FortiGate Contracts

Fortinet FortiGate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring FortiGate skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FortiGate over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 474 534
Rank change year-on-year +54 +60 +164
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 99 126 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.15% 2.45% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 93 119
10th Percentile £399 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £644
90th Percentile £613 £680 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £450 £494
% change year-on-year +13.39% -8.86% +9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £40.20
25th Percentile - £12.75 £51.38
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -80.71% -
75th Percentile - £14.25 £76.88
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FortiGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FortiGate.

Daily rate trend for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FortiGate.

Hourly rate trend for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +28 80 £513 +13.89% 44
UK excluding London +37 47 £510 +13.39% 38
Work from Home +62 41 £521 -5.36% 24
London +21 36 £513 -1.91% 8
Midlands +27 14 £485 +14.18% 6
West Midlands +21 12 £485 +2.16% 5
South East +17 11 £575 +27.78% 9
North of England +33 9 £425 -24.44% 6
East of England +38 6 £525 +31.25% 3
Yorkshire +19 6 - - 3
Scotland +11 6 £406 -26.23% 3
North West +12 3 £425 -26.09% 1
East Midlands +8 2 - - 1
South West +39 1 £425 -12.82% 12

FortiGate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) Camunda
2 1 (1.01%) CMS
2 1 (1.01%) IIS
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.33%) AWS
2 28 (28.28%) Azure
3 3 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (3.03%) Amazon S3
3 3 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.01%) GitHub
4 1 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.01%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.01%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 68 (68.69%) Firewall
2 31 (31.31%) BGP
2 31 (31.31%) Network Security
2 31 (31.31%) WAN
3 30 (30.30%) VPN
4 24 (24.24%) LAN
5 23 (23.23%) OSPF
6 17 (17.17%) SD-WAN
7 15 (15.15%) Wireless
8 13 (13.13%) TCP/IP
9 11 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (10.10%) MPLS
11 9 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (9.09%) DNS
12 8 (8.08%) IPsec
12 8 (8.08%) NX-OS
12 8 (8.08%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (7.07%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (7.07%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.03%) MySQL
1 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) JIRA
2 3 (3.03%) GitLab
3 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.01%) Git
General
1 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.10%) Finance
3 9 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.06%) Banking
5 6 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.02%) Aviation
7 2 (2.02%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (2.02%) Police
7 2 (2.02%) Retail
7 2 (2.02%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.02%) Swedish Language
8 1 (1.01%) Electronics
8 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (32.32%) Network Engineer
2 11 (11.11%) Senior
3 9 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 9 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (7.07%) Delivery Manager
4 7 (7.07%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (6.06%) Consultant
5 6 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Architect
6 5 (5.05%) Network Consultant
6 5 (5.05%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) WAN Specialist
7 4 (4.04%) Check Point Expert
7 4 (4.04%) Network Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.04%) Technical Manager
7 4 (4.04%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (1.01%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.01%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.19%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.04%) Hedge funds
5 3 (3.03%) Clustering
5 3 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.02%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.02%) Robotics
7 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.15%) Windows
2 7 (7.07%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.05%) Linux
4 4 (4.04%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (1.01%) CentOS
5 1 (1.01%) Rocky
5 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
1 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (12.12%) DevOps
3 11 (11.11%) Auto-Scaling
3 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (10.10%) Agile
5 9 (9.09%) High Availability
5 9 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
5 9 (9.09%) SIEM
6 8 (8.08%) Network Management
7 7 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (7.07%) Load Balancing
7 7 (7.07%) Mentoring
7 7 (7.07%) Network Design
8 6 (6.06%) CI/CD
8 6 (6.06%) Network Packet Capture
8 6 (6.06%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (6.06%) Password Management
8 6 (6.06%) Preventative Maintenance
9 5 (5.05%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.08%) Python
2 6 (6.06%) VB
3 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.01%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (35.35%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (15.15%) CCNP
5 8 (8.08%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.05%) CCNA
7 4 (4.04%) APMP
7 4 (4.04%) CCSE
7 4 (4.04%) Degree
8 3 (3.03%) CCIE
8 3 (3.03%) CISA
8 3 (3.03%) CISM
8 3 (3.03%) CISSP
8 3 (3.03%) GIAC
8 3 (3.03%) ISACA
8 3 (3.03%) SANS
9 2 (2.02%) VCAP
9 2 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) SLA
2 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 11 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (11.11%) VMware NSX
2 6 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.02%) Firmware
4 1 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (24.24%) Terraform
2 11 (11.11%) Ansible
3 4 (4.04%) Puppet
3 4 (4.04%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 3 (3.03%) logstash
4 3 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.03%) QRadar
5 2 (2.02%) Grafana
5 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.01%) OfficeScan
6 1 (1.01%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 55 (55.56%) Cisco
2 48 (48.48%) Fortinet
3 16 (16.16%) VMware
4 11 (11.11%) F5
4 11 (11.11%) Juniper
4 11 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 9 (9.09%) CheckPoint
6 6 (6.06%) Arista
6 6 (6.06%) Broadcom
6 6 (6.06%) Citrix
6 6 (6.06%) Meraki
6 6 (6.06%) Microsoft
7 5 (5.05%) Tenable
8 4 (4.04%) Aruba
8 4 (4.04%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.03%) Atempo
9 3 (3.03%) Databricks
9 3 (3.03%) Mellanox
9 3 (3.03%) Mitel
9 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow