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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 589 718 706
Rank change year-on-year +129 -12 +259
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 113 190 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.18% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.99% 1.92% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 95 154 183
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,475 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -12.01%
75th Percentile £84,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £77,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -13.64%

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 5,670 9,873 13,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 9.52% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,113 7,021 8,779
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,200
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 +101 103 £60,000 +23.71% 56
UK excluding London +111 69 £50,000 +6.38% 32
South East +47 41 £54,033 +11.41% 3
London +79 18 £83,500 +30.98% 26
Work from Home +77 13 £52,500 +11.94% 30
North of England +25 10 £35,750 -10.63% 6
Midlands +57 7 £40,000 +3.23% 3
Yorkshire +45 7 £32,500 -18.75%
West Midlands +51 5 £75,000 +76.47% 1
East of England +48 5 £42,085 -11.40% 3
South West +106 4 £65,000 +44.44% 15
Scotland +112 3 £37,500 -25.00% 1
East Midlands +40 2 £40,000 +19.40% 2
North West +1 2 £39,500 -5.39% 3
North East +49 1 £29,000 -28.83% 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 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 62 (54.87%) Azure
2 32 (28.32%) GCP
3 15 (13.27%) AWS
4 12 (10.62%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.88%) IaaS
6 1 (0.88%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.88%) PaaS
6 1 (0.88%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 96 (84.96%) Firewall
2 45 (39.82%) BGP
3 44 (38.94%) WAN
4 41 (36.28%) SD-WAN
5 40 (35.40%) OSPF
6 39 (34.51%) Network Security
7 33 (29.20%) LAN
8 30 (26.55%) Cisco ISE
8 30 (26.55%) VPN
9 29 (25.66%) Ethernet
10 24 (21.24%) EIGRP
11 16 (14.16%) TCP/IP
12 14 (12.39%) MPLS
13 13 (11.50%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (11.50%) DNS
14 11 (9.73%) Wireless
15 10 (8.85%) DHCP
15 10 (8.85%) DMVPN
15 10 (8.85%) VLAN
16 7 (6.19%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.77%) Power BI
2 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.88%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (1.77%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.88%) GitLab
2 1 (0.88%) TestRail
General
1 14 (12.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.08%) Manufacturing
3 4 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.54%) Finance
3 4 (3.54%) Local Government
4 3 (2.65%) Banking
5 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.88%) Advertising
6 1 (0.88%) Electronics
6 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.88%) Marketing
6 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (35.40%) Network Engineer
2 32 (28.32%) Architect
2 32 (28.32%) Network Architect
3 16 (14.16%) Security Engineer
4 13 (11.50%) Senior
5 12 (10.62%) Designer
5 12 (10.62%) Network Designer
5 12 (10.62%) Network Security Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Infrastructure Manager
7 8 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Senior Network Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) IT Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) IT Manager
11 4 (3.54%) IT Support
12 3 (2.65%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.55%) JSON
2 2 (1.77%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.88%) Kafka
3 1 (0.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (35.40%) Data Centre
2 36 (31.86%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.19%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.54%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.54%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.65%) IoT
5 3 (2.65%) PMI
5 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.77%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.77%) PKI
7 1 (0.88%) AS400
7 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.88%) Clustering
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.70%) Windows
2 18 (15.93%) Windows Server
3 14 (12.39%) Linux
4 5 (4.42%) Unix
5 3 (2.65%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.65%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.88%) CentOS
6 1 (0.88%) Rocky
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (24.78%) Due Diligence
2 18 (15.93%) Network Design
3 15 (13.27%) Service Delivery
4 14 (12.39%) Risk Management
5 13 (11.50%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (11.50%) Project Delivery
6 11 (9.73%) ITIL
7 10 (8.85%) High Availability
8 9 (7.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (6.19%) Impact Assessments
9 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (6.19%) ITSM
9 7 (6.19%) Network Management
10 6 (5.31%) Change Management
10 6 (5.31%) Incident Management
10 6 (5.31%) Incident Response
10 6 (5.31%) Network Monitoring
10 6 (5.31%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (5.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (5.31%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.32%) Python
2 8 (7.08%) SQL
3 7 (6.19%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.77%) Bash
5 1 (0.88%) Java
5 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 56 (49.56%) Security Cleared
2 54 (47.79%) SC Cleared
3 25 (22.12%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (20.35%) DV Cleared
5 14 (12.39%) CCNP
6 7 (6.19%) CCNA
6 7 (6.19%) Degree
7 6 (5.31%) CISM
7 6 (5.31%) CISSP
8 5 (4.42%) GIAC
8 5 (4.42%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (3.54%) CCIE
9 4 (3.54%) CEH
9 4 (3.54%) CREST Certified
9 4 (3.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (2.65%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.77%) CISA
11 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.88%) ISACA
12 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (6.19%) SLA
3 5 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.54%) NCSC
4 4 (3.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 28 (24.78%) VMware NSX
2 14 (12.39%) Hyper-V
3 13 (11.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (10.62%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.77%) Docker
5 2 (1.77%) Firmware
5 2 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (28.32%) Ansible
2 30 (26.55%) Terraform
3 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (7.08%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.31%) WSUS
6 5 (4.42%) Nessus
7 1 (0.88%) Argo
7 1 (0.88%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.88%) Kibana
7 1 (0.88%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.88%) logstash
7 1 (0.88%) Nagios
7 1 (0.88%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.88%) WMI
7 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (70.80%) Cisco
2 48 (42.48%) VMware
3 47 (41.59%) Fortinet
4 32 (28.32%) F5
5 30 (26.55%) Juniper
6 29 (25.66%) CheckPoint
6 29 (25.66%) Google
7 28 (24.78%) Blue Coat
8 26 (23.01%) Microsoft
9 12 (10.62%) Meraki
10 6 (5.31%) HP
10 6 (5.31%) McAfee
10 6 (5.31%) Palo Alto
10 6 (5.31%) Veeam
11 5 (4.42%) Arista
11 5 (4.42%) Draytek
11 5 (4.42%) Riverbed
11 5 (4.42%) SolarWinds
11 5 (4.42%) Tenable
11 5 (4.42%) Ubiquiti