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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 335 346
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +156
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 38 31 50
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.70% 1.42% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 39
10th Percentile £354 £475 £252
25th Percentile £416 £494 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £609 £550 £669
90th Percentile £675 £588 £853
England median daily rate £550 £513 £425
% change year-on-year +7.32% +20.59% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - -
Median hourly rate £20.36 - -
75th Percentile £20.53 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +86.57%

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 2,231 2,185 2,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.47% 14.95% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 1,438 1,875
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £434 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.88% -8.80%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £763
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 29
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.30 £20.23
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £27.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £40.65 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -29.91% +132.00%
75th Percentile £63.25 £72.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.32 £106.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £50.61 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +90.98% -42.62% +27.89%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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
Central London -2 4 £475 -17.39% 6
South London - 4 £455 - 3
West London - 2 £450 -
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 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.89%) Akamai
4 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.26%) GCP
4 2 (5.26%) Nutanix
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.63%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 32 (84.21%) Firewall
2 17 (44.74%) BGP
3 16 (42.11%) WAN
4 15 (39.47%) Network Security
5 12 (31.58%) LAN
6 11 (28.95%) SD-WAN
7 10 (26.32%) OSPF
8 9 (23.68%) VPN
9 8 (21.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 7 (18.42%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (18.42%) Wireless
11 6 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (15.79%) MPLS
12 5 (13.16%) 5G
12 5 (13.16%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (13.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 5 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (10.53%) Cisco Wireless
13 4 (10.53%) DNS
14 3 (7.89%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Redis
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
3 3 (7.89%) Legal
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Law
4 2 (5.26%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Billing
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Network Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Architect
2 5 (13.16%) Senior
3 4 (10.53%) Design Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Network Design Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Consultant
4 3 (7.89%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Data Migration Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Exchange Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Migration Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Network Designer
5 2 (5.26%) Network Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) JSON
1 2 (5.26%) NETCONF
1 2 (5.26%) XML
1 2 (5.26%) YANG
2 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.63%) OpenConfig
2 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (7.89%) PKI
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.26%) Life Science
3 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.63%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) SCADA
4 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Windows
2 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Network Design
1 8 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (18.42%) DevOps
2 7 (18.42%) High Availability
2 7 (18.42%) Load Balancing
2 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.16%) Business Strategy
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (13.16%) ITIL
3 5 (13.16%) Migration
3 5 (13.16%) Network Segmentation
3 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
3 5 (13.16%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (7.89%) Break/Fix
5 3 (7.89%) Change Management
5 3 (7.89%) CI/CD
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (7.89%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) SQL
4 1 (2.63%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (31.58%) CCNP
3 11 (28.95%) CCNA
4 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
5 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) HP ASE
6 2 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.63%) CCDP
7 1 (2.63%) CCIE
7 1 (2.63%) CCSE
7 1 (2.63%) CISSP
7 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.63%) Degree
7 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.63%) MCITP
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
3 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Ansible
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Cisco
2 19 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 18 (47.37%) Palo Alto
4 11 (28.95%) F5
5 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
6 6 (15.79%) CheckPoint
7 5 (13.16%) Aruba
7 5 (13.16%) Juniper
7 5 (13.16%) Nokia
8 4 (10.53%) SolarWinds
9 3 (7.89%) VMware
10 2 (5.26%) 3PAR
10 2 (5.26%) Citrix
10 2 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (5.26%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (5.26%) ProCurve
10 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (2.63%) Okta