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 24 July 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
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 300 320
Rank change year-on-year -72 +20 +49
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 263 216 229
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.79% 0.66%
As % of the Vendors category 1.43% 1.67% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 137 146
10th Percentile £375 £400 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £589
90th Percentile £651 £685 £650
UK median daily rate £489 £538 £520
% change year-on-year -9.12% +3.37% +3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £26.06 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.47 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £60.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.42% - -
75th Percentile £78.56 £83.57 -
90th Percentile £78.68 £96.73 -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +27.49% - -

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 18,443 12,960 15,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.36% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,674 8,202 9,702
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 962 617 868
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.75 £13.29
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.81 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.39% -6.85% -29.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.11 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £25.15 £26.97
% change year-on-year +40.04% -6.75% -35.01%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -94 106 £525 +5.00% 22
South East -43 44 £450 -21.74% 27
North of England -55 37 £489 -2.30% 25
Midlands -42 31 £573 +6.41% 14
North West -37 24 £575 +7.23% 21
West Midlands -58 19 £581 +6.61% 8
Yorkshire -40 12 £417 -16.63% 4
East Midlands -5 11 £475 +10.47% 5
East of England -23 6 £388 -44.64% 8
South West -44 3 £538 -0.46% 12
North East -36 1 £425 -
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 (1.90%) Confluence
2 4 (1.52%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.14%) Apache
3 3 (1.14%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (3.80%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 66 (25.10%) Azure
2 46 (17.49%) AWS
3 13 (4.94%) GitHub
4 10 (3.80%) GCP
5 7 (2.66%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (2.28%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.28%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.52%) IaaS
7 4 (1.52%) Serverless
7 4 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.14%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.14%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (1.14%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 174 (66.16%) Firewall
2 95 (36.12%) WAN
3 89 (33.84%) BGP
4 68 (25.86%) Network Security
5 65 (24.71%) OSPF
6 64 (24.33%) VPN
7 56 (21.29%) VLAN
8 49 (18.63%) SD-WAN
9 48 (18.25%) LAN
10 30 (11.41%) MPLS
10 30 (11.41%) Wireless
11 25 (9.51%) IPsec
11 25 (9.51%) TCP/IP
12 24 (9.13%) DNS
12 24 (9.13%) Multicast
13 20 (7.60%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (7.60%) Cisco IOS
14 18 (6.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 18 (6.84%) NX-OS
14 18 (6.84%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.80%) JIRA
2 8 (3.04%) Git
3 5 (1.90%) GitLab
3 5 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.14%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (17.49%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.27%) Finance
3 26 (9.89%) Banking
4 24 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.98%) Telecoms
6 14 (5.32%) Military
7 13 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.94%) Retail
8 10 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.66%) Legal
10 6 (2.28%) Law
11 5 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.90%) Police
12 2 (0.76%) Aviation
12 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.38%) Games
13 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 139 (52.85%) Network Engineer
2 44 (16.73%) Senior
3 31 (11.79%) Security Engineer
4 29 (11.03%) Architect
4 29 (11.03%) Senior Network Engineer
5 26 (9.89%) Network Security Engineer
6 22 (8.37%) Network Architect
7 18 (6.84%) Firewall Engineer
8 14 (5.32%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (4.56%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (3.80%) Network Specialist
10 10 (3.80%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.42%) Network Security Architect
11 9 (3.42%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 9 (3.42%) Senior Network Specialist
12 8 (3.04%) Consultant
12 8 (3.04%) Network Consultant
13 7 (2.66%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 6 (2.28%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (2.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.94%) 802.1X
2 7 (2.66%) NETCONF
3 6 (2.28%) OpenConfig
3 6 (2.28%) RESTCONF
3 6 (2.28%) YANG
4 3 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.76%) eBPF
5 2 (0.76%) REST
6 1 (0.38%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.38%) Flask
6 1 (0.38%) Jinja
6 1 (0.38%) LDAP
6 1 (0.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (24.71%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.66%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.66%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.90%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.90%) Operational Technology
5 5 (1.90%) PKI
6 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.52%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.14%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.14%) SCADA
8 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.76%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.38%) CMDB
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.38%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.89%) Windows
2 22 (8.37%) Linux
3 10 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) CatOS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (15.97%) Project Delivery
2 39 (14.83%) Network Design
3 33 (12.55%) Migration
4 29 (11.03%) Validation
5 27 (10.27%) High Availability
6 26 (9.89%) ITIL
7 25 (9.51%) Zero Trust
8 23 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (8.37%) SIEM
10 21 (7.98%) DevOps
10 21 (7.98%) Load Balancing
11 19 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (6.46%) Change Management
12 17 (6.46%) Network Segmentation
12 17 (6.46%) Runbook
13 16 (6.08%) CI/CD
13 16 (6.08%) Cloud Security
13 16 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (6.08%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 67 (25.48%) Python
2 11 (4.18%) Bash
3 9 (3.42%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.04%) SQL
5 2 (0.76%) Perl
6 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 78 (29.66%) Security Cleared
2 77 (29.28%) Cisco Certification
3 64 (24.33%) CCNP
4 61 (23.19%) SC Cleared
5 29 (11.03%) CCIE
6 19 (7.22%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.32%) Degree
8 9 (3.42%) CCNA
8 9 (3.42%) CCSE
9 7 (2.66%) CISSP
10 6 (2.28%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.28%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.90%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.90%) CCSM
12 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.52%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.52%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.14%) CCIE Security
13 3 (1.14%) CISM
13 3 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.42%) SLA
2 8 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.28%) NCSC
4 5 (1.90%) NIST
4 5 (1.90%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.52%) GDPR
5 4 (1.52%) GRC
5 4 (1.52%) QA
6 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.76%) ISA99
System Software
1 19 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.42%) Firmware
4 7 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.28%) vSphere
6 4 (1.52%) Docker
7 3 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.38%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.38%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (20.91%) FortiGate
2 54 (20.53%) Ansible
3 30 (11.41%) Terraform
4 12 (4.56%) Kubernetes
5 10 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.66%) Grafana
6 7 (2.66%) WMI
7 3 (1.14%) CASB
7 3 (1.14%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.14%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (1.14%) Consul
7 3 (1.14%) Puppet
7 3 (1.14%) Salt
7 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.76%) Iperf
8 2 (0.76%) Nmap
9 1 (0.38%) Argo
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 176 (66.92%) Cisco
2 93 (35.36%) Palo Alto
3 58 (22.05%) F5
4 52 (19.77%) Juniper
5 45 (17.11%) CheckPoint
6 35 (13.31%) Microsoft
7 32 (12.17%) Arista
8 28 (10.65%) ServiceNow
9 26 (9.89%) Zscaler
10 25 (9.51%) VMware
11 23 (8.75%) Aruba
12 21 (7.98%) Infoblox
13 20 (7.60%) Splunk
14 18 (6.84%) SolarWinds
15 12 (4.56%) NetApp
16 9 (3.42%) Meraki
17 6 (2.28%) Blue Coat
18 5 (1.90%) HP
19 4 (1.52%) Tufin
19 4 (1.52%) Veeam