FortiGate Job Trends in the Midlands

Fortinet FortiGate
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring FortiGate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 236 194
Rank change year-on-year +24 -42 +136
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 7 10 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.090% 0.15% 0.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.22% 2.45% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 16
10th Percentile - £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,900 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -26.43% +24.39%
75th Percentile £59,500 £55,800 £85,000
90th Percentile £70,900 £64,375 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 315 408 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.04% 6.11% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 229 241 527
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,500 £30,608
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £79,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -3.70%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the Midlands

FortiGate
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FortiGate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for FortiGate in the Midlands

FortiGate
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
West Midlands +26 5 £40,000 -11.11% 10
East Midlands -6 2 £50,000 -9.09% 5
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) LAN
3 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
4 3 (42.86%) BGP
4 3 (42.86%) Broadband
4 3 (42.86%) DNS
4 3 (42.86%) Ethernet
4 3 (42.86%) OSPF
4 3 (42.86%) PSTN
4 3 (42.86%) VoIP
5 2 (28.57%) MPLS
6 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (14.29%) Network Security
6 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) LAN Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) LAN/WAN Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) WAN Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Support
3 1 (14.29%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Driving Licence
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) ITSM
1 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Web Filtering
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design
2 1 (14.29%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCNP
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Fortinet
2 2 (28.57%) Juniper
2 2 (28.57%) Progress
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki