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 20 May 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
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 290 329
Rank change year-on-year -88 +39 +83
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 212 183 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.75% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 1.26% 1.58% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 108 117
10th Percentile £400 £410 £358
25th Percentile £438 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £551 £500
% change year-on-year -9.26% +10.20% -2.68%

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 16,879 11,567 15,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.05% 47.63% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,931 7,430 9,732
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.50% -3.32%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £634
90th Percentile £706 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 471 1,006
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.84 £12.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.36 £26.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% +16.98% -40.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £75.20 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.23 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +26.37% +15.91% -48.24%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -72 83 £530 -1.40% 23
South East -40 40 £463 -19.57% 31
Midlands -64 28 £565 +2.73% 17
North of England -64 28 £532 -0.84% 23
West Midlands -59 15 £565 +2.73% 14
Yorkshire -52 14 £417 -33.30% 9
North West -40 13 £577 +15.40% 11
East Midlands -22 12 £650 +51.16% 3
South West -35 5 £538 -10.42% 4
East of England -28 4 £450 +12.50% 5
North East -27 1 £425 - 3
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 (1.89%) Confluence
1 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.94%) Apache
3 2 (0.94%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 54 (25.47%) Azure
2 45 (21.23%) AWS
3 10 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (4.25%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.77%) GCP
6 7 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (3.30%) GitHub
7 5 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.36%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.89%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.89%) Serverless
9 3 (1.42%) IaaS
9 3 (1.42%) Route 53
10 2 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (67.45%) Firewall
2 73 (34.43%) WAN
3 54 (25.47%) BGP
4 52 (24.53%) Network Security
5 45 (21.23%) OSPF
5 45 (21.23%) VPN
6 44 (20.75%) SD-WAN
7 43 (20.28%) LAN
8 37 (17.45%) VLAN
9 24 (11.32%) MPLS
10 21 (9.91%) Wireless
11 19 (8.96%) TCP/IP
12 18 (8.49%) Multicast
13 16 (7.55%) DNS
13 16 (7.55%) IPsec
13 16 (7.55%) NGFW
14 15 (7.08%) Cisco Nexus
14 15 (7.08%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (6.60%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (6.13%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.25%) JIRA
2 7 (3.30%) Git
3 5 (2.36%) GitLab
4 4 (1.89%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (8.49%) Finance
4 17 (8.02%) Military
5 16 (7.55%) Banking
6 15 (7.08%) Telecoms
7 14 (6.60%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.77%) Retail
10 7 (3.30%) Law
11 5 (2.36%) Legal
12 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.89%) Police
13 2 (0.94%) Aviation
13 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 96 (45.28%) Network Engineer
2 33 (15.57%) Senior
3 26 (12.26%) Security Engineer
4 20 (9.43%) Network Security Engineer
4 20 (9.43%) Senior Network Engineer
5 15 (7.08%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (6.13%) Architect
6 13 (6.13%) Firewall Engineer
7 12 (5.66%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 10 (4.72%) Lead
9 9 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.77%) Network Architect
11 7 (3.30%) IT Engineer
11 7 (3.30%) Network Specialist
12 6 (2.83%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 6 (2.83%) Senior Network Specialist
13 5 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.19%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.36%) NETCONF
3 4 (1.89%) YANG
4 3 (1.42%) OpenConfig
4 3 (1.42%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.47%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.47%) Flask
6 1 (0.47%) Jinja
6 1 (0.47%) JSON
6 1 (0.47%) LDAP
6 1 (0.47%) REST
6 1 (0.47%) SAML
6 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.70%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.77%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.30%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.89%) PKI
7 4 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.42%) CESG
8 3 (1.42%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.42%) SCADA
9 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.47%) Life Science
10 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.38%) Windows
2 17 (8.02%) Linux
3 10 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.94%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.47%) CatOS
5 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (15.09%) ITIL
2 27 (12.74%) Network Design
3 25 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (10.85%) DevOps
5 21 (9.91%) Migration
6 19 (8.96%) High Availability
7 18 (8.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (8.49%) SIEM
8 17 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (7.55%) Network Monitoring
9 16 (7.55%) Project Delivery
9 16 (7.55%) Validation
9 16 (7.55%) Zero Trust
10 15 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (6.60%) CI/CD
11 14 (6.60%) Network Segmentation
12 13 (6.13%) Cloud Security
12 13 (6.13%) Incident Response
12 13 (6.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.04%) Python
2 10 (4.72%) Bash
3 8 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.30%) SQL
5 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 77 (36.32%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.89%) Cisco Certification
3 56 (26.42%) SC Cleared
4 45 (21.23%) CCNP
5 23 (10.85%) CCIE
6 21 (9.91%) DV Cleared
7 11 (5.19%) Degree
8 10 (4.72%) CCNA
9 9 (4.25%) CCSE
10 8 (3.77%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.83%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.89%) CCSM
13 4 (1.89%) JNCIA
13 4 (1.89%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.89%) JNCIS
14 3 (1.42%) CCDP
14 3 (1.42%) CISSP
14 3 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.94%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.25%) NCSC
1 9 (4.25%) NIST
2 8 (3.77%) SLA
3 6 (2.83%) GDPR
4 5 (2.36%) GRC
4 5 (2.36%) QA
5 4 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.42%) RMADS
7 2 (0.94%) ISA99
7 2 (0.94%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (8.02%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.83%) Firmware
3 6 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.36%) vSphere
5 4 (1.89%) Docker
5 4 (1.89%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.42%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (18.87%) FortiGate
2 35 (16.51%) Ansible
3 25 (11.79%) Terraform
4 9 (4.25%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.25%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.30%) Grafana
6 5 (2.36%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (2.36%) WMI
7 4 (1.89%) Puppet
7 4 (1.89%) Salt
8 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.94%) CASB
9 2 (0.94%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.94%) Consul
9 2 (0.94%) Iperf
9 2 (0.94%) Nmap
10 1 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.47%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 125 (58.96%) Cisco
2 79 (37.26%) Palo Alto
3 39 (18.40%) F5
4 35 (16.51%) CheckPoint
5 34 (16.04%) Juniper
6 32 (15.09%) Microsoft
7 27 (12.74%) ServiceNow
8 24 (11.32%) Arista
8 24 (11.32%) VMware
9 22 (10.38%) Zscaler
10 20 (9.43%) Aruba
10 20 (9.43%) Infoblox
11 16 (7.55%) SolarWinds
11 16 (7.55%) Splunk
12 14 (6.60%) NetApp
13 6 (2.83%) Meraki
14 5 (2.36%) Veeam
15 4 (1.89%) ForeScout
15 4 (1.89%) HP
15 4 (1.89%) Tenable