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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 339 353
Rank change year-on-year -65 +14 +35
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 54 30 29
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.42% 1.66% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 21 19
10th Percentile £413 £425 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £556
90th Percentile £610 - £688
England median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -2.56%

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 2,230 1,803 1,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.05% 13.38% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,500 1,179 1,380
10th Percentile £326 £313 £325
25th Percentile £449 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £730 £751
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 28
10th Percentile £31.18 £23.60 £20.35
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.23 £20.50
Median hourly rate £62.75 £30.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +109.17% +22.00% -60.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.13 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.85 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.47 £51.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +32.29% +41.02% -31.11%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -14 4 £500 -2.44% 3
West London -21 2 £500 +11.11%
South London -5 1 £513 -
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 2 (3.70%) nginx
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) AWS
3 5 (9.26%) GitHub
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.70%) Route 53
5 2 (3.70%) Serverless
5 2 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 48 (88.89%) Firewall
2 29 (53.70%) Network Security
3 21 (38.89%) VPN
4 20 (37.04%) WAN
5 16 (29.63%) DNS
6 15 (27.78%) VLAN
7 14 (25.93%) BGP
7 14 (25.93%) Wireless
8 13 (24.07%) DHCP
9 11 (20.37%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (18.52%) LAN
10 10 (18.52%) OSPF
10 10 (18.52%) TCP/IP
11 9 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 9 (16.67%) SD-WAN
11 9 (16.67%) TACACS
12 7 (12.96%) IPsec
12 7 (12.96%) MPLS
13 5 (9.26%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (7.41%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Finance
2 5 (9.26%) Retail
3 4 (7.41%) Legal
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (62.96%) Network Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) Server Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Firewall Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Governance Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Network Operations Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.37%) Terraform
2 7 (12.96%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.70%) LDAP
3 2 (3.70%) OpenID
4 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.41%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Project Delivery
1 13 (24.07%) Validation
2 11 (20.37%) Migration
3 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (18.52%) Runbook
3 10 (18.52%) Zero Trust
4 9 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 9 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 8 (14.81%) ITSM
6 7 (12.96%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 5 (9.26%) Business Continuity
8 5 (9.26%) High Availability
8 5 (9.26%) Incident Management
9 4 (7.41%) Business Strategy
9 4 (7.41%) Design Patterns
9 4 (7.41%) Due Diligence
9 4 (7.41%) Incident Response
9 4 (7.41%) Network Design
9 4 (7.41%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) Python
2 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) CCNP
1 14 (25.93%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (9.26%) CCNA
2 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) CCIE
4 2 (3.70%) CCIE Security
4 2 (3.70%) CISSP
5 1 (1.85%) CCSA
5 1 (1.85%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.56%) Firmware
4 2 (3.70%) Squid
4 2 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Ansible
2 2 (3.70%) Grafana
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Nessus
2 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.70%) SCCM
2 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.70%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.85%) Consul
Vendors
1 37 (68.52%) Cisco
2 27 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 24 (44.44%) Fortinet
4 16 (29.63%) Zscaler
5 13 (24.07%) F5
6 9 (16.67%) CheckPoint
7 6 (11.11%) Aruba
7 6 (11.11%) Juniper
7 6 (11.11%) VMware
8 5 (9.26%) Citrix
8 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
8 5 (9.26%) SolarWinds
9 4 (7.41%) Infoblox
9 4 (7.41%) Riverbed
10 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
10 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
10 2 (3.70%) Tenable
11 1 (1.85%) FireEye
11 1 (1.85%) Meraki
11 1 (1.85%) Splunk