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 16 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
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 299 345
Rank change year-on-year -90 +46 +72
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 208 180 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.74% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 1.23% 1.56% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 105 119
10th Percentile £398 £425 £360
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £506 £551 £500
% change year-on-year -8.12% +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 16,921 11,548 15,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.25% 47.60% 41.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,953 7,441 9,698
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.11% -2.58%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 462 1,000
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -41.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £56.70
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.12% -47.88%

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 16 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 16 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 -77 84 £530 -3.64% 32
South East -44 39 £463 -19.57% 28
Midlands -66 28 £565 +2.73% 12
North of England -67 25 £575 +0.44% 23
West Midlands -69 15 £565 +2.73% 9
North West -33 13 £577 +7.60% 11
East Midlands -18 12 £650 +51.16% 3
Yorkshire -53 12 £415 -33.60% 9
South West -36 5 £538 -10.42% 6
East of England -29 4 £450 -5.26% 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 (1.92%) Confluence
1 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) Apache
3 2 (0.96%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 54 (25.96%) Azure
2 45 (21.63%) AWS
3 10 (4.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (4.33%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.85%) GCP
6 7 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (3.37%) GitHub
7 5 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.40%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.92%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.92%) Serverless
9 3 (1.44%) IaaS
9 3 (1.44%) Route 53
10 2 (0.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.96%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 141 (67.79%) Firewall
2 71 (34.13%) WAN
3 54 (25.96%) BGP
4 50 (24.04%) Network Security
5 45 (21.63%) OSPF
6 44 (21.15%) SD-WAN
7 42 (20.19%) VPN
8 41 (19.71%) LAN
9 37 (17.79%) VLAN
10 22 (10.58%) MPLS
11 21 (10.10%) Wireless
12 19 (9.13%) TCP/IP
13 18 (8.65%) Multicast
14 16 (7.69%) DNS
14 16 (7.69%) IPsec
14 16 (7.69%) NGFW
15 15 (7.21%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (7.21%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (6.73%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (6.25%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.33%) JIRA
2 7 (3.37%) Git
3 5 (2.40%) GitLab
4 4 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.17%) Finance
3 17 (8.17%) Military
4 15 (7.21%) Banking
5 14 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.73%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.85%) Retail
8 7 (3.37%) Law
9 5 (2.40%) Legal
10 4 (1.92%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.92%) Police
11 2 (0.96%) Aviation
11 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 95 (45.67%) Network Engineer
2 33 (15.87%) Senior
3 26 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 20 (9.62%) Network Security Engineer
4 20 (9.62%) Senior Network Engineer
5 15 (7.21%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (6.25%) Architect
7 12 (5.77%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 11 (5.29%) Firewall Engineer
9 10 (4.81%) Lead
10 9 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Network Architect
12 7 (3.37%) IT Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Network Specialist
13 6 (2.88%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 6 (2.88%) Senior Network Specialist
14 5 (2.40%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.81%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.40%) NETCONF
3 4 (1.92%) YANG
4 3 (1.44%) OpenConfig
4 3 (1.44%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.48%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.48%) Flask
6 1 (0.48%) Jinja
6 1 (0.48%) JSON
6 1 (0.48%) LDAP
6 1 (0.48%) REST
6 1 (0.48%) SAML
6 1 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.63%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.37%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.92%) PKI
7 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.44%) CESG
8 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) SCADA
9 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.58%) Windows
2 17 (8.17%) Linux
3 10 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.48%) CatOS
5 1 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
5 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (15.38%) ITIL
2 27 (12.98%) Network Design
3 25 (12.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (11.06%) DevOps
5 19 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (9.13%) Migration
6 18 (8.65%) SIEM
7 17 (8.17%) High Availability
8 16 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
8 16 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (7.69%) Validation
8 16 (7.69%) Zero Trust
9 15 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (7.21%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (6.73%) CI/CD
10 14 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (6.73%) Network Segmentation
10 14 (6.73%) Project Delivery
11 13 (6.25%) Cloud Security
11 13 (6.25%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.83%) Python
2 10 (4.81%) Bash
3 8 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.37%) SQL
5 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 76 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 56 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
2 56 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 44 (21.15%) CCNP
4 23 (11.06%) CCIE
5 20 (9.62%) DV Cleared
6 11 (5.29%) Degree
7 10 (4.81%) CCNA
8 9 (4.33%) CCSE
9 8 (3.85%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.88%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.92%) CCSM
12 4 (1.92%) JNCIE
13 3 (1.44%) CCDP
13 3 (1.44%) CISSP
13 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.96%) CISM
14 2 (0.96%) JNCIA
14 2 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.33%) NCSC
1 9 (4.33%) NIST
2 8 (3.85%) SLA
3 6 (2.88%) GDPR
4 5 (2.40%) GRC
4 5 (2.40%) QA
5 4 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.44%) RMADS
7 2 (0.96%) ISA99
7 2 (0.96%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (8.17%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.88%) Firmware
3 6 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.40%) vSphere
5 4 (1.92%) Docker
5 4 (1.92%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.96%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (18.27%) FortiGate
2 35 (16.83%) Ansible
3 25 (12.02%) Terraform
4 9 (4.33%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.33%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.37%) Grafana
6 5 (2.40%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (2.40%) WMI
7 4 (1.92%) Puppet
7 4 (1.92%) Salt
8 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.96%) CASB
9 2 (0.96%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.96%) Consul
9 2 (0.96%) Iperf
9 2 (0.96%) Nmap
10 1 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 123 (59.13%) Cisco
2 79 (37.98%) Palo Alto
3 37 (17.79%) F5
4 35 (16.83%) CheckPoint
5 31 (14.90%) Microsoft
6 29 (13.94%) Juniper
7 27 (12.98%) ServiceNow
8 23 (11.06%) Arista
8 23 (11.06%) VMware
9 22 (10.58%) Zscaler
10 20 (9.62%) Infoblox
11 19 (9.13%) Aruba
12 16 (7.69%) Splunk
13 15 (7.21%) SolarWinds
14 14 (6.73%) NetApp
15 6 (2.88%) Meraki
16 5 (2.40%) Veeam
17 4 (1.92%) ForeScout
17 4 (1.92%) HP
17 4 (1.92%) Tenable