FortiGate Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Fortinet FortiGate
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 378 535 582
Rank change year-on-year +157 +47 +163
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 19 57 91
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.10% 1.45% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16 53 74
10th Percentile £44,375 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,598 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,533 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.63% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £81,750
UK median annual salary £61,250 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +26.29% -3.00% -10.95%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

FortiGate falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,724 3,942 6,814
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.53% 11.65% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,340 3,002 4,816
10th Percentile £41,225 £37,101 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.17% -11.11% -3.57%

FortiGate
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing FortiGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FortiGate trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

FortiGate
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing FortiGate.

FortiGate salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

FortiGate
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing FortiGate over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

FortiGate salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) Firewall
2 7 (36.84%) LAN
2 7 (36.84%) Network Security
2 7 (36.84%) WAN
2 7 (36.84%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (31.58%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (31.58%) VPN
4 5 (26.32%) SD-WAN
5 3 (15.79%) BGP
5 3 (15.79%) DMVPN
5 3 (15.79%) EIGRP
5 3 (15.79%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (15.79%) OSPF
5 3 (15.79%) WebEx
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (10.53%) DHCP
6 2 (10.53%) DNS
6 2 (10.53%) MPLS
6 2 (10.53%) Wireless
6 2 (10.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
1 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) TestRail
General
1 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.26%) Finance
1 1 (5.26%) German Language
1 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Network Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Development Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Network Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Support
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Network Support
5 1 (5.26%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (15.79%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (10.53%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Impact Assessments
1 4 (21.05%) Load Balancing
1 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
1 4 (21.05%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (15.79%) Agile
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
2 3 (15.79%) Coaching
2 3 (15.79%) Line Management
2 3 (15.79%) Network Architecture
2 3 (15.79%) Privileged Access Management
2 3 (15.79%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL
3 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
3 2 (10.53%) Migration
3 2 (10.53%) Network Design
3 2 (10.53%) Non-Blocking Code
3 2 (10.53%) Physics
4 1 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (21.05%) CCNA
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Degree
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CCNP
5 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Argo
2 1 (5.26%) Check_MK
2 1 (5.26%) Kibana
2 1 (5.26%) Kustomize
2 1 (5.26%) logstash
2 1 (5.26%) Opsgenie
2 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Cisco
2 6 (31.58%) Fortinet
2 6 (31.58%) Juniper
2 6 (31.58%) Meraki
3 3 (15.79%) McAfee
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) Zscaler
4 2 (10.53%) Arista
4 2 (10.53%) Aruba
4 2 (10.53%) Extreme Networks
4 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
5 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.26%) F5
5 1 (5.26%) Imperva
5 1 (5.26%) Mitel
5 1 (5.26%) Okta