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 23 February 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
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 314 351
Rank change year-on-year -90 +37 +85
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 160 176 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.69% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 1.03% 1.47% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 112 117
10th Percentile £371 £414 £358
25th Percentile £427 £494 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £855
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £493
% change year-on-year -13.04% +16.75% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £22.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +277.78% -48.57% +54.87%

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 15,562 11,969 16,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.86% 46.64% 43.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,162 7,359 10,484
10th Percentile £303 £282 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £702 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £521
% change year-on-year -4.31% +0.24% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 804 351 877
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% +16.28% -19.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £55.50
90th Percentile £74.11 £82.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.54 £26.50
% change year-on-year -18.74% +11.45% -23.37%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -48 69 £513 -6.82% 22
South East -6 39 £478 -16.96% 38
Midlands -59 20 £475 -13.79% 11
North of England -65 14 £413 -23.26% 26
East Midlands -23 11 £390 - 2
Yorkshire -57 10 £544 -13.00% 6
West Midlands -65 9 £475 -13.79% 9
South West -31 5 £525 +14.75% 8
North West -41 4 £400 -23.81% 20
East of England -26 3 £500 -23.08% 13
South Coast - 1 - -
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 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (1.25%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 49 (30.63%) Azure
2 47 (29.38%) AWS
3 19 (11.88%) GCP
4 13 (8.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.13%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.50%) GitHub
9 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.50%) SaaS
10 3 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.88%) IaaS
10 3 (1.88%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.88%) PaaS
10 3 (1.88%) Route 53
11 2 (1.25%) Akamai
11 2 (1.25%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.25%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 105 (65.63%) Firewall
2 68 (42.50%) WAN
3 53 (33.13%) SD-WAN
4 51 (31.88%) VPN
5 45 (28.13%) Network Security
6 44 (27.50%) BGP
7 41 (25.63%) LAN
8 40 (25.00%) OSPF
9 33 (20.63%) MPLS
10 24 (15.00%) VLAN
11 23 (14.38%) Wireless
12 21 (13.13%) TCP/IP
13 18 (11.25%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (10.63%) DNS
15 15 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (8.75%) DHCP
16 14 (8.75%) VXLAN
17 12 (7.50%) IPsec
17 12 (7.50%) NGFW
18 10 (6.25%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (5.00%) JIRA
2 5 (3.13%) GitLab
3 4 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.88%) Git
5 2 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
General
1 43 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.13%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 17 (10.63%) Military
5 16 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (9.38%) Finance
7 11 (6.88%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.75%) Legal
9 5 (3.13%) Banking
9 5 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.50%) Law
11 2 (1.25%) Aviation
11 2 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.25%) Police
12 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.63%) Electronics
12 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.63%) Marketing
12 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (32.50%) Network Engineer
2 30 (18.75%) Architect
3 22 (13.75%) Network Architect
4 21 (13.13%) Senior
5 20 (12.50%) Security Engineer
6 14 (8.75%) Network Security Engineer
6 14 (8.75%) Systems Engineer
7 10 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.38%) Lead
9 7 (4.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) Security Architect
10 6 (3.75%) Network Specialist
10 6 (3.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 5 (3.13%) Consultant
11 5 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 5 (3.13%) Firewall Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Security Manager
12 4 (2.50%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.38%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.50%) NETCONF
2 4 (2.50%) YANG
3 3 (1.88%) OpenConfig
4 2 (1.25%) JSON
4 2 (1.25%) RESTCONF
4 2 (1.25%) XML
5 1 (0.63%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.63%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.50%) Data Centre
2 13 (8.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.88%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.38%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.13%) PKI
7 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.50%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.88%) CESG
8 3 (1.88%) Life Science
8 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.25%) NHS
9 2 (1.25%) SCADA
9 2 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) Windows
2 3 (1.88%) Linux
3 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.63%) VMS
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 27 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (14.38%) Migration
3 23 (14.38%) Network Design
4 21 (13.13%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (12.50%) ITIL
6 19 (11.88%) Network Architecture
7 17 (10.63%) Roadmaps
7 17 (10.63%) Security Architecture
7 17 (10.63%) Zero Trust
8 15 (9.38%) Change Management
8 15 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (9.38%) Incident Response
8 15 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (8.75%) Agile
9 14 (8.75%) Mentoring
10 12 (7.50%) Network Monitoring
11 11 (6.88%) DevOps
11 11 (6.88%) Network Segmentation
11 11 (6.88%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.50%) Python
2 7 (4.38%) Bash
2 7 (4.38%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.88%) SQL
4 1 (0.63%) C++
4 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 63 (39.38%) Security Cleared
2 46 (28.75%) Cisco Certification
3 40 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 34 (21.25%) CCNP
5 26 (16.25%) CCIE
6 19 (11.88%) DV Cleared
7 15 (9.38%) CISSP
8 13 (8.13%) CCNA
8 13 (8.13%) Degree
9 10 (6.25%) AWS Certification
10 8 (5.00%) Azure Certification
10 8 (5.00%) JNCIE
11 6 (3.75%) CCIE Security
12 5 (3.13%) CCSE
13 4 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (2.50%) CCSP
13 4 (2.50%) CISM
13 4 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.63%) NIST
2 16 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (9.38%) GDPR
4 8 (5.00%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.75%) NCSC
5 6 (3.75%) SLA
6 4 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.50%) GRC
7 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.88%) RMADS
8 2 (1.25%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.25%) QA
9 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (8.75%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.75%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.88%) Firmware
5 2 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.25%) vSphere
6 1 (0.63%) Docker
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (16.88%) Ansible
2 26 (16.25%) FortiGate
3 21 (13.13%) Terraform
4 6 (3.75%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.50%) Iperf
5 4 (2.50%) Nmap
6 2 (1.25%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.25%) Grafana
6 2 (1.25%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.25%) SCCM
6 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.25%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.63%) CASB
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.63%) Puppet
7 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.63%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 90 (56.25%) Cisco
2 63 (39.38%) Palo Alto
3 37 (23.13%) CheckPoint
4 35 (21.88%) Juniper
5 25 (15.63%) F5
6 24 (15.00%) Aruba
7 23 (14.38%) SolarWinds
8 20 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 15 (9.38%) ServiceNow
10 14 (8.75%) NetApp
10 14 (8.75%) VMware
11 13 (8.13%) Meraki
12 11 (6.88%) Zscaler
13 9 (5.63%) Arista
14 6 (3.75%) Tenable
15 4 (2.50%) Citrix
15 4 (2.50%) Infoblox
16 3 (1.88%) Extreme Networks
16 3 (1.88%) Nokia
16 3 (1.88%) Red Hat