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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 318 344
Rank change year-on-year -44 +26 +110
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 50 33 49
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.02% 1.63% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 33
10th Percentile £361 £475 £401
25th Percentile £472 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -1.44% -13.33%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £650
90th Percentile £675 £575 £860
England median daily rate £519 £515 £450
% change year-on-year +0.69% +14.44% -16.28%
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 £71.33 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -80.71%

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 2,474 2,026 2,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.61% 16.08% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 1,391 1,611
10th Percentile £350 £368 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 40
10th Percentile £22.39 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.73 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year +71.33% +9.35% -60.99%
75th Percentile £63.32 £55.00 £55.94
90th Percentile - £62.80 £62.95
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -54.20%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -
Central London -11 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 9 (18.00%) nginx
2 7 (14.00%) Confluence
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) Azure
2 12 (24.00%) AWS
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (18.00%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (18.00%) Route 53
3 9 (18.00%) Serverless
3 9 (18.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 40 (80.00%) Firewall
2 21 (42.00%) WAN
3 20 (40.00%) Network Security
4 19 (38.00%) SD-WAN
5 16 (32.00%) VPN
6 15 (30.00%) BGP
7 14 (28.00%) DNS
8 12 (24.00%) LAN
9 11 (22.00%) TCP/IP
10 10 (20.00%) OSPF
11 9 (18.00%) OpenVPN
12 8 (16.00%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (16.00%) VLAN
13 7 (14.00%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (12.00%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (12.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 6 (12.00%) NX-OS
14 6 (12.00%) TACACS
15 5 (10.00%) 5G
15 5 (10.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Bitbucket
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
1 7 (14.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (10.00%) Git
General
1 15 (30.00%) Finance
2 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Legal
4 6 (12.00%) Financial Institution
5 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Law
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Local Government
7 1 (2.00%) Military
7 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 17 (34.00%) Architect
3 7 (14.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Network Operations Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Design Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Network Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Network Design Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Operations Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Senior
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) LDAP
1 9 (18.00%) OpenID
2 2 (4.00%) JSON
2 2 (4.00%) NETCONF
2 2 (4.00%) XML
2 2 (4.00%) YANG
3 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.00%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 5 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) DevOps
2 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (28.00%) Roadmaps
4 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (20.00%) Load Balancing
6 9 (18.00%) Decision-Making
6 9 (18.00%) Network Design
7 7 (14.00%) Change Management
8 6 (12.00%) Break/Fix
8 6 (12.00%) ITIL
8 6 (12.00%) ITSM
8 6 (12.00%) Performance Management
8 6 (12.00%) Validation
9 5 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 4 (8.00%) Business Strategy
10 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (8.00%) Migration
11 3 (6.00%) CI/CD
11 3 (6.00%) Cost Management
11 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) Python
2 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.00%) Bash
3 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) CCNP
2 8 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (12.00%) CCNA
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.00%) HP ASE
5 1 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) SLA
2 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Squid
2 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.00%) Grafana
2 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.00%) Prometheus
2 9 (18.00%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (14.00%) Consul
4 2 (4.00%) Ansible
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (52.00%) Cisco
2 20 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (26.00%) Fortinet
5 11 (22.00%) F5
6 9 (18.00%) Dynatrace
6 9 (18.00%) Red Hat
7 7 (14.00%) Atlassian
8 5 (10.00%) CheckPoint
8 5 (10.00%) Nokia
8 5 (10.00%) Zscaler
9 4 (8.00%) Aruba
10 3 (6.00%) Juniper
11 2 (4.00%) Citrix
11 2 (4.00%) Infoblox
11 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
11 2 (4.00%) VMware
12 1 (2.00%) 3PAR
12 1 (2.00%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (2.00%) Nimble Storage