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 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 372 368
Rank change year-on-year +46 -4 +172
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 36 23 71
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.14% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.69% 0.98% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 45
10th Percentile £410 £383 £252
25th Percentile £450 £419 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £663
90th Percentile - £775 £830
England median daily rate £550 £500 £413
% change year-on-year +10.00% +21.21% -13.16%
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 £30.00 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - +41.15%

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 2,130 2,339 3,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.78% 14.45% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 1,569 2,539
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.14% -4.33%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £700
90th Percentile £719 £754 £798
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 39
10th Percentile £21.45 - £25.12
25th Percentile £26.19 £23.80 £26.50
Median hourly rate £43.75 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.04% -55.00% +150.94%
75th Percentile £61.44 £64.50 £75.50
90th Percentile £63.95 £100.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.53% -27.62% +119.57%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 - 3 £335 -
Central London +2 2 £475 - 3
West London -2 2 £450 -7.69%
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 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Akamai
3 7 (19.44%) AWS
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (8.33%) GCP
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.56%) Route 53
7 2 (5.56%) Serverless
7 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.78%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 32 (88.89%) Firewall
2 13 (36.11%) LAN
2 13 (36.11%) Network Security
2 13 (36.11%) VPN
2 13 (36.11%) WAN
3 11 (30.56%) BGP
3 11 (30.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 10 (27.78%) Cisco ISE
4 10 (27.78%) DNS
5 9 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 9 (25.00%) OSPF
5 9 (25.00%) Wireless
6 8 (22.22%) DHCP
7 7 (19.44%) SNMP
7 7 (19.44%) TCP/IP
7 7 (19.44%) Wireshark
8 6 (16.67%) 4G
9 4 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (8.33%) SD-WAN
11 2 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) Redis
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Billing
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Network Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Consultant
4 4 (11.11%) Juniper Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Designer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Network Designer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) IT Support Technician
7 1 (2.78%) Migration Consultant
7 1 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 7 (19.44%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
5 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (5.56%) Life Science
6 2 (5.56%) PKI
7 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.78%) Fat Client
7 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) SCADA
7 1 (2.78%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) High Availability
2 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 7 (19.44%) Business Continuity
3 7 (19.44%) Data Privacy
3 7 (19.44%) Incident Management
3 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Management
3 7 (19.44%) Inventory Management
3 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
3 7 (19.44%) Proactive Management
3 7 (19.44%) Software Licensing
4 6 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 6 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 5 (13.89%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 3 (8.33%) Migration
6 3 (8.33%) Secrets Management
7 2 (5.56%) Network Design
7 2 (5.56%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
4 1 (2.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (33.33%) CCNP
3 10 (27.78%) CCNA
3 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
4 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) Degree
5 2 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.78%) CCDP
6 1 (2.78%) CCIE
6 1 (2.78%) CCSE
6 1 (2.78%) CISSP
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) HP ASE
6 1 (2.78%) MCITP
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) NCSC
2 1 (2.78%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Kibana
3 2 (5.56%) logstash
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.56%) Packer
3 2 (5.56%) QRadar
3 2 (5.56%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (61.11%) Cisco
2 17 (47.22%) Fortinet
3 12 (33.33%) Juniper
3 12 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 10 (27.78%) F5
5 8 (22.22%) SolarWinds
6 6 (16.67%) CheckPoint
6 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 3 (8.33%) VMware
8 2 (5.56%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.78%) 3PAR
9 1 (2.78%) Aruba
9 1 (2.78%) Citrix
9 1 (2.78%) Dell
9 1 (2.78%) Google
9 1 (2.78%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (2.78%) ProCurve
9 1 (2.78%) Riverbed
9 1 (2.78%) Tufin
9 1 (2.78%) Veeam