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 20 August 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
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 296 296
Rank change year-on-year -94 0 +52
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 247 210 232
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.76% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 1.61% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 133 143
10th Percentile £375 £400 £380
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £589 £606 £585
90th Percentile £633 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £26.06 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.47 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £60.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.49% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.57 -
90th Percentile - £96.73 -
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +27.91% - -

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 19,018 13,040 14,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.66% 47.25% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,977 8,257 9,204
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 643 726
10th Percentile £14.66 £14.75 £13.60
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +26.94% -10.18% -32.15%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -94 101 £513 +7.89% 19
South East -43 37 £425 -26.09% 26
North of England -45 34 £456 -14.97% 16
Midlands -46 29 £565 +18.95% 18
North West -26 26 £575 +0.44% 9
West Midlands -46 24 £581 +5.64% 11
East of England -22 6 £388 -44.64% 7
Yorkshire -40 5 £416 -16.76% 4
East Midlands -17 4 £500 +16.28% 7
North East -37 3 £350 - 4
South West -44 3 £538 -0.46% 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 4 (1.62%) Confluence
1 4 (1.62%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.21%) Apache
2 3 (1.21%) CloudStack
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (4.05%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.13%) Azure
2 48 (19.43%) AWS
3 12 (4.86%) GitHub
4 9 (3.64%) GCP
4 9 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.43%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (2.43%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.62%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.62%) Mimecast
7 4 (1.62%) Serverless
7 4 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.21%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.21%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (1.21%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (1.21%) IaaS
9 2 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 173 (70.04%) Firewall
2 98 (39.68%) WAN
3 88 (35.63%) BGP
4 70 (28.34%) Network Security
5 64 (25.91%) VPN
6 62 (25.10%) OSPF
7 57 (23.08%) VLAN
8 50 (20.24%) LAN
9 46 (18.62%) SD-WAN
10 30 (12.15%) Wireless
11 29 (11.74%) MPLS
12 28 (11.34%) DNS
13 25 (10.12%) TCP/IP
14 21 (8.50%) IPsec
15 20 (8.10%) Cisco IOS
16 19 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (7.69%) DHCP
16 19 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 19 (7.69%) Multicast
16 19 (7.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (1.21%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (4.05%) Git
2 8 (3.24%) JIRA
3 5 (2.02%) GitLab
4 4 (1.62%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.21%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 44 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.34%) Finance
3 26 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.72%) Banking
5 14 (5.67%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.26%) Retail
7 10 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.64%) Legal
8 9 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.02%) Law
9 5 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.02%) Police
10 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.81%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 141 (57.09%) Network Engineer
2 49 (19.84%) Senior
3 33 (13.36%) Senior Network Engineer
4 28 (11.34%) Security Engineer
5 27 (10.93%) Architect
6 25 (10.12%) Network Security Engineer
7 21 (8.50%) Network Architect
8 16 (6.48%) Firewall Engineer
9 13 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (4.86%) Network Specialist
11 11 (4.45%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 11 (4.45%) Senior Network Specialist
12 9 (3.64%) Consultant
12 9 (3.64%) Network Consultant
12 9 (3.64%) Network Security Architect
12 9 (3.64%) Security Architect
13 7 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.43%) Cisco Engineer
14 6 (2.43%) Cloud Engineer
15 5 (2.02%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.96%) Terraform
2 13 (5.26%) 802.1X
3 7 (2.83%) NETCONF
4 6 (2.43%) OpenConfig
4 6 (2.43%) RESTCONF
4 6 (2.43%) YANG
5 3 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.81%) eBPF
6 2 (0.81%) REST
7 1 (0.40%) Jinja
7 1 (0.40%) LDAP
7 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (25.10%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.83%) Operational Technology
3 7 (2.83%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.43%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.43%) PKI
4 6 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.62%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.62%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.62%) SCADA
6 4 (1.62%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.21%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.81%) CMDB
8 2 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.81%) Handset
9 1 (0.40%) Clustering
9 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.15%) Windows
2 21 (8.50%) Linux
3 13 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.62%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
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
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (17.81%) Project Delivery
2 39 (15.79%) Network Design
3 34 (13.77%) Migration
4 31 (12.55%) High Availability
4 31 (12.55%) ITIL
5 28 (11.34%) Zero Trust
6 27 (10.93%) Validation
7 23 (9.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (8.50%) DevOps
8 21 (8.50%) Load Balancing
9 20 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (8.10%) SIEM
10 19 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
10 19 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (7.29%) Runbook
12 17 (6.88%) CI/CD
12 17 (6.88%) Cloud Security
12 17 (6.88%) Knowledge Transfer
12 17 (6.88%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (6.48%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (26.72%) Python
2 10 (4.05%) Bash
2 10 (4.05%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.24%) SQL
4 2 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (30.36%) Cisco Certification
2 63 (25.51%) CCNP
3 62 (25.10%) Security Cleared
4 57 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 27 (10.93%) CCIE
6 13 (5.26%) Degree
7 10 (4.05%) CCSE
8 8 (3.24%) CCNA
8 8 (3.24%) CISSP
9 7 (2.83%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.43%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.43%) JNCIE
11 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.02%) CCSM
12 4 (1.62%) CCIE Security
12 4 (1.62%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.62%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.81%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.05%) SLA
2 6 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.62%) NIST
3 4 (1.62%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.21%) NCSC
4 3 (1.21%) QA
5 2 (0.81%) GDPR
5 2 (0.81%) ISA99
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (8.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.64%) Firmware
4 8 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.43%) vSphere
6 4 (1.62%) Docker
6 4 (1.62%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.81%) FreeRADIUS
8 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (23.08%) FortiGate
2 55 (22.27%) Ansible
3 12 (4.86%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.05%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.83%) Grafana
5 7 (2.83%) WMI
6 3 (1.21%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.21%) Consul
6 3 (1.21%) Puppet
6 3 (1.21%) Salt
6 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.81%) CASB
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.40%) Argo
8 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.40%) Nagios
8 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 181 (73.28%) Cisco
2 93 (37.65%) Palo Alto
3 62 (25.10%) F5
4 50 (20.24%) Juniper
5 39 (15.79%) CheckPoint
5 39 (15.79%) Microsoft
6 30 (12.15%) Arista
7 26 (10.53%) VMware
8 25 (10.12%) Zscaler
9 24 (9.72%) Aruba
10 21 (8.50%) Infoblox
11 20 (8.10%) Splunk
12 16 (6.48%) ServiceNow
12 16 (6.48%) SolarWinds
13 10 (4.05%) Meraki
14 6 (2.43%) Blue Coat
15 4 (1.62%) ForeScout
15 4 (1.62%) HP
15 4 (1.62%) Riverbed
15 4 (1.62%) Veeam