FortiGate Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Fortinet FortiGate
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 125 108
Rank change year-on-year -22 -17 +91
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 13 10 33
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.44% 0.38% 1.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.62% 3.15% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 26
10th Percentile £473 - £338
25th Percentile £506 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £488 £385
90th Percentile - £614 £463
England median daily rate £550 £500 £404
% change year-on-year +10.00% +23.84% -13.17%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 497 317 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.89% 11.95% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 206 259
10th Percentile £263 £296 £257
25th Percentile £403 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +12.36% -6.71%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £556
90th Percentile £650 £661 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.67 £15.34
25th Percentile - £26.39 £16.24
Median hourly rate £21.39 £41.76 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -48.78% +135.67% -
75th Percentile £28.70 £59.63 £36.36
90th Percentile £33.08 £68.85 £47.54
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £48.70
% change year-on-year -9.33% -23.00% +94.80%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FortiGate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FortiGate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in the Midlands

FortiGate
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FortiGate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Midlands -22 11 £500 -11.82% 5
East Midlands -15 2 £650 +73.33%
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (53.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (53.85%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) DNS
2 8 (61.54%) NX-OS
3 7 (53.85%) BGP
3 7 (53.85%) Cisco ISE
3 7 (53.85%) Cisco Wireless
3 7 (53.85%) DHCP
3 7 (53.85%) VXLAN
3 7 (53.85%) Wireless
4 4 (30.77%) Network Security
5 3 (23.08%) Firewall
5 3 (23.08%) VPN
6 2 (15.38%) NGFW
6 2 (15.38%) VLAN
7 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (7.69%) HTTP
7 1 (7.69%) LAN
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
1 7 (53.85%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Network Engineer
2 9 (69.23%) Cisco Engineer
2 9 (69.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 7 (53.85%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
3 7 (53.85%) RF Engineer
3 7 (53.85%) Wireless Engineer
3 7 (53.85%) Wireless Network Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Network Security Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
2 2 (15.38%) SCADA
3 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) User Experience
2 3 (23.08%) Network Design
2 3 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
3 2 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
4 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.69%) High Availability
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) CCNP
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CCIE
2 2 (15.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) Ekahau
2 7 (53.85%) Remedy
2 7 (53.85%) ServiceNow
3 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Arista
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) Zscaler