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 6 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
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 328 292
Rank change year-on-year -75 -36 +88
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 244 191 249
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.69% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.27% 1.44% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 128 147
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £587 £600 £599
90th Percentile £682 £662 £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 19,213 13,244 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.48% 47.71% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,427 8,570
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £630
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 1,240 639 535
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.96 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.92 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £25.04 £25.15 £31.50
% change year-on-year -0.45% -20.17% -26.74%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -98 106 £500 +5.26% 129
North of England -45 38 £450 -5.26% 47
South East -51 33 £438 -7.89% 43
Midlands -32 29 £565 +22.16% 27
West Midlands -37 26 £581 +5.64% 19
North West -34 22 £459 -3.32% 27
Yorkshire -30 8 £419 -12.76% 15
North East - 8 £425 - 5
East of England -28 5 £500 -28.57% 16
East Midlands -8 3 £500 +284.62% 8
South West -41 2 £610 +12.96% 12
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
2 3 (1.23%) Confluence
3 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 74 (30.33%) Azure
2 52 (21.31%) AWS
3 13 (5.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 12 (4.92%) Entra ID
4 12 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
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%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.23%) IaaS
9 3 (1.23%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.23%) Serverless
9 3 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.82%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 174 (71.31%) Firewall
2 110 (45.08%) WAN
3 84 (34.43%) Network Security
4 81 (33.20%) BGP
5 74 (30.33%) VPN
6 63 (25.82%) LAN
7 59 (24.18%) OSPF
8 56 (22.95%) SD-WAN
9 51 (20.90%) VLAN
10 37 (15.16%) Wireless
11 32 (13.11%) MPLS
12 28 (11.48%) DNS
13 22 (9.02%) IPsec
14 21 (8.61%) TCP/IP
15 20 (8.20%) Cisco IOS
15 20 (8.20%) DHCP
16 19 (7.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 18 (7.38%) SNMP
17 18 (7.38%) Wi-Fi
18 17 (6.97%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (0.82%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Git
2 5 (2.05%) JIRA
3 4 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.23%) GitLab
5 2 (0.82%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
General
1 59 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.93%) Finance
3 27 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.84%) Banking
5 14 (5.74%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.51%) Legal
7 11 (4.51%) Retail
8 9 (3.69%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.64%) Military
10 3 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.23%) Law
10 3 (1.23%) Police
11 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 139 (56.97%) Network Engineer
2 44 (18.03%) Senior
3 35 (14.34%) Architect
4 31 (12.70%) Senior Network Engineer
5 27 (11.07%) Network Architect
5 27 (11.07%) Security Engineer
6 26 (10.66%) Network Security Engineer
7 13 (5.33%) Firewall Engineer
8 12 (4.92%) Network Security Architect
8 12 (4.92%) Security Architect
9 11 (4.51%) Network Specialist
9 11 (4.51%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 11 (4.51%) Senior Network Specialist
10 10 (4.10%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (4.10%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (4.10%) Consultant
10 10 (4.10%) Network Consultant
11 9 (3.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 9 (3.69%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.28%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.48%) Terraform
2 11 (4.51%) 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
6 2 (0.82%) eBPF
6 2 (0.82%) gRPC
7 1 (0.41%) LDAP
7 1 (0.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (25.00%) 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%) 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
8 4 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.82%) CMDB
11 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.41%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.75%) Windows
2 24 (9.84%) Linux
3 17 (6.97%) 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 49 (20.08%) Migration
2 47 (19.26%) Project Delivery
3 41 (16.80%) Network Design
4 38 (15.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (15.16%) Zero Trust
6 35 (14.34%) High Availability
7 32 (13.11%) Validation
8 27 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
9 26 (10.66%) Network Segmentation
10 25 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (9.84%) ITIL
11 24 (9.84%) Knowledge Transfer
11 24 (9.84%) Load Balancing
12 23 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (7.79%) Runbook
14 18 (7.38%) Cloud Security
14 18 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (7.38%) Mentoring
15 16 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (6.56%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (27.05%) Python
2 11 (4.51%) Bash
2 11 (4.51%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.87%) SQL
4 2 (0.82%) Perl
5 1 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 69 (28.28%) Cisco Certification
2 64 (26.23%) Security Cleared
3 59 (24.18%) CCNP
3 59 (24.18%) SC Cleared
4 25 (10.25%) CCIE
5 11 (4.51%) CISSP
5 11 (4.51%) Degree
6 10 (4.10%) CCSE
7 6 (2.46%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.46%) JNCIE
8 5 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.05%) CCIE Security
8 5 (2.05%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.64%) JNCIA
9 4 (1.64%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.23%) CCNA
10 3 (1.23%) CCSM
10 3 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.69%) SLA
2 6 (2.46%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.64%) NIST
4 3 (1.23%) QA
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (7.38%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (3.69%) Firmware
5 6 (2.46%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.05%) vSphere
7 4 (1.64%) FreeRADIUS
7 4 (1.64%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.23%) Docker
9 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.41%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 54 (22.13%) Ansible
3 12 (4.92%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.69%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.28%) WMI
6 7 (2.87%) Grafana
6 7 (2.87%) VxRail
7 6 (2.46%) McAfee ePO
7 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.05%) Nessus
9 3 (1.23%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.23%) Consul
10 2 (0.82%) Puppet
10 2 (0.82%) Salt
10 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.41%) Argo
11 1 (0.41%) CASB
11 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 178 (72.95%) Cisco
2 102 (41.80%) Palo Alto
3 59 (24.18%) F5
4 58 (23.77%) Juniper
5 41 (16.80%) CheckPoint
6 39 (15.98%) Microsoft
7 34 (13.93%) Aruba
8 31 (12.70%) VMware
9 24 (9.84%) Arista
10 17 (6.97%) Meraki
10 17 (6.97%) Zscaler
11 16 (6.56%) SolarWinds
12 11 (4.51%) Infoblox
12 11 (4.51%) Splunk
13 10 (4.10%) ServiceNow
14 8 (3.28%) Dell
14 8 (3.28%) McAfee
14 8 (3.28%) Tenable
15 6 (2.46%) AlgoSec
15 6 (2.46%) Blue Coat