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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 326 357
Rank change year-on-year -1 +31 +142
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 37 30 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.69% 1.44% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 36
10th Percentile £356 £475 £252
25th Percentile £425 £494 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £659
90th Percentile - £588 £856
England median daily rate £538 £513 £425
% change year-on-year +4.88% +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 2,186 2,080 2,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.49% 14.81% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 1,372 1,836
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £571
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -0.66% -8.60%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 29
10th Percentile £20.76 £22.55 £20.23
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £27.25
Median hourly rate £53.25 £29.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.62% -50.00% +132.00%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.99 £104.80 £78.00
England median hourly rate £50.61 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +90.98% -42.62% +24.07%

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 11 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 11 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 -7 3 - - 2
South London - 2 £455 - 1
West London - 1 £450 -
East London - 1 £525 -
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 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.41%) GCP
3 2 (5.41%) Nutanix
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Akamai
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (78.38%) Firewall
2 18 (48.65%) WAN
3 15 (40.54%) BGP
3 15 (40.54%) Network Security
4 13 (35.14%) SD-WAN
5 12 (32.43%) LAN
6 8 (21.62%) OSPF
6 8 (21.62%) VPN
7 7 (18.92%) Wireless
8 6 (16.22%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (16.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (16.22%) MPLS
9 5 (13.51%) 5G
9 5 (13.51%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (13.51%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (10.81%) Cisco Wireless
10 4 (10.81%) DNS
11 3 (8.11%) DHCP
11 3 (8.11%) RSVP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Redis
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 10 (27.03%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Legal
4 3 (8.11%) Financial Institution
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Law
5 2 (5.41%) Military
6 1 (2.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Network Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Design Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Network Design Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Network Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Migration Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Data Centre Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Exchange Migration Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Migration Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Network Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) JSON
1 2 (5.41%) NETCONF
1 2 (5.41%) XML
1 2 (5.41%) YANG
2 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.70%) OpenConfig
2 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (8.11%) PKI
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Life Science
3 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.70%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) Network Design
1 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (18.92%) DevOps
2 7 (18.92%) Load Balancing
2 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.51%) Business Strategy
3 5 (13.51%) High Availability
3 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (13.51%) ITIL
3 5 (13.51%) Migration
3 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
3 5 (13.51%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (8.11%) Agile
5 3 (8.11%) Break/Fix
5 3 (8.11%) Change Management
5 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.11%) Cloud Security
5 3 (8.11%) Information Security
5 3 (8.11%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.11%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (32.43%) CCNP
3 11 (29.73%) CCNA
4 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
5 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) HP ASE
6 2 (5.41%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CCDP
7 1 (2.70%) CCIE
7 1 (2.70%) CCSE
7 1 (2.70%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.70%) Degree
7 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.70%) MCITP
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Ansible
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (67.57%) Cisco
2 19 (51.35%) Palo Alto
3 16 (43.24%) Fortinet
4 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
5 9 (24.32%) F5
6 5 (13.51%) Aruba
6 5 (13.51%) CheckPoint
6 5 (13.51%) Nokia
7 3 (8.11%) Juniper
7 3 (8.11%) VMware
8 2 (5.41%) 3PAR
8 2 (5.41%) Citrix
8 2 (5.41%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (5.41%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (5.41%) ProCurve
8 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
8 2 (5.41%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (2.70%) Okta
9 1 (2.70%) Ubiquiti