FortiGate Jobs in the UK excluding London

Fortinet FortiGate
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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 617 562
Rank change year-on-year +121 -55 +155
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 77 142 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.20% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.43% 2.22% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 59 116 116
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £45,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% -3.74% -15.00%
75th Percentile £61,875 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +28.87% -3.00% -13.04%

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 3,166 6,396 7,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.10% 9.01% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,692 4,373 4,429
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.86% -3.65%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,964 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -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 11 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 11 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 +78 45 £54,033 +13.16% 15
North of England +53 14 £70,000 +72.51% 4
Yorkshire +61 12 £70,000 +86.67% 3
Midlands +61 9 £40,000 +14.29% 5
West Midlands +59 7 £75,000 +93.55% 2
South West +98 4 £65,000 +44.44% 18
East of England +37 4 £42,085 -11.40% 6
Scotland +111 2 £37,500 -25.00% 3
East Midlands +41 2 £40,000 +19.40% 2
North West +1 2 £42,500 +1.80%
FortiGate
UK

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 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.47%) Azure
2 12 (15.58%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (7.79%) AWS
4 3 (3.90%) IaaS
5 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.60%) GCP
5 2 (2.60%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.60%) SaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.30%) PaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 60 (77.92%) Firewall
2 37 (48.05%) BGP
3 33 (42.86%) OSPF
4 31 (40.26%) Network Security
5 27 (35.06%) EIGRP
6 19 (24.68%) VPN
7 18 (23.38%) WAN
8 17 (22.08%) Cisco ASA
8 17 (22.08%) SD-WAN
9 13 (16.88%) DMVPN
10 10 (12.99%) MPLS
11 9 (11.69%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (10.39%) TCP/IP
13 7 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (7.79%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (7.79%) DHCP
14 6 (7.79%) DNS
14 6 (7.79%) LAN
14 6 (7.79%) Wireless
15 5 (6.49%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.30%) Power BI
General
1 6 (7.79%) Manufacturing
2 4 (5.19%) Local Government
3 3 (3.90%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.60%) Law
4 2 (2.60%) Legal
5 1 (1.30%) Advertising
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (41.56%) Network Engineer
2 19 (24.68%) Security Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Network Security Engineer
4 10 (12.99%) Senior
5 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Manager
6 8 (10.39%) Designer
6 8 (10.39%) Network Designer
7 7 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Senior Security Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) IT Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Senior Network Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Support Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Architect
9 5 (6.49%) Network Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) IT Support Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Network Support
10 3 (3.90%) Network Support Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.60%) JSON
1 2 (2.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 6 (7.79%) Operational Technology
4 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.90%) PMI
5 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.90%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.60%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.60%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.60%) Replication
7 1 (1.30%) Clustering
7 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.48%) Windows
2 12 (15.58%) Windows Server
3 8 (10.39%) Linux
4 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.30%) CentOS
5 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.30%) Rocky
5 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.18%) ITIL
1 14 (18.18%) Network Design
1 14 (18.18%) Service Delivery
2 13 (16.88%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (10.39%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (10.39%) High Availability
3 8 (10.39%) Incident Management
3 8 (10.39%) Line Management
3 8 (10.39%) Risk Management
3 8 (10.39%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
4 7 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 7 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 7 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 6 (7.79%) Boundary Protection
5 6 (7.79%) Network Architecture
6 5 (6.49%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (6.49%) Decision-Making
6 5 (6.49%) ITSM
6 5 (6.49%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.39%) SQL
2 7 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.60%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (41.56%) Security Cleared
2 30 (38.96%) SC Cleared
3 25 (32.47%) DV Cleared
4 21 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (10.39%) CISM
5 8 (10.39%) CISSP
5 8 (10.39%) GIAC
6 7 (9.09%) CCNP
7 6 (7.79%) Degree
8 5 (6.49%) CCNA
9 4 (5.19%) CEH
9 4 (5.19%) CISA
9 4 (5.19%) CREST Certified
9 4 (5.19%) ISACA
9 4 (5.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (5.19%) SANS
10 3 (3.90%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (9.09%) NCSC
3 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.19%) NIST
3 4 (5.19%) SLA
4 3 (3.90%) GRC
4 3 (3.90%) JSP 440
5 2 (2.60%) PMO
6 1 (1.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (15.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 9 (11.69%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.60%) DFS Replication
5 2 (2.60%) Firmware
6 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.09%) Nessus
3 5 (6.49%) WSUS
4 2 (2.60%) Ansible
4 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.60%) Terraform
5 1 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 51 (66.23%) Cisco
2 40 (51.95%) Fortinet
3 34 (44.16%) Juniper
4 24 (31.17%) Microsoft
5 18 (23.38%) VMware
6 8 (10.39%) Meraki
6 8 (10.39%) Tenable
7 7 (9.09%) Aruba
7 7 (9.09%) McAfee
8 5 (6.49%) Draytek
8 5 (6.49%) SolarWinds
8 5 (6.49%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (5.19%) Palo Alto
9 4 (5.19%) Qualys
10 3 (3.90%) HP
10 3 (3.90%) Veeam
10 3 (3.90%) Zscaler
11 2 (2.60%) Aderant
11 2 (2.60%) Arista
11 2 (2.60%) Extreme Networks