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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 358 360
Rank change year-on-year +30 +2 +183
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 40 17 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.11% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.81% 0.74% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 44
10th Percentile £363 £391 £252
25th Percentile £425 £427 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £653
90th Percentile £588 £775 £868
England median daily rate £550 £500 £410
% change year-on-year +10.00% +21.95% -8.89%
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 2,212 2,296 3,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.97% 14.71% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 1,504 2,267
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £774 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 35
10th Percentile £21.82 £22.81 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £31.63
Median hourly rate £34.75 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.31 £61.88 £68.50
90th Percentile £66.02 £103.60 £85.94
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.93% -22.96% +90.59%

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 17 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 17 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 -3 2 £475 -17.39% 8
West London -11 2 £450 -7.69% 1
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 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) Akamai
3 5 (12.50%) AWS
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.50%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (5.00%) Nutanix
5 2 (5.00%) Route 53
5 2 (5.00%) Serverless
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 38 (95.00%) Firewall
2 18 (45.00%) BGP
3 15 (37.50%) Network Security
4 14 (35.00%) LAN
5 13 (32.50%) OSPF
5 13 (32.50%) WAN
6 12 (30.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 12 (30.00%) VPN
7 11 (27.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (17.50%) DNS
9 7 (17.50%) SNMP
9 7 (17.50%) Wireless
9 7 (17.50%) Wireshark
10 6 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (15.00%) SD-WAN
11 5 (12.50%) DHCP
11 5 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 4 (10.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Redis
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Financial Institution
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Military
5 1 (2.50%) Billing
5 1 (2.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (65.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Migration Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Data Centre Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Design Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Designer
6 2 (5.00%) Exchange Migration Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Migration Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Network Designer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.50%) JSON
1 1 (2.50%) NETCONF
1 1 (2.50%) OpenConfig
1 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.50%) XML
1 1 (2.50%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.50%) PKI
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.00%) Life Science
4 2 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) SCADA
5 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) High Availability
2 9 (22.50%) Network Segmentation
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (15.00%) Load Balancing
5 5 (12.50%) DevOps
5 5 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (10.00%) Business Continuity
6 4 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 4 (10.00%) Data Privacy
6 4 (10.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (10.00%) Inventory Management
6 4 (10.00%) Network Design
6 4 (10.00%) Proactive Management
6 4 (10.00%) Software Licensing
7 3 (7.50%) Cloud Security
7 3 (7.50%) Performance Management
7 3 (7.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
2 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.50%) SQL
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (32.50%) CCNP
3 11 (27.50%) CCNA
4 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) Degree
6 2 (5.00%) HP ASE
6 2 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.50%) CCDP
7 1 (2.50%) CCIE
7 1 (2.50%) CCSE
7 1 (2.50%) CISSP
7 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.50%) MCITP
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) NCSC
3 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.00%) Kibana
3 2 (5.00%) Packer
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (65.00%) Cisco
2 21 (52.50%) Fortinet
3 15 (37.50%) F5
4 14 (35.00%) Palo Alto
5 12 (30.00%) Juniper
6 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 8 (20.00%) SolarWinds
7 6 (15.00%) CheckPoint
8 4 (10.00%) VMware
9 3 (7.50%) Nokia
9 3 (7.50%) Zscaler
10 2 (5.00%) 3PAR
10 2 (5.00%) Citrix
10 2 (5.00%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (5.00%) Infoblox
10 2 (5.00%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (5.00%) ProCurve
11 1 (2.50%) Dell
11 1 (2.50%) Google
11 1 (2.50%) Remedy