FortiGate Job Trends

Fortinet FortiGate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring FortiGate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 506 639
Rank change year-on-year -76 +133 +177
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 101 163 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.28% 2.99% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 69 107 165
10th Percentile £35,700 £41,250 £31,450
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,250 £62,000
90th Percentile £78,100 £88,750 £65,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £56,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.56% +25.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,429 5,449 8,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.12% 11.77% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,058 3,561 7,151
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,375 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.90% -8.15%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -4.41%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend

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

FortiGate job vacancy trend in the UK

FortiGate
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FortiGate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FortiGate

FortiGate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FortiGate over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the UK over the 6 months to 7 March 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
England -53 97 £50,000 -23.08% 24
UK excluding London -41 45 £47,500 -15.56% 20
London +8 42 £50,000 -39.39% 8
Work from Home +34 25 £65,000 +8.33% 7
South East -22 16 £75,000 +36.36% 10
North of England -24 16 £29,000 -58.57% 4
North West -4 8 £34,500 -18.82% 2
Midlands -5 6 £45,000 - 1
North East - 6 £29,000 - 1
West Midlands +4 4 £40,000 -11.11% 1
South West -8 3 £40,000 -38.46% 2
East of England - 3 - - 2
East Midlands -22 2 £50,000 +5.26%
Yorkshire -50 2 £63,750 -8.93% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £57,500 -

FortiGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 25 (24.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (13.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (47.52%) Azure
2 32 (31.68%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (17.82%) AWS
4 15 (14.85%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.95%) GCP
5 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.96%) ShareGate
7 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.99%) IaaS
7 1 (0.99%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.99%) PaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (88.12%) Firewall
2 57 (56.44%) WAN
3 51 (50.50%) LAN
4 33 (32.67%) SD-WAN
5 27 (26.73%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (25.74%) VPN
7 24 (23.76%) Wireless
8 23 (22.77%) DNS
9 22 (21.78%) BGP
10 20 (19.80%) DHCP
11 19 (18.81%) VLAN
12 18 (17.82%) Cisco ASA
12 18 (17.82%) Network Security
12 18 (17.82%) OSPF
13 16 (15.84%) TCP/IP
14 14 (13.86%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (12.87%) MPLS
16 12 (11.88%) Cisco ISE
17 9 (8.91%) VXLAN
17 9 (8.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.95%) Power BI
3 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
General
1 28 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.79%) Finance
3 9 (8.91%) Law
4 7 (6.93%) Police
4 7 (6.93%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (37.62%) Network Engineer
2 21 (20.79%) Cisco Engineer
2 21 (20.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 18 (17.82%) Senior
4 16 (15.84%) LAN Engineer
4 16 (15.84%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 16 (15.84%) Support Engineer
4 16 (15.84%) WAN Engineer
5 15 (14.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (13.86%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (13.86%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (11.88%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (9.90%) Cisco Consultant
8 10 (9.90%) Cisco Network Consultant
8 10 (9.90%) Consultant
8 10 (9.90%) Network Consultant
9 9 (8.91%) IT Engineer
9 9 (8.91%) WAN Consultant
10 8 (7.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (6.93%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) REST
2 4 (3.96%) JSON
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 34 (33.66%) Data Centre
2 14 (13.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (12.87%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.95%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.96%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) CCTV
7 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.99%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.77%) Windows
2 15 (14.85%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.91%) Linux
4 6 (5.94%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (15.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (14.85%) High Availability
4 14 (13.86%) Computer Science
4 14 (13.86%) Customer Service
4 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
4 14 (13.86%) Process Improvement
5 12 (11.88%) Network Management
6 11 (10.89%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (9.90%) Migration
7 10 (9.90%) Network Segmentation
7 10 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (7.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (6.93%) Agile
9 7 (6.93%) Asset Management
9 7 (6.93%) Customer-Centricity
9 7 (6.93%) Digital Forensics
9 7 (6.93%) SEO
10 6 (5.94%) Cloud Security
10 6 (5.94%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.86%) Python
2 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (38.61%) CCNP
1 39 (38.61%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (22.77%) CCNA
3 17 (16.83%) Degree
4 14 (13.86%) CCIE
4 14 (13.86%) CCSA
4 14 (13.86%) CCSE
4 14 (13.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.93%) Security Cleared
6 5 (4.95%) HND
7 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.99%) CCSP
8 1 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 30 (29.70%) Active Directory
2 21 (20.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (15.84%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.96%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.96%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.97%) Firmware
5 3 (2.97%) vSphere
6 2 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (15.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (13.86%) Ansible
3 5 (4.95%) Terraform
4 4 (3.96%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.99%) Kibana
6 1 (0.99%) SCOM
Vendors
1 69 (68.32%) Cisco
2 52 (51.49%) Fortinet
3 32 (31.68%) VMware
4 27 (26.73%) Microsoft
5 19 (18.81%) CheckPoint
6 17 (16.83%) Palo Alto
7 14 (13.86%) Meraki
8 12 (11.88%) Veeam
9 10 (9.90%) Dell
10 9 (8.91%) SonicWALL
11 7 (6.93%) WatchGuard
12 6 (5.94%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (5.94%) F5
13 4 (3.96%) Blue Coat
13 4 (3.96%) Google
14 3 (2.97%) Juniper
14 3 (2.97%) SolarWinds
15 2 (1.98%) Extreme Networks
15 2 (1.98%) Progress
15 2 (1.98%) Sophos