FortiGate Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 393 547
Rank change year-on-year +77 +154 -86
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 28 81 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.32% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.70% 1.92% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 54 58
10th Percentile £393 £375 £313
25th Percentile £413 £443 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +8.97% +11.81%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £550
90th Percentile £658 £693 £612
UK median daily rate £475 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +16.96%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,646 4,216 7,224
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.81% 16.51% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 3,116 5,389
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -0.89% +9.76%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 78 50
10th Percentile £21.49 £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £37.71 £52.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +76.00% -18.87%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £87.50 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%

FortiGate
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing FortiGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FortiGate trend for jobs with a WFH option

FortiGate
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing FortiGate.

FortiGate daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing FortiGate over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

FortiGate daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (3.57%) Route 53
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (60.71%) Firewall
2 15 (53.57%) WAN
3 11 (39.29%) VPN
4 9 (32.14%) BGP
4 9 (32.14%) LAN
5 8 (28.57%) Wireless
6 7 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (25.00%) SD-WAN
7 6 (21.43%) OSPF
7 6 (21.43%) WLAN
8 5 (17.86%) IPsec
9 4 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (14.29%) Network Security
10 3 (10.71%) Cisco Firepower
11 2 (7.14%) DHCP
11 2 (7.14%) DNS
11 2 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (7.14%) MPLS
12 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
12 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Legal
3 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Network Specialist
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Network Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Data Centre Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Network Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Programmer
6 1 (3.57%) Remote Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) NETCONF
2 1 (3.57%) XML
2 1 (3.57%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.29%) PKI
3 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) CentOS
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.29%) Change Management
1 4 (14.29%) Migration
1 4 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (10.71%) Agile
2 3 (10.71%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (7.14%) Threat Management
3 2 (7.14%) TOGAF
4 1 (3.57%) Business Case
4 1 (3.57%) Incident Response
4 1 (3.57%) ITIL
4 1 (3.57%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (3.57%) Network Optimisation
4 1 (3.57%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (3.57%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (3.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (3.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (3.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (10.71%) CCNP
5 2 (7.14%) CCIE
6 1 (3.57%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (3.57%) CCNA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Firmware
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Ansible
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) VxRail
3 1 (3.57%) Puppet
3 1 (3.57%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Cisco
2 14 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 10 (35.71%) Fortinet
4 4 (14.29%) Dell
4 4 (14.29%) Juniper
4 4 (14.29%) VMware
5 3 (10.71%) F5
6 2 (7.14%) Arista
6 2 (7.14%) CA
6 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.57%) Avaya
7 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (3.57%) Meraki
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.57%) Nokia
7 1 (3.57%) Nortel