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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 349 352
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 +32
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 55 31 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.01% 1.46% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 21 20
10th Percentile £413 £425 £363
25th Percentile £428 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £547
90th Percentile £588 - £688
England median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -6.86%

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 2,732 2,117 2,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.57% 15.54% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,899 1,402 1,635
10th Percentile £360 £336 £335
25th Percentile £440 £420 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -3.23% -9.58%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.97% -2.88% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 27
10th Percentile £31.60 £26.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.75 £26.45 £22.15
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +60.00% -60.32%
75th Percentile £81.25 £62.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.23 £55.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +18.59% +56.77% -33.18%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -12 3 £500 -9.09% 2
South London -14 3 £513 -
West London -20 2 £500 +11.11%
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 4 (7.27%) nginx
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) Azure
2 9 (16.36%) AWS
3 5 (9.09%) GitHub
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (7.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.27%) Route 53
4 4 (7.27%) Serverless
4 4 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 49 (89.09%) Firewall
2 29 (52.73%) Network Security
3 23 (41.82%) VPN
4 18 (32.73%) WAN
5 17 (30.91%) DNS
6 16 (29.09%) VLAN
7 14 (25.45%) BGP
8 12 (21.82%) DHCP
8 12 (21.82%) OSPF
8 12 (21.82%) TCP/IP
8 12 (21.82%) Wireless
9 11 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
9 11 (20.00%) LAN
9 11 (20.00%) SD-WAN
10 9 (16.36%) TACACS
11 7 (12.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 7 (12.73%) IPsec
12 5 (9.09%) MPLS
13 4 (7.27%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (7.27%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.64%) Git
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
1 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Retail
4 4 (7.27%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Law
6 2 (3.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (61.82%) Network Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Network Security Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Security Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Senior
4 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Consultant
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Server Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Firewall Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Governance Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Network Operations Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) 802.1X
2 4 (7.27%) LDAP
2 4 (7.27%) OpenID
3 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Windows
2 3 (5.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.64%) Validation
2 12 (21.82%) Project Delivery
3 11 (20.00%) Migration
4 10 (18.18%) Runbook
5 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (16.36%) Load Balancing
5 9 (16.36%) Zero Trust
6 8 (14.55%) ITSM
6 8 (14.55%) Security Operations
7 6 (10.91%) Cloud Security
7 6 (10.91%) DevOps
7 6 (10.91%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.09%) Observability
8 5 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (7.27%) Business Continuity
9 4 (7.27%) High Availability
9 4 (7.27%) Incident Management
9 4 (7.27%) Network Design
9 4 (7.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.45%) Python
2 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.82%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) CCNP
1 13 (23.64%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
2 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) CCNA
4 3 (5.45%) CCIE
5 2 (3.64%) CCIE Security
5 2 (3.64%) CISSP
6 1 (1.82%) CCSA
6 1 (1.82%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) SLA
2 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.91%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.27%) Squid
4 2 (3.64%) Firmware
4 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Terraform
2 11 (20.00%) Ansible
3 4 (7.27%) Grafana
3 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.27%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.27%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.64%) Consul
4 2 (3.64%) Nessus
4 2 (3.64%) SCCM
4 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (65.45%) Cisco
2 24 (43.64%) Palo Alto
3 23 (41.82%) Fortinet
4 17 (30.91%) Zscaler
5 12 (21.82%) F5
6 9 (16.36%) CheckPoint
7 7 (12.73%) Juniper
7 7 (12.73%) VMware
8 6 (10.91%) Citrix
9 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
10 4 (7.27%) Aruba
10 4 (7.27%) Dynatrace
10 4 (7.27%) Infoblox
10 4 (7.27%) Red Hat
11 3 (5.45%) SolarWinds
12 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
12 2 (3.64%) Riverbed
12 2 (3.64%) Tenable
13 1 (1.82%) FireEye
13 1 (1.82%) Meraki