FortiGate Contract Job Trends in Reading

Fortinet FortiGate
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 74 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.03% 0.15% -
As % of the Systems Management category 7.19% 1.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £474 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% - -
75th Percentile £519 £588 -
90th Percentile £526 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £563 -
% change year-on-year -15.56% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 139 86 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.26% 12.50% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 52 138
10th Percentile £255 £400 £205
25th Percentile £400 £409 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £608
90th Percentile £636 £700 £629
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.02 - £66.82
% change year-on-year - - -1.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing FortiGate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing FortiGate

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing FortiGate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing FortiGate

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 8 (80.00%) BGP
2 8 (80.00%) BIG-IP
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (80.00%) DHCP
2 8 (80.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 8 (80.00%) Junos
2 8 (80.00%) LAN
2 8 (80.00%) OSPF
2 8 (80.00%) VXLAN
2 8 (80.00%) WAN
3 2 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Network Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Clustering
1 8 (80.00%) PKI
2 7 (70.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (20.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) High Availability
1 8 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
1 8 (80.00%) Load Balancing
1 8 (80.00%) Observability
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) ITSM
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
4 2 (20.00%) Availability Management
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) JNCIA
2 4 (40.00%) JNCIP
2 4 (40.00%) JNCIS
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) F5
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 8 (80.00%) Juniper
2 8 (80.00%) SolarWinds
2 8 (80.00%) Splunk
3 7 (70.00%) Extreme Networks