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 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
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 298 338
Rank change year-on-year -97 +40 +88
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 200 180 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.74% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 1.18% 1.55% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 105 120
10th Percentile £380 £427 £375
25th Percentile £450 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.02% +0.71%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £689 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £551 £500
% change year-on-year -9.26% +10.20% -4.76%

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 16,946 11,627 15,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.53% 47.51% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,004 7,499 9,829
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.39%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £636
90th Percentile £711 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £515
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 893 463 1,004
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.84 £12.04
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.56 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +20.00% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.23 £25.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +26.37% +14.35% -48.89%

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 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 10 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 -72 81 £530 -3.64% 32
South East -40 40 £470 -18.26% 24
North of England -63 24 £576 +0.61% 20
Midlands -69 22 £538 -1.28% 16
North West -37 13 £577 +7.60% 12
East Midlands -27 12 £650 +51.16% 2
Yorkshire -54 11 £413 -34.00% 7
West Midlands -70 9 £538 -2.27% 14
East of England -29 5 £475 - 7
South West -34 5 £538 -10.42% 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 4 (2.00%) Confluence
1 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 50 (25.00%) Azure
2 41 (20.50%) AWS
3 10 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (4.50%) Entra ID
5 8 (4.00%) GCP
6 7 (3.50%) GitHub
7 6 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.00%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.00%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.00%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.00%) Serverless
10 3 (1.50%) Route 53
11 2 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.00%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 136 (68.00%) Firewall
2 72 (36.00%) WAN
3 56 (28.00%) BGP
4 49 (24.50%) Network Security
5 46 (23.00%) OSPF
5 46 (23.00%) SD-WAN
6 41 (20.50%) LAN
7 38 (19.00%) VLAN
7 38 (19.00%) VPN
8 24 (12.00%) MPLS
9 21 (10.50%) Wireless
10 20 (10.00%) TCP/IP
11 18 (9.00%) Multicast
12 16 (8.00%) DNS
12 16 (8.00%) IPsec
13 15 (7.50%) NGFW
14 14 (7.00%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (7.00%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (7.00%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (6.00%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.00%) JIRA
2 7 (3.50%) Git
3 5 (2.50%) GitLab
4 4 (2.00%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.50%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.50%) Military
4 15 (7.50%) Finance
5 14 (7.00%) Banking
5 14 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.00%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.50%) Law
7 7 (3.50%) Retail
8 6 (3.00%) Legal
9 5 (2.50%) Police
10 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.00%) Aviation
11 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 92 (46.00%) Network Engineer
2 32 (16.00%) Senior
3 25 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 19 (9.50%) Network Security Engineer
4 19 (9.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 15 (7.50%) Systems Engineer
6 14 (7.00%) Architect
7 12 (6.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 10 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
8 10 (5.00%) Lead
9 9 (4.50%) Network Architect
10 8 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) IT Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Network Specialist
12 6 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 6 (3.00%) Senior Network Specialist
13 5 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.00%) 802.1X
2 6 (3.00%) NETCONF
3 5 (2.50%) YANG
4 4 (2.00%) OpenConfig
4 4 (2.00%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.50%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.50%) Flask
5 1 (0.50%) Jinja
5 1 (0.50%) JSON
5 1 (0.50%) LDAP
5 1 (0.50%) REST
5 1 (0.50%) SAML
5 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.50%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.50%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.00%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.00%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.00%) PKI
8 4 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.00%) SCADA
9 3 (1.50%) CESG
9 3 (1.50%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.50%) Life Science
11 1 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.50%) Windows
2 9 (4.50%) Linux
3 8 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.50%) CatOS
5 1 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (15.50%) ITIL
2 25 (12.50%) Network Design
3 23 (11.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (10.50%) DevOps
5 19 (9.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (9.00%) SIEM
7 17 (8.50%) Migration
7 17 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (8.00%) Zero Trust
9 15 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (7.50%) High Availability
9 15 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (7.50%) Validation
10 14 (7.00%) CI/CD
10 14 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (7.00%) Network Monitoring
10 14 (7.00%) Network Segmentation
10 14 (7.00%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (6.50%) Mentoring
12 12 (6.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (18.50%) Python
2 10 (5.00%) Bash
3 8 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.00%) SQL
5 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 75 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 55 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 52 (26.00%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (19.50%) CCNP
5 22 (11.00%) CCIE
6 20 (10.00%) DV Cleared
7 11 (5.50%) CCNA
7 11 (5.50%) Degree
8 8 (4.00%) CCSE
9 6 (3.00%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.50%) JNCIE
11 4 (2.00%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.00%) CISSP
12 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.50%) CCDP
12 3 (1.50%) CCSM
12 3 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (1.00%) CHECK Team Leader
13 2 (1.00%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.00%) NIST
3 9 (4.50%) NCSC
4 8 (4.00%) SLA
5 6 (3.00%) GDPR
6 4 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.00%) GRC
6 4 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.00%) QA
7 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.50%) RMADS
8 2 (1.00%) ISA99
8 2 (1.00%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (8.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.50%) Firmware
4 5 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.00%) Docker
5 4 (2.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.50%) vSphere
7 2 (1.00%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (19.00%) FortiGate
2 36 (18.00%) Ansible
3 25 (12.50%) Terraform
4 7 (3.50%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (2.50%) Grafana
6 4 (2.00%) Puppet
6 4 (2.00%) Salt
7 3 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.00%) CASB
8 2 (1.00%) Consul
8 2 (1.00%) Iperf
8 2 (1.00%) Nmap
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.50%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.50%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 116 (58.00%) Cisco
2 71 (35.50%) Palo Alto
3 35 (17.50%) CheckPoint
4 33 (16.50%) F5
5 28 (14.00%) Juniper
5 28 (14.00%) Microsoft
6 23 (11.50%) Arista
6 23 (11.50%) Zscaler
7 22 (11.00%) ServiceNow
8 20 (10.00%) Aruba
8 20 (10.00%) Infoblox
8 20 (10.00%) VMware
9 14 (7.00%) NetApp
10 11 (5.50%) Splunk
11 10 (5.00%) SolarWinds
12 6 (3.00%) Meraki
13 4 (2.00%) ForeScout
13 4 (2.00%) HP
14 3 (1.50%) Dell
14 3 (1.50%) Red Hat