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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 317 334
Rank change year-on-year -57 +17 +42
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 253 182 226
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.70% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% 1.49% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 106 133
10th Percentile £398 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +10.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £598 £613 £575
90th Percentile £636 £653 £650
UK median daily rate £491 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.68% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £26.06 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.47 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £60.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.42% - -
75th Percentile £78.56 £83.57 -
90th Percentile £78.68 £96.73 -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +27.49% - -

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 17,888 12,212 15,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.77% 47.29% 42.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,365 7,741 10,084
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £628
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 563 1,054
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £12.49
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.50 £14.71
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.30% -33.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.08 £60.45
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
% change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -69 98 £525 +5.00% 32
South East -32 44 £456 -20.65% 24
North of England -63 35 £489 -2.30% 30
Midlands -43 32 £573 +6.11% 17
North West -44 20 £575 +17.95% 21
West Midlands -60 19 £581 +5.64% 13
Yorkshire -36 14 £416 -27.62% 9
East Midlands -11 12 £475 +10.47% 4
East of England -21 5 £450 +12.50% 10
South West -36 3 £538 -2.27% 7
North East -32 1 £425 -
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 (1.98%) Confluence
2 3 (1.19%) Apache
2 3 (1.19%) CloudStack
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (3.16%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.32%) Azure
2 43 (17.00%) AWS
3 9 (3.56%) Entra ID
3 9 (3.56%) GitHub
4 8 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.98%) GCP
5 5 (1.98%) Mimecast
5 5 (1.98%) Serverless
5 5 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.58%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.58%) AWS Control Tower
6 4 (1.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (1.58%) IaaS
7 3 (1.19%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 169 (66.80%) Firewall
2 92 (36.36%) WAN
3 80 (31.62%) BGP
4 67 (26.48%) Network Security
5 59 (23.32%) OSPF
6 58 (22.92%) VPN
7 51 (20.16%) VLAN
8 50 (19.76%) SD-WAN
9 48 (18.97%) LAN
10 31 (12.25%) MPLS
11 28 (11.07%) Wireless
12 23 (9.09%) DNS
12 23 (9.09%) IPsec
12 23 (9.09%) TCP/IP
13 21 (8.30%) Multicast
14 19 (7.51%) Cisco IOS
15 18 (7.11%) Cisco Nexus
15 18 (7.11%) NGFW
16 17 (6.72%) NX-OS
16 17 (6.72%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (1.58%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.95%) JIRA
2 8 (3.16%) Git
3 5 (1.98%) GitLab
4 4 (1.58%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.58%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.88%) Finance
3 24 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (9.49%) Banking
4 19 (7.51%) Telecoms
5 16 (6.32%) Military
6 13 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.35%) Retail
8 7 (2.77%) Legal
9 6 (2.37%) Law
10 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.98%) Police
11 2 (0.79%) Aviation
11 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 128 (50.59%) Network Engineer
2 40 (15.81%) Senior
3 33 (13.04%) Security Engineer
4 27 (10.67%) Network Security Engineer
5 26 (10.28%) Architect
5 26 (10.28%) Senior Network Engineer
6 19 (7.51%) Network Architect
7 15 (5.93%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (5.53%) Firewall Engineer
9 11 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Network Specialist
10 10 (3.95%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 9 (3.56%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 9 (3.56%) Senior Network Specialist
12 8 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.16%) Network Security Architect
13 7 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.37%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.74%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.98%) NETCONF
3 4 (1.58%) OpenConfig
3 4 (1.58%) RESTCONF
3 4 (1.58%) YANG
4 3 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.79%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.40%) Flask
6 1 (0.40%) Jinja
6 1 (0.40%) LDAP
6 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (24.90%) Data Centre
2 20 (7.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.95%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.37%) PKI
4 6 (2.37%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.98%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.58%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.19%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.19%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.19%) SCADA
8 2 (0.79%) CESG
8 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.67%) Windows
2 21 (8.30%) Linux
3 11 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.19%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.40%) CatOS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (13.83%) Network Design
2 34 (13.44%) Project Delivery
3 30 (11.86%) ITIL
4 29 (11.46%) Migration
5 26 (10.28%) High Availability
6 24 (9.49%) SIEM
6 24 (9.49%) Validation
7 23 (9.09%) DevOps
7 23 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (9.09%) Zero Trust
8 22 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (7.51%) Load Balancing
11 18 (7.11%) Network Segmentation
12 17 (6.72%) Knowledge Transfer
13 16 (6.32%) CI/CD
13 16 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (6.32%) Network Monitoring
13 16 (6.32%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (5.93%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 57 (22.53%) Python
2 11 (4.35%) Bash
3 10 (3.95%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.16%) SQL
5 2 (0.79%) Perl
6 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 82 (32.41%) Security Cleared
2 72 (28.46%) Cisco Certification
3 63 (24.90%) SC Cleared
4 60 (23.72%) CCNP
5 28 (11.07%) CCIE
6 22 (8.70%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.93%) Degree
8 10 (3.95%) CCSE
9 8 (3.16%) CCNA
10 7 (2.77%) CISSP
11 6 (2.37%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.98%) CCSM
13 4 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.58%) CCIE Security
13 4 (1.58%) JNCIA
13 4 (1.58%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.58%) JNCIS
14 3 (1.19%) CISM
14 3 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.56%) SLA
3 8 (3.16%) NCSC
4 7 (2.77%) NIST
5 6 (2.37%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.98%) GDPR
6 5 (1.98%) GRC
7 4 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.58%) QA
8 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.79%) ISA99
9 2 (0.79%) RMADS
10 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
System Software
1 19 (7.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.16%) Firmware
4 7 (2.77%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.77%) vSphere
5 4 (1.58%) Docker
6 3 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (20.55%) FortiGate
2 47 (18.58%) Ansible
3 25 (9.88%) Terraform
4 11 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.16%) Grafana
6 7 (2.77%) WMI
7 4 (1.58%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (1.58%) Puppet
7 4 (1.58%) Salt
8 3 (1.19%) CASB
8 3 (1.19%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.19%) Consul
8 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.79%) Iperf
9 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.79%) Nmap
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 161 (63.64%) Cisco
2 87 (34.39%) Palo Alto
3 52 (20.55%) F5
4 45 (17.79%) Juniper
5 44 (17.39%) CheckPoint
6 36 (14.23%) Microsoft
7 30 (11.86%) Arista
8 28 (11.07%) ServiceNow
9 27 (10.67%) VMware
10 23 (9.09%) Zscaler
11 22 (8.70%) Aruba
12 20 (7.91%) Infoblox
12 20 (7.91%) Splunk
13 18 (7.11%) SolarWinds
14 13 (5.14%) NetApp
15 8 (3.16%) Meraki
16 6 (2.37%) Blue Coat
16 6 (2.37%) HP
17 5 (1.98%) Veeam
18 4 (1.58%) ForeScout