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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 315 343
Rank change year-on-year -50 +28 +90
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 50 35 51
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.01% 1.73% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 35
10th Percentile £374 £475 £378
25th Percentile £463 £494 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -1.44% -9.57%
75th Percentile £606 £547 £669
90th Percentile £675 £575 £858
England median daily rate £500 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -16.28%
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 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -80.71%

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 2,490 2,026 2,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.20% 15.90% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 1,401 1,567
10th Percentile £350 £363 £319
25th Percentile £430 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 44
10th Percentile £22.39 £23.59 £18.45
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.38 £29.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +94.42% +12.80% -63.92%
75th Percentile £63.32 £53.75 £59.06
90th Percentile £70.30 £63.25 £69.10
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year +107.34% +0.93% -52.00%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -17 2 - - 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 (18.00%) nginx
2 7 (14.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 13 (26.00%) AWS
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (18.00%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (18.00%) Route 53
3 9 (18.00%) Serverless
3 9 (18.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (8.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 39 (78.00%) Firewall
2 21 (42.00%) Network Security
2 21 (42.00%) WAN
3 20 (40.00%) SD-WAN
4 16 (32.00%) VPN
5 13 (26.00%) DNS
6 12 (24.00%) BGP
7 11 (22.00%) LAN
7 11 (22.00%) TCP/IP
7 11 (22.00%) VLAN
8 10 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (20.00%) OSPF
9 9 (18.00%) OpenVPN
10 8 (16.00%) TACACS
11 7 (14.00%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (12.00%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (12.00%) NX-OS
13 5 (10.00%) Wireless
14 4 (8.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 4 (8.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Bitbucket
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
1 7 (14.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.00%) Git
General
1 15 (30.00%) Finance
2 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Legal
5 6 (12.00%) Financial Institution
6 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Law
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Local Government
8 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Network Engineer
2 17 (34.00%) Architect
3 7 (14.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Network Operations Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Network Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Operations Manager
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Designer
7 2 (4.00%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) LDAP
1 9 (18.00%) OpenID
2 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.00%) JSON
2 1 (2.00%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.00%) XML
2 1 (2.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 5 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (28.00%) DevOps
3 11 (22.00%) Roadmaps
4 10 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (18.00%) Decision-Making
5 9 (18.00%) Validation
6 8 (16.00%) ITSM
6 8 (16.00%) Load Balancing
6 8 (16.00%) Network Design
7 7 (14.00%) Change Management
8 6 (12.00%) Break/Fix
8 6 (12.00%) Performance Management
9 5 (10.00%) ITIL
10 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (6.00%) CI/CD
11 3 (6.00%) Cost Management
11 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Management
11 3 (6.00%) Migration
11 3 (6.00%) Project Delivery
11 3 (6.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.00%) CCNP
2 7 (14.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (8.00%) CCNA
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) SLA
2 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Squid
2 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.00%) Grafana
2 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.00%) Prometheus
2 9 (18.00%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (14.00%) Consul
4 3 (6.00%) Ansible
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (58.00%) Cisco
2 21 (42.00%) Palo Alto
3 14 (28.00%) Fortinet
4 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (18.00%) Dynatrace
5 9 (18.00%) F5
5 9 (18.00%) Red Hat
6 7 (14.00%) Atlassian
6 7 (14.00%) CheckPoint
7 6 (12.00%) Zscaler
8 4 (8.00%) Aruba
9 3 (6.00%) Juniper
10 2 (4.00%) Infoblox
10 2 (4.00%) Nokia
10 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
11 1 (2.00%) Citrix
11 1 (2.00%) Remedy
11 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
11 1 (2.00%) VMware