FortiGate Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Fortinet FortiGate
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.37% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £579 £544 £375
% change year-on-year +6.48% +45.00% -23.08%

All Systems Management Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 11 5 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 15.07% 4.90% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 14
10th Percentile £187 £158 £375
25th Percentile £200 £185 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -5.56% +119.51%
75th Percentile £350 £488 £563
90th Percentile £588 £510 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +3.00% +17.65% -11.91%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

FortiGate
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Stafford - 1 £550 -
FortiGate
West Midlands

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco