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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 304 309
Rank change year-on-year -71 +5 +64
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 253 217 234
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.79% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 1.33% 1.67% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 139 145
10th Percentile £375 £400 £368
25th Percentile £420 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £588
90th Percentile £648 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £26.06 -
25th Percentile £60.13 £38.47 -
Median hourly rate £77.25 £60.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.57 -
90th Percentile - £96.73 -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +28.32% - -

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 18,992 13,016 14,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.54% 47.17% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,896 8,242 9,108
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £627
90th Percentile £703 £713 £731
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,033 636 685
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.35
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -15.52% -28.27%
75th Percentile £65.58 £48.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.29 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +16.44% -10.18% -36.00%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -86 106 £513 +7.89% 63
South East -49 36 £425 -26.09% 22
North of England -56 36 £450 -16.08% 16
Midlands -45 29 £565 +22.16% 19
North West -36 25 £575 +0.44% 12
West Midlands -42 24 £581 +5.64% 10
Yorkshire -47 7 £416 -16.76% 3
East of England -25 6 £388 -44.64% 6
East Midlands -15 4 £500 +284.62% 9
North East -39 4 £375 - 1
South West -48 3 £538 -0.46% 6
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 (1.58%) Confluence
2 4 (1.58%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.19%) Apache
3 3 (1.19%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (3.56%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 74 (29.25%) Azure
2 50 (19.76%) AWS
3 12 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.35%) GitHub
5 10 (3.95%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.56%) GCP
7 8 (3.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (2.77%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.37%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.58%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.58%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.19%) IaaS
11 3 (1.19%) Serverless
11 3 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.79%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.79%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 178 (70.36%) Firewall
2 105 (41.50%) WAN
3 87 (34.39%) BGP
4 73 (28.85%) Network Security
5 65 (25.69%) VPN
6 62 (24.51%) OSPF
7 58 (22.92%) VLAN
8 53 (20.95%) LAN
9 48 (18.97%) SD-WAN
10 33 (13.04%) Wireless
11 29 (11.46%) DNS
11 29 (11.46%) MPLS
12 24 (9.49%) TCP/IP
13 21 (8.30%) IPsec
14 20 (7.91%) Cisco IOS
14 20 (7.91%) DHCP
15 19 (7.51%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (7.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 18 (7.11%) Multicast
16 18 (7.11%) NX-OS
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 (3.56%) Git
2 8 (3.16%) JIRA
3 4 (1.58%) GitLab
3 4 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 47 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.46%) Finance
3 26 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.09%) Banking
5 14 (5.53%) Retail
5 14 (5.53%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.56%) Legal
7 8 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.98%) Law
8 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.98%) Police
9 3 (1.19%) Military
10 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 143 (56.52%) Network Engineer
2 50 (19.76%) Senior
3 34 (13.44%) Senior Network Engineer
4 28 (11.07%) Architect
4 28 (11.07%) Security Engineer
5 25 (9.88%) Network Security Engineer
6 22 (8.70%) Network Architect
7 16 (6.32%) Firewall Engineer
8 13 (5.14%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (4.74%) Network Specialist
10 11 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 11 (4.35%) Senior Network Specialist
11 9 (3.56%) Consultant
11 9 (3.56%) Network Consultant
11 9 (3.56%) Network Security Architect
11 9 (3.56%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.77%) Cisco Engineer
12 7 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.37%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 5 (1.98%) Network Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.86%) Terraform
2 13 (5.14%) 802.1X
3 6 (2.37%) NETCONF
4 5 (1.98%) OpenConfig
4 5 (1.98%) RESTCONF
4 5 (1.98%) YANG
5 3 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.79%) eBPF
6 2 (0.79%) REST
7 1 (0.40%) Jinja
7 1 (0.40%) LDAP
7 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (24.90%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.77%) Operational Technology
3 7 (2.77%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.37%) PKI
5 5 (1.98%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.58%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.58%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.58%) SCADA
6 4 (1.58%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.19%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.79%) CMDB
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.79%) Handset
9 1 (0.40%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.62%) Windows
2 21 (8.30%) Linux
3 18 (7.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.58%) 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
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (18.58%) Project Delivery
2 39 (15.42%) Migration
3 38 (15.02%) Network Design
4 33 (13.04%) ITIL
5 32 (12.65%) High Availability
6 29 (11.46%) Zero Trust
7 27 (10.67%) Validation
8 23 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (8.30%) Cloud Security
9 21 (8.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (8.30%) Load Balancing
10 20 (7.91%) DevOps
10 20 (7.91%) Network Segmentation
11 19 (7.51%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (7.51%) SIEM
11 19 (7.51%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (7.11%) Change Management
12 18 (7.11%) Knowledge Transfer
13 17 (6.72%) Runbook
14 16 (6.32%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (25.69%) Python
2 11 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.56%) Bash
4 8 (3.16%) SQL
5 2 (0.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (29.64%) Cisco Certification
2 64 (25.30%) Security Cleared
3 63 (24.90%) CCNP
4 59 (23.32%) SC Cleared
5 24 (9.49%) CCIE
6 13 (5.14%) Degree
7 11 (4.35%) CCSE
8 9 (3.56%) CCNA
9 8 (3.16%) CISSP
10 7 (2.77%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.37%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.98%) CCSM
12 5 (1.98%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.58%) CCIE Security
13 4 (1.58%) JNCIA
13 4 (1.58%) JNCIS
14 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.79%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.95%) SLA
2 6 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.58%) NIST
5 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.19%) NCSC
5 3 (1.19%) QA
6 2 (0.79%) GDPR
6 2 (0.79%) ISA99
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (7.11%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.56%) Firmware
4 8 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.37%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.37%) vSphere
6 3 (1.19%) Docker
6 3 (1.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.79%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (23.32%) FortiGate
2 53 (20.95%) Ansible
3 11 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.56%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.77%) WMI
6 6 (2.37%) Grafana
7 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.19%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.19%) Consul
8 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.79%) CASB
9 2 (0.79%) Puppet
9 2 (0.79%) Salt
10 1 (0.40%) Argo
10 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.40%) Nagios
10 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 184 (72.73%) Cisco
2 95 (37.55%) Palo Alto
3 61 (24.11%) F5
4 51 (20.16%) Juniper
5 42 (16.60%) Microsoft
6 40 (15.81%) CheckPoint
7 32 (12.65%) VMware
8 29 (11.46%) Arista
9 25 (9.88%) Aruba
10 23 (9.09%) Zscaler
11 20 (7.91%) Infoblox
12 18 (7.11%) Splunk
13 16 (6.32%) SolarWinds
14 15 (5.93%) ServiceNow
15 14 (5.53%) Meraki
16 6 (2.37%) Blue Coat
17 4 (1.58%) HP
17 4 (1.58%) Okta
17 4 (1.58%) Riverbed
17 4 (1.58%) Veeam