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 8 April 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
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 300 329
Rank change year-on-year -99 +29 +100
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 187 177 220
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.73% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.11% 1.54% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 116 120
10th Percentile £380 £406 £375
25th Percentile £455 £491 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +10.10% -6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £689 £650 £726
UK median daily rate £506 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +12.50% -4.76%

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 16,911 11,494 15,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.26% 47.20% 42.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,051 7,471 10,110
10th Percentile £313 £295 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.88% -0.03% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 883 425 964
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.14 £12.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.27
Median hourly rate £27.00 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +24.92% -39.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £55.40
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.69 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -46.63%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -85 74 £530 -3.64% 21
South East -28 36 £480 -16.52% 25
Midlands -57 24 £475 -12.04% 13
North of England -65 23 £575 +0.44% 16
East Midlands -23 12 £650 +51.16% 5
North West -31 12 £576 +0.61% 13
Yorkshire -49 11 £413 -26.67% 3
West Midlands -67 11 £475 -13.79% 8
South West -33 7 £538 +30.30% 6
East of England -27 6 £475 - 13
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 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (29.41%) Azure
2 47 (25.13%) AWS
3 14 (7.49%) GCP
4 12 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.28%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (3.21%) GitHub
9 5 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.67%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.14%) SaaS
11 3 (1.60%) IaaS
11 3 (1.60%) PaaS
11 3 (1.60%) Route 53
12 2 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.07%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.07%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 125 (66.84%) Firewall
2 74 (39.57%) WAN
3 58 (31.02%) BGP
4 52 (27.81%) SD-WAN
5 51 (27.27%) VPN
6 49 (26.20%) Network Security
6 49 (26.20%) OSPF
7 40 (21.39%) LAN
8 34 (18.18%) MPLS
8 34 (18.18%) VLAN
9 24 (12.83%) TCP/IP
10 21 (11.23%) Cisco ASA
10 21 (11.23%) Wireless
11 20 (10.70%) DNS
12 17 (9.09%) DHCP
13 15 (8.02%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (7.49%) IPsec
14 14 (7.49%) Multicast
14 14 (7.49%) NGFW
14 14 (7.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (1.07%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.28%) JIRA
2 6 (3.21%) Git
3 3 (1.60%) GitLab
4 2 (1.07%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.16%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.63%) Finance
5 17 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 16 (8.56%) Military
7 12 (6.42%) Banking
8 10 (5.35%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.21%) Legal
10 5 (2.67%) Law
11 4 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.14%) Retail
12 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.60%) Police
13 2 (1.07%) Aviation
13 2 (1.07%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.53%) Electronics
14 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 72 (38.50%) Network Engineer
2 26 (13.90%) Architect
2 26 (13.90%) Senior
3 23 (12.30%) Security Engineer
4 19 (10.16%) Network Architect
5 16 (8.56%) Network Security Engineer
6 13 (6.95%) Senior Network Engineer
6 13 (6.95%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (4.81%) Lead
8 8 (4.28%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.74%) Firewall Engineer
9 7 (3.74%) Security Architect
9 7 (3.74%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 6 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.21%) Network Specialist
11 5 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (2.67%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.35%) 802.1X
2 7 (3.74%) NETCONF
3 6 (3.21%) YANG
4 5 (2.67%) OpenConfig
5 4 (2.14%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.07%) JSON
6 2 (1.07%) XML
7 1 (0.53%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.53%) Flask
7 1 (0.53%) Jinja
7 1 (0.53%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.25%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.35%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.28%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.28%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.67%) PKI
7 5 (2.67%) SCADA
8 4 (2.14%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.14%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.60%) CESG
9 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.07%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.07%) NHS
10 2 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.35%) Windows
2 8 (4.28%) Linux
3 6 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.53%) VMS
5 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (18.18%) ITIL
2 26 (13.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (13.90%) Network Design
3 25 (13.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (10.70%) Zero Trust
6 18 (9.63%) Migration
6 18 (9.63%) SIEM
7 17 (9.09%) DevOps
7 17 (9.09%) Incident Response
7 17 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 15 (8.02%) Change Management
8 15 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (8.02%) Network Architecture
8 15 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (8.02%) Security Architecture
9 14 (7.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (7.49%) Load Balancing
10 13 (6.95%) High Availability
10 13 (6.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.65%) Python
2 10 (5.35%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.74%) Bash
4 3 (1.60%) SQL
5 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 72 (38.50%) Security Cleared
2 55 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
3 50 (26.74%) SC Cleared
4 40 (21.39%) CCNP
5 30 (16.04%) CCIE
6 21 (11.23%) DV Cleared
7 15 (8.02%) CCNA
7 15 (8.02%) Degree
8 13 (6.95%) CISSP
9 9 (4.81%) AWS Certification
9 9 (4.81%) Azure Certification
10 7 (3.74%) CCSE
10 7 (3.74%) JNCIE
11 6 (3.21%) CCIE Security
12 4 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (2.14%) CCSP
12 4 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (2.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.60%) CCDP
13 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.16%) NIST
2 18 (9.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (7.49%) GDPR
4 10 (5.35%) SLA
5 9 (4.81%) NCSC
5 9 (4.81%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.14%) GRC
7 3 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.60%) RMADS
8 2 (1.07%) ISA99
8 2 (1.07%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.07%) QA
9 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (8.02%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.67%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.60%) Firmware
5 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.60%) vSphere
6 2 (1.07%) Docker
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (17.11%) Ansible
2 29 (15.51%) FortiGate
3 23 (12.30%) Terraform
4 5 (2.67%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (2.14%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.60%) Grafana
7 2 (1.07%) CASB
7 2 (1.07%) Iperf
7 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.07%) Nmap
7 2 (1.07%) Puppet
7 2 (1.07%) Salt
7 2 (1.07%) SCCM
7 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.53%) Consul
8 1 (0.53%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.53%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 108 (57.75%) Cisco
2 65 (34.76%) Palo Alto
3 33 (17.65%) CheckPoint
3 33 (17.65%) Juniper
4 30 (16.04%) F5
5 28 (14.97%) Microsoft
6 21 (11.23%) ServiceNow
6 21 (11.23%) Zscaler
7 19 (10.16%) Aruba
8 18 (9.63%) Arista
9 17 (9.09%) VMware
10 15 (8.02%) SolarWinds
11 14 (7.49%) Infoblox
11 14 (7.49%) NetApp
12 13 (6.95%) Meraki
13 11 (5.88%) Splunk
14 6 (3.21%) Tenable
15 4 (2.14%) ForeScout
15 4 (2.14%) HP
16 3 (1.60%) Dell