FortiGate Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Fortinet FortiGate
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 112 144
Rank change year-on-year -13 +32 +14
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 1 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.046% 0.41% 0.079%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 2.90% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £475 £513 £475
90th Percentile - £558 -
South East median daily rate £470 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -10.48% +16.67% +5.88%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 318 241 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.78% 13.95% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 168 254
10th Percentile £255 £276 £203
25th Percentile £368 £375 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £608
90th Percentile £606 £675 £657
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 17
10th Percentile £18.01 £16.00 £24.00
25th Percentile £18.94 £22.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -28.42% -30.15%
75th Percentile £81.00 £37.00 £49.73
90th Percentile £83.60 £37.60 £68.63
South East median hourly rate £43.75 £26.99 £48.40
% change year-on-year +62.13% -44.25% -15.83%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

FortiGate
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing FortiGate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing FortiGate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 January 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
Oxfordshire - 1 £450 -
FortiGate
South East

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto