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 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
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 310 295
Rank change year-on-year -78 -15 +65
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 256 215 234
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.78% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 1.35% 1.66% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 137 145
10th Percentile £375 £400 £368
25th Percentile £423 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £588
90th Percentile £646 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £484 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -3.15% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £26.06 -
25th Percentile £60.13 £38.47 -
Median hourly rate £77.25 £60.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.57 -
90th Percentile - £96.73 -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +28.32% - -

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 18,972 12,987 14,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.53% 47.14% 43.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,900 8,220 9,114
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £628
90th Percentile £700 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 640 692
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.49 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -14.41% -29.19%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -10.18% -36.00%

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 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 26 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 26 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 -86 108 £525 +10.53% 21
North of England -58 37 £453 -15.52% 11
South East -62 36 £425 -26.09% 21
Midlands -44 29 £565 +22.16% 14
North West -39 26 £575 +0.44% 9
West Midlands -51 24 £581 +5.64% 9
Yorkshire -36 7 £416 -16.76% 1
East of England -27 6 £388 -44.64% 5
East Midlands -15 4 £500 +284.62% 5
North East -39 4 £375 - 1
South West -50 3 £538 -0.46% 5
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 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.56%) Confluence
2 4 (1.56%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.17%) Apache
3 3 (1.17%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (3.52%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 74 (28.91%) Azure
2 49 (19.14%) AWS
3 12 (4.69%) GitHub
3 12 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.91%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.52%) GCP
6 8 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.73%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.34%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.56%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (1.56%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.17%) IaaS
10 3 (1.17%) Serverless
10 3 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.78%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.78%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 179 (69.92%) Firewall
2 104 (40.63%) WAN
3 88 (34.38%) BGP
4 74 (28.91%) Network Security
5 65 (25.39%) VPN
6 63 (24.61%) OSPF
7 58 (22.66%) VLAN
8 52 (20.31%) LAN
9 48 (18.75%) SD-WAN
10 33 (12.89%) Wireless
11 29 (11.33%) DNS
11 29 (11.33%) MPLS
12 24 (9.38%) TCP/IP
13 21 (8.20%) IPsec
14 20 (7.81%) Cisco IOS
14 20 (7.81%) DHCP
15 19 (7.42%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (7.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 19 (7.42%) Multicast
16 18 (7.03%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.52%) Git
2 8 (3.13%) JIRA
3 4 (1.56%) GitLab
3 4 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.39%) Robot Framework
General
1 46 (17.97%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.33%) Finance
3 26 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.38%) Banking
5 14 (5.47%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.08%) Retail
7 9 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.52%) Legal
8 8 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.95%) Law
9 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.95%) Police
10 3 (1.17%) Military
11 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.39%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 144 (56.25%) Network Engineer
2 50 (19.53%) Senior
3 34 (13.28%) Senior Network Engineer
4 28 (10.94%) Architect
4 28 (10.94%) Security Engineer
5 25 (9.77%) Network Security Engineer
6 22 (8.59%) Network Architect
7 16 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
8 13 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (4.69%) Network Specialist
10 11 (4.30%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 11 (4.30%) Senior Network Specialist
11 9 (3.52%) Consultant
11 9 (3.52%) Network Consultant
11 9 (3.52%) Network Security Architect
11 9 (3.52%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.73%) Cisco Engineer
12 7 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 5 (1.95%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.11%) Terraform
2 13 (5.08%) 802.1X
3 6 (2.34%) NETCONF
4 5 (1.95%) OpenConfig
4 5 (1.95%) RESTCONF
4 5 (1.95%) YANG
5 3 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.78%) eBPF
6 2 (0.78%) REST
7 1 (0.39%) Jinja
7 1 (0.39%) LDAP
7 1 (0.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (24.61%) Data Centre
2 24 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.73%) Operational Technology
3 7 (2.73%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.34%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.34%) PKI
5 5 (1.95%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.56%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.56%) SCADA
6 4 (1.56%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.17%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.78%) CMDB
8 2 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.78%) Handset
9 1 (0.39%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.45%) Windows
2 21 (8.20%) Linux
3 18 (7.03%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) CatOS
6 1 (0.39%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (18.36%) Project Delivery
2 38 (14.84%) Migration
2 38 (14.84%) Network Design
3 34 (13.28%) ITIL
4 32 (12.50%) High Availability
5 29 (11.33%) Zero Trust
6 27 (10.55%) Validation
7 22 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (8.20%) Cloud Security
8 21 (8.20%) DevOps
8 21 (8.20%) Load Balancing
8 21 (8.20%) SIEM
9 19 (7.42%) Network Segmentation
9 19 (7.42%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (7.42%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (7.03%) Knowledge Transfer
10 18 (7.03%) Runbook
11 17 (6.64%) Change Management
12 16 (6.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (25.39%) Python
2 11 (4.30%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.52%) Bash
4 8 (3.13%) SQL
5 2 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (29.69%) Cisco Certification
2 64 (25.00%) CCNP
2 64 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 59 (23.05%) SC Cleared
4 26 (10.16%) CCIE
5 14 (5.47%) Degree
6 11 (4.30%) CCSE
7 8 (3.13%) CCNA
7 8 (3.13%) CISSP
8 7 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.34%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.95%) CCSM
10 5 (1.95%) JNCIE
11 4 (1.56%) CCIE Security
11 4 (1.56%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.56%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.78%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.91%) SLA
2 6 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.56%) NIST
3 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.17%) NCSC
4 3 (1.17%) QA
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) ISA99
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (8.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (7.03%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.52%) Firmware
4 8 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.34%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.34%) vSphere
6 3 (1.17%) Docker
6 3 (1.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.78%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.39%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (23.05%) FortiGate
2 54 (21.09%) Ansible
3 11 (4.30%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.52%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.73%) WMI
6 6 (2.34%) Grafana
7 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.17%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.17%) Consul
8 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.78%) CASB
9 2 (0.78%) Puppet
9 2 (0.78%) Salt
10 1 (0.39%) Argo
10 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.39%) Nagios
10 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 185 (72.27%) Cisco
2 95 (37.11%) Palo Alto
3 61 (23.83%) F5
4 51 (19.92%) Juniper
5 43 (16.80%) Microsoft
6 40 (15.63%) CheckPoint
7 32 (12.50%) VMware
8 30 (11.72%) Arista
9 25 (9.77%) Aruba
9 25 (9.77%) Zscaler
10 21 (8.20%) Infoblox
11 20 (7.81%) Splunk
12 16 (6.25%) ServiceNow
12 16 (6.25%) SolarWinds
13 13 (5.08%) Meraki
14 6 (2.34%) Blue Coat
15 4 (1.56%) HP
15 4 (1.56%) Okta
15 4 (1.56%) Riverbed
15 4 (1.56%) Veeam