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 12 September 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
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 319 302
Rank change year-on-year -80 -17 +65
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 252 199 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.72% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 1.52% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 125 144
10th Percentile £375 £400 £366
25th Percentile £425 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £598
90th Percentile £651 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £26.06 -
25th Percentile £65.25 £38.47 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £60.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.32% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.57 -
90th Percentile - £96.73 -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £60.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.32% +168.42% -48.57%

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 19,344 13,085 14,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.73% 47.03% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,057 8,294 8,946
10th Percentile £312 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £619 £616 £631
90th Percentile £707 £706 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,113 617 610
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.75 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.90 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.80
% change year-on-year +9.34% -18.33% -27.54%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -85 107 £500 +5.26% 72
South East -50 35 £450 -21.74% 27
North of England -51 34 £450 -5.26% 22
Midlands -39 31 £565 +22.16% 14
West Midlands -41 25 £581 +5.64% 5
North West -35 21 £525 +10.53% 15
Yorkshire -40 7 £418 -16.50% 4
East of England -23 6 £388 -44.64% 7
North East - 6 £413 - 3
East Midlands -15 5 £500 +284.62% 9
South West -48 3 £538 -0.46% 8
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 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.59%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.19%) Apache
3 3 (1.19%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.19%) Confluence
4 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.17%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 76 (30.16%) Azure
2 54 (21.43%) AWS
3 12 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 10 (3.97%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.57%) GCP
5 9 (3.57%) GitHub
6 6 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (2.38%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.98%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (1.59%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.19%) IaaS
9 3 (1.19%) Serverless
9 3 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.79%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 180 (71.43%) Firewall
2 110 (43.65%) WAN
3 88 (34.92%) BGP
4 79 (31.35%) Network Security
5 72 (28.57%) VPN
6 64 (25.40%) OSPF
7 59 (23.41%) VLAN
8 55 (21.83%) LAN
9 53 (21.03%) SD-WAN
10 35 (13.89%) Wireless
11 29 (11.51%) MPLS
12 28 (11.11%) DNS
13 25 (9.92%) IPsec
14 22 (8.73%) Cisco IOS
15 21 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 21 (8.33%) TCP/IP
16 20 (7.94%) NX-OS
17 19 (7.54%) Cisco ASA
17 19 (7.54%) Cisco Firepower
17 19 (7.54%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.57%) Git
2 6 (2.38%) JIRA
3 4 (1.59%) GitLab
3 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 51 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.51%) Finance
3 25 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.33%) Banking
5 14 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.16%) Retail
7 12 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.97%) Legal
9 7 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.98%) Law
10 5 (1.98%) Police
11 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.19%) Military
13 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.40%) Games
14 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 143 (56.75%) Network Engineer
2 51 (20.24%) Senior
3 35 (13.89%) Senior Network Engineer
4 33 (13.10%) Architect
5 29 (11.51%) Security Engineer
6 26 (10.32%) Network Architect
6 26 (10.32%) Network Security Engineer
7 16 (6.35%) Firewall Engineer
8 13 (5.16%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (4.76%) Network Specialist
9 12 (4.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 12 (4.76%) Senior Network Specialist
10 11 (4.37%) Network Security Architect
10 11 (4.37%) Security Architect
11 10 (3.97%) Consultant
11 10 (3.97%) Network Consultant
12 7 (2.78%) Cisco Engineer
13 6 (2.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 6 (2.38%) Network Security Consultant
13 6 (2.38%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.30%) Terraform
2 10 (3.97%) 802.1X
3 7 (2.78%) NETCONF
4 6 (2.38%) RESTCONF
5 5 (1.98%) REST
6 4 (1.59%) OpenConfig
6 4 (1.59%) YANG
7 3 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.79%) eBPF
8 2 (0.79%) gRPC
9 1 (0.40%) Jinja
9 1 (0.40%) LDAP
9 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (25.79%) Data Centre
2 25 (9.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.76%) Operational Technology
4 9 (3.57%) PKI
4 9 (3.57%) SCADA
5 7 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.98%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.98%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.19%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.19%) Handset
10 2 (0.79%) CMDB
10 2 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.40%) Animation
11 1 (0.40%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.29%) Windows
2 24 (9.52%) Linux
3 17 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.59%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) CatOS
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (18.65%) Project Delivery
2 43 (17.06%) Migration
3 38 (15.08%) Network Design
4 34 (13.49%) High Availability
5 32 (12.70%) Zero Trust
6 29 (11.51%) Validation
7 28 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (9.52%) ITIL
9 23 (9.13%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (8.73%) Knowledge Transfer
10 22 (8.73%) Load Balancing
10 22 (8.73%) Network Segmentation
11 20 (7.94%) Cloud Security
11 20 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (7.94%) Mentoring
11 20 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (6.75%) Change Management
13 17 (6.75%) DevOps
13 17 (6.75%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 70 (27.78%) Python
2 12 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.37%) Bash
4 7 (2.78%) SQL
5 2 (0.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (29.37%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (27.38%) Security Cleared
3 64 (25.40%) SC Cleared
4 62 (24.60%) CCNP
5 23 (9.13%) CCIE
6 11 (4.37%) CCSE
6 11 (4.37%) Degree
7 9 (3.57%) CISSP
8 8 (3.17%) CCNA
9 6 (2.38%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.38%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.38%) JNCIE
10 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.59%) CCIE Security
11 4 (1.59%) CCSM
11 4 (1.59%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.59%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.78%) SLA
2 6 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.19%) NCSC
5 3 (1.19%) QA
6 2 (0.79%) GDPR
6 2 (0.79%) ISA99
6 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.79%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 25 (9.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.37%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (3.57%) Firmware
5 6 (2.38%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.98%) vSphere
7 3 (1.19%) Docker
7 3 (1.19%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.19%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (24.21%) FortiGate
2 56 (22.22%) Ansible
3 11 (4.37%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.78%) WMI
6 6 (2.38%) Grafana
7 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.59%) VxRail
9 3 (1.19%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.19%) Consul
9 3 (1.19%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (1.19%) Nessus
9 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.79%) Puppet
10 2 (0.79%) Salt
11 1 (0.40%) Argo
11 1 (0.40%) CASB
11 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.40%) Nagios
11 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 185 (73.41%) Cisco
2 100 (39.68%) Palo Alto
3 62 (24.60%) F5
4 55 (21.83%) Juniper
5 42 (16.67%) CheckPoint
6 41 (16.27%) Microsoft
7 33 (13.10%) VMware
8 28 (11.11%) Arista
8 28 (11.11%) Aruba
9 17 (6.75%) Zscaler
10 16 (6.35%) Meraki
10 16 (6.35%) SolarWinds
11 15 (5.95%) Infoblox
12 11 (4.37%) Splunk
13 10 (3.97%) ServiceNow
14 7 (2.78%) Tenable
15 6 (2.38%) Blue Coat
15 6 (2.38%) Dell
16 5 (1.98%) McAfee
17 4 (1.59%) Riverbed