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 21 May 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 310 330
Rank change year-on-year -71 +20 +86
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 215 181 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.75% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 1.27% 1.57% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 107 117
10th Percentile £400 £409 £358
25th Percentile £438 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £650 £724
UK median daily rate £500 £551 £488
% change year-on-year -9.26% +13.03% -5.11%

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 16,907 11,546 15,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.01% 47.68% 41.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,945 7,418 9,750
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £523 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +1.46% -3.74%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £633
90th Percentile £703 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.29% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 884 471 1,004
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.84 £12.04
25th Percentile £18.73 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £59.19 £58.72 £57.37
90th Percentile £76.17 £73.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.08
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.52% -47.85%

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 21 May 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
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 21 May 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 -68 84 £540 +2.86% 24
South East -31 40 £463 -19.57% 34
North of England -68 29 £489 -8.90% 26
Midlands -56 28 £565 +2.73% 15
Yorkshire -46 15 £416 -33.41% 9
West Midlands -64 15 £565 +2.73% 12
North West -38 13 £577 +15.40% 12
East Midlands -20 12 £650 +51.16% 3
South West -31 5 £538 -10.42% 5
East of England -23 4 £450 +12.50% 5
North East -27 1 £425 - 5
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 (2.33%) Confluence
2 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.93%) Apache
4 2 (0.93%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.86%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 54 (25.12%) Azure
2 46 (21.40%) AWS
3 10 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (4.19%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.72%) GCP
6 7 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (3.26%) GitHub
7 5 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.33%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.86%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.86%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.86%) Serverless
9 3 (1.40%) IaaS
9 3 (1.40%) Route 53
10 2 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.93%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 146 (67.91%) Firewall
2 74 (34.42%) WAN
3 55 (25.58%) BGP
4 54 (25.12%) Network Security
5 47 (21.86%) VPN
6 46 (21.40%) OSPF
7 44 (20.47%) LAN
7 44 (20.47%) SD-WAN
8 38 (17.67%) VLAN
9 24 (11.16%) MPLS
10 21 (9.77%) Wireless
11 19 (8.84%) TCP/IP
12 18 (8.37%) Multicast
13 17 (7.91%) DNS
13 17 (7.91%) IPsec
14 16 (7.44%) NGFW
15 15 (6.98%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (6.51%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (6.51%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (1.86%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (4.65%) JIRA
2 8 (3.72%) Git
3 5 (2.33%) GitLab
4 4 (1.86%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (16.74%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.84%) Finance
4 17 (7.91%) Banking
4 17 (7.91%) Military
5 15 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.72%) Retail
8 7 (3.26%) Law
9 5 (2.33%) Legal
9 5 (2.33%) Police
10 4 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.93%) Aviation
11 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (44.65%) Network Engineer
2 33 (15.35%) Senior
3 26 (12.09%) Security Engineer
4 20 (9.30%) Network Security Engineer
4 20 (9.30%) Senior Network Engineer
5 15 (6.98%) Systems Engineer
6 14 (6.51%) Firewall Engineer
7 13 (6.05%) Architect
8 12 (5.58%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 10 (4.65%) Lead
10 9 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Network Architect
12 7 (3.26%) IT Engineer
12 7 (3.26%) Network Specialist
13 6 (2.79%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.79%) Consultant
13 6 (2.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 6 (2.79%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.58%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.33%) NETCONF
3 4 (1.86%) YANG
4 3 (1.40%) OpenConfig
4 3 (1.40%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.47%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.47%) Flask
6 1 (0.47%) Jinja
6 1 (0.47%) JSON
6 1 (0.47%) LDAP
6 1 (0.47%) REST
6 1 (0.47%) SAML
6 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (21.86%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.72%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.26%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.86%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.86%) PKI
6 4 (1.86%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.40%) CESG
7 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) SCADA
8 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.23%) Windows
2 18 (8.37%) Linux
3 10 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.47%) CatOS
5 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (14.88%) ITIL
2 27 (12.56%) Network Design
3 25 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (11.16%) DevOps
5 21 (9.77%) Migration
6 20 (9.30%) High Availability
7 19 (8.84%) SIEM
8 18 (8.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (7.91%) Zero Trust
10 16 (7.44%) Network Monitoring
10 16 (7.44%) Project Delivery
10 16 (7.44%) Validation
11 15 (6.98%) CI/CD
11 15 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (6.51%) Network Segmentation
12 14 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (6.05%) Cloud Security
13 13 (6.05%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.74%) Python
2 11 (5.12%) Bash
3 8 (3.72%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.26%) SQL
5 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 79 (36.74%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 57 (26.51%) Cisco Certification
4 45 (20.93%) CCNP
5 23 (10.70%) CCIE
6 22 (10.23%) DV Cleared
7 11 (5.12%) Degree
8 10 (4.65%) CCNA
9 9 (4.19%) CCSE
10 8 (3.72%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.79%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.33%) JNCIA
12 5 (2.33%) JNCIS
13 4 (1.86%) CCSM
13 4 (1.86%) JNCIE
14 3 (1.40%) CCDP
14 3 (1.40%) CISSP
14 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.93%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.19%) NCSC
1 9 (4.19%) NIST
2 8 (3.72%) SLA
3 6 (2.79%) GDPR
4 5 (2.33%) GRC
4 5 (2.33%) QA
5 4 (1.86%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.86%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.40%) RMADS
7 2 (0.93%) ISA99
7 2 (0.93%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (7.91%) Active Directory
1 17 (7.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.79%) Firmware
2 6 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (2.79%) vSphere
3 4 (1.86%) Docker
3 4 (1.86%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.40%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.47%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (19.07%) FortiGate
2 37 (17.21%) Ansible
3 25 (11.63%) Terraform
4 10 (4.65%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.26%) Grafana
6 5 (2.33%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (2.33%) WMI
7 4 (1.86%) Puppet
7 4 (1.86%) Salt
8 3 (1.40%) Consul
8 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.93%) CASB
9 2 (0.93%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.93%) Iperf
9 2 (0.93%) Nmap
10 1 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.47%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 126 (58.60%) Cisco
2 81 (37.67%) Palo Alto
3 40 (18.60%) F5
4 36 (16.74%) CheckPoint
4 36 (16.74%) Juniper
5 33 (15.35%) Microsoft
6 27 (12.56%) ServiceNow
7 25 (11.63%) VMware
8 24 (11.16%) Arista
9 22 (10.23%) Zscaler
10 21 (9.77%) Aruba
11 20 (9.30%) Infoblox
12 16 (7.44%) SolarWinds
12 16 (7.44%) Splunk
13 14 (6.51%) NetApp
14 6 (2.79%) Meraki
15 5 (2.33%) Veeam
16 4 (1.86%) Blue Coat
16 4 (1.86%) ForeScout
16 4 (1.86%) HP