FortiGate Job Trends in Cheshire

Fortinet FortiGate
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring FortiGate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.24% - 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.00% - 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62,875
25th Percentile £57,375 - £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 - £66,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.47%
75th Percentile £62,125 - £68,438
90th Percentile - - £68,625
North West median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £59,750
% change year-on-year -5.88% -28.87% +32.78%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

FortiGate falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 50 84 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.96% 13.73% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 37 54 29
10th Percentile £44,000 £31,250 £35,550
25th Percentile £45,500 £40,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% -26.92% +40.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £51,563 £72,433
90th Percentile £76,600 £53,375 £77,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in Cheshire

FortiGate
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing FortiGate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington - 2 - - 2
Knutsford - 1 £59,750 -
FortiGate
North West

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) ForeScout
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler