Fortinet Contract Job Trends in England

Fortinet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Fortinet products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fortinet over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Fortinet, Inc.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 302 335
Rank change year-on-year -94 +33 +83
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 181 176 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.73% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.09% 1.54% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 117 120
10th Percentile £378 £406 £375
25th Percentile £456 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +10.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £693 £650 £726
UK median daily rate £519 £563 £493
% change year-on-year -7.78% +14.21% -6.19%

All Vendors
England

Fortinet falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,674 11,439 15,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.48% 47.19% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,908 7,426 10,179
10th Percentile £310 £296 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 863 413 954
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.12 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.27
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £23.36
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +24.16% -36.87%
75th Percentile £59.46 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £28.60 £22.58
% change year-on-year -5.59% +26.66% -43.55%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fortinet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Fortinet job vacancy trend in England

Fortinet
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fortinet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fortinet in England over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fortinet in England

Fortinet
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fortinet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fortinet within the England region over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. 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
London -80 71 £540 -1.82% 21
South East -38 36 £480 -16.52% 25
Midlands -59 24 £475 -12.04% 13
North of England -70 22 £575 +0.44% 16
East Midlands -23 12 £650 +51.16% 5
North West -46 11 £576 +0.61% 13
Yorkshire -58 11 £413 -26.67% 3
West Midlands -67 11 £475 -13.79% 8
South West -30 7 £538 +30.30% 6
East of England -32 6 £475 - 13
Fortinet
UK

Fortinet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.10%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.21%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.39%) Azure
2 46 (25.41%) AWS
3 14 (7.73%) GCP
4 12 (6.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.42%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (3.31%) GitHub
9 5 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.76%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.76%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.21%) SaaS
11 3 (1.66%) IaaS
11 3 (1.66%) PaaS
11 3 (1.66%) Route 53
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.10%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 120 (66.30%) Firewall
2 72 (39.78%) WAN
3 56 (30.94%) BGP
4 50 (27.62%) SD-WAN
5 49 (27.07%) VPN
6 48 (26.52%) OSPF
7 47 (25.97%) Network Security
8 39 (21.55%) LAN
9 34 (18.78%) MPLS
10 33 (18.23%) VLAN
11 23 (12.71%) TCP/IP
12 21 (11.60%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (11.05%) DNS
13 20 (11.05%) Wireless
14 17 (9.39%) DHCP
15 15 (8.29%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (7.73%) Multicast
16 14 (7.73%) NGFW
16 14 (7.73%) VXLAN
17 13 (7.18%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.87%) JIRA
2 6 (3.31%) Git
3 3 (1.66%) GitLab
4 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (19.89%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.94%) Finance
5 17 (9.39%) Telecoms
6 16 (8.84%) Military
7 12 (6.63%) Banking
8 10 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.31%) Legal
10 5 (2.76%) Law
11 4 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.66%) Police
12 3 (1.66%) Retail
13 2 (1.10%) Aviation
13 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.55%) Electronics
14 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (37.57%) Network Engineer
2 26 (14.36%) Architect
3 25 (13.81%) Senior
4 21 (11.60%) Security Engineer
5 19 (10.50%) Network Architect
6 14 (7.73%) Network Security Engineer
7 13 (7.18%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) Senior Network Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Lead
10 8 (4.42%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Firewall Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Security Architect
12 6 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 5 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.76%) IT Engineer
13 5 (2.76%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.52%) 802.1X
2 7 (3.87%) NETCONF
3 6 (3.31%) YANG
4 5 (2.76%) OpenConfig
5 4 (2.21%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.10%) JSON
6 2 (1.10%) XML
7 1 (0.55%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.55%) Flask
7 1 (0.55%) Jinja
7 1 (0.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.89%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.52%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.42%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.76%) PKI
6 5 (2.76%) SCADA
6 5 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.21%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.66%) CESG
8 3 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.10%) NHS
9 2 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.52%) Windows
2 8 (4.42%) Linux
3 6 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.55%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (18.78%) ITIL
2 26 (14.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (13.81%) Network Design
3 25 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (11.05%) Zero Trust
6 18 (9.94%) SIEM
7 17 (9.39%) Incident Response
7 17 (9.39%) Mentoring
7 17 (9.39%) Migration
8 16 (8.84%) DevOps
9 15 (8.29%) Change Management
9 15 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (8.29%) Network Architecture
9 15 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (8.29%) Security Architecture
10 14 (7.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (7.73%) Load Balancing
11 13 (7.18%) Network Segmentation
11 13 (7.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.13%) Python
2 10 (5.52%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.31%) Bash
4 3 (1.66%) SQL
5 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 70 (38.67%) Security Cleared
2 55 (30.39%) Cisco Certification
3 48 (26.52%) SC Cleared
4 40 (22.10%) CCNP
5 30 (16.57%) CCIE
6 21 (11.60%) DV Cleared
7 15 (8.29%) CCNA
7 15 (8.29%) Degree
8 13 (7.18%) CISSP
9 9 (4.97%) AWS Certification
9 9 (4.97%) Azure Certification
10 7 (3.87%) CCSE
10 7 (3.87%) JNCIE
11 6 (3.31%) CCIE Security
12 4 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (2.21%) CCSP
12 4 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.66%) CCDP
13 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.50%) NIST
2 18 (9.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (7.73%) GDPR
4 10 (5.52%) SLA
5 9 (4.97%) NCSC
5 9 (4.97%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.21%) GRC
7 3 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.66%) RMADS
8 2 (1.10%) ISA99
8 2 (1.10%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.10%) QA
9 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (8.29%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.76%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.21%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.66%) Firmware
5 3 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.66%) vSphere
6 2 (1.10%) Docker
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (17.13%) Ansible
2 28 (15.47%) FortiGate
3 23 (12.71%) Terraform
4 5 (2.76%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (1.66%) Grafana
5 3 (1.66%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.10%) CASB
6 2 (1.10%) Iperf
6 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.10%) Nmap
6 2 (1.10%) Puppet
6 2 (1.10%) Salt
6 2 (1.10%) SCCM
6 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.55%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.55%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 104 (57.46%) Cisco
2 62 (34.25%) Palo Alto
3 32 (17.68%) CheckPoint
3 32 (17.68%) Juniper
4 29 (16.02%) F5
5 28 (15.47%) Microsoft
6 21 (11.60%) ServiceNow
6 21 (11.60%) Zscaler
7 18 (9.94%) Arista
7 18 (9.94%) Aruba
8 17 (9.39%) VMware
9 15 (8.29%) SolarWinds
10 14 (7.73%) Infoblox
10 14 (7.73%) NetApp
11 12 (6.63%) Meraki
12 11 (6.08%) Splunk
13 6 (3.31%) Tenable
14 4 (2.21%) ForeScout
14 4 (2.21%) HP
15 3 (1.66%) Nokia