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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 105 109
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +71
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 11 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.74% 0.39% 0.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.51% 3.38% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 12
10th Percentile - £270 -
25th Percentile - £422 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +26.67% -36.17%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £563
90th Percentile £530 - £675
England median daily rate £550 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +15.79% -11.63% +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 244 237 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.43% 11.55% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 183 213
10th Percentile £210 £275 £313
25th Percentile £352 £354 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.06%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £688 £659 £713
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £23.52 £18.64
25th Percentile - £35.33 £19.24
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +165.64% +28.44%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £43.59
90th Percentile - £71.00 £57.04
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.25 £54.18
% change year-on-year +68.00% -42.32% +146.25%

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
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 30 June 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 +15 9 £450 -5.26% 6
Coventry - 2 - -
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 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
1 8 (72.73%) Network Security
2 6 (54.55%) BGP
2 6 (54.55%) IPsec
2 6 (54.55%) OSPF
2 6 (54.55%) SSL
2 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 6 (54.55%) VLAN
2 6 (54.55%) VPN
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (18.18%) HTTP
4 2 (18.18%) NX-OS
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Check Point Expert
2 2 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) SIEM
2 6 (54.55%) High Availability
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Register
3 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) CCSE
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 2 (18.18%) CISA
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (18.18%) CISM
3 2 (18.18%) CISSP
3 2 (18.18%) GIAC
3 2 (18.18%) ISACA
3 2 (18.18%) SANS
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) logstash
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) QRadar
1 1 (9.09%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Fortinet
2 6 (54.55%) CheckPoint
3 5 (45.45%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) Arista
4 2 (18.18%) F5
4 2 (18.18%) Tenable