FortiGate Job Trends in the North West

Fortinet FortiGate
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring FortiGate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 201 170
Rank change year-on-year +23 -31 +79
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 6 7 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.094% 0.14% 0.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.75% 1.51% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 23
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile - £41,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -29.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £43,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% +5.26%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 343 463 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.35% 9.14% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 263 256 430
10th Percentile £28,800 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +3.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the North West

FortiGate
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FortiGate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Cheshire - 4 - - 1
Manchester +25 2 £40,000 - 2
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) VLAN
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Change Control
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (16.67%) Docker
4 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft