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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 197 193
Rank change year-on-year +26 -4 -12
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 24 6 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.84% 2.27% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24 5 5
10th Percentile £44,825 - £49,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,598 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,065 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% -3.08% -35.59%
75th Percentile £73,750 £56,533 £56,000
90th Percentile - - £56,075
South East median annual salary £45,500 £53,065 £54,750
% change year-on-year -14.26% -3.08% -0.45%

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 306 264 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.27% 6.69% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 237 148 292
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,688 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £46,831
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -23.33% +5.24%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,250 £91,550
South East median annual salary £60,000 £53,065 £56,500
% change year-on-year +13.07% -6.08% -1.74%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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
Oxfordshire - 24 £52,500 - 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 3 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) Network Security
2 16 (66.67%) VPN
3 13 (54.17%) BGP
3 13 (54.17%) DHCP
3 13 (54.17%) DNS
3 13 (54.17%) SD-WAN
3 13 (54.17%) VLAN
3 13 (54.17%) WAN
4 11 (45.83%) Cisco Firepower
4 11 (45.83%) Cisco ISE
5 10 (41.67%) FTP
5 10 (41.67%) HTTP
5 10 (41.67%) ICMP
5 10 (41.67%) IPsec
5 10 (41.67%) MPLS
5 10 (41.67%) SNMP
5 10 (41.67%) SSH
5 10 (41.67%) SSL
6 6 (25.00%) Firewall
7 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Network Engineer
2 11 (45.83%) Network Security Engineer
2 11 (45.83%) Security Engineer
3 10 (41.67%) Architect
3 10 (41.67%) Network Architect
3 10 (41.67%) Network Security Architect
3 10 (41.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) OAuth
1 10 (41.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (41.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 10 (41.67%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (12.50%) Analytics
2 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
2 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (12.50%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) CCNP
1 6 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (12.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (41.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Stealthwatch
2 10 (41.67%) CASB
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (58.33%) Fortinet
3 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
4 10 (41.67%) Palo Alto