FortiGate Jobs

Fortinet FortiGate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 714 715
Rank change year-on-year +135 +1 +233
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 126 183 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.25% 1.86% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 102 154 184
10th Percentile £41,280 £32,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,024 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -2.00% -10.95%
75th Percentile £83,750 £61,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £68,375 £83,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £46,750
% change year-on-year +16.67% -3.74% -15.00%

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 5,612 9,865 14,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.17% 9.96% 14.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,259 7,106 9,098
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,810
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.86% -3.65%

FortiGate
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FortiGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FortiGate.

Salary trend for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FortiGate over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Top 14 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 15 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
England +100 119 £60,000 +26.32% 91
UK excluding London +111 74 £52,500 +16.67% 67
South East +71 45 £54,033 +11.41% 25
London +92 28 £82,500 +37.50% 33
Work from Home +96 16 £53,065 +17.92% 33
Midlands +63 10 £40,000 +14.29% 8
North of England +42 10 £56,250 +38.62% 6
Yorkshire +56 9 £70,000 +86.67% 5
West Midlands +56 8 £75,000 +93.55% 4
South West +109 4 £65,000 +44.44% 20
East of England +39 4 £42,085 -11.40% 8
Scotland +103 2 £37,500 -25.00% 3
East Midlands +35 2 £40,000 +19.40% 3
North West -3 1 £42,500 +1.80%

FortiGate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 63 (50.00%) Azure
2 29 (23.02%) GCP
3 16 (12.70%) AWS
4 13 (10.32%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.59%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.59%) IaaS
5 2 (1.59%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (0.79%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.79%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.79%) PaaS
6 1 (0.79%) SaaS
6 1 (0.79%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 108 (85.71%) Firewall
2 51 (40.48%) WAN
3 48 (38.10%) BGP
4 47 (37.30%) SD-WAN
5 45 (35.71%) Network Security
6 42 (33.33%) OSPF
7 37 (29.37%) LAN
8 32 (25.40%) VPN
9 29 (23.02%) Cisco ISE
10 27 (21.43%) EIGRP
10 27 (21.43%) Ethernet
11 18 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (13.49%) MPLS
12 17 (13.49%) Wireless
13 13 (10.32%) DMVPN
13 13 (10.32%) DNS
14 12 (9.52%) DHCP
14 12 (9.52%) TCP/IP
15 10 (7.94%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.59%) Power BI
3 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.79%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.79%) MySQL
3 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.79%) Redis
3 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.79%) Git
1 1 (0.79%) JIRA
1 1 (0.79%) TestRail
General
1 15 (11.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 6 (4.76%) Finance
4 4 (3.17%) Banking
4 4 (3.17%) Local Government
5 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.79%) Advertising
7 1 (0.79%) German Language
7 1 (0.79%) Law
7 1 (0.79%) Legal
7 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (36.51%) Network Engineer
2 32 (25.40%) Architect
2 32 (25.40%) Network Architect
3 19 (15.08%) Security Engineer
4 15 (11.90%) Senior
5 12 (9.52%) Designer
5 12 (9.52%) Network Designer
5 12 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
6 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
7 7 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Senior Security Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.17%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (3.17%) Head of Networks
9 4 (3.17%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.17%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.22%) JSON
2 1 (0.79%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.79%) Kafka
2 1 (0.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 34 (26.98%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.17%) IoT
4 4 (3.17%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.38%) PMI
5 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.59%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.79%) AS400
7 1 (0.79%) Clustering
7 1 (0.79%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.79%) PKI
7 1 (0.79%) Replication
7 1 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.29%) Windows
2 14 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 10 (7.94%) Linux
4 2 (1.59%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.59%) Unix
5 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.79%) CentOS
5 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.79%) Rocky
5 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.63%) Due Diligence
2 20 (15.87%) Network Design
3 16 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (12.70%) Risk Management
3 16 (12.70%) Service Delivery
4 15 (11.90%) ITIL
5 14 (11.11%) High Availability
5 14 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 12 (9.52%) Network Management
7 11 (8.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
9 8 (6.35%) Incident Management
9 8 (6.35%) Roadmaps
10 7 (5.56%) Impact Assessments
10 7 (5.56%) Incident Response
10 7 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (4.76%) Boundary Protection
11 6 (4.76%) Change Management
11 6 (4.76%) ITSM
11 6 (4.76%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.60%) Python
2 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.35%) SQL
3 3 (2.38%) Bash
4 1 (0.79%) Java
4 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 60 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 57 (45.24%) SC Cleared
3 32 (25.40%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (19.84%) DV Cleared
5 16 (12.70%) CCNP
6 9 (7.14%) CCNA
6 9 (7.14%) CISM
6 9 (7.14%) CISSP
7 8 (6.35%) GIAC
8 7 (5.56%) Degree
9 5 (3.97%) CCIE
9 5 (3.97%) CISA
10 4 (3.17%) CEH
10 4 (3.17%) CREST Certified
10 4 (3.17%) ISACA
10 4 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (3.17%) SANS
11 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.38%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (6.35%) SLA
2 7 (5.56%) NCSC
3 5 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.17%) NIST
5 3 (2.38%) GRC
5 3 (2.38%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.79%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) PMO
6 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 27 (21.43%) VMware NSX
2 14 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (9.52%) Hyper-V
4 11 (8.73%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.59%) Docker
6 2 (1.59%) Firmware
7 1 (0.79%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 30 (23.81%) Ansible
2 29 (23.02%) Terraform
3 8 (6.35%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (5.56%) Nessus
5 5 (3.97%) WSUS
6 2 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.79%) Argo
7 1 (0.79%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.79%) Kibana
7 1 (0.79%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.79%) logstash
7 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 87 (69.05%) Cisco
2 52 (41.27%) Fortinet
3 46 (36.51%) VMware
4 34 (26.98%) Juniper
5 33 (26.19%) F5
6 28 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 27 (21.43%) CheckPoint
7 27 (21.43%) Google
8 26 (20.63%) Blue Coat
9 17 (13.49%) Meraki
10 10 (7.94%) SolarWinds
11 8 (6.35%) Tenable
11 8 (6.35%) Zscaler
12 7 (5.56%) Aruba
12 7 (5.56%) McAfee
12 7 (5.56%) Palo Alto
13 6 (4.76%) Arista
13 6 (4.76%) Riverbed
14 5 (3.97%) Draytek
14 5 (3.97%) Ubiquiti