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 9 March 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
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 311 342
Rank change year-on-year -95 +31 +86
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 163 180 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.72% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 1.02% 1.53% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 120 117
10th Percentile £374 £424 £370
25th Percentile £436 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +10.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £598 £613 £600
90th Percentile £690 £650 £783
UK median daily rate £500 £573 £493
% change year-on-year -12.66% +16.24% -6.19%

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 15,974 11,737 16,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.37% 47.13% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,419 7,455 10,437
10th Percentile £305 £290 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -3.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 846 390 948
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.47 £82.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -29.57%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -44 72 £525 -4.55% 15
South East -26 35 £475 -17.39% 31
Midlands -62 20 £475 -13.79% 14
North of England -70 20 £575 -0.22% 26
Yorkshire -56 11 £413 -34.00% 8
East Midlands -29 10 £650 +51.16% 7
West Midlands -60 10 £469 -14.93% 7
North West -35 9 £575 +0.44% 18
South West -38 5 £525 +0.96% 8
East of England -31 3 £500 +5.26% 13
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 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.07%) Confluence
3 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 52 (31.90%) Azure
2 44 (26.99%) AWS
3 19 (11.66%) GCP
4 14 (8.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (6.75%) Entra ID
5 11 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.29%) GitHub
7 6 (3.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (3.68%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (2.45%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.45%) SaaS
9 3 (1.84%) IaaS
9 3 (1.84%) PaaS
9 3 (1.84%) Route 53
10 2 (1.23%) Akamai
10 2 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 108 (66.26%) Firewall
2 67 (41.10%) WAN
3 52 (31.90%) SD-WAN
4 48 (29.45%) VPN
5 45 (27.61%) Network Security
6 42 (25.77%) BGP
7 38 (23.31%) LAN
8 36 (22.09%) OSPF
9 32 (19.63%) MPLS
10 24 (14.72%) VLAN
11 22 (13.50%) TCP/IP
12 19 (11.66%) Wireless
13 18 (11.04%) DNS
14 16 (9.82%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (9.82%) DHCP
14 16 (9.82%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (8.59%) VXLAN
16 13 (7.98%) NGFW
17 10 (6.13%) IPsec
17 10 (6.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (5.52%) JIRA
2 6 (3.68%) GitLab
3 5 (3.07%) Git
4 4 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (11.04%) Public Sector
2 18 (11.04%) Telecoms
3 17 (10.43%) Military
4 16 (9.82%) Finance
5 10 (6.13%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.91%) Banking
7 6 (3.68%) Legal
8 5 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.84%) Law
10 2 (1.23%) Aviation
10 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.61%) Electronics
11 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.61%) Marketing
11 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 49 (30.06%) Network Engineer
2 28 (17.18%) Architect
3 21 (12.88%) Network Architect
4 18 (11.04%) Senior
5 15 (9.20%) Security Engineer
6 14 (8.59%) Systems Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) Network Security Engineer
8 9 (5.52%) Lead
9 8 (4.91%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Security Architect
10 7 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.68%) Network Specialist
11 6 (3.68%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 5 (3.07%) Consultant
12 5 (3.07%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 5 (3.07%) Firewall Engineer
12 5 (3.07%) IT Engineer
12 5 (3.07%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.52%) 802.1X
2 6 (3.68%) NETCONF
2 6 (3.68%) YANG
3 5 (3.07%) OpenConfig
4 4 (2.45%) RESTCONF
5 2 (1.23%) JSON
5 2 (1.23%) XML
6 1 (0.61%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.61%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.95%) Data Centre
2 13 (7.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.75%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.68%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.45%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.45%) PKI
6 4 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.45%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.84%) CESG
7 3 (1.84%) Life Science
8 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.23%) NHS
8 2 (1.23%) SCADA
8 2 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.29%) Windows
2 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.84%) Linux
4 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.61%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.63%) ITIL
2 30 (18.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (18.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (14.72%) Network Design
4 22 (13.50%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (12.88%) Migration
6 18 (11.04%) Security Architecture
6 18 (11.04%) SIEM
6 18 (11.04%) Zero Trust
7 17 (10.43%) Network Architecture
8 16 (9.82%) DevOps
8 16 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (9.20%) Roadmaps
10 14 (8.59%) Agile
10 14 (8.59%) Change Management
10 14 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (7.98%) Incident Response
11 13 (7.98%) Mentoring
11 13 (7.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.95%) Python
2 8 (4.91%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.07%) Bash
4 4 (2.45%) SQL
5 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 59 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.61%) Cisco Certification
3 38 (23.31%) SC Cleared
4 33 (20.25%) CCNP
5 27 (16.56%) CCIE
6 19 (11.66%) DV Cleared
7 17 (10.43%) Degree
8 15 (9.20%) CISSP
9 12 (7.36%) CCNA
10 8 (4.91%) AWS Certification
10 8 (4.91%) Azure Certification
11 7 (4.29%) JNCIE
12 6 (3.68%) CCIE Security
13 5 (3.07%) CCSE
14 4 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (2.45%) CCSP
14 4 (2.45%) CISM
14 4 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (2.45%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.27%) NIST
2 17 (10.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (9.20%) GDPR
4 9 (5.52%) PCI DSS
5 8 (4.91%) SLA
6 6 (3.68%) NCSC
7 4 (2.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (2.45%) GRC
8 3 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.84%) RMADS
9 2 (1.23%) JSP 440
9 2 (1.23%) QA
10 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (10.43%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.45%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.84%) vSphere
5 2 (1.23%) Docker
5 2 (1.23%) Firmware
5 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (17.79%) Ansible
2 27 (16.56%) FortiGate
3 23 (14.11%) Terraform
4 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.07%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.84%) Grafana
6 3 (1.84%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.23%) CASB
7 2 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.23%) Iperf
7 2 (1.23%) Nmap
7 2 (1.23%) Puppet
7 2 (1.23%) Salt
7 2 (1.23%) SCCM
7 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.23%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.61%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 86 (52.76%) Cisco
2 58 (35.58%) Palo Alto
3 32 (19.63%) Juniper
4 30 (18.40%) CheckPoint
5 27 (16.56%) Microsoft
6 25 (15.34%) F5
7 24 (14.72%) Aruba
8 21 (12.88%) ServiceNow
9 20 (12.27%) Zscaler
10 15 (9.20%) SolarWinds
11 14 (8.59%) NetApp
11 14 (8.59%) VMware
12 12 (7.36%) Meraki
13 11 (6.75%) Splunk
14 10 (6.13%) Arista
15 9 (5.52%) Infoblox
16 5 (3.07%) Tenable
17 4 (2.45%) Citrix
17 4 (2.45%) ForeScout
17 4 (2.45%) HP