FortiGate Contract Job Trends in the South West

Fortinet FortiGate
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 113 142
Rank change year-on-year -26 +29 +12
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.097% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.72% 0.62% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £451 - £425
25th Percentile £453 - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.88%
75th Percentile £478 - £506
90th Percentile £484 - -
England median daily rate £519 £515 £450
% change year-on-year +0.69% +14.44% -16.28%

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 415 323 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.48% 19.06% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 249 321
10th Percentile £313 £355 £213
25th Percentile £450 £450 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £644 £631 £638
90th Percentile £738 £701 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.90% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 14
10th Percentile £46.40 £71.74 -
25th Percentile £50.75 £74.35 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £78.70 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.41% +96.75% -38.46%
75th Percentile £96.50 £80.83 £70.44
90th Percentile £119.00 £82.11 £76.58
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -55.19%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the South West

FortiGate
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

FortiGate
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

FortiGate
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. 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
Wiltshire - 2 £463 -
Bristol -18 1 - - 1
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) NGFW
1 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Jinja
1 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) McAfee