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 9 February 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
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 304 338
Rank change year-on-year -91 +34 +82
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 155 180 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.69% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 1.03% 1.49% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 111 123
10th Percentile £371 £406 £340
25th Percentile £425 £475 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £650 £828
UK median daily rate £500 £563 £493
% change year-on-year -11.11% +14.21% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £22.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +277.78% -48.57% +54.87%

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 15,107 12,057 16,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.39% 46.35% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,923 7,294 10,713
10th Percentile £300 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £720 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 750 344 859
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.97
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.62 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.18% +7.42% -12.31%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £56.91
90th Percentile £72.00 £81.98 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -17.84% +1.75% -8.51%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -54 67 £525 -4.55% 19
South East -7 38 £470 -18.26% 37
Midlands -53 19 £469 -14.93% 9
West Midlands -55 11 £475 -13.79% 5
North of England -75 10 £413 -21.43% 17
East Midlands -26 8 £130 - 4
South West -29 7 £519 +14.33% 8
Yorkshire -64 6 £556 -11.00% 3
North West -36 4 £400 -21.95% 14
East of England - 3 £500 - 12
South Coast - 2 - -
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 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.58%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.94%) Confluence
4 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 49 (31.61%) AWS
2 48 (30.97%) Azure
3 18 (11.61%) GCP
4 13 (8.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.16%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.23%) Mimecast
9 5 (3.23%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.94%) Akamai
10 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.94%) GitHub
10 3 (1.94%) Route 53
10 3 (1.94%) SaaS
11 2 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.29%) IaaS
11 2 (1.29%) PaaS
11 2 (1.29%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 101 (65.16%) Firewall
2 66 (42.58%) WAN
3 50 (32.26%) SD-WAN
4 48 (30.97%) VPN
5 44 (28.39%) BGP
5 44 (28.39%) Network Security
6 42 (27.10%) LAN
7 40 (25.81%) OSPF
8 32 (20.65%) MPLS
9 26 (16.77%) Wireless
10 23 (14.84%) VLAN
11 21 (13.55%) TCP/IP
12 18 (11.61%) DNS
13 17 (10.97%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (9.68%) DHCP
14 15 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (7.10%) VXLAN
16 10 (6.45%) EIGRP
16 10 (6.45%) SNMP
16 10 (6.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.52%) JIRA
2 5 (3.23%) GitLab
3 3 (1.94%) Git
3 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (27.74%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.19%) Public Sector
3 18 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.97%) Telecoms
5 14 (9.03%) Finance
6 11 (7.10%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (7.10%) Military
7 6 (3.87%) Legal
8 5 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.58%) Banking
10 3 (1.94%) Law
11 2 (1.29%) Aviation
11 2 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.29%) Local Government
11 2 (1.29%) Police
12 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (31.61%) Network Engineer
2 29 (18.71%) Architect
3 22 (14.19%) Network Architect
4 21 (13.55%) Senior
5 20 (12.90%) Security Engineer
6 13 (8.39%) Network Security Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Lead
9 8 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.16%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Consultant
10 7 (4.52%) Security Architect
11 6 (3.87%) Network Specialist
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 5 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 5 (3.23%) Network Security Architect
12 5 (3.23%) Security Manager
13 4 (2.58%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.23%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.58%) NETCONF
2 4 (2.58%) YANG
3 3 (1.94%) OpenConfig
4 2 (1.29%) JSON
4 2 (1.29%) RESTCONF
4 2 (1.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.06%) Data Centre
2 13 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.23%) PKI
7 4 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.58%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.94%) CESG
8 3 (1.94%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.94%) Life Science
8 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.29%) NHS
9 2 (1.29%) SCADA
9 2 (1.29%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.29%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.94%) Windows
2 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (0.65%) Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (20.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (14.84%) Migration
4 22 (14.19%) Network Design
5 21 (13.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (12.90%) Incident Response
7 19 (12.26%) ITIL
7 19 (12.26%) Roadmaps
8 18 (11.61%) Security Architecture
9 17 (10.97%) Network Architecture
9 17 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (9.68%) Change Management
10 15 (9.68%) Zero Trust
11 14 (9.03%) Agile
11 14 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (8.39%) Mentoring
12 13 (8.39%) SIEM
13 12 (7.74%) Network Monitoring
14 11 (7.10%) DevOps
14 11 (7.10%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.06%) Python
2 7 (4.52%) Bash
2 7 (4.52%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.94%) SQL
4 1 (0.65%) C++
4 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (36.77%) Security Cleared
2 47 (30.32%) Cisco Certification
3 41 (26.45%) SC Cleared
4 34 (21.94%) CCNP
5 26 (16.77%) CCIE
6 16 (10.32%) CISSP
7 13 (8.39%) CCNA
7 13 (8.39%) Degree
8 12 (7.74%) DV Cleared
9 11 (7.10%) AWS Certification
10 10 (6.45%) JNCIE
11 8 (5.16%) Azure Certification
12 6 (3.87%) CCIE Security
13 5 (3.23%) CISM
14 4 (2.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (2.58%) CCSE
14 4 (2.58%) CCSP
14 4 (2.58%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
15 3 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.26%) NIST
2 17 (10.97%) GDPR
2 17 (10.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (5.16%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.87%) SLA
5 5 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (3.23%) NCSC
6 4 (2.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.58%) GRC
7 3 (1.94%) RMADS
8 2 (1.29%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.29%) QA
9 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.29%) Firmware
5 1 (0.65%) Docker
5 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (18.06%) Ansible
2 25 (16.13%) FortiGate
3 22 (14.19%) Terraform
4 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.23%) Cisco Prime
6 4 (2.58%) Iperf
6 4 (2.58%) Nmap
7 2 (1.29%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.29%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.29%) Grafana
7 2 (1.29%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.29%) QRadar
7 2 (1.29%) SCCM
7 2 (1.29%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.65%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.65%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 89 (57.42%) Cisco
2 63 (40.65%) Palo Alto
3 36 (23.23%) Juniper
4 32 (20.65%) CheckPoint
5 27 (17.42%) F5
6 23 (14.84%) Microsoft
7 22 (14.19%) SolarWinds
8 21 (13.55%) Aruba
9 14 (9.03%) VMware
10 12 (7.74%) Meraki
11 9 (5.81%) ServiceNow
11 9 (5.81%) Zscaler
12 8 (5.16%) NetApp
13 7 (4.52%) Arista
14 6 (3.87%) Tenable
15 4 (2.58%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (2.58%) Infoblox
15 4 (2.58%) Splunk
16 3 (1.94%) Extreme Networks
16 3 (1.94%) Nokia