FortiGate Contracts

Fortinet FortiGate
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FortiGate skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FortiGate over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 456 534 681
Rank change year-on-year +78 +147 -55
Contract jobs citing FortiGate 118 167 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.32% 1.83% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 107 132
10th Percentile £400 £363 £314
25th Percentile £415 £445 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +2.38% +22.09%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £602
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +3.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £70.13 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £70.31 -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £73.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -81.69% - -
75th Percentile £14.25 £80.31 -
90th Percentile - £82.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £77.50 -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,079 9,138 13,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 16.00% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,654 6,565 10,050
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 200 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.82
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.67 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.08 £62.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -12.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FortiGate.

Daily rate trend for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FortiGate over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FortiGate.

Hourly rate trend for FortiGate in the UK

FortiGate
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FortiGate within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 107 £450 -18.18% 49
UK excluding London +52 65 £450 -10.00% 31
London +63 41 £513 -9.89% 17
South East +46 39 £450 -18.18% 11
Work from Home +73 27 £550 +3.53% 18
Midlands +26 11 £425 -34.62% 6
West Midlands +15 7 £475 -26.92% 4
South West +7 6 £488 +2.63% 8
Scotland +44 4 £550 +22.22%
East Midlands +17 4 £425 - 2
North of England +16 4 £563 +40.63% 5
North West +17 2 £575 +9.52% 3
Yorkshire +17 2 £463 +37.04% 2
East of England - 1 £400 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.85%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.41%) Azure
2 8 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.24%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (4.24%) Entra ID
3 5 (4.24%) SaaS
4 4 (3.39%) AWS
4 4 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.54%) GCP
5 3 (2.54%) IaaS
5 3 (2.54%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.85%) OCI
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 74 (62.71%) Firewall
2 43 (36.44%) BGP
3 35 (29.66%) OSPF
4 29 (24.58%) WAN
5 27 (22.88%) VPN
6 23 (19.49%) EIGRP
7 22 (18.64%) DMVPN
7 22 (18.64%) Network Security
8 20 (16.95%) LAN
9 16 (13.56%) Cisco ASA
9 16 (13.56%) DNS
10 14 (11.86%) Wireless
11 13 (11.02%) IPsec
12 11 (9.32%) DHCP
13 10 (8.47%) SD-WAN
14 9 (7.63%) TCP/IP
14 9 (7.63%) WLAN
15 8 (6.78%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (6.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 7 (5.93%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Git
General
1 19 (16.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.56%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.24%) Finance
5 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.54%) Military
5 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (0.85%) Back Office
7 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (54.24%) Network Engineer
2 23 (19.49%) Network Specialist
3 10 (8.47%) Architect
4 9 (7.63%) Senior
5 8 (6.78%) Senior Network Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) Network Architect
6 7 (5.93%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.24%) Consultant
7 5 (4.24%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Design Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Network Design Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 3 (2.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 3 (2.54%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (2.54%) Network Security Engineer
10 2 (1.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 2 (1.69%) IT Support Assistant
10 2 (1.69%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.78%) JSON
2 6 (5.08%) NETCONF
2 6 (5.08%) XML
2 6 (5.08%) YANG
3 3 (2.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Data Centre
1 11 (9.32%) PKI
2 5 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.85%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.85%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (0.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.85%) Life Science
6 1 (0.85%) LIMS
6 1 (0.85%) NHS
6 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.47%) Windows
2 3 (2.54%) Linux
3 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.42%) Network Design
2 14 (11.86%) Migration
2 14 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (9.32%) Load Balancing
3 11 (9.32%) Roadmaps
4 9 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (5.08%) Change Management
7 6 (5.08%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (5.08%) High Availability
7 6 (5.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 5 (4.24%) Agile
8 5 (4.24%) DevOps
8 5 (4.24%) ITIL
8 5 (4.24%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (3.39%) Network Management
9 4 (3.39%) Prototyping
9 4 (3.39%) Threat Management
9 4 (3.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.78%) Python
2 3 (2.54%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (37.29%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.49%) DV Cleared
3 17 (14.41%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (11.86%) SC Cleared
5 12 (10.17%) CCNP
6 10 (8.47%) CCNA
7 6 (5.08%) CCIE
8 3 (2.54%) Degree
9 1 (0.85%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (0.85%) CISA
9 1 (0.85%) CISM
9 1 (0.85%) CISSP
9 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.85%) ISA99
1 1 (0.85%) NCSC
1 1 (0.85%) NIST
1 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (9.32%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.39%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.54%) XenApp
5 2 (1.69%) Firmware
5 2 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.24%) Terraform
2 2 (1.69%) Ansible
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.69%) Nagios
2 2 (1.69%) VxRail
3 1 (0.85%) CASB
3 1 (0.85%) QRadar
3 1 (0.85%) Stealthwatch
3 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 78 (66.10%) Cisco
2 55 (46.61%) Fortinet
3 32 (27.12%) Juniper
4 29 (24.58%) Palo Alto
5 17 (14.41%) F5
6 13 (11.02%) Microsoft
7 11 (9.32%) Aruba
8 10 (8.47%) VMware
9 8 (6.78%) CheckPoint
10 6 (5.08%) Dell
10 6 (5.08%) Nokia
11 5 (4.24%) SolarWinds
12 4 (3.39%) Barracuda Networks
12 4 (3.39%) Extreme Networks
13 3 (2.54%) Citrix
13 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
13 3 (2.54%) Meraki
13 3 (2.54%) New Relic
14 2 (1.69%) CA
14 2 (1.69%) HP