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 27 May 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
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 287 331
Rank change year-on-year -87 +44 +75
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 223 184 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.77% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 1.62% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 105 118
10th Percentile £400 £407 £359
25th Percentile £438 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +11.39% -1.25%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £650 £723
UK median daily rate £500 £551 £488
% change year-on-year -9.26% +13.03% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £75.58 - -
25th Percentile £75.69 - -
Median hourly rate £77.25 £17.79 -
Median % change year-on-year +334.23% - -
75th Percentile £78.69 - -
90th Percentile £78.73 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £17.79 -
% change year-on-year +349.69% - -

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 17,103 11,330 15,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.05% 47.66% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,040 7,281 9,756
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -3.56%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 466 1,015
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £14.34
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.40 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.95% +12.89% -41.56%
75th Percentile £58.98 £55.19 £57.41
90th Percentile £77.43 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £22.30
% change year-on-year +30.00% +12.11% -47.53%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -76 87 £550 +4.76% 25
South East -34 42 £463 -19.57% 37
North of England -68 29 £489 -2.30% 27
Midlands -71 28 £565 +2.73% 14
Yorkshire -45 15 £416 -27.62% 9
West Midlands -70 15 £565 +2.63% 11
North West -40 13 £577 +15.40% 14
East Midlands -24 12 £650 +51.16% 3
South West -29 5 £538 -10.42% 4
East of England -28 4 £450 +12.50% 7
North East -28 1 £425 - 4
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 (2.24%) Confluence
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 55 (24.66%) Azure
2 46 (20.63%) AWS
3 10 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (3.59%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (3.59%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.14%) GCP
5 7 (3.14%) GitHub
6 6 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.24%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.79%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.79%) Serverless
9 3 (1.35%) IaaS
9 3 (1.35%) Route 53
10 2 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.90%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 151 (67.71%) Firewall
2 76 (34.08%) WAN
3 58 (26.01%) BGP
4 54 (24.22%) Network Security
5 49 (21.97%) OSPF
6 48 (21.52%) LAN
7 46 (20.63%) VPN
8 42 (18.83%) SD-WAN
9 40 (17.94%) VLAN
10 24 (10.76%) MPLS
11 22 (9.87%) Wireless
12 19 (8.52%) IPsec
12 19 (8.52%) Multicast
13 18 (8.07%) DNS
13 18 (8.07%) TCP/IP
14 16 (7.17%) Cisco Nexus
14 16 (7.17%) NGFW
15 15 (6.73%) Cisco ASA
15 15 (6.73%) VXLAN
15 15 (6.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (4.48%) JIRA
2 9 (4.04%) Git
3 5 (2.24%) GitLab
4 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (15.70%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (9.87%) Finance
3 18 (8.07%) Banking
4 17 (7.62%) Military
5 15 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.73%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.04%) Retail
8 7 (3.14%) Law
9 5 (2.24%) Legal
9 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.24%) Police
10 2 (0.90%) Aviation
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (46.19%) Network Engineer
2 34 (15.25%) Senior
3 26 (11.66%) Security Engineer
4 22 (9.87%) Senior Network Engineer
5 20 (8.97%) Network Security Engineer
6 17 (7.62%) Architect
7 15 (6.73%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (6.28%) Firewall Engineer
9 12 (5.38%) Network Architect
9 12 (5.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Lead
11 8 (3.59%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Network Specialist
12 7 (3.14%) IT Engineer
12 7 (3.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 7 (3.14%) Senior Network Specialist
13 6 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.69%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.38%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.79%) NETCONF
3 3 (1.35%) YANG
4 2 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.90%) OpenConfig
4 2 (0.90%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.45%) Flask
5 1 (0.45%) Jinja
5 1 (0.45%) JSON
5 1 (0.45%) LDAP
5 1 (0.45%) REST
5 1 (0.45%) SAML
5 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.97%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.59%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.69%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.79%) PKI
6 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.35%) CESG
7 3 (1.35%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) SCADA
8 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.45%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.31%) Windows
2 19 (8.52%) Linux
3 10 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.45%) CatOS
5 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (13.45%) ITIL
2 26 (11.66%) Network Design
3 24 (10.76%) DevOps
3 24 (10.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (8.97%) High Availability
4 20 (8.97%) Migration
4 20 (8.97%) SIEM
5 19 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (8.07%) Project Delivery
7 17 (7.62%) Network Monitoring
7 17 (7.62%) Zero Trust
8 16 (7.17%) CI/CD
8 16 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (7.17%) Validation
9 15 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (6.73%) Mentoring
10 14 (6.28%) Load Balancing
10 14 (6.28%) Network Architecture
10 14 (6.28%) Network Segmentation
10 14 (6.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.59%) Python
2 11 (4.93%) Bash
3 7 (3.14%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.14%) SQL
4 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 83 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.80%) SC Cleared
3 59 (26.46%) Cisco Certification
4 48 (21.52%) CCNP
5 22 (9.87%) CCIE
5 22 (9.87%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.83%) Degree
7 12 (5.38%) CCSE
8 9 (4.04%) CCNA
9 8 (3.59%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.69%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.24%) CCSM
11 5 (2.24%) JNCIA
11 5 (2.24%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.35%) CCDP
12 3 (1.35%) CISSP
12 3 (1.35%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.90%) CCIP
13 2 (0.90%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.04%) NCSC
1 9 (4.04%) NIST
1 9 (4.04%) SLA
2 5 (2.24%) GDPR
2 5 (2.24%) GRC
3 4 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.79%) QA
4 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.35%) RMADS
5 2 (0.90%) ISA99
5 2 (0.90%) JSP 440
System Software
1 18 (8.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (7.17%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (2.69%) Firmware
4 6 (2.69%) vSphere
5 4 (1.79%) Docker
5 4 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.45%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (19.28%) FortiGate
2 37 (16.59%) Ansible
3 25 (11.21%) Terraform
4 10 (4.48%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.48%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.14%) Grafana
6 5 (2.24%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (2.24%) WMI
7 4 (1.79%) Puppet
7 4 (1.79%) Salt
8 3 (1.35%) Consul
8 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.90%) CASB
9 2 (0.90%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.90%) Iperf
9 2 (0.90%) Nmap
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.45%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 134 (60.09%) Cisco
2 83 (37.22%) Palo Alto
3 39 (17.49%) F5
4 38 (17.04%) CheckPoint
5 35 (15.70%) Juniper
6 33 (14.80%) Microsoft
7 27 (12.11%) ServiceNow
8 26 (11.66%) Arista
8 26 (11.66%) VMware
9 24 (10.76%) Aruba
10 21 (9.42%) Zscaler
11 20 (8.97%) Infoblox
12 17 (7.62%) SolarWinds
13 16 (7.17%) Splunk
14 14 (6.28%) NetApp
15 5 (2.24%) Meraki
15 5 (2.24%) Veeam
16 4 (1.79%) Blue Coat
16 4 (1.79%) ForeScout
16 4 (1.79%) HP