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 2 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
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 294 333
Rank change year-on-year -105 +39 +85
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 182 178 221
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.73% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.09% 1.56% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 117 120
10th Percentile £380 £406 £375
25th Percentile £456 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +10.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £689 £650 £726
UK median daily rate £525 £551 £493
% change year-on-year -4.72% +11.88% -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 16,643 11,441 15,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.50% 47.19% 42.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,886 7,421 10,189
10th Percentile £310 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £602 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 862 414 955
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.27
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.04 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +20.98% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.88 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.74 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £28.75 £23.11
% change year-on-year -7.83% +24.42% -42.23%

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 2 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 2 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 -75 73 £550 - 21
South East -39 36 £480 -16.52% 25
Midlands -58 24 £475 -12.04% 13
North of England -74 22 £575 +0.44% 16
East Midlands -27 12 £650 +51.16% 5
North West -36 11 £576 +0.61% 13
Yorkshire -54 11 £413 -26.67% 3
West Midlands -65 11 £475 -13.79% 8
South West -28 7 £538 +30.30% 6
East of England -28 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 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.75%) Confluence
3 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 57 (31.32%) Azure
2 48 (26.37%) AWS
3 17 (9.34%) GCP
4 12 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (4.95%) GitHub
5 9 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.40%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.75%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.20%) SaaS
10 3 (1.65%) IaaS
10 3 (1.65%) PaaS
10 3 (1.65%) Route 53
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.10%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 121 (66.48%) Firewall
2 75 (41.21%) WAN
3 55 (30.22%) BGP
4 53 (29.12%) SD-WAN
5 52 (28.57%) VPN
6 47 (25.82%) Network Security
6 47 (25.82%) OSPF
7 39 (21.43%) LAN
8 34 (18.68%) MPLS
9 32 (17.58%) VLAN
10 23 (12.64%) TCP/IP
11 21 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
12 20 (10.99%) DNS
12 20 (10.99%) Wireless
13 17 (9.34%) DHCP
14 15 (8.24%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (7.69%) Multicast
15 14 (7.69%) NGFW
15 14 (7.69%) VXLAN
16 13 (7.14%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (5.49%) JIRA
2 6 (3.30%) Git
2 6 (3.30%) GitLab
3 4 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (19.78%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.44%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.89%) Finance
5 17 (9.34%) Telecoms
6 16 (8.79%) Military
7 12 (6.59%) Banking
8 10 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.30%) Legal
10 5 (2.75%) Law
11 4 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.65%) Police
12 3 (1.65%) Retail
13 2 (1.10%) Aviation
13 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.55%) Electronics
14 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 66 (36.26%) Network Engineer
2 26 (14.29%) Architect
3 24 (13.19%) Senior
4 21 (11.54%) Security Engineer
5 19 (10.44%) Network Architect
6 14 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
7 13 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (6.04%) Senior Network Engineer
9 10 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) Lead
11 8 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Security Architect
13 6 (3.30%) Firewall Engineer
14 5 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (2.75%) IT Engineer
14 5 (2.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
15 4 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
15 4 (2.20%) IP Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.49%) 802.1X
2 7 (3.85%) NETCONF
3 6 (3.30%) YANG
4 5 (2.75%) OpenConfig
5 4 (2.20%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.10%) JSON
6 2 (1.10%) XML
7 1 (0.55%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.55%) Flask
7 1 (0.55%) Jinja
7 1 (0.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.78%) Data Centre
2 14 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.49%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.40%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.75%) PKI
6 5 (2.75%) SCADA
6 5 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.20%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.65%) CESG
8 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.10%) NHS
9 2 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.49%) Windows
2 8 (4.40%) Linux
3 6 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.55%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (18.68%) ITIL
2 27 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (13.19%) Network Design
5 22 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (10.99%) Zero Trust
7 19 (10.44%) DevOps
8 18 (9.89%) Network Architecture
8 18 (9.89%) SIEM
9 17 (9.34%) Incident Response
9 17 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (9.34%) Mentoring
9 17 (9.34%) Migration
10 15 (8.24%) Change Management
10 15 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (8.24%) Security Architecture
11 14 (7.69%) Load Balancing
12 13 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
12 13 (7.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.68%) Python
2 10 (5.49%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.30%) Bash
4 3 (1.65%) SQL
5 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 69 (37.91%) Security Cleared
2 55 (30.22%) Cisco Certification
3 47 (25.82%) SC Cleared
4 40 (21.98%) CCNP
5 30 (16.48%) CCIE
6 21 (11.54%) DV Cleared
7 15 (8.24%) CCNA
7 15 (8.24%) Degree
8 13 (7.14%) CISSP
9 9 (4.95%) AWS Certification
9 9 (4.95%) Azure Certification
10 7 (3.85%) CCSE
10 7 (3.85%) JNCIE
11 6 (3.30%) CCIE Security
12 4 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (2.20%) CCSP
12 4 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.65%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.44%) NIST
2 18 (9.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (7.69%) GDPR
4 10 (5.49%) SLA
5 9 (4.95%) NCSC
5 9 (4.95%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.20%) GRC
7 3 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.65%) RMADS
8 2 (1.10%) ISA99
8 2 (1.10%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.10%) QA
9 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.75%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.65%) Firmware
5 3 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.65%) vSphere
6 2 (1.10%) Docker
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (18.68%) Ansible
2 28 (15.38%) FortiGate
3 26 (14.29%) Terraform
4 5 (2.75%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (1.65%) Grafana
5 3 (1.65%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.10%) CASB
6 2 (1.10%) Iperf
6 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.10%) Nmap
6 2 (1.10%) Puppet
6 2 (1.10%) Salt
6 2 (1.10%) SCCM
6 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.55%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.55%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 105 (57.69%) Cisco
2 61 (33.52%) Palo Alto
3 32 (17.58%) Juniper
4 31 (17.03%) CheckPoint
5 29 (15.93%) F5
6 28 (15.38%) Microsoft
7 21 (11.54%) Aruba
7 21 (11.54%) ServiceNow
7 21 (11.54%) Zscaler
8 18 (9.89%) Arista
9 17 (9.34%) VMware
10 15 (8.24%) SolarWinds
11 14 (7.69%) Infoblox
11 14 (7.69%) NetApp
12 12 (6.59%) Meraki
13 11 (6.04%) Splunk
14 6 (3.30%) Tenable
15 4 (2.20%) ForeScout
15 4 (2.20%) HP
16 3 (1.65%) Nokia