FortiGate Contract Job Trends in the South East

Fortinet FortiGate
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 145 181
Rank change year-on-year -37 +36 +47
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 10 24 29
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.23% 0.64% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.60% 4.83% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 8
10th Percentile £421 £443 £417
25th Percentile £449 £463 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -16.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £650
90th Percentile £683 £625 £665
England median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +2.86%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 626 497 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.33% 13.24% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 368 472
10th Percentile £255 £260 £205
25th Percentile £387 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £569 £608 £615
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £512 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -4.32% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 33
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.19 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £19.97 £30.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -29.75% +14.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 £68.63
90th Percentile £85.40 £37.50 £76.53
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the South East

FortiGate
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in the South East

FortiGate
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Hampshire -30 5 £550 -
Surrey - 2 - - 3
West Sussex - 2 £450 -
Thames Valley -18 1 £450 -5.26% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £450 - 1
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) VLAN
3 5 (50.00%) VPN
4 4 (40.00%) BGP
4 4 (40.00%) OSPF
5 3 (30.00%) Network Security
5 3 (30.00%) Wireless
6 2 (20.00%) IPsec
6 2 (20.00%) LAN
6 2 (20.00%) SSL
6 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (10.00%) Junos
7 1 (10.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (20.00%) Advertising
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Life Science
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) High Availability
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Change Control
3 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (20.00%) Operational Stability
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Web Filtering
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CCNP
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (40.00%) Aruba
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (10.00%) F5
5 1 (10.00%) Juniper