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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 460 511
Rank change year-on-year +39 +51 +143
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 98 112 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.12% 2.16% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 86 119
10th Percentile £398 £400 £355
25th Percentile £436 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £588 £688 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £70.13
25th Percentile - £12.75 £70.31
Median hourly rate £17.79 £13.50 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.78% -81.69% -
75th Percentile - £14.25 £80.31
90th Percentile - - £82.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.79 - £77.50

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 4,631 5,194 8,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.88% 12.11% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,144 3,765 6,327
10th Percentile £313 £275 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -6.36% -2.48%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -0.35% -5.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 99 207
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £17.63
25th Percentile £19.97 £20.25 £25.71
Median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -47.83% +162.68%
75th Percentile £63.25 £52.63 £73.73
90th Percentile £78.96 £71.25 £83.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.43% +113.75%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 82 £513 +7.89% 57
UK excluding London +37 49 £500 +11.11% 33
Work from Home +64 43 £516 -6.27% 31
London +51 38 £513 -2.38% 26
Midlands +16 15 £450 - 3
West Midlands +18 13 £450 -5.26% 1
South East +17 10 £575 +27.78% 3
North of England +23 9 £425 -24.44% 6
East of England +29 6 £525 +31.25% 3
Yorkshire +18 6 - -
Scotland +8 6 £406 -26.23% 1
South West +40 3 £433 -11.28% 16
North West +11 3 £425 -26.09% 3
East Midlands +7 2 - - 2

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 (4.08%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) nginx
3 1 (1.02%) Camunda
3 1 (1.02%) IIS
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.65%) AWS
1 32 (32.65%) Azure
2 5 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (5.10%) Amazon S3
3 3 (3.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.04%) Route 53
4 2 (2.04%) Serverless
5 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.02%) GitHub
5 1 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.02%) IaaS
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 68 (69.39%) Firewall
2 35 (35.71%) Network Security
2 35 (35.71%) VPN
3 32 (32.65%) WAN
4 30 (30.61%) BGP
5 27 (27.55%) LAN
6 23 (23.47%) OSPF
7 18 (18.37%) TCP/IP
8 16 (16.33%) SD-WAN
8 16 (16.33%) Wireless
9 13 (13.27%) Cisco Firepower
10 11 (11.22%) Cisco ISE
10 11 (11.22%) DNS
11 10 (10.20%) IPsec
11 10 (10.20%) MPLS
12 9 (9.18%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (8.16%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (8.16%) DHCP
13 8 (8.16%) Junos
14 7 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.06%) MySQL
1 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) JIRA
2 4 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.06%) GitLab
4 1 (1.02%) Git
General
1 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.20%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.12%) Banking
6 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.04%) Aviation
7 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.04%) Police
7 2 (2.04%) Retail
7 2 (2.04%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.04%) Swedish Language
8 1 (1.02%) Electronics
8 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (34.69%) Network Engineer
2 14 (14.29%) Senior
3 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Consultant
6 7 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (7.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Network Consultant
7 6 (6.12%) Architect
7 6 (6.12%) Check Point Expert
7 6 (6.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) WAN Specialist
9 4 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) IT Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Network Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.08%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.06%) Kafka
2 1 (1.02%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.02%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.02%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.10%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (4.08%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.06%) Clustering
7 2 (2.04%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.04%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.04%) Robotics
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.35%) Windows
2 8 (8.16%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.12%) Check Point GAiA
3 6 (6.12%) Linux
4 2 (2.04%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.02%) CentOS
5 1 (1.02%) Rocky
5 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (14.29%) High Availability
4 12 (12.24%) Agile
5 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (11.22%) SIEM
6 10 (10.20%) DevOps
6 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (10.20%) Network Monitoring
7 9 (9.18%) Mentoring
8 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Management
8 8 (8.16%) Load Balancing
8 8 (8.16%) Network Management
8 8 (8.16%) Preventative Maintenance
9 7 (7.14%) Auto-Scaling
9 7 (7.14%) Business Continuity
9 7 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
9 7 (7.14%) Security Operations
10 6 (6.12%) Proactive Management
10 6 (6.12%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.24%) Python
2 8 (8.16%) VB
3 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.02%) Bash
Qualifications
1 33 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.37%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (16.33%) CCNP
5 9 (9.18%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.12%) CCNA
6 6 (6.12%) CCSE
7 5 (5.10%) Degree
8 4 (4.08%) APMP
9 3 (3.06%) CISA
9 3 (3.06%) CISM
9 3 (3.06%) CISSP
9 3 (3.06%) GIAC
9 3 (3.06%) ISACA
9 3 (3.06%) SANS
10 2 (2.04%) CCIE
10 2 (2.04%) VCAP
10 2 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.18%) SLA
2 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) VMware NSX
2 5 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.06%) Firmware
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (24.49%) Terraform
2 13 (13.27%) Ansible
3 4 (4.08%) Puppet
4 3 (3.06%) logstash
4 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.06%) QRadar
4 3 (3.06%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 2 (2.04%) Grafana
5 2 (2.04%) Kibana
5 2 (2.04%) Packer
6 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.02%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 51 (52.04%) Cisco
2 50 (51.02%) Fortinet
3 14 (14.29%) F5
4 13 (13.27%) Juniper
4 13 (13.27%) Palo Alto
5 12 (12.24%) CheckPoint
6 10 (10.20%) VMware
7 8 (8.16%) Citrix
8 6 (6.12%) Arista
8 6 (6.12%) Meraki
8 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
9 5 (5.10%) Tenable
9 5 (5.10%) Zscaler
10 3 (3.06%) Atempo
10 3 (3.06%) Databricks
10 3 (3.06%) Mellanox
10 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.04%) Aruba
11 2 (2.04%) HP
11 2 (2.04%) Ribbon