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 26 March 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
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 302 338
Rank change year-on-year -99 +36 +77
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 173 173 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.71% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 1.05% 1.50% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 116 118
10th Percentile £372 £406 £375
25th Percentile £450 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +10.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £568 £493
% change year-on-year -11.89% +15.23% -6.19%

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 16,441 11,496 15,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.78% 47.37% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,719 7,454 10,228
10th Percentile £313 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 870 411 941
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -31.48%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.68 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £28.68 £23.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +22.02% -38.96%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -57 66 £540 -1.82% 21
South East -34 39 £473 -17.83% 25
Midlands -61 22 £469 -14.93% 13
North of England -70 22 £575 +0.44% 16
East Midlands -27 11 £650 +51.16% 5
North West -41 11 £576 +0.61% 13
Yorkshire -50 11 £413 -34.00% 3
West Midlands -68 10 £469 -14.93% 8
East of England -24 6 £475 - 13
South West -30 6 £538 +30.30% 6
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 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.89%) Confluence
3 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.31%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.79%) Azure
2 48 (27.75%) AWS
3 18 (10.40%) GCP
4 13 (7.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (5.20%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.62%) GitHub
7 7 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (3.47%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.89%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.31%) SaaS
11 3 (1.73%) IaaS
11 3 (1.73%) PaaS
11 3 (1.73%) Route 53
12 2 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.16%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.16%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 115 (66.47%) Firewall
2 71 (41.04%) WAN
3 53 (30.64%) SD-WAN
4 51 (29.48%) BGP
4 51 (29.48%) VPN
5 47 (27.17%) Network Security
6 44 (25.43%) OSPF
7 39 (22.54%) LAN
8 33 (19.08%) MPLS
9 31 (17.92%) VLAN
10 22 (12.72%) TCP/IP
11 21 (12.14%) Wireless
12 20 (11.56%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (10.40%) DNS
13 18 (10.40%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (9.83%) DHCP
15 14 (8.09%) NGFW
15 14 (8.09%) VXLAN
16 12 (6.94%) IPsec
17 11 (6.36%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (5.78%) JIRA
2 5 (2.89%) Git
2 5 (2.89%) GitLab
3 4 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.16%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.40%) Telecoms
5 17 (9.83%) Finance
6 16 (9.25%) Military
7 11 (6.36%) Banking
8 10 (5.78%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.47%) Legal
10 4 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.31%) Law
10 4 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.73%) Retail
12 2 (1.16%) Aviation
12 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.16%) Police
13 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.58%) Electronics
13 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (35.26%) Network Engineer
2 27 (15.61%) Architect
3 20 (11.56%) Security Engineer
4 18 (10.40%) Network Architect
5 17 (9.83%) Senior
6 14 (8.09%) Systems Engineer
7 13 (7.51%) Network Security Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) Lead
10 8 (4.62%) Senior Network Engineer
11 7 (4.05%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 7 (4.05%) Security Architect
11 7 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.47%) Firewall Engineer
13 5 (2.89%) IT Engineer
13 5 (2.89%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 4 (2.31%) AWS Engineer
14 4 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (2.31%) IP Specialist
14 4 (2.31%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.78%) 802.1X
2 6 (3.47%) NETCONF
2 6 (3.47%) YANG
3 5 (2.89%) OpenConfig
4 4 (2.31%) RESTCONF
5 2 (1.16%) JSON
5 2 (1.16%) XML
6 1 (0.58%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.58%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.92%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.78%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.62%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.89%) PKI
6 5 (2.89%) SCADA
6 5 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.31%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.73%) CESG
8 3 (1.73%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.16%) Life Science
9 2 (1.16%) NHS
9 2 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.78%) Windows
2 7 (4.05%) Linux
3 5 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (19.65%) ITIL
2 29 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 26 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (13.87%) Network Design
5 22 (12.72%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (11.56%) Zero Trust
7 18 (10.40%) SIEM
8 17 (9.83%) Incident Response
8 17 (9.83%) Migration
8 17 (9.83%) Network Architecture
9 15 (8.67%) Change Management
9 15 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (8.67%) DevOps
9 15 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (8.67%) Mentoring
9 15 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (8.67%) Security Architecture
10 13 (7.51%) Agile
10 13 (7.51%) Load Balancing
10 13 (7.51%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.34%) Python
2 9 (5.20%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.89%) Bash
4 3 (1.73%) SQL
5 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 63 (36.42%) Security Cleared
2 52 (30.06%) Cisco Certification
3 42 (24.28%) SC Cleared
4 38 (21.97%) CCNP
5 30 (17.34%) CCIE
6 20 (11.56%) DV Cleared
7 15 (8.67%) Degree
8 14 (8.09%) CCNA
9 13 (7.51%) CISSP
10 9 (5.20%) AWS Certification
10 9 (5.20%) Azure Certification
11 7 (4.05%) CCSE
11 7 (4.05%) JNCIE
12 6 (3.47%) CCIE Security
13 4 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (2.31%) CCSP
13 4 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.98%) NIST
2 18 (10.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (8.09%) GDPR
4 10 (5.78%) SLA
5 9 (5.20%) NCSC
5 9 (5.20%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.31%) GRC
7 3 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.73%) RMADS
8 2 (1.16%) ISA99
8 2 (1.16%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.16%) QA
9 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (8.67%) Active Directory
2 14 (8.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.31%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.73%) Firmware
4 3 (1.73%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.73%) vSphere
5 2 (1.16%) Docker
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (17.92%) Ansible
2 27 (15.61%) FortiGate
3 24 (13.87%) Terraform
4 5 (2.89%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (1.73%) Grafana
5 3 (1.73%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.73%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.16%) CASB
6 2 (1.16%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.16%) Iperf
6 2 (1.16%) Nmap
6 2 (1.16%) Puppet
6 2 (1.16%) Salt
6 2 (1.16%) SCCM
6 2 (1.16%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.58%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 95 (54.91%) Cisco
2 60 (34.68%) Palo Alto
3 33 (19.08%) Juniper
4 31 (17.92%) CheckPoint
5 27 (15.61%) Microsoft
6 26 (15.03%) F5
7 23 (13.29%) Aruba
8 21 (12.14%) ServiceNow
8 21 (12.14%) Zscaler
9 17 (9.83%) VMware
10 14 (8.09%) Arista
10 14 (8.09%) NetApp
10 14 (8.09%) SolarWinds
11 12 (6.94%) Infoblox
11 12 (6.94%) Meraki
12 11 (6.36%) Splunk
13 6 (3.47%) Tenable
14 4 (2.31%) Dell
14 4 (2.31%) ForeScout
14 4 (2.31%) HP