FortiGate Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Fortinet FortiGate
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring FortiGate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +59
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.46% - 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.38% - 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £48,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +40.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 13 15 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.00% 3.03% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 22
10th Percentile £42,127 - £34,275
25th Percentile £44,750 £57,500 £44,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.61% +6.63% +23.81%
75th Percentile £63,760 £74,144 £82,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,158 £110,000
UK median annual salary £61,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +3.85% -3.70%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

FortiGate
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing FortiGate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
County Antrim - 2 £57,500 -
FortiGate
UK

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) SNA
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft