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 13 December 2025, 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 290 346
Rank change year-on-year -69 +56 +108
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 190 229 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.76% 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 1.29% 1.66% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 137 152
10th Percentile £400 £406 £350
25th Percentile £431 £454 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - £40.63
Median hourly rate £103.00 - £43.75
75th Percentile £105.50 - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £22.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +300.00% -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 14,722 13,832 17,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.54% 45.62% 44.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,552 8,396 11,261
10th Percentile £288 £300 £252
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 418 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.45
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%
75th Percentile £45.14 £65.00 £64.55
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.08 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

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 13 December 2025.

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 13 December 2025. 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 +1 104 £475 -13.64% 39
South East -24 39 £480 -12.73% 59
Midlands -43 17 £475 -18.10% 27
West Midlands -26 13 £475 -18.10% 16
South West -22 10 £540 +20.00% 28
East of England - 9 £700 - 25
North of England -67 7 £413 -21.43% 45
North West -34 6 £425 -19.05% 25
East Midlands -28 4 £130 -65.33% 10
South Coast - 2 - -
Yorkshire -56 1 £310 -50.40% 19
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 (3.16%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.58%) Azure
2 40 (21.05%) AWS
3 16 (8.42%) GCP
4 9 (4.74%) Akamai
4 9 (4.74%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (3.16%) OpenShift
6 6 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.63%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.58%) GitHub
8 3 (1.58%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.58%) SaaS
9 2 (1.05%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.05%) IaaS
9 2 (1.05%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.05%) PaaS
9 2 (1.05%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 128 (67.37%) Firewall
2 71 (37.37%) SD-WAN
3 66 (34.74%) WAN
4 59 (31.05%) BGP
5 55 (28.95%) LAN
6 54 (28.42%) OSPF
6 54 (28.42%) VPN
7 42 (22.11%) Network Security
8 37 (19.47%) Cisco Nexus
9 34 (17.89%) Wi-Fi
10 29 (15.26%) MPLS
11 26 (13.68%) VLAN
12 24 (12.63%) Wireless
13 21 (11.05%) Cisco ASA
14 19 (10.00%) TCP/IP
15 17 (8.95%) DNS
16 15 (7.89%) SNMP
17 14 (7.37%) DHCP
18 13 (6.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 11 (5.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.16%) JIRA
2 4 (2.11%) GitLab
3 3 (1.58%) Git
3 3 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.68%) Public Sector
3 24 (12.63%) Finance
4 19 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.47%) Telecoms
6 16 (8.42%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.63%) Military
8 4 (2.11%) Local Government
9 3 (1.58%) Banking
9 3 (1.58%) Legal
9 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Advertising
10 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.05%) Police
11 1 (0.53%) Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) Law
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 64 (33.68%) Network Engineer
2 50 (26.32%) Architect
3 39 (20.53%) Network Architect
4 20 (10.53%) Security Engineer
5 19 (10.00%) Senior
6 13 (6.84%) Network Security Engineer
7 11 (5.79%) Designer
7 11 (5.79%) Network Design Architect
8 9 (4.74%) Lead
8 9 (4.74%) Network Specialist
8 9 (4.74%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.21%) Consultant
9 8 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.21%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.68%) Firewall Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 6 (3.16%) IP Designer
11 6 (3.16%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.11%) NETCONF
1 4 (2.11%) YANG
2 3 (1.58%) OpenConfig
3 2 (1.05%) JSON
3 2 (1.05%) RESTCONF
3 2 (1.05%) XML
4 1 (0.53%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.68%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.16%) PKI
5 5 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.11%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.58%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.58%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.58%) SCADA
7 3 (1.58%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.05%) Life Science
8 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.05%) NHS
8 2 (1.05%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.37%) Windows
2 6 (3.16%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.05%) Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
1 26 (13.68%) Network Design
1 26 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (13.16%) Migration
3 24 (12.63%) Incident Response
4 23 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (10.53%) Roadmaps
6 19 (10.00%) High Availability
6 19 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
7 18 (9.47%) ITIL
7 18 (9.47%) Network Architecture
7 18 (9.47%) SIEM
8 17 (8.95%) Change Management
9 15 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (7.37%) Security Architecture
11 13 (6.84%) Agile
12 12 (6.32%) Cloud Security
13 11 (5.79%) Change Control
13 11 (5.79%) Network Monitoring
14 10 (5.26%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.26%) Python
2 5 (2.63%) Bash
2 5 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.05%) SQL
4 1 (0.53%) C++
4 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 56 (29.47%) Security Cleared
3 47 (24.74%) SC Cleared
4 43 (22.63%) CCNP
5 26 (13.68%) CCIE
6 18 (9.47%) CISSP
7 14 (7.37%) CCNA
8 12 (6.32%) Degree
8 12 (6.32%) JNCIE
9 11 (5.79%) AWS Certification
10 7 (3.68%) Azure Certification
11 6 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (3.16%) CISM
12 5 (2.63%) CCIE Security
12 5 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (2.63%) DV Cleared
13 4 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (2.11%) CISA
13 4 (2.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 4 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (8.95%) NIST
2 15 (7.89%) GDPR
3 7 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.68%) SLA
4 5 (2.63%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.58%) NCSC
6 1 (0.53%) PMO
6 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 14 (7.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (5.79%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.26%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (18.42%) FortiGate
2 29 (15.26%) Ansible
3 21 (11.05%) Terraform
4 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.11%) CSIRT
5 4 (2.11%) QRadar
6 3 (1.58%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.58%) Iperf
6 3 (1.58%) Nmap
6 3 (1.58%) SCCM
7 2 (1.05%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.05%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.53%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 126 (66.32%) Cisco
2 61 (32.11%) Palo Alto
3 48 (25.26%) Juniper
4 39 (20.53%) F5
5 29 (15.26%) Microsoft
6 28 (14.74%) CheckPoint
7 27 (14.21%) SolarWinds
8 14 (7.37%) VMware
9 13 (6.84%) Aruba
9 13 (6.84%) Meraki
10 8 (4.21%) Splunk
10 8 (4.21%) Zscaler
11 7 (3.68%) Citrix
11 7 (3.68%) Forcepoint
12 6 (3.16%) Arista
12 6 (3.16%) Tenable
13 4 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
14 3 (1.58%) Extreme Networks
14 3 (1.58%) Infoblox
14 3 (1.58%) McAfee