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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 315 368
Rank change year-on-year -55 +53 +18
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 54 37 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.12% 1.94% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 26 22
10th Percentile £403 £438 £401
25th Percentile £463 £484 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -1.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £688
90th Percentile £675 £588 £771
England median daily rate £475 £519 £463
% change year-on-year -8.39% +12.11% -13.95%
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% -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 2,544 1,911 2,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.70% 15.74% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,747 1,282 1,645
10th Percentile £356 £363 £325
25th Percentile £432 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £717 £750 £750
England median daily rate £510 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.44% -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 33
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +49.07% +60.26% -61.92%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +41.25% +33.33% -43.32%

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 6 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 6 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 - 3
Central London -16 2 - - 8
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 (16.67%) nginx
2 7 (12.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) Azure
2 13 (24.07%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 9 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (16.67%) Route 53
3 9 (16.67%) Serverless
3 9 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 38 (70.37%) Firewall
2 24 (44.44%) Network Security
3 23 (42.59%) WAN
4 20 (37.04%) SD-WAN
5 18 (33.33%) VPN
6 16 (29.63%) DNS
7 13 (24.07%) TCP/IP
8 12 (22.22%) VLAN
9 10 (18.52%) LAN
10 9 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (16.67%) OpenVPN
11 8 (14.81%) BGP
11 8 (14.81%) OSPF
11 8 (14.81%) TACACS
12 7 (12.96%) Wireless
13 6 (11.11%) DHCP
14 4 (7.41%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (7.41%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (7.41%) IPsec
15 3 (5.56%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Bitbucket
1 7 (12.96%) JIRA
1 7 (12.96%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.85%) Git
General
1 12 (22.22%) Finance
2 11 (20.37%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Legal
3 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.70%) Law
6 2 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.85%) Local Government
7 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (40.74%) Network Engineer
2 17 (31.48%) Architect
3 7 (12.96%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.26%) AWS Architect
4 5 (9.26%) Network Security Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Security Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Network Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Network Operations Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior
6 3 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
6 3 (5.56%) Operations Manager
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) LDAP
1 9 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (1.85%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.63%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Windows
2 4 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.85%) Android
3 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (24.07%) DevOps
3 9 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 9 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 9 (16.67%) Validation
4 7 (12.96%) ITSM
4 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (11.11%) Migration
5 6 (11.11%) Network Design
5 6 (11.11%) Runbook
6 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (9.26%) ITIL
6 5 (9.26%) Project Delivery
6 5 (9.26%) Security Operations
7 4 (7.41%) Change Management
7 4 (7.41%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.41%) High Availability
7 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (5.56%) Incident Response
8 3 (5.56%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.96%) Python
2 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) CCNP
2 9 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.56%) CCNA
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.56%) SLA
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Squid
2 6 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.70%) Firmware
3 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (29.63%) Terraform
2 9 (16.67%) Grafana
2 9 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 9 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (12.96%) Consul
4 5 (9.26%) Ansible
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (59.26%) Cisco
2 24 (44.44%) Palo Alto
3 16 (29.63%) Fortinet
4 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
5 9 (16.67%) Dynatrace
5 9 (16.67%) Red Hat
6 8 (14.81%) Zscaler
7 7 (12.96%) Atlassian
7 7 (12.96%) CheckPoint
8 5 (9.26%) F5
9 4 (7.41%) Aruba
9 4 (7.41%) Infoblox
9 4 (7.41%) Juniper
10 2 (3.70%) VMware
11 1 (1.85%) Citrix
11 1 (1.85%) Meraki
11 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.85%) Splunk