FortiGate Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Fortinet FortiGate
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring FortiGate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 176 185
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 +67
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 5 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.088% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.79% 0.73% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile - - £49,750
25th Percentile £49,598 - £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £56,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -34.12% +7.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,250 -
90th Percentile £68,250 £61,200 -
South East median annual salary £59,033 £56,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +5.42% +7.69% -30.67%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 280 409 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.98% 12.01% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 132 243 508
10th Percentile £32,188 £42,750 £32,125
25th Percentile £39,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £68,750 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +21.63% -9.56%
75th Percentile £74,063 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,000 £86,625
South East median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

FortiGate
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing FortiGate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for FortiGate in the Thames Valley

FortiGate
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire -1 4 £53,065 -5.24% 2
Oxfordshire +18 1 £67,500 +12.50% 1
FortiGate
South East

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Network Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (60.00%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Network Design
1 3 (60.00%) Non-Blocking Code
1 3 (60.00%) Physics
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Arista
1 3 (60.00%) Extreme Networks
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki