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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 517 500
Rank change year-on-year +59 -17 +265
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 17 50 110
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.15% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.72% 1.41% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15 45 91
10th Percentile £47,589 - £37,500
25th Percentile £50,424 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £65,625
90th Percentile - £75,130 £78,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -9.09%

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 2,358 3,556 5,196
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.21% 10.79% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,198 2,524 4,119
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,417 £47,500 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -7.86% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,930 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £66,769 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.83% -7.41% -

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 12 July 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 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) Firewall
2 7 (41.18%) Network Security
3 5 (29.41%) BGP
3 5 (29.41%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (29.41%) VPN
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (23.53%) OSPF
5 3 (17.65%) DMVPN
5 3 (17.65%) EIGRP
5 3 (17.65%) LAN
5 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
5 3 (17.65%) WAN
6 2 (11.76%) DHCP
6 2 (11.76%) DNS
6 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (11.76%) MPLS
6 2 (11.76%) PBX
6 2 (11.76%) VPLS
6 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
1 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) TestRail
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Local Government
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Network Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Development Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Network Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Network Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Professional Services Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (17.65%) Agile
2 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 2 (11.76%) Change Management
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Network Design
3 2 (11.76%) Non-Blocking Code
3 2 (11.76%) Physics
3 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.88%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (5.88%) Backlog Management
4 1 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (5.88%) Fintech
4 1 (5.88%) Presales
4 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) Proprietary Trading
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Debt
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (5.88%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (5.88%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) CCNP
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CCIE
4 1 (5.88%) CCNA
4 1 (5.88%) CCSA
4 1 (5.88%) CCSE
4 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.88%) JNCIP
4 1 (5.88%) JNCIS
4 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Argo
2 1 (5.88%) Check_MK
2 1 (5.88%) Kibana
2 1 (5.88%) Kustomize
2 1 (5.88%) logstash
2 1 (5.88%) Opsgenie
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Cisco
2 9 (52.94%) Fortinet
3 6 (35.29%) Juniper
4 5 (29.41%) Meraki
4 5 (29.41%) Palo Alto
5 3 (17.65%) HP
5 3 (17.65%) McAfee
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.76%) Arista
6 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
6 2 (11.76%) Citrix
6 2 (11.76%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (11.76%) F5
6 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
6 2 (11.76%) VMware
7 1 (5.88%) ForeScout
7 1 (5.88%) Imperva
7 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
7 1 (5.88%) Okta
7 1 (5.88%) Zscaler