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 4 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
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 315 299
Rank change year-on-year -71 -16 +60
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 248 202 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.74% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 1.31% 1.57% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 129 145
10th Percentile £375 £400 £368
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +5.58%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £591
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
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 -
% change year-on-year +28.32% - -

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 18,979 12,830 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.59% 47.14% 43.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 8,139 8,906
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £619 £630
90th Percentile £706 £710 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,041 610 632
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -23.21% -21.65%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.41 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.69 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -16.17% -29.41%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -103 106 £500 +5.26% 96
South East -60 37 £456 -20.65% 27
North of England -59 31 £450 -5.26% 26
Midlands -40 28 £573 +23.89% 23
West Midlands -41 23 £581 +5.64% 11
North West -36 21 £525 +10.53% 12
East of England -21 6 £388 -44.64% 9
Yorkshire -38 6 £417 -16.63% 6
East Midlands -20 4 £500 +284.62% 12
North East -34 4 £375 - 9
South West -51 3 £538 -0.46% 8
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 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.61%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.21%) Apache
3 3 (1.21%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.21%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 74 (29.84%) Azure
2 53 (21.37%) AWS
3 12 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.03%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 9 (3.63%) GCP
5 9 (3.63%) GitHub
6 7 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.42%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.02%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (1.61%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.21%) IaaS
10 3 (1.21%) Serverless
10 3 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.81%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.81%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 176 (70.97%) Firewall
2 108 (43.55%) WAN
3 90 (36.29%) BGP
4 74 (29.84%) Network Security
5 68 (27.42%) VPN
6 66 (26.61%) OSPF
7 59 (23.79%) VLAN
8 53 (21.37%) LAN
9 52 (20.97%) SD-WAN
10 34 (13.71%) Wireless
11 29 (11.69%) MPLS
12 27 (10.89%) DNS
13 24 (9.68%) IPsec
14 22 (8.87%) Cisco IOS
15 21 (8.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 21 (8.47%) TCP/IP
16 20 (8.06%) Cisco ASA
16 20 (8.06%) NX-OS
17 19 (7.66%) Cisco Firepower
18 18 (7.26%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.23%) Git
2 6 (2.42%) JIRA
3 4 (1.61%) GitLab
3 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 45 (18.15%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.69%) Finance
3 25 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.47%) Banking
5 14 (5.65%) Retail
5 14 (5.65%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.63%) Legal
8 8 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.02%) Law
9 5 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.02%) Police
10 3 (1.21%) Military
11 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 144 (58.06%) Network Engineer
2 51 (20.56%) Senior
3 35 (14.11%) Senior Network Engineer
4 32 (12.90%) Architect
5 29 (11.69%) Security Engineer
6 26 (10.48%) Network Architect
6 26 (10.48%) Network Security Engineer
7 16 (6.45%) Firewall Engineer
8 13 (5.24%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (4.84%) Network Specialist
9 12 (4.84%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 12 (4.84%) Senior Network Specialist
10 11 (4.44%) Network Security Architect
10 11 (4.44%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.63%) Consultant
11 9 (3.63%) Network Consultant
12 7 (2.82%) Cisco Engineer
13 6 (2.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 5 (2.02%) Network Security Consultant
14 5 (2.02%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.69%) Terraform
2 11 (4.44%) 802.1X
3 7 (2.82%) NETCONF
4 6 (2.42%) RESTCONF
5 5 (2.02%) REST
6 4 (1.61%) OpenConfig
6 4 (1.61%) YANG
7 3 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.81%) eBPF
8 2 (0.81%) gRPC
9 1 (0.40%) Jinja
9 1 (0.40%) LDAP
9 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (26.61%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 7 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.42%) PKI
6 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.02%) SCADA
7 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.61%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.61%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.21%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.81%) CMDB
9 2 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.81%) Handset
10 1 (0.40%) Animation
10 1 (0.40%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.71%) Windows
2 21 (8.47%) Linux
3 16 (6.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.61%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.81%) 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 (18.95%) Project Delivery
2 41 (16.53%) Migration
3 37 (14.92%) Network Design
4 34 (13.71%) High Availability
5 30 (12.10%) Zero Trust
6 29 (11.69%) Validation
7 24 (9.68%) ITIL
7 24 (9.68%) Load Balancing
7 24 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
9 20 (8.06%) Cloud Security
9 20 (8.06%) Network Segmentation
10 19 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (7.66%) Mentoring
11 18 (7.26%) Change Management
11 18 (7.26%) Knowledge Transfer
11 18 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (6.85%) DevOps
13 16 (6.45%) Network Monitoring
13 16 (6.45%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 69 (27.82%) Python
2 11 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 10 (4.03%) Bash
4 7 (2.82%) SQL
5 2 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (30.65%) Cisco Certification
2 66 (26.61%) Security Cleared
3 62 (25.00%) CCNP
4 61 (24.60%) SC Cleared
5 24 (9.68%) CCIE
6 12 (4.84%) CCSE
7 11 (4.44%) Degree
8 9 (3.63%) CCNA
8 9 (3.63%) CISSP
9 7 (2.82%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.42%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.42%) JNCIE
11 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.02%) CCSM
12 4 (1.61%) CCIE Security
12 4 (1.61%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.61%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.81%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.23%) SLA
2 5 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.21%) NCSC
4 3 (1.21%) QA
5 2 (0.81%) GDPR
5 2 (0.81%) ISA99
5 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (8.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.63%) Firmware
4 8 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.42%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.02%) vSphere
7 3 (1.21%) Docker
7 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.81%) FreeRADIUS
8 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (24.19%) FortiGate
2 55 (22.18%) Ansible
3 11 (4.44%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.63%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.82%) WMI
6 6 (2.42%) Grafana
7 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.21%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.21%) Consul
8 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.81%) Puppet
9 2 (0.81%) Salt
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
1 184 (74.19%) Cisco
2 98 (39.52%) Palo Alto
3 62 (25.00%) F5
4 55 (22.18%) Juniper
5 41 (16.53%) CheckPoint
6 37 (14.92%) Microsoft
7 30 (12.10%) VMware
8 29 (11.69%) Arista
9 26 (10.48%) Aruba
10 16 (6.45%) Infoblox
10 16 (6.45%) SolarWinds
10 16 (6.45%) Zscaler
11 15 (6.05%) Meraki
12 11 (4.44%) Splunk
13 10 (4.03%) ServiceNow
14 6 (2.42%) Blue Coat
15 4 (1.61%) Okta
15 4 (1.61%) Riverbed
15 4 (1.61%) Tenable
16 3 (1.21%) AlgoSec