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 18 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 331 295
Rank change year-on-year -52 -36 +73
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 249 191 244
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.69% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 1.45% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 120 146
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £596
90th Percentile £671 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £525
% change year-on-year +2.35% -6.95% +6.87%
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 19,212 13,190 14,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.42% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 8,376 8,896
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £620 £619 £630
90th Percentile £711 £712 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,131 615 595
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.86 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -80 108 £525 +10.53% 128
North of England -42 34 £450 -5.26% 30
South East -52 34 £450 -26.53% 42
Midlands -36 30 £573 +23.89% 16
West Midlands -36 25 £581 +5.64% 14
North West -38 20 £466 -2.00% 21
Yorkshire -33 7 £418 -16.50% 3
North East - 7 £413 - 6
East Midlands -13 5 £500 +284.62% 2
East of England -33 4 £413 -41.07% 8
South West -41 3 £610 +12.96% 9
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 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.61%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.20%) Apache
2 3 (1.20%) CloudStack
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.21%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 73 (29.32%) Azure
2 51 (20.48%) AWS
3 11 (4.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 11 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.02%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.61%) GitHub
6 8 (3.21%) GCP
7 6 (2.41%) AWS Direct Connect
7 6 (2.41%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.20%) IaaS
9 3 (1.20%) Mimecast
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
1 177 (71.08%) Firewall
2 111 (44.58%) WAN
3 88 (35.34%) BGP
4 77 (30.92%) Network Security
5 70 (28.11%) VPN
6 64 (25.70%) OSPF
7 57 (22.89%) LAN
7 57 (22.89%) VLAN
8 54 (21.69%) SD-WAN
9 36 (14.46%) Wireless
10 30 (12.05%) MPLS
11 28 (11.24%) DNS
12 23 (9.24%) IPsec
13 22 (8.84%) Cisco IOS
14 21 (8.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 21 (8.43%) TCP/IP
15 20 (8.03%) NX-OS
16 19 (7.63%) DHCP
17 18 (7.23%) SNMP
17 18 (7.23%) 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 (3.61%) Git
2 5 (2.01%) JIRA
3 4 (1.61%) GitLab
3 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 52 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.05%) Finance
3 27 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.84%) Banking
5 14 (5.62%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.82%) Retail
7 10 (4.02%) Legal
8 7 (2.81%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.61%) Law
9 4 (1.61%) Military
9 4 (1.61%) Police
10 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 143 (57.43%) Network Engineer
2 51 (20.48%) Senior
3 35 (14.06%) Senior Network Engineer
4 31 (12.45%) Architect
5 27 (10.84%) Security Engineer
6 26 (10.44%) Network Architect
6 26 (10.44%) Network Security Engineer
7 13 (5.22%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (5.22%) Firewall Engineer
8 12 (4.82%) Network Specialist
8 12 (4.82%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 12 (4.82%) Senior Network Specialist
9 11 (4.42%) Network Security Architect
9 11 (4.42%) Security Architect
10 10 (4.02%) Consultant
10 10 (4.02%) Network Consultant
11 8 (3.21%) Cisco Engineer
12 7 (2.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 6 (2.41%) Network Security Consultant
13 6 (2.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.85%) Terraform
2 10 (4.02%) 802.1X
3 7 (2.81%) NETCONF
4 6 (2.41%) REST
4 6 (2.41%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.61%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.61%) 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 64 (25.70%) Data Centre
2 25 (10.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.02%) Operational Technology
4 8 (3.21%) PKI
5 7 (2.81%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.81%) SCADA
6 6 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.20%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.20%) Handset
10 2 (0.80%) CMDB
10 2 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.40%) Animation
11 1 (0.40%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.65%) Windows
2 22 (8.84%) Linux
3 16 (6.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.61%) 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 (19.28%) Project Delivery
2 44 (17.67%) Migration
3 39 (15.66%) Network Design
4 33 (13.25%) High Availability
4 33 (13.25%) Zero Trust
5 30 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (12.05%) Validation
6 23 (9.24%) ITIL
6 23 (9.24%) Knowledge Transfer
6 23 (9.24%) Technical Leadership
7 22 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (8.43%) Load Balancing
8 21 (8.43%) Network Segmentation
9 20 (8.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (8.03%) Mentoring
10 18 (7.23%) Cloud Security
10 18 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (7.23%) Runbook
11 17 (6.83%) DevOps
12 15 (6.02%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (28.11%) Python
2 12 (4.82%) Bash
3 11 (4.42%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.81%) SQL
5 2 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (28.51%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (28.11%) Security Cleared
3 64 (25.70%) SC Cleared
4 59 (23.69%) CCNP
5 22 (8.84%) CCIE
6 11 (4.42%) Degree
7 10 (4.02%) CCSE
8 9 (3.61%) CISSP
9 6 (2.41%) CCNA
9 6 (2.41%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.41%) JNCIE
10 5 (2.01%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.61%) CCIE Security
11 4 (1.61%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.61%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.20%) CCSM
12 3 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.81%) SLA
2 6 (2.41%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) NIST
4 3 (1.20%) QA
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (9.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (6.43%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.02%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (3.21%) Firmware
5 5 (2.01%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.01%) vSphere
6 4 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.20%) Docker
7 3 (1.20%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (24.90%) FortiGate
2 58 (23.29%) Ansible
3 11 (4.42%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.61%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.21%) WMI
6 6 (2.41%) Grafana
7 5 (2.01%) McAfee ePO
7 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.01%) VxRail
8 4 (1.61%) 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%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 184 (73.90%) Cisco
2 98 (39.36%) Palo Alto
3 61 (24.50%) F5
4 57 (22.89%) Juniper
5 40 (16.06%) CheckPoint
6 37 (14.86%) Microsoft
7 31 (12.45%) VMware
8 30 (12.05%) Aruba
9 28 (11.24%) Arista
10 17 (6.83%) Meraki
10 17 (6.83%) SolarWinds
10 17 (6.83%) Zscaler
11 15 (6.02%) Infoblox
12 11 (4.42%) Splunk
13 10 (4.02%) ServiceNow
14 7 (2.81%) McAfee
14 7 (2.81%) Tenable
15 6 (2.41%) Blue Coat
15 6 (2.41%) Dell
16 5 (2.01%) AlgoSec