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 25 April 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
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 299 324
Rank change year-on-year -87 +25 +103
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 191 181 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.74% 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 1.13% 1.55% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 113 130
10th Percentile £400 £415 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £650 £775
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 16,858 11,676 15,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.28% 47.48% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,986 7,555 9,996
10th Percentile £313 £289 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 885 457 987
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.13 £14.21
Median hourly rate £30.15 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +22.22% -44.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.13 £55.06
90th Percentile £79.20 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.86%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -81 79 £525 -4.55% 22
South East -40 42 £480 -16.52% 24
North of England -75 21 £577 +0.79% 22
Midlands -62 19 £444 -17.82% 8
East Midlands -26 12 £650 +51.16% 5
Yorkshire -57 11 £413 -34.00% 8
North West -41 10 £599 +11.61% 12
South West -40 6 £525 -4.55% 1
West Midlands -69 6 £438 -20.60% 3
East of England -37 4 £475 - 7
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 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.09%) Confluence
3 3 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.62%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 48 (25.13%) Azure
2 42 (21.99%) AWS
3 10 (5.24%) Entra ID
3 10 (5.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (4.19%) GCP
4 8 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.66%) GitHub
6 5 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.09%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.09%) AWS Control Tower
7 4 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (2.09%) SaaS
7 4 (2.09%) Serverless
8 3 (1.57%) IaaS
8 3 (1.57%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.57%) PaaS
8 3 (1.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 131 (68.59%) Firewall
2 71 (37.17%) WAN
3 57 (29.84%) BGP
4 50 (26.18%) Network Security
5 47 (24.61%) OSPF
5 47 (24.61%) SD-WAN
6 42 (21.99%) VPN
7 39 (20.42%) LAN
8 37 (19.37%) VLAN
9 27 (14.14%) MPLS
10 20 (10.47%) TCP/IP
10 20 (10.47%) Wireless
11 17 (8.90%) DNS
12 16 (8.38%) Multicast
13 15 (7.85%) IPsec
13 15 (7.85%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (7.33%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (7.33%) NGFW
15 12 (6.28%) DHCP
16 11 (5.76%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (2.09%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.66%) Git
1 7 (3.66%) JIRA
2 5 (2.62%) GitLab
3 4 (2.09%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (9.95%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.90%) Military
3 17 (8.90%) Telecoms
4 15 (7.85%) Finance
5 12 (6.28%) Banking
5 12 (6.28%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.66%) Law
7 6 (3.14%) Legal
8 5 (2.62%) Police
8 5 (2.62%) Retail
9 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.05%) Aviation
10 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.52%) Electronics
11 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (42.93%) Network Engineer
2 29 (15.18%) Senior
3 25 (13.09%) Security Engineer
4 19 (9.95%) Network Security Engineer
5 18 (9.42%) Architect
6 16 (8.38%) Senior Network Engineer
7 15 (7.85%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (5.76%) Network Architect
9 9 (4.71%) Firewall Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) Lead
10 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 7 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.66%) IT Engineer
11 7 (3.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 6 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Network Specialist
13 5 (2.62%) Automation Engineer
13 5 (2.62%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.76%) 802.1X
2 6 (3.14%) NETCONF
3 5 (2.62%) YANG
4 4 (2.09%) OpenConfig
4 4 (2.09%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.52%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.52%) Flask
5 1 (0.52%) Jinja
5 1 (0.52%) JSON
5 1 (0.52%) REST
5 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.80%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.71%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.19%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.19%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.09%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.09%) PKI
8 4 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.09%) SCADA
9 3 (1.57%) CESG
10 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.05%) NHS
10 2 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.28%) Windows
2 8 (4.19%) Linux
2 8 (4.19%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.52%) VMS
4 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (16.23%) ITIL
2 25 (13.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (11.52%) Network Design
4 20 (10.47%) DevOps
5 19 (9.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (8.90%) SIEM
7 17 (8.90%) Zero Trust
8 16 (8.38%) Migration
9 14 (7.33%) Change Management
9 14 (7.33%) High Availability
9 14 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (7.33%) Validation
10 13 (6.81%) Mentoring
10 13 (6.81%) Network Architecture
10 13 (6.81%) Network Segmentation
11 12 (6.28%) CI/CD
11 12 (6.28%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.32%) Python
2 10 (5.24%) Bash
3 9 (4.71%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.05%) SQL
5 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 74 (38.74%) Security Cleared
2 54 (28.27%) Cisco Certification
3 53 (27.75%) SC Cleared
4 40 (20.94%) CCNP
5 25 (13.09%) CCIE
6 21 (10.99%) DV Cleared
7 13 (6.81%) CCNA
8 11 (5.76%) Degree
9 7 (3.66%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.66%) CCSE
9 7 (3.66%) CISSP
10 6 (3.14%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.62%) JNCIE
12 4 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (2.09%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.57%) CCDP
13 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (1.05%) CCIP
14 2 (1.05%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.28%) NIST
2 11 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (5.76%) SLA
3 9 (4.71%) NCSC
4 8 (4.19%) GDPR
5 4 (2.09%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.09%) GRC
5 4 (2.09%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.57%) QA
6 3 (1.57%) RMADS
7 2 (1.05%) ISA99
7 2 (1.05%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.52%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (8.90%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.09%) Docker
3 4 (2.09%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.57%) Firmware
4 3 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.57%) vSphere
5 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (17.80%) Ansible
2 33 (17.28%) FortiGate
3 25 (13.09%) Terraform
4 7 (3.66%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.66%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.62%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (2.62%) Grafana
6 4 (2.09%) Puppet
6 4 (2.09%) Salt
7 2 (1.05%) CASB
7 2 (1.05%) Consul
7 2 (1.05%) Iperf
7 2 (1.05%) Nmap
7 2 (1.05%) SCCM
7 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.52%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 112 (58.64%) Cisco
2 62 (32.46%) Palo Alto
3 35 (18.32%) CheckPoint
4 31 (16.23%) Juniper
4 31 (16.23%) Microsoft
5 26 (13.61%) F5
6 22 (11.52%) ServiceNow
7 21 (10.99%) Zscaler
8 20 (10.47%) Arista
8 20 (10.47%) Aruba
9 16 (8.38%) Infoblox
10 15 (7.85%) VMware
11 14 (7.33%) NetApp
12 11 (5.76%) SolarWinds
12 11 (5.76%) Splunk
13 9 (4.71%) Meraki
14 4 (2.09%) ForeScout
14 4 (2.09%) HP
14 4 (2.09%) Tenable
15 3 (1.57%) Dell