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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 317 339
Rank change year-on-year -36 +22 +127
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 47 33 56
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.96% 1.61% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 21 39
10th Percentile £356 £475 £252
25th Percentile £488 £494 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -12.09%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £669
90th Percentile - £588 £865
England median daily rate £519 £513 £450
% change year-on-year +1.18% +13.89% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.36 - £13.50
75th Percentile £20.53 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.35 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -52.21%

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 2,392 2,054 2,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.35% 15.17% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,639 1,368 1,707
10th Percentile £350 £364 £319
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.20%
75th Percentile £630 £680 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.72% +2.10% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 36
10th Percentile £21.93 £21.78 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £36.75 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% +15.75% +23.49%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.65 £106.90 £64.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £26.00 £40.31
% change year-on-year +101.92% -35.50% -17.73%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 - 3
Central London -14 3 - - 3
East London - 1 £525 - 2
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 7 (14.89%) nginx
2 6 (12.77%) Confluence
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) Azure
2 11 (23.40%) AWS
3 9 (19.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (17.02%) Amazon S3
5 7 (14.89%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (14.89%) Route 53
5 7 (14.89%) Serverless
6 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (4.26%) GCP
8 2 (4.26%) Nutanix
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.13%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 37 (78.72%) Firewall
2 21 (44.68%) WAN
3 17 (36.17%) SD-WAN
4 16 (34.04%) Network Security
5 15 (31.91%) VPN
6 14 (29.79%) BGP
7 12 (25.53%) LAN
8 10 (21.28%) DNS
9 8 (17.02%) TCP/IP
10 7 (14.89%) OpenVPN
10 7 (14.89%) OSPF
11 6 (12.77%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (12.77%) MPLS
11 6 (12.77%) VLAN
11 6 (12.77%) Wireless
12 5 (10.64%) 5G
12 5 (10.64%) Cisco ISE
12 5 (10.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 5 (10.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 5 (10.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.13%) Redis
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Bitbucket
1 6 (12.77%) JIRA
1 6 (12.77%) SonarQube
2 5 (10.64%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 12 (25.53%) Finance
1 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Legal
4 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.26%) Law
6 2 (4.26%) Military
7 1 (2.13%) Billing
7 1 (2.13%) Local Government
7 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) Network Engineer
2 16 (34.04%) Architect
3 6 (12.77%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (12.77%) Technical Architect
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Design Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Network Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Network Design Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Senior
5 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Operations Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Migration Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Network Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) LDAP
1 7 (14.89%) OpenID
2 2 (4.26%) JSON
2 2 (4.26%) NETCONF
2 2 (4.26%) XML
2 2 (4.26%) YANG
3 1 (2.13%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.13%) OpenConfig
3 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.38%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (6.38%) PKI
3 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.26%) Life Science
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.13%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Windows
2 5 (10.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.13%) Android
3 1 (2.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (29.79%) DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) Roadmaps
4 11 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (19.15%) Network Design
6 7 (14.89%) Decision-Making
6 7 (14.89%) ITIL
6 7 (14.89%) Load Balancing
7 6 (12.77%) Migration
8 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (8.51%) Agile
9 4 (8.51%) Business Strategy
9 4 (8.51%) Change Management
9 4 (8.51%) Information Security
9 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (8.51%) ITSM
10 3 (6.38%) CI/CD
10 3 (6.38%) Cloud Security
10 3 (6.38%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) Python
2 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.38%) SQL
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (23.40%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (21.28%) CCNA
4 10 (21.28%) CCNP
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.26%) HP ASE
5 2 (4.26%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CCDP
6 1 (2.13%) CISSP
6 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Degree
6 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) SLA
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (2.13%) NCSC
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.89%) Squid
3 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.13%) Docker
4 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Terraform
2 8 (17.02%) Grafana
2 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.02%) Prometheus
2 8 (17.02%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (12.77%) Consul
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (6.38%) Ansible
6 1 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (2.13%) SCCM
6 1 (2.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (53.19%) Cisco
2 22 (46.81%) Palo Alto
3 16 (34.04%) Fortinet
4 15 (31.91%) Microsoft
5 8 (17.02%) F5
6 7 (14.89%) Dynatrace
6 7 (14.89%) Red Hat
7 6 (12.77%) Atlassian
8 5 (10.64%) Aruba
8 5 (10.64%) CheckPoint
8 5 (10.64%) Nokia
9 4 (8.51%) VMware
10 3 (6.38%) Citrix
10 3 (6.38%) Juniper
11 2 (4.26%) 3PAR
11 2 (4.26%) Extreme Networks
11 2 (4.26%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (4.26%) ProCurve
11 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
11 2 (4.26%) Zscaler