FortiGate Contracts

Fortinet FortiGate
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FortiGate skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FortiGate over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 543 694
Rank change year-on-year +68 +151 -82
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 123 177 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.42% 1.84% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 120 116
10th Percentile £398 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +22.09%
75th Percentile £550 £633 £575
90th Percentile £688 £703 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +3.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
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 is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +96 112 £450 -16.28% 42
UK excluding London +48 62 £450 -7.69% 30
London +79 49 £520 -9.57% 16
South East +46 37 £450 -16.28% 15
Work from Home +77 27 £513 -2.38% 9
Midlands +17 11 £425 -34.62% 6
West Midlands +26 7 £475 -26.92% 3
South West +9 7 £488 +12.07% 4
Scotland +24 4 £550 +22.22% 2
East Midlands +20 4 £425 - 3
North of England +23 2 £463 - 2
Yorkshire +17 2 £463 +37.04% 1
East of England - 1 £400 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.63%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.45%) Azure
2 9 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (5.69%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (5.69%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.88%) AWS
5 5 (4.07%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (4.07%) IaaS
5 5 (4.07%) SaaS
6 4 (3.25%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.44%) GCP
7 3 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.63%) Route 53
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.81%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 83 (67.48%) Firewall
2 50 (40.65%) BGP
3 41 (33.33%) OSPF
4 37 (30.08%) WAN
5 34 (27.64%) VPN
6 28 (22.76%) LAN
7 24 (19.51%) EIGRP
7 24 (19.51%) Network Security
8 23 (18.70%) Cisco ASA
8 23 (18.70%) DMVPN
9 20 (16.26%) Wireless
10 18 (14.63%) IPsec
11 16 (13.01%) DNS
11 16 (13.01%) WLAN
12 11 (8.94%) DHCP
13 10 (8.13%) SD-WAN
14 9 (7.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 9 (7.32%) TCP/IP
14 9 (7.32%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (6.50%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Git
General
1 17 (13.82%) Public Sector
1 17 (13.82%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.07%) Finance
4 4 (3.25%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.63%) Military
7 1 (0.81%) Back Office
7 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (53.66%) Network Engineer
2 28 (22.76%) Network Specialist
3 9 (7.32%) Architect
3 9 (7.32%) Senior
4 8 (6.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (5.69%) Security Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Network Architect
7 5 (4.07%) Consultant
7 5 (4.07%) Design Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Network Design Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (2.44%) Network Security Engineer
10 2 (1.63%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.63%) Support Assistant
10 2 (1.63%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.32%) JSON
2 7 (5.69%) NETCONF
2 7 (5.69%) XML
2 7 (5.69%) YANG
3 3 (2.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.01%) PKI
2 11 (8.94%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.07%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.63%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.81%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.81%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (0.81%) IoT
6 1 (0.81%) Life Science
6 1 (0.81%) LIMS
6 1 (0.81%) NHS
6 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.76%) Windows
2 5 (4.07%) Linux
3 3 (2.44%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.63%) CentOS
4 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.64%) Network Design
2 18 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (13.82%) Migration
4 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (10.57%) Change Management
5 13 (10.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (9.76%) Load Balancing
6 12 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (8.94%) Agile
7 11 (8.94%) Roadmaps
8 10 (8.13%) Threat Management
9 9 (7.32%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (6.50%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
11 7 (5.69%) Change Control
11 7 (5.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 6 (4.88%) Capacity Management
12 6 (4.88%) Compliance Management
12 6 (4.88%) ITIL
12 6 (4.88%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.32%) Python
2 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (38.21%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.89%) DV Cleared
3 18 (14.63%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (13.82%) SC Cleared
5 12 (9.76%) CCNP
6 11 (8.94%) CCNA
7 6 (4.88%) CCIE
8 4 (3.25%) Degree
9 1 (0.81%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (0.81%) CISA
9 1 (0.81%) CISM
9 1 (0.81%) CISSP
9 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.63%) NCSC
2 1 (0.81%) ISA99
2 1 (0.81%) NIST
2 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (8.94%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.25%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.25%) XenApp
4 2 (1.63%) Firmware
4 2 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.69%) Terraform
2 4 (3.25%) Ansible
3 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.63%) Nagios
3 2 (1.63%) Puppet
3 2 (1.63%) VxRail
4 1 (0.81%) CASB
4 1 (0.81%) QRadar
4 1 (0.81%) Stealthwatch
4 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 87 (70.73%) Cisco
2 60 (48.78%) Fortinet
3 38 (30.89%) Juniper
4 37 (30.08%) Palo Alto
5 18 (14.63%) F5
6 14 (11.38%) Microsoft
7 11 (8.94%) Aruba
7 11 (8.94%) VMware
8 8 (6.50%) Extreme Networks
9 7 (5.69%) CheckPoint
9 7 (5.69%) Nokia
10 6 (4.88%) Dell
11 5 (4.07%) SolarWinds
12 4 (3.25%) Barracuda Networks
12 4 (3.25%) Citrix
13 3 (2.44%) Dynatrace
13 3 (2.44%) Meraki
13 3 (2.44%) New Relic
14 2 (1.63%) Arista
14 2 (1.63%) Splunk