FortiGate Jobs in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring FortiGate skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited FortiGate over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 621 567
Rank change year-on-year +111 -54 +152
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 69 141 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.04% 2.21% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 53 113 108
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,280 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -12.01%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,386 6,382 7,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.53% 8.52% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 4,306 4,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,659
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%
75th Percentile £75,054 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing FortiGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FortiGate in the UK excluding London

FortiGate
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FortiGate in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for FortiGate in the UK excluding London

FortiGate
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing FortiGate in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for FortiGate in the UK excluding London

FortiGate
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
South East +47 41 £54,033 +11.41% 3
North of England +25 10 £35,750 -10.63% 6
Midlands +57 7 £40,000 +3.23% 3
Yorkshire +45 7 £32,500 -18.75%
West Midlands +51 5 £75,000 +76.47% 1
East of England +48 5 £42,085 -11.40% 3
South West +106 4 £65,000 +44.44% 15
Scotland +112 3 £37,500 -25.00% 1
East Midlands +40 2 £40,000 +19.40% 2
North West +1 2 £39,500 -5.39% 3
North East +49 1 £29,000 -28.83% 3
FortiGate
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FortiGate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.88%) Azure
2 11 (15.94%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (8.70%) AWS
4 2 (2.90%) GCP
5 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (1.45%) IaaS
5 1 (1.45%) PaaS
5 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 53 (76.81%) Firewall
2 35 (50.72%) BGP
3 32 (46.38%) OSPF
4 28 (40.58%) Network Security
5 24 (34.78%) EIGRP
6 19 (27.54%) VPN
7 13 (18.84%) Cisco ASA
8 12 (17.39%) TCP/IP
9 10 (14.49%) DMVPN
9 10 (14.49%) MPLS
9 10 (14.49%) SD-WAN
9 10 (14.49%) WAN
10 8 (11.59%) DHCP
11 7 (10.14%) DNS
11 7 (10.14%) Wireless
12 4 (5.80%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (5.80%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (4.35%) VLAN
13 3 (4.35%) Wireshark
14 2 (2.90%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.45%) Power BI
2 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) GitLab
1 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 7 (10.14%) Manufacturing
2 4 (5.80%) Local Government
2 4 (5.80%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.45%) Advertising
3 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.45%) Retail
3 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (46.38%) Network Engineer
2 16 (23.19%) Security Engineer
3 12 (17.39%) Network Security Engineer
4 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure Manager
4 9 (13.04%) Senior
5 8 (11.59%) Designer
5 8 (11.59%) Network Designer
5 8 (11.59%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) Senior Security Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) IT Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) IT Manager
9 3 (4.35%) IT Support
9 3 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Network Security Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) JSON
2 1 (1.45%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Data Centre
1 7 (10.14%) Operational Technology
1 7 (10.14%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.80%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.80%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.35%) PMI
3 3 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.90%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.45%) Clustering
5 1 (1.45%) PKI
5 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.45%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.64%) Windows
2 16 (23.19%) Windows Server
3 12 (17.39%) Linux
4 4 (5.80%) Unix
5 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.45%) CentOS
6 1 (1.45%) Rocky
6 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.84%) Network Design
2 12 (17.39%) Service Delivery
3 10 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (14.49%) ITIL
4 8 (11.59%) Risk Management
5 7 (10.14%) Impact Assessments
5 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (10.14%) Project Delivery
6 6 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (8.70%) Incident Management
6 6 (8.70%) ITSM
6 6 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.25%) Decision-Making
7 5 (7.25%) High Availability
7 5 (7.25%) Incident Response
7 5 (7.25%) Line Management
7 5 (7.25%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (5.80%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) SQL
2 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (40.58%) Security Cleared
2 26 (37.68%) SC Cleared
3 23 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 14 (20.29%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (8.70%) Degree
6 5 (7.25%) CCNA
6 5 (7.25%) CCNP
6 5 (7.25%) CISM
6 5 (7.25%) CISSP
6 5 (7.25%) GIAC
7 4 (5.80%) CEH
7 4 (5.80%) CREST Certified
7 4 (5.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (5.80%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (4.35%) PMI Certification
9 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.45%) CISA
10 1 (1.45%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.45%) ISACA
10 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.80%) NCSC
2 4 (5.80%) NIST
2 4 (5.80%) SLA
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (17.39%) Hyper-V
1 12 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.90%) Firmware
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.45%) Docker
4 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (14.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (10.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.70%) WSUS
4 5 (7.25%) Nessus
5 3 (4.35%) Ansible
6 2 (2.90%) Terraform
7 1 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.45%) Nagios
7 1 (1.45%) WMI
Vendors
1 45 (65.22%) Cisco
2 37 (53.62%) Fortinet
3 30 (43.48%) Juniper
4 26 (37.68%) Microsoft
5 18 (26.09%) VMware
6 6 (8.70%) McAfee
6 6 (8.70%) Veeam
7 5 (7.25%) Aruba
7 5 (7.25%) Draytek
7 5 (7.25%) Tenable
7 5 (7.25%) Ubiquiti
8 4 (5.80%) Dell
8 4 (5.80%) HP
8 4 (5.80%) Palo Alto
8 4 (5.80%) Qualys
9 3 (4.35%) Apple
9 3 (4.35%) Meraki
9 3 (4.35%) Sophos
10 2 (2.90%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.90%) SonicWALL