FortiGate Job Trends in the East Midlands

Fortinet FortiGate
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring FortiGate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 131 177
Rank change year-on-year -29 +46 -23
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 4 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.088% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.70% 1.60% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £40,000 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% +19.40% -44.17%
75th Percentile £54,063 - £45,028
90th Percentile £54,625 - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.12% +28.95% -5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 108 125 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.38% 6.82% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 86 72 218
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,188 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.14% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £69,250 £61,563 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £72,375 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,563 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.79% +10.39% -9.32%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

FortiGate
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing FortiGate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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
Northamptonshire +6 2 £50,000 +25.00%
Derbyshire - 2 £53,750 -
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) LAN Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Progress