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 30 June 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
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 322 336
Rank change year-on-year -49 +14 +35
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 251 178 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.70% 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% 1.48% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 102 131
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +10.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £581
90th Percentile £628 £656 £650
UK median daily rate £491 £551 £500
% change year-on-year -10.84% +10.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £26.06 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.47 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £60.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.42% - -
75th Percentile £78.56 £83.57 -
90th Percentile £78.68 £96.73 -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +27.49% - -

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 17,825 12,057 15,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.73% 47.27% 42.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,333 7,639 10,010
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 556 1,056
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.44
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.49 £14.67
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.39 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% +7.04% -32.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.04 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.19
% change year-on-year +35.15% +3.99% -40.35%

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 30 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fortinet in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Fortinet in England

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 30 June 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 -79 99 £528 -4.09% 24
South East -40 44 £456 -20.65% 18
North of England -65 35 £489 -2.30% 22
Midlands -57 30 £565 +3.67% 13
North West -40 20 £575 +17.95% 14
West Midlands -60 17 £573 +4.18% 9
Yorkshire -44 14 £416 -27.62% 8
East Midlands -9 12 £475 +10.47% 4
East of England -27 5 £450 +12.50% 10
South West -31 3 £538 -6.52% 9
North East -36 1 £425 -
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 5 (1.99%) Confluence
2 3 (1.20%) Apache
2 3 (1.20%) CloudStack
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (3.19%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.51%) Azure
2 45 (17.93%) AWS
3 9 (3.59%) Entra ID
3 9 (3.59%) GitHub
4 8 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.99%) GCP
6 5 (1.99%) Mimecast
6 5 (1.99%) Serverless
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.59%) AWS Control Tower
7 4 (1.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.59%) IaaS
8 3 (1.20%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.80%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 169 (67.33%) Firewall
2 90 (35.86%) WAN
3 80 (31.87%) BGP
4 66 (26.29%) Network Security
5 60 (23.90%) OSPF
6 58 (23.11%) VPN
7 51 (20.32%) VLAN
8 49 (19.52%) SD-WAN
9 48 (19.12%) LAN
10 30 (11.95%) MPLS
11 28 (11.16%) Wireless
12 24 (9.56%) TCP/IP
13 23 (9.16%) DNS
13 23 (9.16%) IPsec
14 21 (8.37%) Multicast
15 19 (7.57%) Cisco IOS
15 19 (7.57%) NGFW
16 17 (6.77%) Cisco Nexus
16 17 (6.77%) NX-OS
16 17 (6.77%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.98%) JIRA
2 8 (3.19%) Git
3 5 (1.99%) GitLab
4 4 (1.59%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.96%) Finance
3 24 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (9.56%) Banking
4 18 (7.17%) Telecoms
5 16 (6.37%) Military
6 12 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.78%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.38%) Retail
8 6 (2.39%) Law
8 6 (2.39%) Legal
9 5 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.99%) Police
10 2 (0.80%) Aviation
10 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 127 (50.60%) Network Engineer
2 38 (15.14%) Senior
3 33 (13.15%) Security Engineer
4 27 (10.76%) Network Security Engineer
5 25 (9.96%) Architect
5 25 (9.96%) Senior Network Engineer
6 18 (7.17%) Network Architect
7 15 (5.98%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (5.58%) Firewall Engineer
9 11 (4.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 10 (3.98%) Network Specialist
11 9 (3.59%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.59%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.59%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 9 (3.59%) Senior Network Specialist
12 8 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.19%) Network Security Architect
13 7 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.39%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.78%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.99%) NETCONF
3 4 (1.59%) OpenConfig
3 4 (1.59%) RESTCONF
3 4 (1.59%) YANG
4 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.80%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.40%) Flask
6 1 (0.40%) Jinja
6 1 (0.40%) LDAP
6 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (25.10%) Data Centre
2 20 (7.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.98%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.39%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.39%) PKI
4 6 (2.39%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.99%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.20%) SCADA
8 2 (0.80%) CESG
8 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.76%) Windows
2 21 (8.37%) Linux
3 11 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.20%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.40%) CatOS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (13.94%) Network Design
2 33 (13.15%) Project Delivery
3 30 (11.95%) ITIL
4 29 (11.55%) Migration
5 26 (10.36%) High Availability
6 24 (9.56%) DevOps
6 24 (9.56%) SIEM
6 24 (9.56%) Validation
7 23 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (9.16%) Zero Trust
8 19 (7.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (7.17%) Load Balancing
9 18 (7.17%) Network Segmentation
10 17 (6.77%) Network Monitoring
11 16 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (5.98%) CI/CD
12 15 (5.98%) Knowledge Transfer
12 15 (5.98%) Network Architecture
12 15 (5.98%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.91%) Python
2 11 (4.38%) Bash
3 10 (3.98%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.19%) SQL
5 2 (0.80%) Perl
6 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 83 (33.07%) Security Cleared
2 72 (28.69%) Cisco Certification
3 64 (25.50%) SC Cleared
4 60 (23.90%) CCNP
5 28 (11.16%) CCIE
6 22 (8.76%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.98%) Degree
8 10 (3.98%) CCSE
9 8 (3.19%) CCNA
10 7 (2.79%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.79%) CISSP
11 5 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.99%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.99%) CCSM
12 4 (1.59%) CCIE Security
12 4 (1.59%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.59%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.59%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.20%) CISM
13 3 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.59%) SLA
3 8 (3.19%) NCSC
4 7 (2.79%) NIST
5 6 (2.39%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.99%) GDPR
6 5 (1.99%) GRC
7 4 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.59%) QA
8 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.80%) ISA99
9 2 (0.80%) RMADS
10 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
System Software
1 19 (7.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.98%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.19%) Firmware
4 7 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.79%) vSphere
5 4 (1.59%) Docker
6 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (20.72%) FortiGate
2 45 (17.93%) Ansible
3 26 (10.36%) Terraform
4 11 (4.38%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.38%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.19%) Grafana
6 7 (2.79%) WMI
7 4 (1.59%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (1.59%) Puppet
7 4 (1.59%) Salt
8 3 (1.20%) CASB
8 3 (1.20%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.20%) Consul
8 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.80%) Iperf
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.80%) Nmap
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 158 (62.95%) Cisco
2 87 (34.66%) Palo Alto
3 49 (19.52%) F5
4 45 (17.93%) Juniper
5 44 (17.53%) CheckPoint
6 36 (14.34%) Microsoft
7 30 (11.95%) Arista
8 28 (11.16%) ServiceNow
9 27 (10.76%) VMware
10 23 (9.16%) Zscaler
11 21 (8.37%) Aruba
12 20 (7.97%) Infoblox
12 20 (7.97%) Splunk
13 17 (6.77%) SolarWinds
14 13 (5.18%) NetApp
15 8 (3.19%) Meraki
16 6 (2.39%) Blue Coat
16 6 (2.39%) HP
17 5 (1.99%) Veeam
18 4 (1.59%) ForeScout