FortiGate Contract Job Trends

Fortinet FortiGate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring FortiGate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 427 469
Rank change year-on-year -66 +42 +69
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 138 96 126
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.14% 2.05% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 60 91
10th Percentile £373 £398 £381
25th Percentile £456 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £514 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +14.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £614 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £523 £450
% change year-on-year -0.53% +16.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £42.76 - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £71.33 - £13.50
75th Percentile £74.26 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 - -

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 6,441 4,679 5,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.07% 16.01% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,428 3,204 3,754
10th Percentile £318 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -9.91%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 52 133
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.89 £22.14 £17.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £69.38 £50.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £72.25 £69.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -34.86%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the UK

FortiGate
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FortiGate over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Top 17 Contract Job 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 11 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
England -64 112 £516 +0.59% 32
UK excluding London -81 65 £520 -0.53% 23
London -54 51 £519 +1.18% 10
South East -36 31 £460 -20.00% 7
Work from Home -38 31 £556 +7.70% 9
North of England -64 12 £575 +24.32% 5
Midlands -65 11 £579 +19.32% 5
West Midlands -63 9 £579 +19.32% 5
Scotland +8 8 £650 +60.20%
North West -24 8 £575 +24.32% 4
Yorkshire -53 4 £295 - 1
South West -28 3 £463 - 3
East Midlands -40 2 - -
Wales - 2 £425 - 1
East of England -35 1 £500 -4.76% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £385 -
North East - 1 - -

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.52%) nginx
2 8 (5.80%) Confluence
3 5 (3.62%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.62%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.46%) Azure
2 17 (12.32%) AWS
3 10 (7.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (6.52%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (6.52%) Route 53
4 9 (6.52%) Serverless
5 5 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.45%) GCP
7 2 (1.45%) GitHub
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.72%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 100 (72.46%) Firewall
2 65 (47.10%) WAN
3 55 (39.86%) BGP
4 50 (36.23%) DNS
5 46 (33.33%) LAN
6 43 (31.16%) OSPF
7 33 (23.91%) SD-WAN
8 31 (22.46%) Cisco ISE
8 31 (22.46%) DHCP
9 30 (21.74%) BIG-IP
10 28 (20.29%) Network Security
10 28 (20.29%) VXLAN
11 26 (18.84%) VPN
12 23 (16.67%) Junos
13 22 (15.94%) Ethernet VPN
13 22 (15.94%) TCP/IP
14 20 (14.49%) NX-OS
15 18 (13.04%) VLAN
16 16 (11.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 15 (10.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (5.80%) JIRA
2 7 (5.07%) Bitbucket
2 7 (5.07%) SonarQube
3 6 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (0.72%) GitLab
4 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (20.29%) Finance
2 22 (15.94%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.59%) Legal
4 13 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.07%) Banking
8 6 (4.35%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.62%) Military
10 4 (2.90%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.17%) Law
12 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.72%) Local Government
13 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (42.75%) Network Engineer
2 32 (23.19%) Architect
3 15 (10.87%) Senior
4 14 (10.14%) Network Architect
4 14 (10.14%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (9.42%) Network Specialist
6 12 (8.70%) Firewall Specialist
6 12 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) AWS Architect
7 5 (3.62%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Design Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Network Design Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Network Operations Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Technical Architect
7 5 (3.62%) Wireless Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Wireless Network Engineer
8 4 (2.90%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.84%) 802.1X
2 9 (6.52%) LDAP
2 9 (6.52%) OpenID
3 3 (2.17%) NETCONF
4 2 (1.45%) JSON
4 2 (1.45%) XML
4 2 (1.45%) YANG
5 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.72%) Jinja
5 1 (0.72%) OpenConfig
5 1 (0.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 58 (42.03%) Data Centre
2 22 (15.94%) Clustering
2 22 (15.94%) PKI
3 11 (7.97%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.07%) SCADA
5 5 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.45%) iSeries
7 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.72%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) Life Science
8 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (26.09%) Windows
2 5 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.72%) Android
3 1 (0.72%) Linux
3 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.81%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (24.64%) Load Balancing
3 31 (22.46%) High Availability
4 24 (17.39%) Observability
5 22 (15.94%) Identity Access Management
6 19 (13.77%) Migration
6 19 (13.77%) Network Design
7 18 (13.04%) DevOps
8 16 (11.59%) ITSM
9 15 (10.87%) ITIL
10 14 (10.14%) Change Management
10 14 (10.14%) Roadmaps
11 13 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (8.70%) Service Management
13 10 (7.25%) Network Virtualisation
14 9 (6.52%) Availability Management
14 9 (6.52%) Decision-Making
14 9 (6.52%) Network Packet Capture
14 9 (6.52%) Password Management
15 8 (5.80%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.32%) Python
2 6 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.90%) Lisp
4 3 (2.17%) Bash
5 2 (1.45%) Perl
6 1 (0.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 42 (30.43%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (24.64%) SC Cleared
4 22 (15.94%) CCNP
5 15 (10.87%) DV Cleared
6 12 (8.70%) CCNA
7 7 (5.07%) JNCIA
7 7 (5.07%) JNCIP
7 7 (5.07%) JNCIS
8 3 (2.17%) CISSP
8 3 (2.17%) Degree
9 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.45%) CCIE
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.72%) CCSP
10 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.35%) SLA
2 5 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.17%) NIST
4 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.97%) VMware NSX
3 9 (6.52%) Squid
4 7 (5.07%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.45%) vSphere
6 1 (0.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (10.87%) Terraform
2 9 (6.52%) Grafana
2 9 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.52%) Prometheus
2 9 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (5.07%) Consul
4 6 (4.35%) Ansible
5 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.72%) SCCM
6 1 (0.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 100 (72.46%) Cisco
2 48 (34.78%) F5
3 37 (26.81%) Fortinet
4 32 (23.19%) Palo Alto
5 29 (21.01%) Juniper
6 24 (17.39%) Microsoft
6 24 (17.39%) SolarWinds
7 23 (16.67%) Splunk
8 21 (15.22%) Extreme Networks
9 13 (9.42%) VMware
10 9 (6.52%) Aruba
10 9 (6.52%) Broadcom
10 9 (6.52%) Dynatrace
10 9 (6.52%) Red Hat
11 7 (5.07%) Atlassian
11 7 (5.07%) ServiceNow
12 6 (4.35%) Ekahau
12 6 (4.35%) Remedy
12 6 (4.35%) Zscaler
13 5 (3.62%) Infoblox