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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 351 381
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 +158
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 30 26 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.16% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.45% 1.11% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 45
10th Percentile £423 £381 £252
25th Percentile £459 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £650
90th Percentile - £775 £822
England median daily rate £550 £494 £450
% change year-on-year +11.39% +9.72% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - -39.55%

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 2,073 2,349 3,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.39% 14.41% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,363 1,594 2,622
10th Percentile £344 £335 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 39
10th Percentile £25.20 £21.16 £25.12
25th Percentile £26.45 £23.80 £26.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -55.00% +150.94%
75th Percentile £60.63 £63.50 £76.13
90th Percentile £63.71 £71.25 £90.00
England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £49.87
% change year-on-year -8.13% -19.78% +108.55%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing FortiGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for FortiGate 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 September 2025.

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 September 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
South London - 3 £335 -
West London -8 2 £450 +1.41% 1
Central London 0 1 £475 - 2
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.67%) nginx
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Akamai
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.67%) Route 53
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
6 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.33%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (86.67%) Firewall
2 11 (36.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 11 (36.67%) LAN
2 11 (36.67%) VPN
2 11 (36.67%) WAN
3 10 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 10 (33.33%) Network Security
4 9 (30.00%) BGP
4 9 (30.00%) DNS
4 9 (30.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 9 (30.00%) OSPF
5 8 (26.67%) DHCP
6 7 (23.33%) SNMP
6 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
6 7 (23.33%) Wireless
6 7 (23.33%) Wireshark
7 6 (20.00%) 4G
8 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
9 2 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (6.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) GitLab
1 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Law
3 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Network Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Senior
3 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Designer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Network Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Network Designer
6 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Backup Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Data Centre Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Exchange Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) High Availability
2 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (26.67%) Network Segmentation
3 7 (23.33%) Business Continuity
3 7 (23.33%) Data Privacy
3 7 (23.33%) Incident Management
3 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 7 (23.33%) Inventory Management
3 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
3 7 (23.33%) Proactive Management
3 7 (23.33%) Software Licensing
4 6 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 5 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 2 (6.67%) DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) ITIL
7 2 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (6.67%) Migration
7 2 (6.67%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (30.00%) CCNP
3 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
4 7 (23.33%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) CCIE
5 1 (3.33%) CCSE
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) HP ASE
5 1 (3.33%) MCITP
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
1 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kibana
1 2 (6.67%) logstash
1 2 (6.67%) Packer
1 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (6.67%) QRadar
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
1 2 (6.67%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Cisco
2 14 (46.67%) Fortinet
3 12 (40.00%) Juniper
4 9 (30.00%) F5
5 8 (26.67%) SolarWinds
6 7 (23.33%) Palo Alto
7 5 (16.67%) CheckPoint
7 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 2 (6.67%) VMware
9 1 (3.33%) 3PAR
9 1 (3.33%) AlgoSec
9 1 (3.33%) Citrix
9 1 (3.33%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
9 1 (3.33%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (3.33%) Meraki
9 1 (3.33%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (3.33%) ProCurve
9 1 (3.33%) Tufin
9 1 (3.33%) Zscaler