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 11 September 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
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 316 302
Rank change year-on-year -75 -14 +61
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 250 200 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.72% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 1.29% 1.53% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 125 145
10th Percentile £375 £400 £368
25th Percentile £425 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £598
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £26.06 -
25th Percentile £65.25 £38.47 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £60.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.32% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.57 -
90th Percentile - £96.73 -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £60.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.32% +168.42% -48.57%

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 19,342 13,094 14,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.69% 47.06% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,050 8,299 8,943
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £619 £617 £631
90th Percentile £706 £704 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,109 614 614
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.19
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.81 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.09 £64.25
90th Percentile £83.05 £69.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.80
% change year-on-year +7.36% -18.33% -27.54%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -86 107 £500 +5.26% 46
South East -50 35 £450 -21.74% 25
North of England -50 32 £450 -5.26% 20
Midlands -38 30 £573 +23.89% 14
West Midlands -40 24 £581 +5.64% 8
North West -29 21 £525 +10.53% 12
East of England -34 6 £388 -44.64% 8
Yorkshire -35 6 £417 -16.63% 4
East Midlands -11 5 £500 +284.62% 6
North East - 5 £400 - 4
South West -53 3 £538 -0.46% 7
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%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.20%) Apache
3 3 (1.20%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.20%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.20%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 76 (30.40%) Azure
2 54 (21.60%) AWS
3 12 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 10 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.60%) GCP
5 9 (3.60%) GitHub
6 6 (2.40%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (2.40%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (1.60%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.20%) IaaS
9 3 (1.20%) Serverless
9 3 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.80%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 179 (71.60%) Firewall
2 110 (44.00%) WAN
3 89 (35.60%) BGP
4 77 (30.80%) Network Security
5 72 (28.80%) VPN
6 65 (26.00%) OSPF
7 60 (24.00%) VLAN
8 54 (21.60%) LAN
8 54 (21.60%) SD-WAN
9 35 (14.00%) Wireless
10 30 (12.00%) MPLS
11 28 (11.20%) DNS
12 25 (10.00%) IPsec
13 22 (8.80%) Cisco IOS
14 21 (8.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 21 (8.40%) TCP/IP
15 20 (8.00%) NX-OS
16 19 (7.60%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (7.60%) Cisco Firepower
16 19 (7.60%) DHCP
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 6 (2.40%) JIRA
3 4 (1.60%) GitLab
3 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 48 (19.20%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.60%) Finance
3 25 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.40%) Banking
5 14 (5.60%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.20%) Retail
7 12 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.60%) Legal
9 7 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.00%) Law
10 5 (2.00%) Police
11 4 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.20%) Military
13 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.40%) Games
14 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 143 (57.20%) Network Engineer
2 51 (20.40%) Senior
3 35 (14.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 32 (12.80%) Architect
5 30 (12.00%) Security Engineer
6 27 (10.80%) Network Security Engineer
7 26 (10.40%) Network Architect
8 16 (6.40%) Firewall Engineer
9 13 (5.20%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (4.80%) Network Specialist
10 12 (4.80%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 12 (4.80%) Senior Network Specialist
11 11 (4.40%) Network Security Architect
11 11 (4.40%) Security Architect
12 10 (4.00%) Consultant
12 10 (4.00%) Network Consultant
13 7 (2.80%) Cisco Engineer
14 6 (2.40%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 6 (2.40%) Network Security Consultant
14 6 (2.40%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.40%) Terraform
2 11 (4.40%) 802.1X
3 7 (2.80%) NETCONF
4 6 (2.40%) RESTCONF
5 5 (2.00%) REST
6 4 (1.60%) OpenConfig
6 4 (1.60%) YANG
7 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.80%) eBPF
8 2 (0.80%) gRPC
9 1 (0.40%) Jinja
9 1 (0.40%) LDAP
9 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (26.00%) Data Centre
2 25 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.40%) Operational Technology
4 8 (3.20%) PKI
5 7 (2.80%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.80%) SCADA
6 6 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.00%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.80%) CMDB
10 2 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.80%) Handset
11 1 (0.40%) Animation
11 1 (0.40%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.00%) Windows
2 22 (8.80%) Linux
3 16 (6.40%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (18.80%) Project Delivery
2 42 (16.80%) Migration
3 37 (14.80%) Network Design
4 34 (13.60%) High Availability
5 33 (13.20%) Zero Trust
6 29 (11.60%) Validation
7 25 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (9.60%) ITIL
9 23 (9.20%) Network Segmentation
10 22 (8.80%) Load Balancing
11 21 (8.40%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (8.00%) Cloud Security
12 20 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
13 19 (7.60%) Mentoring
14 18 (7.20%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (6.80%) Change Management
15 17 (6.80%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (6.80%) DevOps
15 17 (6.80%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 71 (28.40%) Python
2 12 (4.80%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.40%) Bash
4 7 (2.80%) SQL
5 2 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 67 (26.80%) Security Cleared
3 63 (25.20%) CCNP
4 62 (24.80%) SC Cleared
5 24 (9.60%) CCIE
6 11 (4.40%) CCSE
6 11 (4.40%) Degree
7 9 (3.60%) CISSP
8 8 (3.20%) CCNA
9 6 (2.40%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.40%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.40%) JNCIE
10 5 (2.00%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.60%) CCIE Security
11 4 (1.60%) CCSM
11 4 (1.60%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.60%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.80%) 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%) NCSC
5 3 (1.20%) QA
6 2 (0.80%) GDPR
6 2 (0.80%) ISA99
6 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.80%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (9.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.60%) Firmware
3 9 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.00%) 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 60 (24.00%) FortiGate
2 57 (22.80%) 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%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (0.80%) Nessus
9 2 (0.80%) Puppet
9 2 (0.80%) Salt
9 2 (0.80%) VxRail
10 1 (0.40%) Argo
10 1 (0.40%) CASB
10 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.40%) Nagios
10 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 185 (74.00%) Cisco
2 101 (40.40%) Palo Alto
3 62 (24.80%) F5
4 55 (22.00%) Juniper
5 42 (16.80%) CheckPoint
6 40 (16.00%) Microsoft
7 31 (12.40%) VMware
8 28 (11.20%) Arista
9 27 (10.80%) Aruba
10 17 (6.80%) Zscaler
11 16 (6.40%) Meraki
11 16 (6.40%) SolarWinds
12 15 (6.00%) Infoblox
13 11 (4.40%) Splunk
14 10 (4.00%) ServiceNow
15 6 (2.40%) Blue Coat
15 6 (2.40%) Tenable
16 4 (1.60%) Dell
16 4 (1.60%) McAfee
16 4 (1.60%) Riverbed