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 28 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
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 302 305
Rank change year-on-year -81 +3 +61
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 250 216 238
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.78% 0.72%
As % of the Vendors category 1.31% 1.66% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 137 146
10th Percentile £371 £400 £369
25th Percentile £419 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £587 £600 £588
90th Percentile £649 £685 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £26.06 -
25th Percentile £60.13 £38.47 -
Median hourly rate £77.25 £60.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.57 -
90th Percentile - £96.73 -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +28.32% - -

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 19,023 12,987 14,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.56% 47.14% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,913 8,225 9,106
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £616 £627
90th Percentile £703 £713 £731
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,037 625 685
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -13.28% -30.12%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £27.86
% change year-on-year +19.13% -9.73% -35.21%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -102 106 £500 +5.26% 84
South East -51 36 £425 -26.09% 32
North of England -53 33 £450 -7.69% 26
Midlands -40 29 £565 +22.16% 21
West Midlands -47 24 £581 +5.64% 10
North West -37 22 £575 +21.05% 15
Yorkshire -42 7 £416 -16.76% 6
East of England -22 6 £388 -44.64% 10
East Midlands -17 4 £500 +284.62% 11
North East -37 4 £375 - 6
South West -36 3 £538 -0.46% 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 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.60%) Confluence
2 4 (1.60%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.20%) Apache
3 3 (1.20%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (3.60%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 74 (29.60%) Azure
2 51 (20.40%) AWS
3 12 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 10 (4.00%) GitHub
5 9 (3.60%) GCP
6 8 (3.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (2.80%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.40%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.60%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.60%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.20%) IaaS
11 3 (1.20%) Serverless
11 3 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.80%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 177 (70.80%) Firewall
2 106 (42.40%) WAN
3 88 (35.20%) BGP
4 71 (28.40%) Network Security
5 66 (26.40%) VPN
6 63 (25.20%) OSPF
7 59 (23.60%) VLAN
8 53 (21.20%) LAN
9 49 (19.60%) SD-WAN
10 34 (13.60%) Wireless
11 30 (12.00%) DNS
11 30 (12.00%) MPLS
12 25 (10.00%) TCP/IP
13 22 (8.80%) IPsec
14 21 (8.40%) DHCP
15 20 (8.00%) Cisco IOS
16 19 (7.60%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (7.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 18 (7.20%) Multicast
17 18 (7.20%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.60%) Git
2 8 (3.20%) JIRA
3 4 (1.60%) GitLab
3 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 47 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.00%) Finance
3 26 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.80%) Banking
5 14 (5.60%) Retail
5 14 (5.60%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.60%) Legal
7 8 (3.20%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.00%) Law
8 5 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.00%) Police
9 3 (1.20%) Military
10 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 144 (57.60%) Network Engineer
2 51 (20.40%) Senior
3 35 (14.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 28 (11.20%) Architect
4 28 (11.20%) Security Engineer
5 25 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 22 (8.80%) Network Architect
7 16 (6.40%) Firewall Engineer
8 13 (5.20%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Network Specialist
10 11 (4.40%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 11 (4.40%) Senior Network Specialist
11 9 (3.60%) Consultant
11 9 (3.60%) Network Consultant
11 9 (3.60%) Network Security Architect
11 9 (3.60%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.80%) Cisco Engineer
12 7 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.40%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 5 (2.00%) Network Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.60%) Terraform
2 13 (5.20%) 802.1X
3 6 (2.40%) NETCONF
4 5 (2.00%) OpenConfig
4 5 (2.00%) RESTCONF
4 5 (2.00%) YANG
5 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.80%) eBPF
6 2 (0.80%) REST
7 1 (0.40%) Jinja
7 1 (0.40%) LDAP
7 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (25.20%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.80%) Operational Technology
3 7 (2.80%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.40%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.40%) PKI
5 5 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.60%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.60%) SCADA
6 4 (1.60%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.80%) CMDB
8 2 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.80%) Handset
9 1 (0.40%) Animation
9 1 (0.40%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.80%) Windows
2 21 (8.40%) Linux
3 18 (7.20%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) CatOS
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (18.80%) Project Delivery
2 39 (15.60%) Migration
3 38 (15.20%) Network Design
4 32 (12.80%) High Availability
5 29 (11.60%) ITIL
5 29 (11.60%) Zero Trust
6 27 (10.80%) Validation
7 23 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (8.40%) Cloud Security
8 21 (8.40%) Load Balancing
9 20 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (8.00%) Network Segmentation
10 19 (7.60%) DevOps
10 19 (7.60%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (7.60%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (7.20%) Change Management
11 18 (7.20%) Knowledge Transfer
12 16 (6.40%) CI/CD
12 16 (6.40%) Mentoring
12 16 (6.40%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (26.00%) Python
2 11 (4.40%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.60%) Bash
4 8 (3.20%) SQL
5 2 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (29.60%) Cisco Certification
2 64 (25.60%) Security Cleared
3 62 (24.80%) CCNP
4 59 (23.60%) SC Cleared
5 23 (9.20%) CCIE
6 11 (4.40%) CCSE
6 11 (4.40%) Degree
7 9 (3.60%) CCNA
8 8 (3.20%) CISSP
9 7 (2.80%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.40%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.00%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.00%) CCSM
11 5 (2.00%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.60%) CCIE Security
12 4 (1.60%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.60%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.80%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.60%) SLA
2 6 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.00%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.20%) NCSC
5 3 (1.20%) NIST
5 3 (1.20%) QA
6 2 (0.80%) GDPR
6 2 (0.80%) ISA99
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (9.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (7.20%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.60%) Firmware
4 8 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.40%) vSphere
6 3 (1.20%) Docker
6 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.80%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (23.60%) FortiGate
2 52 (20.80%) Ansible
3 11 (4.40%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.80%) WMI
6 6 (2.40%) Grafana
7 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.20%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.20%) Consul
8 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.80%) CASB
9 2 (0.80%) Puppet
9 2 (0.80%) Salt
10 1 (0.40%) Argo
10 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.40%) Nagios
10 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 182 (72.80%) Cisco
2 96 (38.40%) Palo Alto
3 61 (24.40%) F5
4 51 (20.40%) Juniper
5 41 (16.40%) Microsoft
6 40 (16.00%) CheckPoint
7 32 (12.80%) VMware
8 29 (11.60%) Arista
9 25 (10.00%) Aruba
10 19 (7.60%) Zscaler
11 18 (7.20%) Infoblox
12 16 (6.40%) SolarWinds
13 15 (6.00%) Meraki
14 14 (5.60%) Splunk
15 12 (4.80%) ServiceNow
16 6 (2.40%) Blue Coat
17 4 (1.60%) HP
17 4 (1.60%) Okta
17 4 (1.60%) Riverbed
17 4 (1.60%) Veeam