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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 328 362
Rank change year-on-year -41 +34 +27
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 61 30 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.27% 1.50% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 19 23
10th Percentile £411 £421 £401
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +10.00% -9.09%
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% -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 2,691 1,996 2,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.04% 15.67% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,868 1,328 1,688
10th Percentile £358 £350 £329
25th Percentile £440 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.42% -10.33%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
England median daily rate £514 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.29% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 36
10th Percentile £25.65 £26.48 £20.00
25th Percentile £34.50 £28.44 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.72 £42.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% +69.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £76.56 £55.94 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.18 £69.13
England median hourly rate £61.00 £52.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +16.19% +68.00% -42.32%

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 27 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 27 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 4 £500 -9.09% 4
West London - 2 £500 - 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 (14.75%) nginx
2 7 (11.48%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) 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 48 (78.69%) Firewall
2 28 (45.90%) Network Security
3 23 (37.70%) VPN
3 23 (37.70%) WAN
4 20 (32.79%) DNS
5 19 (31.15%) SD-WAN
6 15 (24.59%) TCP/IP
6 15 (24.59%) VLAN
7 11 (18.03%) BGP
7 11 (18.03%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (16.39%) DHCP
8 10 (16.39%) LAN
8 10 (16.39%) OSPF
9 9 (14.75%) OpenVPN
9 9 (14.75%) TACACS
9 9 (14.75%) Wireless
10 5 (8.20%) IPsec
11 4 (6.56%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (6.56%) Cisco IOS
11 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 12 (19.67%) Finance
1 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Legal
4 4 (6.56%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.92%) Retail
6 2 (3.28%) Law
7 1 (1.64%) Local Government
7 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (47.54%) Network Engineer
2 15 (24.59%) Architect
3 9 (14.75%) Network Security Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Security Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Senior
4 6 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.20%) AWS Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Network Operations Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Operations Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Firewall Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) Governance Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Network Designer
8 2 (3.28%) Server Engineer
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 16 (26.23%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Android
3 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (19.67%) DevOps
2 12 (19.67%) Validation
3 9 (14.75%) Decision-Making
3 9 (14.75%) ITSM
3 9 (14.75%) Migration
3 9 (14.75%) Project Delivery
3 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
4 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (11.48%) Load Balancing
5 7 (11.48%) Runbook
5 7 (11.48%) Security Operations
6 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (9.84%) Network Design
6 6 (9.84%) Zero Trust
7 5 (8.20%) Cloud Security
7 5 (8.20%) Network Segmentation
7 5 (8.20%) Observability
8 4 (6.56%) Security Hardening
8 4 (6.56%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) Python
2 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) SC Cleared
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) CCNP
2 12 (19.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.92%) CCIE
3 3 (4.92%) CCNA
4 2 (3.28%) CCIE Security
4 2 (3.28%) CISSP
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) CCSA
5 1 (1.64%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) SLA
2 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Squid
2 7 (11.48%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.28%) Firmware
4 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (26.23%) Terraform
2 9 (14.75%) Grafana
2 9 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.75%) Prometheus
2 9 (14.75%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (13.11%) Ansible
4 7 (11.48%) Consul
5 3 (4.92%) SCCM
6 2 (3.28%) Nessus
6 2 (3.28%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (60.66%) Cisco
2 26 (42.62%) Palo Alto
3 20 (32.79%) Fortinet
4 14 (22.95%) Zscaler
5 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
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%) Atlassian
9 5 (8.20%) Aruba
9 5 (8.20%) Juniper
9 5 (8.20%) VMware
10 4 (6.56%) Citrix
10 4 (6.56%) Infoblox
11 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
11 2 (3.28%) Tenable
12 1 (1.64%) Meraki
12 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
12 1 (1.64%) Splunk