Fortinet FortiGate
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for FortiGate skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FortiGate over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 725 744 946
Rank change year-on-year +19 +202 -169
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 187 259 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.88% 1.71% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 156 182 240
10th Percentile £32,750 £33,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £82,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +19.24%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

FortiGate is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,955 15,150 28,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.11% 14.63% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,174 9,323 14,201
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Top 16 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 4 May 2024. 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 +36 167 £47,500 - 47
UK excluding London -55 143 £45,000 - 32
South East +44 65 £47,000 -18.26% 15
Work from Home +45 55 £45,000 -26.53% 14
London +112 41 £60,000 - 15
North of England -39 27 £40,578 -9.83% 3
Yorkshire +75 19 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Midlands +15 13 £35,000 -54.84% 7
South West -22 13 £45,000 +4.65% 6
Scotland -55 13 £50,000 +29.03%
West Midlands +12 8 £38,750 -50.00% 4
East of England +7 7 £47,500 -40.63% 2
Wales +4 5 - -
East Midlands -10 5 £33,500 -44.17% 3
North West -50 5 £47,500 - 2
North East -8 3 £42,155 -45.61%

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 25 (13.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.95%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) IIS
3 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.07%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 75 (40.11%) Azure
2 48 (25.67%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (13.90%) Entra ID
4 20 (10.70%) IaaS
5 19 (10.16%) AWS
5 19 (10.16%) PaaS
6 15 (8.02%) GCP
7 5 (2.67%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.14%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.14%) SaaS
9 2 (1.07%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 142 (75.94%) Firewall
2 97 (51.87%) WAN
3 57 (30.48%) SD-WAN
4 55 (29.41%) BGP
5 51 (27.27%) VPN
6 43 (22.99%) OSPF
7 37 (19.79%) LAN
7 37 (19.79%) MPLS
8 31 (16.58%) DNS
9 29 (15.51%) EIGRP
10 28 (14.97%) DHCP
11 23 (12.30%) DMVPN
11 23 (12.30%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (11.76%) Internet
13 20 (10.70%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (10.70%) Wireless
14 19 (10.16%) Network Security
14 19 (10.16%) VLAN
15 16 (8.56%) TCP/IP
16 13 (6.95%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.07%) GitLab
1 2 (1.07%) JIRA
2 1 (0.53%) Git
General
1 56 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.63%) Finance
3 14 (7.49%) Telecoms
4 7 (3.74%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (3.21%) Legal
6 4 (2.14%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.60%) Automotive
7 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.60%) Multimedia
7 3 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.07%) Billing
8 2 (1.07%) Games
8 2 (1.07%) Law
8 2 (1.07%) Military
9 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 75 (40.11%) Network Engineer
2 41 (21.93%) Senior
3 29 (15.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (12.83%) Senior Network Engineer
5 18 (9.63%) Lead
6 13 (6.95%) Analyst
7 10 (5.35%) IT Engineer
7 10 (5.35%) IT Support
7 10 (5.35%) Network Specialist
7 10 (5.35%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Technical Leader
9 7 (3.74%) Network Analyst
9 7 (3.74%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.21%) Consultant
11 5 (2.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 5 (2.67%) IT Analyst
11 5 (2.67%) Senior IT Engineer
11 5 (2.67%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) Senior Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.60%) LDAP
2 2 (1.07%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.25%) Data Centre
2 31 (16.58%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.56%) Public Cloud
4 15 (8.02%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (6.95%) IoT
5 13 (6.95%) Replication
6 11 (5.88%) Clustering
6 11 (5.88%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.81%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (2.14%) PKI
8 4 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.60%) CCTV
9 3 (1.60%) EPoS
9 3 (1.60%) iPad
9 3 (1.60%) Media Streaming
9 3 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (34.76%) Windows
2 47 (25.13%) Windows Server
3 35 (18.72%) Linux
4 8 (4.28%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (4.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (4.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (2.67%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (18.72%) Network Design
3 33 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (15.51%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (12.30%) Project Delivery
7 22 (11.76%) Customer Service
8 21 (11.23%) ITIL
9 20 (10.70%) Mentoring
10 16 (8.56%) DevOps
11 14 (7.49%) Project Management
12 13 (6.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.95%) Data Management
12 13 (6.95%) Kalman Filter
12 13 (6.95%) Network Virtualisation
13 12 (6.42%) Change Control
14 11 (5.88%) Cloud Security
14 11 (5.88%) High Availability
14 11 (5.88%) Presales
14 11 (5.88%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.95%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.21%) Python
3 4 (2.14%) SQL
4 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.53%) Bash
Qualifications
1 52 (27.81%) Cisco Certification
2 39 (20.86%) CCNA
3 35 (18.72%) Security Cleared
4 24 (12.83%) CCNP
5 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (6.42%) Degree
7 10 (5.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (5.35%) CTC Cleared
7 10 (5.35%) MCSE
7 10 (5.35%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.74%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.21%) JNCIS
9 6 (3.21%) MCP
10 5 (2.67%) MCSA
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.60%) HND
12 2 (1.07%) SANS
12 2 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (8.56%) GDPR
3 13 (6.95%) SLA
4 9 (4.81%) COSHH
5 7 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 58 (31.02%) Hyper-V
2 45 (24.06%) Active Directory
3 44 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (8.02%) VMware NSX
5 12 (6.42%) vSphere
6 5 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.14%) Firmware
8 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.53%) Docker
10 1 (0.53%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (9.09%) Terraform
2 16 (8.56%) Ansible
3 15 (8.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.74%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (3.21%) Nagios
6 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 4 (2.14%) SCOM
7 3 (1.60%) SCCM
8 2 (1.07%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.07%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.07%) Rundeck
8 2 (1.07%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.53%) Graylog
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.53%) MobiControl
9 1 (0.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 131 (70.05%) Cisco
2 63 (33.69%) Microsoft
2 63 (33.69%) VMware
3 53 (28.34%) Juniper
4 36 (19.25%) Fortinet
5 31 (16.58%) Palo Alto
6 27 (14.44%) CheckPoint
7 24 (12.83%) HP
7 24 (12.83%) Meraki
8 20 (10.70%) Draytek
8 20 (10.70%) Veeam
9 18 (9.63%) Aruba
10 14 (7.49%) McAfee
11 13 (6.95%) Darktrace
11 13 (6.95%) F5
11 13 (6.95%) NEC
11 13 (6.95%) NetApp
12 10 (5.35%) Mitel
13 9 (4.81%) Ribbon
13 9 (4.81%) SolarWinds