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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 312 356
Rank change year-on-year -40 +44 +45
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 53 38 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.15% 1.94% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 25 27
10th Percentile £400 £460 £385
25th Percentile £463 £494 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +2.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile £675 £588 £753
England median daily rate £500 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -18.18%
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 - - -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 2,464 1,956 2,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.73% 15.63% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 1,335 1,585
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £434 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.93% -10.42%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
England median daily rate £508 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 34
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £18.45
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.73 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £40.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.41% +62.67% -61.88%
75th Percentile £63.32 £53.75 £53.81
90th Percentile £67.19 £63.25 £69.98
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.75 £25.77
% change year-on-year +103.60% +7.70% -50.75%

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 May 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 May 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 -
Central London -15 2 - - 3
West London - 2 £500 - 4
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 (16.98%) nginx
2 7 (13.21%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 13 (24.53%) AWS
3 9 (16.98%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (16.98%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (16.98%) Amazon S3
3 9 (16.98%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (16.98%) Route 53
3 9 (16.98%) Serverless
3 9 (16.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub
7 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 37 (69.81%) Firewall
2 24 (45.28%) Network Security
3 21 (39.62%) WAN
4 19 (35.85%) SD-WAN
5 16 (30.19%) VPN
6 15 (28.30%) DNS
7 12 (22.64%) TCP/IP
8 11 (20.75%) VLAN
9 9 (16.98%) BGP
9 9 (16.98%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (16.98%) OpenVPN
10 8 (15.09%) LAN
10 8 (15.09%) TACACS
11 7 (13.21%) OSPF
12 5 (9.43%) DHCP
12 5 (9.43%) Wireless
13 4 (7.55%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (7.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 4 (7.55%) IPsec
14 3 (5.66%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Bitbucket
1 7 (13.21%) JIRA
1 7 (13.21%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.77%) Git
General
1 12 (22.64%) Finance
2 11 (20.75%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Legal
5 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.55%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.77%) Law
7 2 (3.77%) Retail
8 1 (1.89%) Local Government
8 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (43.40%) Network Engineer
2 17 (32.08%) Architect
3 7 (13.21%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.43%) AWS Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Network Operations Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Network Architect
6 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Operations Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
7 2 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Designer
7 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) LDAP
1 9 (16.98%) OpenID
2 1 (1.89%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.89%) JSON
2 1 (1.89%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.89%) XML
2 1 (1.89%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.30%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Windows
2 4 (7.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.89%) Android
3 1 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (26.42%) DevOps
3 11 (20.75%) Roadmaps
4 9 (16.98%) Decision-Making
4 9 (16.98%) Validation
5 8 (15.09%) Network Design
6 7 (13.21%) ITSM
6 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (11.32%) Migration
7 6 (11.32%) Runbook
8 5 (9.43%) ITIL
8 5 (9.43%) Load Balancing
9 4 (7.55%) Change Management
9 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (7.55%) Project Delivery
9 4 (7.55%) Security Operations
10 3 (5.66%) Business Strategy
10 3 (5.66%) CI/CD
10 3 (5.66%) Cost Management
10 3 (5.66%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.21%) Python
2 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.89%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) SC Cleared
1 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) CCNP
2 8 (15.09%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.66%) CCNA
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.66%) SLA
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Squid
2 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.77%) Firmware
4 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Terraform
2 9 (16.98%) Grafana
2 9 (16.98%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.98%) Prometheus
2 9 (16.98%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (13.21%) Consul
4 3 (5.66%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (58.49%) Cisco
2 25 (47.17%) Palo Alto
3 15 (28.30%) Fortinet
4 13 (24.53%) Microsoft
5 9 (16.98%) Dynatrace
5 9 (16.98%) Red Hat
6 8 (15.09%) Zscaler
7 7 (13.21%) Atlassian
7 7 (13.21%) CheckPoint
7 7 (13.21%) F5
8 4 (7.55%) Aruba
8 4 (7.55%) Infoblox
8 4 (7.55%) Juniper
9 2 (3.77%) Nokia
10 1 (1.89%) Citrix
10 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.89%) VMware