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 27 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
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 314 332
Rank change year-on-year -61 +18 +37
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 250 172 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.68% 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% 1.44% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 97 129
10th Percentile £400 £402 £373
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +10.20% -
75th Percentile £590 £613 £588
90th Percentile £628 £664 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £17.79 -
Median % change year-on-year +285.05% - -
75th Percentile £78.56 - -
90th Percentile £78.68 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £17.79 -
% change year-on-year +332.83% - -

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 17,688 11,964 15,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.69% 47.35% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,279 7,588 10,036
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 951 545 1,055
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.50 £14.55
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.13 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +10.71% -34.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.29 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
% change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.64%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -60 99 £525 -5.62% 25
South East -34 44 £456 -20.65% 20
North of England -59 34 £532 +6.35% 24
Midlands -57 30 £565 +2.73% 16
North West -44 19 £576 +18.15% 15
West Midlands -66 17 £573 +4.18% 12
Yorkshire -32 14 £416 -27.62% 9
East Midlands -6 12 £475 +10.47% 4
East of England -27 5 £450 +12.50% 11
South West -38 3 £538 -6.52% 9
North East -38 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 (2.00%) 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 (3.20%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 57 (22.80%) Azure
2 44 (17.60%) AWS
3 9 (3.60%) Entra ID
3 9 (3.60%) GitHub
4 8 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.00%) Mimecast
7 5 (2.00%) Serverless
8 4 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.60%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.60%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (1.60%) GCP
8 4 (1.60%) IaaS
9 3 (1.20%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.80%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 168 (67.20%) Firewall
2 90 (36.00%) WAN
3 79 (31.60%) BGP
4 65 (26.00%) Network Security
5 59 (23.60%) OSPF
6 57 (22.80%) VPN
7 51 (20.40%) VLAN
8 49 (19.60%) SD-WAN
9 48 (19.20%) LAN
10 31 (12.40%) MPLS
11 27 (10.80%) Wireless
12 24 (9.60%) TCP/IP
13 23 (9.20%) DNS
13 23 (9.20%) IPsec
14 21 (8.40%) Multicast
15 19 (7.60%) Cisco IOS
15 19 (7.60%) NGFW
16 18 (7.20%) Cisco Nexus
17 17 (6.80%) NX-OS
17 17 (6.80%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (1.60%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (4.00%) JIRA
2 8 (3.20%) Git
3 5 (2.00%) GitLab
4 4 (1.60%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.00%) Finance
3 24 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.20%) Banking
5 18 (7.20%) Telecoms
6 16 (6.40%) Military
7 12 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.80%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.40%) Retail
9 7 (2.80%) Law
9 7 (2.80%) Legal
10 5 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.00%) Police
11 2 (0.80%) Aviation
11 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 128 (51.20%) Network Engineer
2 38 (15.20%) Senior
3 33 (13.20%) Security Engineer
4 27 (10.80%) Network Security Engineer
5 25 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 24 (9.60%) Architect
7 17 (6.80%) Network Architect
8 15 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (5.60%) Firewall Engineer
10 11 (4.40%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 10 (4.00%) Network Specialist
12 9 (3.60%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 9 (3.60%) Senior Network Specialist
13 8 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.20%) Security Architect
14 7 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) Network Security Architect
15 6 (2.40%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.80%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.00%) NETCONF
3 4 (1.60%) OpenConfig
3 4 (1.60%) RESTCONF
3 4 (1.60%) 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 (25.20%) Data Centre
2 20 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.40%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.40%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.40%) PKI
4 6 (2.40%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.00%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.60%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.60%) 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%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.40%) Windows
2 21 (8.40%) Linux
3 11 (4.40%) 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 (14.00%) Network Design
2 33 (13.20%) Project Delivery
3 31 (12.40%) ITIL
4 29 (11.60%) Migration
5 26 (10.40%) High Availability
6 24 (9.60%) DevOps
6 24 (9.60%) SIEM
6 24 (9.60%) Validation
7 23 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (9.20%) Zero Trust
8 22 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (7.60%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (7.20%) Load Balancing
10 18 (7.20%) Network Monitoring
10 18 (7.20%) Network Segmentation
11 16 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (6.00%) CI/CD
12 15 (6.00%) Knowledge Transfer
12 15 (6.00%) Runbook
12 15 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 54 (21.60%) Python
2 11 (4.40%) Bash
3 10 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.20%) SQL
5 2 (0.80%) Perl
6 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 83 (33.20%) Security Cleared
2 71 (28.40%) Cisco Certification
3 64 (25.60%) SC Cleared
4 59 (23.60%) CCNP
5 28 (11.20%) CCIE
6 22 (8.80%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.00%) Degree
8 10 (4.00%) CCSE
9 8 (3.20%) CCNA
10 7 (2.80%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.80%) CISSP
11 5 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.00%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.00%) CCSM
12 4 (1.60%) CCIE Security
12 4 (1.60%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.60%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.60%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.20%) CISM
13 3 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.60%) SLA
3 8 (3.20%) NCSC
4 7 (2.80%) NIST
5 6 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.00%) GDPR
6 5 (2.00%) GRC
7 4 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.60%) 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 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.20%) Firmware
4 7 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.80%) vSphere
5 4 (1.60%) 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 (20.80%) FortiGate
2 44 (17.60%) Ansible
3 25 (10.00%) Terraform
4 11 (4.40%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.20%) Grafana
6 7 (2.80%) WMI
7 5 (2.00%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (1.60%) Puppet
8 4 (1.60%) Salt
9 3 (1.20%) CASB
9 3 (1.20%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.20%) Consul
9 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.80%) Iperf
10 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.80%) Nmap
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 158 (63.20%) Cisco
2 87 (34.80%) Palo Alto
3 49 (19.60%) F5
4 45 (18.00%) Juniper
5 44 (17.60%) CheckPoint
6 36 (14.40%) Microsoft
7 29 (11.60%) Arista
8 28 (11.20%) ServiceNow
9 27 (10.80%) VMware
10 23 (9.20%) Zscaler
11 21 (8.40%) Aruba
12 20 (8.00%) Infoblox
12 20 (8.00%) Splunk
13 18 (7.20%) SolarWinds
14 13 (5.20%) NetApp
15 8 (3.20%) Meraki
16 6 (2.40%) Blue Coat
16 6 (2.40%) HP
17 5 (2.00%) Veeam
18 4 (1.60%) ForeScout