FortiGate Contracts in the North West

Fortinet FortiGate
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring FortiGate skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FortiGate over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 135 150
Rank change year-on-year +18 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.073% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.98% 0.68% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £293 - £394
25th Percentile £338 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +9.52% +40.00%
75th Percentile £469 - £603
90th Percentile £488 - £656
England median daily rate £513 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +13.89% -16.28% +2.38%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 307 293 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 10.64% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 217 377
10th Percentile £250 £231 £325
25th Percentile £382 £375 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £548 £584 £626
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 45
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.67 £16.85
25th Percentile £51.38 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £58.44 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.95 £91.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing FortiGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for FortiGate in the North West

FortiGate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FortiGate in the North West.

Daily rate trend for FortiGate in the North West

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in the North West

FortiGate
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheshire - 1 £425 -
Cumbria - 1 £275 -
Lancashire - 1 £500 -
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Antivirus Management
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) Arista
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) Meraki
3 1 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Zscaler