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 15 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
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 290 320
Rank change year-on-year -116 +30 +99
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 184 184 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.75% 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 1.10% 1.59% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 120 122
10th Percentile £404 £412 £375
25th Percentile £456 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% +10.20% -6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £691 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £563 £490
% change year-on-year -11.11% +14.80% -6.67%

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 16,800 11,546 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.86% 47.33% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,973 7,484 10,012
10th Percentile £313 £296 £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 £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £517
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.87% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 875 435 972
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.64 £18.20 £14.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +27.78% -41.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.67 £80.39 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £28.21 £22.21
% change year-on-year +2.39% +26.98% -47.74%

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 15 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 15 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 -75 74 £525 -4.55% 24
South East -32 37 £480 -16.52% 29
Midlands -59 24 £475 -12.04% 14
North of England -76 22 £576 +0.61% 14
East Midlands -23 12 £650 +51.16% 5
North West -45 11 £577 +0.79% 6
Yorkshire -51 11 £413 -34.00% 6
West Midlands -65 11 £475 -13.79% 9
South West -29 6 £525 +10.82% 2
East of England -27 4 £475 - 9
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 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.63%) Confluence
2 3 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (27.17%) Azure
2 45 (24.46%) AWS
3 14 (7.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 13 (7.07%) GCP
5 10 (5.43%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (3.26%) GitHub
9 5 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.17%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.17%) SaaS
10 4 (2.17%) Serverless
11 3 (1.63%) IaaS
11 3 (1.63%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.63%) PaaS
11 3 (1.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 125 (67.93%) Firewall
2 69 (37.50%) WAN
3 57 (30.98%) BGP
4 49 (26.63%) SD-WAN
5 48 (26.09%) OSPF
6 47 (25.54%) Network Security
6 47 (25.54%) VPN
7 39 (21.20%) LAN
8 37 (20.11%) VLAN
9 33 (17.93%) MPLS
10 21 (11.41%) TCP/IP
10 21 (11.41%) Wireless
11 19 (10.33%) Cisco ASA
12 18 (9.78%) DNS
13 15 (8.15%) DHCP
13 15 (8.15%) Multicast
13 15 (8.15%) VXLAN
14 14 (7.61%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (7.07%) IPsec
16 12 (6.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Git
2 6 (3.26%) JIRA
3 5 (2.72%) GitLab
4 4 (2.17%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.78%) Military
5 17 (9.24%) Telecoms
6 15 (8.15%) Finance
7 11 (5.98%) Banking
7 11 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.80%) Law
9 6 (3.26%) Legal
10 5 (2.72%) Police
11 4 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Retail
12 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.09%) Aviation
13 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.54%) Electronics
14 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 72 (39.13%) Network Engineer
2 28 (15.22%) Senior
3 23 (12.50%) Architect
3 23 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 17 (9.24%) Network Security Engineer
5 16 (8.70%) Network Architect
6 14 (7.61%) Senior Network Engineer
7 13 (7.07%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) Lead
9 8 (4.35%) Firewall Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 7 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.26%) Network Specialist
12 5 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.72%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.98%) 802.1X
2 7 (3.80%) NETCONF
3 6 (3.26%) YANG
4 5 (2.72%) OpenConfig
5 4 (2.17%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.09%) JSON
6 2 (1.09%) XML
7 1 (0.54%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.54%) Flask
7 1 (0.54%) Jinja
7 1 (0.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.57%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.89%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.35%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.72%) PKI
6 5 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.17%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.17%) SCADA
8 3 (1.63%) CESG
9 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.09%) NHS
9 2 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.43%) Windows
2 8 (4.35%) Linux
3 6 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.54%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.54%) VMS
5 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (18.48%) ITIL
2 26 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (13.04%) Network Design
4 23 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (11.96%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (10.33%) DevOps
6 19 (10.33%) Zero Trust
7 18 (9.78%) Migration
8 16 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (8.70%) SIEM
9 15 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (8.15%) Incident Response
9 15 (8.15%) Mentoring
9 15 (8.15%) Network Architecture
10 14 (7.61%) Change Management
10 14 (7.61%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (7.07%) High Availability
11 13 (7.07%) Load Balancing
11 13 (7.07%) Roadmaps
11 13 (7.07%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.57%) Python
2 10 (5.43%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.89%) Bash
4 3 (1.63%) SQL
5 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 72 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 54 (29.35%) Cisco Certification
3 50 (27.17%) SC Cleared
4 40 (21.74%) CCNP
5 28 (15.22%) CCIE
6 21 (11.41%) DV Cleared
7 15 (8.15%) CCNA
8 14 (7.61%) Degree
9 10 (5.43%) CISSP
10 9 (4.89%) AWS Certification
10 9 (4.89%) Azure Certification
11 7 (3.80%) CCSE
11 7 (3.80%) JNCIE
12 5 (2.72%) CCIE Security
13 4 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (2.17%) CCSP
13 4 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (1.63%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.24%) NIST
2 16 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (7.07%) GDPR
4 10 (5.43%) SLA
5 9 (4.89%) NCSC
5 9 (4.89%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.17%) GRC
7 3 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.63%) QA
7 3 (1.63%) RMADS
8 2 (1.09%) ISA99
8 2 (1.09%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.72%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.17%) Docker
4 4 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.63%) Firmware
5 3 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.63%) vSphere
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (18.48%) Ansible
2 31 (16.85%) FortiGate
3 25 (13.59%) Terraform
4 6 (3.26%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.72%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (2.72%) Grafana
6 4 (2.17%) Puppet
6 4 (2.17%) Salt
7 2 (1.09%) CASB
7 2 (1.09%) Iperf
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.09%) Nmap
7 2 (1.09%) SCCM
7 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.54%) Consul
8 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.54%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 107 (58.15%) Cisco
2 62 (33.70%) Palo Alto
3 33 (17.93%) CheckPoint
4 32 (17.39%) Juniper
5 30 (16.30%) Microsoft
6 29 (15.76%) F5
7 21 (11.41%) ServiceNow
8 20 (10.87%) Zscaler
9 18 (9.78%) Aruba
10 17 (9.24%) Arista
10 17 (9.24%) VMware
11 15 (8.15%) SolarWinds
12 14 (7.61%) Infoblox
12 14 (7.61%) NetApp
13 13 (7.07%) Meraki
14 11 (5.98%) Splunk
15 4 (2.17%) ForeScout
15 4 (2.17%) HP
15 4 (2.17%) Tenable
16 3 (1.63%) Ekahau