FortiGate Job Trends in the South West

Fortinet FortiGate
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring FortiGate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 153 273
Rank change year-on-year -49 +120 -47
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 9 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.12% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.20% 1.90% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile £36,250 £52,525 -
25th Percentile £37,188 £54,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% +34.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £43,750 £65,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £45,625 - £51,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +23.71% -3.00%

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 409 263 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.36% 9.43% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 290 181 702
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £73,250 £73,750 £72,483
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,813 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.15% +8.50% -7.41%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the South West

FortiGate
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in the South West over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for FortiGate in the South West

FortiGate
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Devon -17 3 £40,000 -28.57%
Dorset -9 2 £37,500 -42.31% 1
Bristol -18 2 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Gloucestershire -23 2 £42,500 - 2
FortiGate
England

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) WAN
3 5 (55.56%) DHCP
3 5 (55.56%) LAN
3 5 (55.56%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (44.44%) Network Security
4 4 (44.44%) VLAN
5 3 (33.33%) DMZ
5 3 (33.33%) SSL
5 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (33.33%) VPN
6 1 (11.11%) BGP
6 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) IT Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Support
3 2 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Server Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) BCP
3 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Workshops
5 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNA
1 3 (33.33%) CCNP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) GDPR
1 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (55.56%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (33.33%) Dell
3 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) Veeam
5 1 (11.11%) Aruba
5 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 1 (11.11%) WatchGuard
5 1 (11.11%) Zscaler