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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 305 316
Rank change year-on-year -82 +11 +36
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 248 219 227
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.79% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 1.67% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 137 142
10th Percentile £375 £400 £378
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £504
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.23% +0.75%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £583
90th Percentile £632 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £26.06 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.47 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £60.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.49% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.57 -
90th Percentile - £96.73 -
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +27.91% - -

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 19,010 13,120 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.20% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,979 8,297 9,243
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 644 741
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.73 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.38 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +28.68% -10.18% -30.86%

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 17 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fortinet in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Fortinet in England

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 17 August 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 -90 104 £500 +2.56% 60
South East -47 38 £438 -23.91% 27
North of England -61 33 £456 -14.97% 24
Midlands -41 29 £565 +5.21% 27
North West -30 25 £575 +0.44% 15
West Midlands -47 23 £581 +6.61% 15
East of England -24 6 £388 -44.64% 7
Yorkshire -35 6 £413 -17.38% 6
East Midlands -17 5 £500 +16.28% 12
North East -42 2 £388 - 4
South West -48 2 £550 +1.85% 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 (1.61%) Confluence
1 4 (1.61%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.21%) Apache
2 3 (1.21%) CloudStack
3 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (4.03%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.02%) Azure
2 48 (19.35%) AWS
3 12 (4.84%) GitHub
4 9 (3.63%) GCP
5 8 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.42%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.61%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.61%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.61%) Serverless
8 4 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.21%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (1.21%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (1.21%) IaaS
10 2 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 173 (69.76%) Firewall
2 99 (39.92%) WAN
3 88 (35.48%) BGP
4 68 (27.42%) Network Security
5 64 (25.81%) VPN
6 62 (25.00%) OSPF
7 57 (22.98%) VLAN
8 51 (20.56%) LAN
9 48 (19.35%) SD-WAN
10 31 (12.50%) MPLS
11 30 (12.10%) Wireless
12 26 (10.48%) DNS
13 24 (9.68%) TCP/IP
14 22 (8.87%) IPsec
15 21 (8.47%) Cisco IOS
16 20 (8.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 20 (8.06%) Multicast
17 19 (7.66%) Cisco ASA
17 19 (7.66%) NX-OS
18 18 (7.26%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (1.21%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 10 (4.03%) Git
2 8 (3.23%) JIRA
3 5 (2.02%) GitLab
4 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.21%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 45 (18.15%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.29%) Finance
3 25 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.08%) Banking
4 15 (6.05%) Telecoms
5 13 (5.24%) Retail
6 12 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.03%) Legal
8 9 (3.63%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.42%) Law
10 5 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.02%) Police
11 3 (1.21%) Military
12 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.40%) Games
13 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 142 (57.26%) Network Engineer
2 47 (18.95%) Senior
3 32 (12.90%) Senior Network Engineer
4 27 (10.89%) Architect
4 27 (10.89%) Security Engineer
5 24 (9.68%) Network Security Engineer
6 21 (8.47%) Network Architect
7 16 (6.45%) Firewall Engineer
8 13 (5.24%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (4.44%) Network Specialist
10 10 (4.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 10 (4.03%) Senior Network Specialist
11 9 (3.63%) Consultant
11 9 (3.63%) Network Consultant
11 9 (3.63%) Network Security Architect
11 9 (3.63%) Security Architect
12 6 (2.42%) Cisco Engineer
12 6 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (2.02%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.65%) 802.1X
2 7 (2.82%) NETCONF
3 6 (2.42%) OpenConfig
3 6 (2.42%) RESTCONF
3 6 (2.42%) YANG
4 3 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.81%) eBPF
5 2 (0.81%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) Jinja
6 1 (0.40%) LDAP
6 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.82%) Operational Technology
3 7 (2.82%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.02%) PKI
5 5 (2.02%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.61%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.61%) SCADA
7 3 (1.21%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.81%) CMDB
8 2 (0.81%) Handset
9 1 (0.40%) Clustering
9 1 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.29%) Windows
2 20 (8.06%) Linux
3 11 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) CatOS
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (17.34%) Project Delivery
2 39 (15.73%) Network Design
3 34 (13.71%) Migration
4 30 (12.10%) High Availability
4 30 (12.10%) ITIL
5 27 (10.89%) Validation
5 27 (10.89%) Zero Trust
6 23 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (8.47%) DevOps
7 21 (8.47%) Load Balancing
8 20 (8.06%) SIEM
9 19 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (7.26%) Network Segmentation
10 18 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (7.26%) Runbook
11 17 (6.85%) Change Management
11 17 (6.85%) CI/CD
11 17 (6.85%) Cloud Security
11 17 (6.85%) Knowledge Transfer
11 17 (6.85%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (26.61%) Python
2 10 (4.03%) Bash
2 10 (4.03%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.23%) SQL
4 2 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (30.24%) Cisco Certification
2 62 (25.00%) CCNP
2 62 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 57 (22.98%) SC Cleared
4 28 (11.29%) CCIE
5 13 (5.24%) Degree
6 10 (4.03%) CCSE
7 8 (3.23%) CCNA
8 7 (2.82%) CISSP
8 7 (2.82%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.42%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.42%) JNCIE
10 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.02%) CCSM
11 4 (1.61%) CCIE Security
11 4 (1.61%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.61%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.81%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.03%) SLA
2 6 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.61%) NIST
3 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.21%) NCSC
4 3 (1.21%) QA
5 2 (0.81%) GDPR
5 2 (0.81%) ISA99
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 18 (7.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.03%) Firmware
4 7 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.02%) vSphere
6 4 (1.61%) Docker
7 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.81%) FreeRADIUS
8 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (22.98%) FortiGate
2 55 (22.18%) Ansible
3 32 (12.90%) Terraform
4 12 (4.84%) Kubernetes
5 10 (4.03%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.82%) Grafana
6 7 (2.82%) WMI
7 3 (1.21%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.21%) Consul
7 3 (1.21%) Puppet
7 3 (1.21%) Salt
7 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.81%) CASB
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.40%) Nagios
9 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 180 (72.58%) Cisco
2 93 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 62 (25.00%) F5
4 51 (20.56%) Juniper
5 38 (15.32%) CheckPoint
6 37 (14.92%) Microsoft
7 31 (12.50%) Arista
8 25 (10.08%) Aruba
8 25 (10.08%) Zscaler
9 24 (9.68%) VMware
10 21 (8.47%) Infoblox
11 20 (8.06%) Splunk
12 17 (6.85%) ServiceNow
12 17 (6.85%) SolarWinds
13 9 (3.63%) Meraki
14 6 (2.42%) Blue Coat
15 4 (1.61%) ForeScout
15 4 (1.61%) HP
15 4 (1.61%) Riverbed
15 4 (1.61%) Veeam