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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 367 364
Rank change year-on-year +26 -3 +170
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 37 21 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.63% 0.91% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 42
10th Percentile £356 £413 £252
25th Percentile £400 £455 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +0.49% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £588 £756 £873
England median daily rate £525 £500 £431
% change year-on-year +5.00% +15.94% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.36 - £22.50
75th Percentile £20.53 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - +26.87%

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 2,268 2,316 2,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.97% 14.56% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,513 2,182
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -4.26% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £680
90th Percentile £724 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 34
10th Percentile £21.82 £23.07 £21.48
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £28.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.31 £63.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £66.02 £102.40 £82.38
England median hourly rate £37.00 £35.08 £47.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% -26.14% +78.10%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 - 4 £455 -
Central London -2 2 £475 -17.39% 1
West London -10 2 £450 -7.69%
East London - 1 £525 - 1
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 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) nginx
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Akamai
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) AWS
4 3 (8.11%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.41%) Nutanix
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.70%) Route 53
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
6 1 (2.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 36 (97.30%) Firewall
2 18 (48.65%) BGP
3 14 (37.84%) Network Security
4 13 (35.14%) OSPF
5 12 (32.43%) LAN
6 11 (29.73%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (29.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 11 (29.73%) WAN
7 10 (27.03%) Cisco Nexus
7 10 (27.03%) VPN
8 7 (18.92%) SNMP
8 7 (18.92%) Wireshark
9 6 (16.22%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (16.22%) SD-WAN
9 6 (16.22%) Wireless
10 5 (13.51%) DNS
11 4 (10.81%) DHCP
11 4 (10.81%) MPLS
11 4 (10.81%) VLAN
11 4 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Redis
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Financial Institution
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Military
5 1 (2.70%) Billing
5 1 (2.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (67.57%) Network Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Network Security Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Security Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Consultant
3 4 (10.81%) Juniper Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Data Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Data Migration Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Designer
4 2 (5.41%) Exchange Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Lead
4 2 (5.41%) Network Design Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Network Designer
4 2 (5.41%) Network Specialist
4 2 (5.41%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.70%) JSON
1 1 (2.70%) NETCONF
1 1 (2.70%) OpenConfig
1 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.70%) XML
1 1 (2.70%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.11%) PKI
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.41%) Life Science
3 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.70%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) SCADA
4 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) High Availability
2 9 (24.32%) Network Segmentation
3 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (16.22%) Load Balancing
5 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (13.51%) Migration
6 4 (10.81%) DevOps
6 4 (10.81%) Network Design
6 4 (10.81%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (8.11%) Break/Fix
7 3 (8.11%) Business Strategy
7 3 (8.11%) Change Management
7 3 (8.11%) Cloud Security
7 3 (8.11%) Data Protection
7 3 (8.11%) ITIL
7 3 (8.11%) ITSM
7 3 (8.11%) Performance Management
7 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.11%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (29.73%) CCNP
3 10 (27.03%) CCNA
4 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
5 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) HP ASE
6 2 (5.41%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.70%) CCDP
7 1 (2.70%) CCIE
7 1 (2.70%) CCSE
7 1 (2.70%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.70%) Degree
7 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.70%) MCITP
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) SLA
2 2 (5.41%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) NCSC
3 1 (2.70%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Ansible
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Grafana
2 1 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (2.70%) Kibana
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Packer
2 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (70.27%) Cisco
2 20 (54.05%) Fortinet
3 15 (40.54%) Palo Alto
4 14 (37.84%) F5
5 12 (32.43%) Juniper
6 8 (21.62%) SolarWinds
7 7 (18.92%) CheckPoint
7 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
8 4 (10.81%) VMware
9 3 (8.11%) Nokia
10 2 (5.41%) 3PAR
10 2 (5.41%) Citrix
10 2 (5.41%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (5.41%) Infoblox
10 2 (5.41%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (5.41%) ProCurve
10 2 (5.41%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (2.70%) Okta
11 1 (2.70%) Ubiquiti