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 10 October 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
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 325 282
Rank change year-on-year -74 -43 +84
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 244 189 252
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.67% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 1.27% 1.41% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 126 150
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £425 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +7.42%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £598
90th Percentile £682 £666 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +2.63% -13.64% +12.24%
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 19,263 13,400 14,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.64% 47.77% 44.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,779 8,523 8,624
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £628
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,262 647 522
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.58 £18.00 £15.65
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -28.36% -20.18%
75th Percentile £60.81 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.54 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -25.50%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -94 102 £525 +10.53% 133
North of England -42 41 £450 -5.26% 39
Midlands -30 32 £558 +20.54% 23
South East -64 32 £425 -10.53% 30
West Midlands -33 29 £565 +2.73% 16
North West -33 24 £463 -2.63% 21
Yorkshire -22 9 £418 -13.02% 13
North East - 8 £425 - 5
East of England -37 6 £500 -28.57% 11
East Midlands -13 3 £500 +284.62% 7
South West -34 2 £610 +12.96% 9
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 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.64%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.23%) Apache
2 3 (1.23%) CloudStack
3 2 (0.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 76 (31.15%) Azure
2 49 (20.08%) AWS
3 13 (5.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 13 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.51%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.69%) GCP
6 8 (3.28%) AWS Direct Connect
6 8 (3.28%) GitHub
7 7 (2.87%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.23%) IaaS
9 3 (1.23%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.41%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.41%) Datadog
10 1 (0.41%) Serverless
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 171 (70.08%) Firewall
2 110 (45.08%) WAN
3 82 (33.61%) Network Security
4 81 (33.20%) BGP
5 74 (30.33%) VPN
6 62 (25.41%) LAN
7 60 (24.59%) OSPF
8 56 (22.95%) SD-WAN
9 53 (21.72%) VLAN
10 38 (15.57%) Wireless
11 36 (14.75%) MPLS
12 30 (12.30%) DNS
13 24 (9.84%) TCP/IP
14 22 (9.02%) DHCP
15 21 (8.61%) IPsec
16 19 (7.79%) Cisco IOS
16 19 (7.79%) Wi-Fi
17 18 (7.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 18 (7.38%) SNMP
18 16 (6.56%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.69%) Git
2 4 (1.64%) JIRA
3 3 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
General
1 57 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.57%) Finance
3 31 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.48%) Banking
5 14 (5.74%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.92%) Legal
7 11 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (4.10%) Retail
9 7 (2.87%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.82%) Military
13 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.41%) Games
13 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Law
13 1 (0.41%) Police
13 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 140 (57.38%) Network Engineer
2 43 (17.62%) Senior
3 35 (14.34%) Architect
4 29 (11.89%) Senior Network Engineer
5 27 (11.07%) Network Architect
6 23 (9.43%) Security Engineer
7 22 (9.02%) Network Security Engineer
8 13 (5.33%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (5.33%) Firewall Engineer
9 12 (4.92%) Network Security Architect
9 12 (4.92%) Security Architect
10 10 (4.10%) Network Specialist
10 10 (4.10%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 10 (4.10%) Senior Network Specialist
11 9 (3.69%) Cisco Engineer
11 9 (3.69%) Consultant
11 9 (3.69%) Network Consultant
11 9 (3.69%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.28%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 8 (3.28%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.66%) Terraform
2 10 (4.10%) 802.1X
3 6 (2.46%) NETCONF
3 6 (2.46%) REST
3 6 (2.46%) RESTCONF
4 4 (1.64%) OpenConfig
4 4 (1.64%) YANG
5 3 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.23%) JSON
6 2 (0.82%) eBPF
6 2 (0.82%) gRPC
7 1 (0.41%) LDAP
7 1 (0.41%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (25.41%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (5.33%) Operational Technology
4 10 (4.10%) PKI
5 9 (3.69%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.69%) SCADA
6 6 (2.46%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.05%) CMDB
7 5 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.64%) Handset
8 4 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.64%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.23%) PDA
9 3 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.82%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.57%) Windows
2 24 (9.84%) Linux
3 19 (7.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.64%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) CatOS
5 1 (0.41%) CentOS
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (19.67%) Migration
1 48 (19.67%) Project Delivery
2 42 (17.21%) Network Design
2 42 (17.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (15.16%) Zero Trust
4 34 (13.93%) High Availability
5 32 (13.11%) Validation
6 27 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
7 26 (10.66%) ITIL
7 26 (10.66%) Network Segmentation
8 25 (10.25%) Load Balancing
9 23 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (9.43%) Knowledge Transfer
10 22 (9.02%) Runbook
11 18 (7.38%) Change Management
11 18 (7.38%) Cloud Security
11 18 (7.38%) Mentoring
12 16 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (6.56%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (26.23%) Python
2 11 (4.51%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.28%) Bash
4 7 (2.87%) SQL
5 2 (0.82%) Perl
6 1 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 69 (28.28%) Cisco Certification
2 60 (24.59%) Security Cleared
3 58 (23.77%) CCNP
4 55 (22.54%) SC Cleared
5 25 (10.25%) CCIE
6 11 (4.51%) CISSP
6 11 (4.51%) Degree
7 10 (4.10%) CCSE
8 6 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.46%) JNCIE
9 5 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.05%) CCIE Security
9 5 (2.05%) CCNA
9 5 (2.05%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.64%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.64%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.23%) CCSM
11 3 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.82%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.69%) SLA
2 6 (2.46%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.64%) NIST
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
5 2 (0.82%) QA
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (6.97%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (4.51%) Firmware
5 5 (2.05%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (2.05%) vSphere
6 4 (1.64%) FreeRADIUS
6 4 (1.64%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.41%) Docker
8 1 (0.41%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (25.41%) FortiGate
2 54 (22.13%) Ansible
3 9 (3.69%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.28%) WMI
5 7 (2.87%) VxRail
6 6 (2.46%) McAfee ePO
6 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.46%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.05%) Grafana
7 5 (2.05%) Nessus
8 3 (1.23%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.23%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.82%) Consul
9 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.41%) Argo
10 1 (0.41%) CASB
10 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.41%) Nagios
10 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 181 (74.18%) Cisco
2 104 (42.62%) Palo Alto
3 61 (25.00%) F5
3 61 (25.00%) Juniper
4 40 (16.39%) CheckPoint
5 38 (15.57%) Microsoft
6 35 (14.34%) Aruba
7 33 (13.52%) VMware
8 28 (11.48%) Arista
9 17 (6.97%) Zscaler
10 16 (6.56%) Meraki
10 16 (6.56%) SolarWinds
11 14 (5.74%) Splunk
12 13 (5.33%) ServiceNow
13 12 (4.92%) Infoblox
14 8 (3.28%) McAfee
14 8 (3.28%) Tenable
15 7 (2.87%) Dell
16 6 (2.46%) AlgoSec
17 5 (2.05%) Carbon Black