FortiGate Contracts in the West Midlands

Fortinet FortiGate
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 104 128
Rank change year-on-year +19 +24 +41
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 12 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.89% 0.36% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.42% 3.80% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile £419 £260 £585
25th Percentile £427 £381 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -26.92% +13.04%
75th Percentile £545 £488 £675
90th Percentile £606 - £685
England median daily rate £513 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +13.89% -16.28% +2.38%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 187 184 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.90% 9.45% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 147 209
10th Percentile £200 £200 £310
25th Percentile £310 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £673
90th Percentile £700 £647 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £12.18 £23.52 £17.25
25th Percentile £12.94 £35.33 £17.72
Median hourly rate £16.19 £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +197.30% +14.76%
75th Percentile £17.89 - £43.59
90th Percentile £18.13 - £66.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing FortiGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for FortiGate in the West Midlands

FortiGate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for FortiGate in the West Midlands

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in the West Midlands

FortiGate
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +19 7 £521 +9.58% 2
Coventry - 4 £438 -
Warwickshire - 1 £662 -
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Firewall
2 8 (66.67%) Network Security
3 4 (33.33%) BGP
3 4 (33.33%) IPsec
3 4 (33.33%) OSPF
3 4 (33.33%) SSL
3 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (33.33%) VLAN
3 4 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (16.67%) LAN
5 2 (16.67%) NX-OS
5 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 2 (16.67%) Unified Communications
5 2 (16.67%) VoIP
5 2 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (8.33%) HTTP
6 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Check Point Expert
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Network Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Network Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) SIEM
2 4 (33.33%) High Availability
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Network Design
4 2 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Register
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CCSE
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) CISA
3 2 (16.67%) CISM
3 2 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (16.67%) GIAC
3 2 (16.67%) ISACA
3 2 (16.67%) SANS
4 1 (8.33%) CCNP
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) logstash
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (8.33%) QRadar
1 1 (8.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (16.67%) Aruba
4 2 (16.67%) Mitel
4 2 (16.67%) Tenable
5 1 (8.33%) Arista
5 1 (8.33%) Broadcom
5 1 (8.33%) F5
5 1 (8.33%) Juniper
5 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (8.33%) VMware