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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 326 374
Rank change year-on-year -25 +48 +12
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 61 32 35
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.32% 1.66% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 19 22
10th Percentile £410 £421 £401
25th Percentile £450 £488 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 - £688
England median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.75
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £17.79 £13.50
% change year-on-year +173.86% +31.78% -81.69%

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 2,626 1,932 2,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.87% 15.55% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,804 1,296 1,674
10th Percentile £358 £352 £330
25th Percentile £438 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 35
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.88 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +60.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £69.55
England median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +32.44% +41.27% -42.73%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 - 7 £519 - 2
Central London -20 3 £500 -9.09% 7
West London - 2 £500 - 1
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 (14.75%) nginx
2 7 (11.48%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.70%) Azure
2 14 (22.95%) AWS
3 9 (14.75%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (14.75%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (14.75%) Amazon S3
3 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (14.75%) Route 53
3 9 (14.75%) Serverless
3 9 (14.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 45 (73.77%) Firewall
2 28 (45.90%) Network Security
3 25 (40.98%) WAN
4 21 (34.43%) SD-WAN
4 21 (34.43%) VPN
5 18 (29.51%) DNS
6 15 (24.59%) VLAN
7 14 (22.95%) TCP/IP
8 11 (18.03%) BGP
8 11 (18.03%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (16.39%) LAN
9 10 (16.39%) OSPF
9 10 (16.39%) TACACS
10 9 (14.75%) OpenVPN
10 9 (14.75%) Wireless
11 8 (13.11%) DHCP
12 5 (8.20%) IPsec
13 4 (6.56%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (6.56%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (6.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Bitbucket
1 7 (11.48%) JIRA
1 7 (11.48%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.64%) Git
General
1 13 (21.31%) Finance
2 11 (18.03%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Legal
5 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.56%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.92%) Law
7 3 (4.92%) Retail
8 1 (1.64%) Local Government
8 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (44.26%) Network Engineer
2 17 (27.87%) Architect
3 8 (13.11%) Network Security Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Security Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.20%) AWS Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Senior
5 5 (8.20%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Network Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Network Operations Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Operations Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) LDAP
1 9 (14.75%) OpenID
2 3 (4.92%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.87%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Windows
2 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Android
3 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (21.31%) DevOps
3 12 (19.67%) Validation
4 9 (14.75%) Decision-Making
4 9 (14.75%) ITSM
4 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
5 8 (13.11%) Migration
5 8 (13.11%) Project Delivery
6 7 (11.48%) Network Design
6 7 (11.48%) Runbook
6 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.84%) Load Balancing
7 6 (9.84%) Security Operations
8 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (8.20%) Zero Trust
9 4 (6.56%) CI/CD
9 4 (6.56%) Cloud Security
9 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (6.56%) Network Segmentation
9 4 (6.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.39%) Python
2 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) SC Cleared
1 14 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.03%) CCNP
2 11 (18.03%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.92%) CCNA
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.28%) CCIE
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CCIE Security
5 1 (1.64%) CCSA
5 1 (1.64%) CCSE
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) SLA
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Squid
2 6 (9.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.28%) Firmware
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (27.87%) Terraform
2 9 (14.75%) Grafana
2 9 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.75%) Prometheus
2 9 (14.75%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (11.48%) Ansible
3 7 (11.48%) Consul
4 2 (3.28%) SCCM
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.64%) Nessus
5 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (62.30%) Cisco
2 29 (47.54%) Palo Alto
3 21 (34.43%) Fortinet
4 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
5 12 (19.67%) Zscaler
6 9 (14.75%) CheckPoint
6 9 (14.75%) Dynatrace
6 9 (14.75%) Red Hat
7 8 (13.11%) F5
8 7 (11.48%) Aruba
8 7 (11.48%) Atlassian
9 5 (8.20%) Juniper
10 4 (6.56%) Infoblox
11 3 (4.92%) VMware
12 2 (3.28%) Citrix
12 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
13 1 (1.64%) Blue Coat
13 1 (1.64%) Riverbed
13 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
13 1 (1.64%) Splunk