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 28 May 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 295 335
Rank change year-on-year -84 +40 +75
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 224 182 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.76% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 1.31% 1.60% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 103 118
10th Percentile £400 £405 £359
25th Percentile £438 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +12.82% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £650 £723
UK median daily rate £500 £551 £488
% change year-on-year -9.26% +13.03% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £59.10 - -
25th Percentile £65.25 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £17.79 -
Median % change year-on-year +332.83% - -
75th Percentile £78.63 - -
90th Percentile £78.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.75 £17.79 -
% change year-on-year +342.66% - -

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 17,099 11,350 15,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.95% 47.63% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,027 7,270 9,806
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £521 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% +0.68% -3.09%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 474 1,017
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.50 £14.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.18 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% +16.36% -41.56%
75th Percentile £59.88 £55.43 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.35 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.46% +12.44% -47.06%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -74 88 £550 +4.76% 28
South East -31 41 £463 -19.57% 40
North of England -70 29 £489 -2.30% 24
Midlands -63 27 £565 +2.73% 13
Yorkshire -50 15 £416 -27.62% 8
West Midlands -69 15 £565 +2.63% 10
North West -38 13 £577 +15.40% 12
East Midlands -20 11 - - 3
South West -23 5 £538 -10.42% 4
East of England -28 4 £450 +12.50% 7
North East -32 1 £425 - 4
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 (2.23%) Confluence
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.89%) Apache
3 2 (0.89%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 55 (24.55%) Azure
2 47 (20.98%) AWS
3 10 (4.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.13%) GCP
5 7 (3.13%) GitHub
6 6 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.23%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.79%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.79%) Serverless
9 3 (1.34%) IaaS
9 3 (1.34%) Route 53
10 2 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 153 (68.30%) Firewall
2 77 (34.38%) WAN
3 60 (26.79%) BGP
4 54 (24.11%) Network Security
5 51 (22.77%) OSPF
6 48 (21.43%) LAN
7 47 (20.98%) VPN
8 43 (19.20%) SD-WAN
9 41 (18.30%) VLAN
10 24 (10.71%) MPLS
11 22 (9.82%) Wireless
12 19 (8.48%) DNS
12 19 (8.48%) IPsec
12 19 (8.48%) Multicast
13 17 (7.59%) NGFW
13 17 (7.59%) TCP/IP
14 16 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (6.70%) VXLAN
15 15 (6.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (4.46%) JIRA
2 9 (4.02%) Git
3 5 (2.23%) GitLab
4 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (15.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (9.82%) Finance
3 18 (8.04%) Banking
4 17 (7.59%) Military
5 16 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.70%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.91%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.02%) Retail
9 7 (3.13%) Law
10 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.23%) Police
11 4 (1.79%) Legal
12 2 (0.89%) Aviation
12 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 104 (46.43%) Network Engineer
2 35 (15.63%) Senior
3 26 (11.61%) Security Engineer
4 23 (10.27%) Senior Network Engineer
5 20 (8.93%) Network Security Engineer
6 18 (8.04%) Architect
7 15 (6.70%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
9 13 (5.80%) Network Architect
10 12 (5.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Lead
11 9 (4.02%) Network Specialist
12 8 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 8 (3.57%) Senior Network Specialist
13 7 (3.13%) IT Engineer
14 6 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
15 5 (2.23%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.36%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.79%) NETCONF
3 3 (1.34%) YANG
4 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.89%) OpenConfig
4 2 (0.89%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.45%) Flask
5 1 (0.45%) Jinja
5 1 (0.45%) JSON
5 1 (0.45%) LDAP
5 1 (0.45%) REST
5 1 (0.45%) SAML
5 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (22.77%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.68%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.68%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.79%) PKI
6 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.34%) CESG
7 3 (1.34%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.34%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.34%) SCADA
8 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.45%) Life Science
9 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.82%) Windows
2 18 (8.04%) Linux
3 9 (4.02%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.45%) CatOS
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (12.95%) ITIL
1 29 (12.95%) Network Design
2 25 (11.16%) DevOps
3 23 (10.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (9.82%) High Availability
5 20 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (8.93%) Migration
5 20 (8.93%) SIEM
6 19 (8.48%) Project Delivery
7 18 (8.04%) Network Monitoring
8 17 (7.59%) Zero Trust
9 16 (7.14%) CI/CD
9 16 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (7.14%) Validation
10 15 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (6.70%) Load Balancing
10 15 (6.70%) Mentoring
10 15 (6.70%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (6.25%) Network Segmentation
11 14 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.07%) Python
2 10 (4.46%) Bash
3 7 (3.13%) SQL
4 6 (2.68%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 84 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 64 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 60 (26.79%) Cisco Certification
4 49 (21.88%) CCNP
5 22 (9.82%) CCIE
6 21 (9.38%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.25%) Degree
8 12 (5.36%) CCSE
9 9 (4.02%) CCNA
10 8 (3.57%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.68%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.23%) CCSM
12 5 (2.23%) JNCIA
12 5 (2.23%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.34%) CCDP
13 3 (1.34%) CISSP
13 3 (1.34%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.89%) BC Cleared
14 2 (0.89%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.02%) NCSC
1 9 (4.02%) NIST
1 9 (4.02%) SLA
2 5 (2.23%) GDPR
2 5 (2.23%) GRC
3 4 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.79%) QA
4 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.34%) RMADS
5 2 (0.89%) ISA99
5 2 (0.89%) JSP 440
System Software
1 18 (8.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (6.70%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (2.68%) Firmware
4 6 (2.68%) vSphere
5 4 (1.79%) Docker
5 4 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.45%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (19.20%) FortiGate
2 37 (16.52%) Ansible
3 25 (11.16%) Terraform
4 10 (4.46%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.46%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.13%) Grafana
6 5 (2.23%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (2.23%) WMI
7 4 (1.79%) Puppet
7 4 (1.79%) Salt
8 3 (1.34%) Consul
8 3 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.89%) CASB
9 2 (0.89%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.89%) Iperf
9 2 (0.89%) Nmap
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.45%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 136 (60.71%) Cisco
2 85 (37.95%) Palo Alto
3 39 (17.41%) CheckPoint
3 39 (17.41%) F5
4 35 (15.63%) Juniper
5 33 (14.73%) Microsoft
6 26 (11.61%) Arista
6 26 (11.61%) ServiceNow
6 26 (11.61%) VMware
7 24 (10.71%) Aruba
8 20 (8.93%) Infoblox
8 20 (8.93%) Zscaler
9 17 (7.59%) SolarWinds
10 15 (6.70%) Splunk
11 13 (5.80%) NetApp
12 5 (2.23%) Meraki
12 5 (2.23%) Veeam
13 4 (1.79%) Blue Coat
13 4 (1.79%) ForeScout
13 4 (1.79%) HP