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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 710 728
Rank change year-on-year +150 +18 +208
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 132 186 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.65% 1.86% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 108 155 184
10th Percentile £41,280 £32,600 £33,750
25th Percentile £49,073 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.29% -3.00% -10.95%
75th Percentile £83,750 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £64,630 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,065 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +17.92% -3.23% -15.45%

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 4,978 10,017 15,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 10.17% 14.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,344 7,239 9,373
10th Percentile £37,075 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,150 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 1 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 1 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 +133 126 £60,000 +26.32% 50
UK excluding London +143 78 £53,065 +17.92% 43
South East +90 46 £55,000 +17.02% 11
London +103 31 £82,500 +37.50% 9
Work from Home +157 19 £56,533 +25.63% 29
North of England +71 15 £70,000 +72.51% 6
Yorkshire +68 12 £70,000 +86.67% 3
Midlands +79 9 £40,000 +16.79% 7
West Midlands +50 7 £75,000 +114.29% 5
South West +98 4 £65,000 +44.44% 15
East of England +54 4 £42,085 -11.40% 3
North West +29 3 £42,500 -12.82% 1
East Midlands +47 2 £40,000 +19.40% 1
Scotland +120 1 - - 3

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 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 68 (51.52%) Azure
2 29 (21.97%) GCP
3 16 (12.12%) AWS
4 13 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.03%) IaaS
6 3 (2.27%) Mimecast
6 3 (2.27%) SaaS
7 2 (1.52%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.76%) PaaS
8 1 (0.76%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 113 (85.61%) Firewall
2 58 (43.94%) WAN
3 53 (40.15%) SD-WAN
4 49 (37.12%) BGP
5 48 (36.36%) Network Security
6 43 (32.58%) OSPF
7 41 (31.06%) LAN
8 32 (24.24%) VPN
9 29 (21.97%) Cisco ISE
10 28 (21.21%) EIGRP
11 27 (20.45%) Ethernet
12 19 (14.39%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (13.64%) Wireless
14 17 (12.88%) MPLS
15 14 (10.61%) DHCP
15 14 (10.61%) DMVPN
16 13 (9.85%) DNS
16 13 (9.85%) Wi-Fi
17 11 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
17 11 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.52%) Power BI
3 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.76%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.76%) MySQL
3 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.76%) Git
1 1 (0.76%) JIRA
1 1 (0.76%) TestRail
General
1 15 (11.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.30%) Finance
3 6 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.03%) Local Government
5 3 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.27%) Banking
5 3 (2.27%) Legal
6 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.52%) Law
6 2 (1.52%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.76%) Advertising
7 1 (0.76%) German Language
7 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (37.88%) Network Engineer
2 34 (25.76%) Architect
2 34 (25.76%) Network Architect
3 19 (14.39%) Security Engineer
4 16 (12.12%) Senior
5 12 (9.09%) Designer
5 12 (9.09%) Network Designer
5 12 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
6 9 (6.82%) Infrastructure Manager
7 8 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Support Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) IT Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Network Support
10 5 (3.79%) Network Support Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Cisco Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.21%) JSON
2 3 (2.27%) SAML
3 1 (0.76%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 50 (37.88%) Data Centre
2 34 (25.76%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.55%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.03%) IoT
4 4 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.27%) PMI
5 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.27%) Replication
5 3 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.52%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.76%) Clustering
7 1 (0.76%) PKI
7 1 (0.76%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.88%) Windows
2 11 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.82%) Linux
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.76%) CentOS
6 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.76%) Rocky
6 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (19.70%) Due Diligence
2 21 (15.91%) Network Design
3 18 (13.64%) Service Delivery
4 16 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (12.12%) High Availability
4 16 (12.12%) ITIL
4 16 (12.12%) Risk Management
5 15 (11.36%) Project Delivery
6 13 (9.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (9.85%) Network Management
7 11 (8.33%) Roadmaps
8 9 (6.82%) Incident Management
9 8 (6.06%) Incident Response
9 8 (6.06%) Line Management
9 8 (6.06%) Load Balancing
9 8 (6.06%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (5.30%) Impact Assessments
11 6 (4.55%) Boundary Protection
11 6 (4.55%) Change Management
11 6 (4.55%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (23.48%) Python
2 8 (6.06%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.06%) SQL
3 3 (2.27%) Bash
4 1 (0.76%) Java
4 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 61 (46.21%) Security Cleared
2 58 (43.94%) SC Cleared
3 37 (28.03%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (19.70%) DV Cleared
5 19 (14.39%) CCNP
6 9 (6.82%) CCNA
6 9 (6.82%) CISM
6 9 (6.82%) CISSP
7 8 (6.06%) GIAC
8 7 (5.30%) Degree
9 5 (3.79%) CCIE
9 5 (3.79%) CISA
9 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (3.03%) CEH
10 4 (3.03%) CREST Certified
10 4 (3.03%) ISACA
10 4 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (3.03%) SANS
11 3 (2.27%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (6.06%) SLA
2 7 (5.30%) NCSC
3 5 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.03%) NIST
5 3 (2.27%) GRC
5 3 (2.27%) JSP 440
5 3 (2.27%) PMO
6 1 (0.76%) GDPR
6 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 27 (20.45%) VMware NSX
2 14 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.27%) DFS Replication
5 3 (2.27%) Firmware
6 2 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (22.73%) Ansible
2 29 (21.97%) Terraform
3 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (6.06%) Kubernetes
5 7 (5.30%) Nessus
6 5 (3.79%) WSUS
7 4 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.76%) Argo
8 1 (0.76%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.76%) Kibana
8 1 (0.76%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.76%) logstash
8 1 (0.76%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 92 (69.70%) Cisco
2 53 (40.15%) Fortinet
3 46 (34.85%) VMware
4 35 (26.52%) Juniper
5 34 (25.76%) F5
6 29 (21.97%) Microsoft
7 27 (20.45%) CheckPoint
7 27 (20.45%) Google
8 26 (19.70%) Blue Coat
9 20 (15.15%) Meraki
10 13 (9.85%) SolarWinds
11 10 (7.58%) Zscaler
12 8 (6.06%) McAfee
12 8 (6.06%) Tenable
13 7 (5.30%) Aruba
13 7 (5.30%) Palo Alto
14 6 (4.55%) Arista
14 6 (4.55%) Riverbed
15 5 (3.79%) Draytek
15 5 (3.79%) Ubiquiti