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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 715 957
Rank change year-on-year -7 +242 -172
Permanent jobs citing FortiGate 182 261 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.84% 1.76% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 154 181 243
10th Percentile £32,750 £33,750 £40,650
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61,875 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,375 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.74% -15.00% +22.22%

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 9,909 14,819 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 14.62% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,136 9,161 14,046
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +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 9 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 9 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 +42 164 £47,500 -5.00% 51
UK excluding London -47 140 £45,000 -3.74% 36
South East +28 66 £47,750 -16.96% 15
Work from Home +34 54 £45,000 -25.00% 16
London +95 40 £60,000 - 14
North of England -21 25 £39,000 -13.33% 3
Yorkshire +76 19 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Midlands -13 13 £35,000 -54.84% 7
South West -23 13 £45,000 +1.69% 9
Scotland -56 13 £50,000 +29.03%
West Midlands +8 8 £38,750 -50.00% 4
East of England +5 7 £47,500 -40.63% 3
East Midlands -15 5 £33,500 -44.17% 3
Wales -7 3 - -
North East -9 3 £42,155 -45.61%
North West -48 3 £41,750 -12.11% 2

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 24 (13.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 73 (40.11%) Azure
2 46 (25.27%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 20 (10.99%) IaaS
5 19 (10.44%) AWS
5 19 (10.44%) PaaS
6 14 (7.69%) GCP
7 5 (2.75%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.20%) SaaS
9 3 (1.65%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.10%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.55%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (0.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 138 (75.82%) Firewall
2 97 (53.30%) WAN
3 57 (31.32%) SD-WAN
4 54 (29.67%) BGP
5 48 (26.37%) VPN
6 42 (23.08%) OSPF
7 37 (20.33%) MPLS
8 34 (18.68%) LAN
9 29 (15.93%) DNS
9 29 (15.93%) EIGRP
10 25 (13.74%) DHCP
11 23 (12.64%) DMVPN
12 22 (12.09%) Wi-Fi
13 21 (11.54%) Internet
14 19 (10.44%) Cisco ASA
14 19 (10.44%) Wireless
15 17 (9.34%) Network Security
15 17 (9.34%) VLAN
16 15 (8.24%) TCP/IP
17 14 (7.69%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.10%) GitLab
1 2 (1.10%) JIRA
2 1 (0.55%) Git
General
1 56 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.79%) Finance
3 14 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 7 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (3.30%) Legal
6 5 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.20%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.65%) Automotive
8 3 (1.65%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.65%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.10%) Billing
9 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Law
9 2 (1.10%) Military
10 1 (0.55%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 74 (40.66%) Network Engineer
2 39 (21.43%) Senior
3 30 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (13.19%) Senior Network Engineer
5 16 (8.79%) Lead
6 12 (6.59%) Analyst
7 10 (5.49%) IT Support
7 10 (5.49%) Network Specialist
7 10 (5.49%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (4.95%) IT Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Network Analyst
10 7 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Technical Leader
11 6 (3.30%) Consultant
12 5 (2.75%) IT Analyst
12 5 (2.75%) Support Engineer
13 4 (2.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 4 (2.20%) Senior Core Network Engineer
13 4 (2.20%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.10%) LDAP
2 1 (0.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.13%) Data Centre
2 32 (17.58%) Driving Licence
3 15 (8.24%) Public Cloud
4 14 (7.69%) IoT
4 14 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (7.14%) Replication
6 11 (6.04%) Clustering
6 11 (6.04%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.95%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (2.20%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.65%) CCTV
9 3 (1.65%) EPoS
9 3 (1.65%) iPad
9 3 (1.65%) Media Streaming
9 3 (1.65%) PKI
10 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.10%) Digital Media
10 2 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 64 (35.16%) Windows
2 46 (25.27%) Windows Server
3 34 (18.68%) Linux
4 7 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (18.13%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (18.13%) Network Design
3 31 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 22 (12.09%) Project Delivery
6 21 (11.54%) Customer Service
7 20 (10.99%) Mentoring
8 18 (9.89%) ITIL
9 16 (8.79%) DevOps
10 14 (7.69%) Data Management
10 14 (7.69%) Project Management
11 13 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
12 12 (6.59%) Change Control
12 12 (6.59%) Kalman Filter
13 11 (6.04%) Cloud Security
13 11 (6.04%) High Availability
13 11 (6.04%) Presales
13 11 (6.04%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.75%) Python
3 4 (2.20%) SQL
4 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 51 (28.02%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (20.33%) CCNA
3 32 (17.58%) Security Cleared
4 24 (13.19%) CCNP
5 12 (6.59%) Degree
5 12 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (5.49%) CTC Cleared
6 10 (5.49%) MCSE
7 7 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.85%) SC Cleared
8 6 (3.30%) JNCIS
8 6 (3.30%) MCP
9 4 (2.20%) MCSA
10 3 (1.65%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.65%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.65%) HND
11 2 (1.10%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.10%) CCIE
11 2 (1.10%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (8.79%) GDPR
3 13 (7.14%) SLA
4 9 (4.95%) COSHH
5 7 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 58 (31.87%) Hyper-V
2 43 (23.63%) Active Directory
3 42 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (7.69%) VMware NSX
5 12 (6.59%) vSphere
6 5 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.20%) Firmware
8 3 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.55%) Docker
10 1 (0.55%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (8.79%) Terraform
2 15 (8.24%) Ansible
2 15 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (3.30%) Nagios
5 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 4 (2.20%) SCOM
6 3 (1.65%) SCCM
7 2 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.10%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.10%) Rundeck
7 2 (1.10%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.55%) Graylog
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.55%) MobiControl
8 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 128 (70.33%) Cisco
2 61 (33.52%) Microsoft
3 60 (32.97%) VMware
4 51 (28.02%) Juniper
5 36 (19.78%) Fortinet
6 29 (15.93%) Palo Alto
7 25 (13.74%) HP
8 24 (13.19%) Meraki
9 23 (12.64%) CheckPoint
10 20 (10.99%) Draytek
10 20 (10.99%) Veeam
11 15 (8.24%) Aruba
12 14 (7.69%) Darktrace
12 14 (7.69%) NEC
13 13 (7.14%) NetApp
14 12 (6.59%) McAfee
15 10 (5.49%) F5
15 10 (5.49%) Mitel
16 9 (4.95%) Ribbon
17 8 (4.40%) IBM