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £556
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +1.57% -11.00%
75th Percentile £638 £676 £675
90th Percentile £723 £789 £750
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 29
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.30 £16.86
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £25.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.25 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +13.35% +50.48%
75th Percentile £63.32 £72.13 £62.50
90th Percentile - £106.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £50.61 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +90.98% -42.62% +21.53%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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
Central London +1 3 - - 2
South London - 2 £455 - 3
East London - 1 £525 -
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 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.00%) GCP
3 2 (5.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Akamai
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 30 (75.00%) Firewall
2 20 (50.00%) WAN
3 16 (40.00%) Network Security
4 15 (37.50%) BGP
4 15 (37.50%) SD-WAN
5 11 (27.50%) LAN
6 8 (20.00%) OSPF
6 8 (20.00%) VPN
7 7 (17.50%) Wireless
8 6 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (15.00%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (15.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (15.00%) MPLS
9 5 (12.50%) 5G
9 5 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 5 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (10.00%) Cisco Wireless
10 4 (10.00%) DNS
10 4 (10.00%) TACACS
10 4 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Redis
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Legal
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Financial Institution
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Law
5 2 (5.00%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Design Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Network Design Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Migration Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Data Centre Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Exchange Migration Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) JSON
1 2 (5.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (5.00%) XML
1 2 (5.00%) YANG
2 1 (2.50%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.50%) OpenConfig
2 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (7.50%) PKI
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Life Science
3 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Network Design
1 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.50%) DevOps
3 7 (17.50%) Load Balancing
4 6 (15.00%) ITIL
5 5 (12.50%) Business Strategy
5 5 (12.50%) High Availability
5 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 5 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (10.00%) Agile
6 4 (10.00%) Information Security
6 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (10.00%) ITSM
7 3 (7.50%) Performance Management
7 3 (7.50%) Threat Management
7 3 (7.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.50%) SQL
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (30.00%) CCNP
3 11 (27.50%) CCNA
4 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) HP ASE
6 2 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.50%) CCDP
7 1 (2.50%) CCSE
7 1 (2.50%) CISSP
7 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.50%) Degree
7 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (2.50%) NCSC
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (67.50%) Cisco
2 22 (55.00%) Palo Alto
3 16 (40.00%) Fortinet
4 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (22.50%) F5
6 6 (15.00%) CheckPoint
7 5 (12.50%) Aruba
7 5 (12.50%) Nokia
8 3 (7.50%) Juniper
8 3 (7.50%) VMware
9 2 (5.00%) 3PAR
9 2 (5.00%) Citrix
9 2 (5.00%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (5.00%) Nimble Storage
9 2 (5.00%) ProCurve
9 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
9 2 (5.00%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (2.50%) Okta
10 1 (2.50%) Ubiquiti