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 26 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
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 325 298
Rank change year-on-year -66 -27 +73
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 251 196 249
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.70% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 1.48% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 125 148
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £599
90th Percentile £683 £668 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +12.24%
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 19,315 13,283 14,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.49% 47.54% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,934 8,451 8,770
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £622 £621 £630
90th Percentile £713 £706 £732
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,173 631 569
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.84 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.30 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.79 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.87%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -93 109 £513 +7.89% 138
North of England -46 37 £450 -5.26% 49
South East -61 33 £438 -32.69% 51
Midlands -35 30 £565 +22.16% 24
West Midlands -36 26 £581 +5.64% 18
North West -32 21 £456 -4.00% 28
Yorkshire -36 8 £419 -16.25% 14
North East - 8 £425 - 7
East of England -37 5 £500 -28.57% 12
East Midlands -14 4 £500 +284.62% 6
South West -44 3 £610 +12.96% 11
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 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.59%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.20%) Apache
2 3 (1.20%) CloudStack
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.19%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 74 (29.48%) Azure
2 52 (20.72%) AWS
3 11 (4.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 11 (4.38%) Entra ID
3 11 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.19%) GCP
4 8 (3.19%) GitHub
5 7 (2.79%) AWS Direct Connect
5 7 (2.79%) OpenShift
6 5 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.20%) IaaS
7 3 (1.20%) Mimecast
7 3 (1.20%) Serverless
7 3 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 178 (70.92%) Firewall
2 111 (44.22%) WAN
3 85 (33.86%) BGP
4 80 (31.87%) Network Security
5 73 (29.08%) VPN
6 62 (24.70%) OSPF
7 61 (24.30%) LAN
8 55 (21.91%) SD-WAN
8 55 (21.91%) VLAN
9 35 (13.94%) Wireless
10 32 (12.75%) MPLS
11 27 (10.76%) DNS
12 23 (9.16%) IPsec
13 21 (8.37%) Cisco IOS
13 21 (8.37%) TCP/IP
14 20 (7.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 19 (7.57%) NX-OS
16 18 (7.17%) DHCP
16 18 (7.17%) SNMP
17 17 (6.77%) Wi-Fi
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 (3.59%) Git
2 5 (1.99%) JIRA
3 4 (1.59%) GitLab
3 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 56 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.35%) Finance
3 26 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.76%) Banking
5 14 (5.58%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.18%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.38%) Legal
7 11 (4.38%) Retail
8 7 (2.79%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.59%) Law
9 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.59%) Military
9 4 (1.59%) Police
10 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 141 (56.18%) Network Engineer
2 50 (19.92%) Senior
3 34 (13.55%) Architect
3 34 (13.55%) Senior Network Engineer
4 28 (11.16%) Security Engineer
5 27 (10.76%) Network Architect
5 27 (10.76%) Network Security Engineer
6 13 (5.18%) Firewall Engineer
7 12 (4.78%) Automation Engineer
7 12 (4.78%) Network Specialist
7 12 (4.78%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 12 (4.78%) Senior Network Specialist
8 11 (4.38%) Network Security Architect
8 11 (4.38%) Security Architect
9 10 (3.98%) Consultant
9 10 (3.98%) Network Consultant
10 9 (3.59%) Cisco Engineer
11 8 (3.19%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 7 (2.79%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 7 (2.79%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.95%) Terraform
2 10 (3.98%) 802.1X
3 7 (2.79%) NETCONF
3 7 (2.79%) REST
4 6 (2.39%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.59%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.59%) YANG
6 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.80%) eBPF
7 2 (0.80%) gRPC
8 1 (0.40%) Jinja
8 1 (0.40%) LDAP
8 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (25.10%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (5.18%) Operational Technology
4 10 (3.98%) PKI
5 9 (3.59%) SCADA
6 8 (3.19%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.39%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.59%) Handset
8 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.80%) CMDB
10 2 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.40%) Animation
11 1 (0.40%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.34%) Windows
2 25 (9.96%) Linux
3 18 (7.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.59%) 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 48 (19.12%) Project Delivery
2 47 (18.73%) Migration
3 40 (15.94%) Network Design
4 35 (13.94%) High Availability
4 35 (13.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (13.55%) Zero Trust
6 31 (12.35%) Validation
7 26 (10.36%) Technical Leadership
8 25 (9.96%) Knowledge Transfer
9 24 (9.56%) ITIL
9 24 (9.56%) Network Segmentation
10 22 (8.76%) Load Balancing
10 22 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (7.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (7.57%) Mentoring
14 18 (7.17%) DevOps
14 18 (7.17%) Runbook
15 17 (6.77%) Cloud Security
16 16 (6.37%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 69 (27.49%) Python
2 12 (4.78%) Bash
2 12 (4.78%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.79%) SQL
4 2 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (28.29%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (27.89%) Security Cleared
3 64 (25.50%) SC Cleared
4 59 (23.51%) CCNP
5 23 (9.16%) CCIE
6 11 (4.38%) Degree
7 10 (3.98%) CCSE
7 10 (3.98%) CISSP
8 6 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.39%) JNCIE
9 5 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.99%) CCNA
10 4 (1.59%) CCIE Security
10 4 (1.59%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.59%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.20%) CCSM
11 3 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.80%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.19%) SLA
2 6 (2.39%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.59%) NIST
4 3 (1.20%) QA
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 25 (9.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (7.57%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (3.19%) Firmware
5 6 (2.39%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.99%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.99%) vSphere
7 4 (1.59%) FreeRADIUS
8 3 (1.20%) Docker
8 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 63 (25.10%) FortiGate
2 56 (22.31%) Ansible
3 12 (4.78%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.59%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.19%) WMI
6 7 (2.79%) VxRail
7 6 (2.39%) Grafana
7 6 (2.39%) McAfee ePO
8 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.99%) Nessus
9 3 (1.20%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.20%) Consul
10 2 (0.80%) Puppet
10 2 (0.80%) Salt
10 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.40%) Argo
11 1 (0.40%) CASB
11 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 186 (74.10%) Cisco
2 101 (40.24%) Palo Alto
3 59 (23.51%) F5
4 57 (22.71%) Juniper
5 40 (15.94%) CheckPoint
5 40 (15.94%) Microsoft
6 33 (13.15%) Aruba
6 33 (13.15%) VMware
7 26 (10.36%) Arista
8 17 (6.77%) Meraki
8 17 (6.77%) SolarWinds
9 16 (6.37%) Zscaler
10 11 (4.38%) Infoblox
10 11 (4.38%) Splunk
11 10 (3.98%) ServiceNow
12 8 (3.19%) Dell
12 8 (3.19%) McAfee
12 8 (3.19%) Tenable
13 6 (2.39%) AlgoSec
13 6 (2.39%) Blue Coat