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 19 February 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
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 321 350
Rank change year-on-year -86 +29 +82
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 163 180 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.69% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 1.04% 1.49% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 115 118
10th Percentile £366 £411 £350
25th Percentile £425 £494 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £854
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £493
% change year-on-year -13.04% +16.75% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £22.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +277.78% -48.57% +54.87%

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 15,602 12,050 16,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.94% 46.51% 43.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,170 7,386 10,351
10th Percentile £300 £281 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £523
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.43% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 341 859
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.97
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% +15.76% -21.33%
75th Percentile £57.63 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £72.75 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £26.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.28% -20.24%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -65 70 £525 -6.67% 21
South East -7 39 £475 -17.39% 38
Midlands -69 22 £463 -16.06% 10
North of England -85 14 £413 -23.26% 24
East Midlands -21 12 £130 - 2
Yorkshire -56 10 £544 -13.00% 6
West Midlands -66 10 £469 -14.93% 8
South West -31 5 £525 +14.75% 9
North West -38 4 £400 -23.81% 18
East of England - 3 £500 - 17
South Coast - 1 - -
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 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.45%) Confluence
3 3 (1.84%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (30.67%) AWS
1 50 (30.67%) Azure
2 19 (11.66%) GCP
3 13 (7.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (6.13%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (3.07%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.45%) GitHub
9 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.45%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.45%) SaaS
10 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.84%) IaaS
10 3 (1.84%) PaaS
10 3 (1.84%) Route 53
11 2 (1.23%) Akamai
11 2 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.23%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 105 (64.42%) Firewall
2 69 (42.33%) WAN
3 53 (32.52%) SD-WAN
4 52 (31.90%) VPN
5 45 (27.61%) Network Security
6 44 (26.99%) BGP
7 43 (26.38%) LAN
8 40 (24.54%) OSPF
9 33 (20.25%) MPLS
10 25 (15.34%) Wireless
11 24 (14.72%) VLAN
12 22 (13.50%) TCP/IP
13 18 (11.04%) DNS
14 17 (10.43%) Cisco ASA
15 15 (9.20%) DHCP
15 15 (9.20%) Wi-Fi
16 13 (7.98%) VXLAN
17 12 (7.36%) NGFW
18 11 (6.75%) IPsec
19 10 (6.13%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (0.61%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.91%) JIRA
2 5 (3.07%) GitLab
3 4 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.84%) Git
5 2 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
General
1 44 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.50%) Public Sector
3 19 (11.66%) Telecoms
4 17 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.43%) Military
5 15 (9.20%) Finance
6 11 (6.75%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.68%) Legal
8 5 (3.07%) Banking
8 5 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.45%) Law
10 2 (1.23%) Aviation
10 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.23%) Police
11 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.61%) Electronics
11 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (31.90%) Network Engineer
2 30 (18.40%) Architect
3 22 (13.50%) Network Architect
4 21 (12.88%) Senior
5 20 (12.27%) Security Engineer
6 14 (8.59%) Network Security Engineer
6 14 (8.59%) Systems Engineer
7 10 (6.13%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.91%) Lead
8 8 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) Security Architect
10 6 (3.68%) Consultant
10 6 (3.68%) Network Specialist
10 6 (3.68%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 5 (3.07%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 5 (3.07%) Firewall Engineer
11 5 (3.07%) Security Manager
12 4 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.29%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.45%) NETCONF
2 4 (2.45%) YANG
3 3 (1.84%) OpenConfig
4 2 (1.23%) JSON
4 2 (1.23%) RESTCONF
4 2 (1.23%) XML
5 1 (0.61%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.61%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.79%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.75%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.29%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.07%) PKI
7 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.45%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.84%) CESG
8 3 (1.84%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.84%) Life Science
8 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.23%) NHS
9 2 (1.23%) SCADA
9 2 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.23%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.45%) Windows
2 3 (1.84%) Linux
3 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.61%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.61%) VMS
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 27 (16.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (14.72%) Migration
4 23 (14.11%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (13.50%) Network Design
6 20 (12.27%) ITIL
7 19 (11.66%) Network Architecture
8 18 (11.04%) Incident Response
8 18 (11.04%) Roadmaps
9 17 (10.43%) Security Architecture
9 17 (10.43%) Zero Trust
10 16 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (9.20%) Change Management
11 15 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (8.59%) Agile
12 14 (8.59%) Mentoring
13 13 (7.98%) Network Monitoring
13 13 (7.98%) SIEM
14 11 (6.75%) DevOps
14 11 (6.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.79%) Python
2 7 (4.29%) Bash
2 7 (4.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.84%) SQL
4 1 (0.61%) C++
4 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 62 (38.04%) Security Cleared
2 48 (29.45%) Cisco Certification
3 39 (23.93%) SC Cleared
4 35 (21.47%) CCNP
5 27 (16.56%) CCIE
6 19 (11.66%) DV Cleared
7 16 (9.82%) CISSP
8 14 (8.59%) CCNA
8 14 (8.59%) Degree
9 11 (6.75%) AWS Certification
10 9 (5.52%) JNCIE
11 8 (4.91%) Azure Certification
12 6 (3.68%) CCIE Security
13 5 (3.07%) CCSE
13 5 (3.07%) CISM
14 4 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (2.45%) CCSP
14 4 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (2.45%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.04%) NIST
2 17 (10.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (9.82%) GDPR
4 8 (4.91%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.68%) NCSC
5 6 (3.68%) SLA
6 4 (2.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.45%) GRC
7 3 (1.84%) RMADS
8 2 (1.23%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.23%) QA
9 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (8.59%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.29%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.84%) Firmware
5 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.23%) vSphere
6 1 (0.61%) Docker
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (17.18%) Ansible
2 26 (15.95%) FortiGate
3 22 (13.50%) Terraform
4 6 (3.68%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.45%) Iperf
5 4 (2.45%) Nmap
6 2 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.23%) Grafana
6 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.23%) SCCM
6 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.61%) CASB
7 1 (0.61%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.61%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 92 (56.44%) Cisco
2 63 (38.65%) Palo Alto
3 37 (22.70%) CheckPoint
4 35 (21.47%) Juniper
5 25 (15.34%) F5
6 24 (14.72%) Aruba
6 24 (14.72%) SolarWinds
7 21 (12.88%) Microsoft
8 15 (9.20%) ServiceNow
8 15 (9.20%) VMware
9 14 (8.59%) Meraki
9 14 (8.59%) NetApp
10 11 (6.75%) Zscaler
11 9 (5.52%) Arista
12 6 (3.68%) Tenable
13 4 (2.45%) Citrix
13 4 (2.45%) Infoblox
14 3 (1.84%) Nokia
14 3 (1.84%) Red Hat
14 3 (1.84%) Splunk