FortiGate Job Trends in England

Fortinet FortiGate
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring FortiGate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 515 511
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +271
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 96 166 170
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.64% 3.01% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 69 99 149
10th Percentile £28,500 £41,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £54,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £66,500
UK median annual salary £53,065 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -24.19% +40.00% +5.26%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,635 5,521 6,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.88% 11.47% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,707 3,374 5,669
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.07% +6.92% -3.70%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in England

FortiGate
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing FortiGate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for FortiGate in England

FortiGate
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
London -15 34 £57,500 -28.13% 11
South East +28 21 £65,000 +16.07% 10
North of England +9 18 £29,000 -58.57% 2
North East - 10 £29,000 - 1
Midlands +20 7 £50,000 +11.11% 4
North West +18 6 £40,000 -5.88% 1
West Midlands +18 5 £40,000 +3.23% 3
East of England - 4 - -
East Midlands -6 2 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Yorkshire -19 2 £63,750 -8.93%
South West +10 1 £40,000 +2.55% 5
FortiGate
UK

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 26 (27.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (15.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (47.92%) Azure
2 31 (32.29%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (15.63%) AWS
4 14 (14.58%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.21%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.21%) ShareGate
6 4 (4.17%) GCP
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.04%) IaaS
8 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.04%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.04%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.04%) PaaS
8 1 (1.04%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (87.50%) Firewall
2 48 (50.00%) WAN
3 43 (44.79%) LAN
4 28 (29.17%) SD-WAN
5 27 (28.13%) VPN
6 26 (27.08%) BGP
7 25 (26.04%) Wireless
8 19 (19.79%) OSPF
8 19 (19.79%) VLAN
9 18 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
9 18 (18.75%) DNS
9 18 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (15.63%) DHCP
11 14 (14.58%) Network Security
11 14 (14.58%) TCP/IP
12 13 (13.54%) MPLS
13 11 (11.46%) Cisco Firepower
14 9 (9.38%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (9.38%) VXLAN
15 7 (7.29%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.46%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.21%) Power BI
3 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.79%) Finance
3 10 (10.42%) Law
4 7 (7.29%) Police
4 7 (7.29%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (36.46%) Network Engineer
2 20 (20.83%) Support Engineer
3 16 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 16 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 16 (16.67%) Senior
4 15 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) LAN Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) WAN Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (9.38%) Technical Engineer
8 9 (9.38%) Technical Support
8 9 (9.38%) Technical Support Engineer
9 8 (8.33%) Cisco Consultant
9 8 (8.33%) Cisco Network Consultant
9 8 (8.33%) Consultant
9 8 (8.33%) Network Consultant
9 8 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) REST
2 4 (4.17%) JSON
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 38 (39.58%) Data Centre
2 11 (11.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (10.42%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.21%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.13%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.71%) Windows
2 11 (11.46%) Linux
2 11 (11.46%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.04%) VMS
5 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 15 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (14.58%) Computer Science
4 14 (14.58%) High Availability
5 12 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 12 (12.50%) Network Management
5 12 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.46%) Customer-Centricity
6 11 (11.46%) Migration
6 11 (11.46%) Process Improvement
7 9 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (9.38%) Network Monitoring
7 9 (9.38%) Network Segmentation
8 8 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
9 7 (7.29%) Agile
9 7 (7.29%) Asset Management
9 7 (7.29%) Digital Forensics
9 7 (7.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.58%) Python
2 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (35.42%) CCNP
1 34 (35.42%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (21.88%) CCNA
3 17 (17.71%) Degree
4 13 (13.54%) CCIE
5 11 (11.46%) CCSA
5 11 (11.46%) CCSE
5 11 (11.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
7 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
8 5 (5.21%) HND
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 22 (22.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (19.79%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.13%) Firmware
5 3 (3.13%) vSphere
6 2 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (19.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (15.63%) Ansible
3 7 (7.29%) Terraform
4 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.04%) Kibana
5 1 (1.04%) SCOM
5 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (69.79%) Cisco
2 46 (47.92%) Fortinet
3 28 (29.17%) VMware
4 27 (28.13%) Microsoft
5 17 (17.71%) Veeam
6 16 (16.67%) CheckPoint
6 16 (16.67%) Palo Alto
7 15 (15.63%) Meraki
8 11 (11.46%) SonicWALL
8 11 (11.46%) WatchGuard
9 8 (8.33%) Dell
10 6 (6.25%) F5
10 6 (6.25%) Juniper
11 5 (5.21%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (4.17%) Arista
12 4 (4.17%) Blue Coat
12 4 (4.17%) Google
13 3 (3.13%) Aruba
13 3 (3.13%) Extreme Networks
13 3 (3.13%) SolarWinds