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 27 January 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
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 293 360
Rank change year-on-year -101 +67 +66
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 149 192 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.73% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 0.99% 1.58% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 115 120
10th Percentile £370 £406 £349
25th Percentile £428 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £493
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +8.63% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £551 £493
% change year-on-year -9.17% +11.78% -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 15,018 12,121 16,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.13% 46.11% 43.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 7,282 10,622
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £411 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 713 352 798
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.41
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -7.44% -0.28%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.84 £59.82
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -13.36% -14.37% +6.17%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -46 65 £525 - 21
South East -13 40 £475 -12.24% 38
Midlands -66 17 £469 -14.93% 16
West Midlands -41 12 £500 -11.58% 6
South West -28 7 £513 +12.95% 15
North of England -79 7 £406 -22.62% 25
East Midlands -30 5 £130 -65.33% 10
North West -45 4 £400 -21.95% 13
Yorkshire -56 3 £413 -34.00% 10
East of England - 3 £500 - 17
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 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.03%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.01%) Confluence
3 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 52 (34.90%) AWS
2 49 (32.89%) Azure
3 18 (12.08%) GCP
4 13 (8.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.37%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (5.37%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.70%) OpenShift
8 6 (4.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.36%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.01%) Akamai
10 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.01%) GitHub
10 3 (2.01%) Route 53
10 3 (2.01%) SaaS
11 2 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.34%) IaaS
11 2 (1.34%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (65.10%) Firewall
2 68 (45.64%) WAN
3 49 (32.89%) SD-WAN
4 48 (32.21%) VPN
5 45 (30.20%) LAN
6 44 (29.53%) BGP
7 40 (26.85%) Network Security
7 40 (26.85%) OSPF
8 33 (22.15%) MPLS
9 29 (19.46%) Wireless
10 23 (15.44%) VLAN
11 22 (14.77%) TCP/IP
12 18 (12.08%) DNS
13 17 (11.41%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (10.74%) Wi-Fi
15 15 (10.07%) DHCP
16 12 (8.05%) SNMP
17 11 (7.38%) VXLAN
18 10 (6.71%) EIGRP
18 10 (6.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (4.03%) JIRA
2 5 (3.36%) GitLab
3 3 (2.01%) Git
3 3 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
General
1 41 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.78%) Public Sector
3 18 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.72%) Finance
4 13 (8.72%) Telecoms
5 12 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.03%) Legal
7 5 (3.36%) Military
7 5 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Law
9 3 (2.01%) Local Government
10 2 (1.34%) Banking
10 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.34%) Police
11 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.67%) Aviation
11 1 (0.67%) Electronics
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (30.87%) Network Engineer
2 30 (20.13%) Architect
3 23 (15.44%) Network Architect
4 20 (13.42%) Senior
5 18 (12.08%) Security Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) Network Security Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Lead
7 10 (6.71%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.70%) Consultant
9 7 (4.70%) Security Architect
10 6 (4.03%) Designer
10 6 (4.03%) IP Designer
10 6 (4.03%) Network Specialist
10 6 (4.03%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 5 (3.36%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 5 (3.36%) Network Security Architect
11 5 (3.36%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.36%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.68%) NETCONF
2 4 (2.68%) YANG
3 3 (2.01%) OpenConfig
4 2 (1.34%) JSON
4 2 (1.34%) RESTCONF
4 2 (1.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.46%) Data Centre
2 15 (10.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.37%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.70%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.36%) PKI
6 4 (2.68%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.01%) CESG
7 3 (2.01%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.01%) Life Science
7 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.34%) NHS
8 2 (1.34%) SCADA
8 2 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.34%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.01%) Windows
2 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (0.67%) Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 26 (17.45%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (16.11%) Migration
4 23 (15.44%) Incident Response
5 20 (13.42%) Roadmaps
6 19 (12.75%) ITIL
6 19 (12.75%) Network Design
7 18 (12.08%) Security Architecture
8 17 (11.41%) Network Architecture
8 17 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (10.74%) Change Management
9 16 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (10.07%) Zero Trust
11 14 (9.40%) Agile
11 14 (9.40%) SIEM
12 13 (8.72%) Mentoring
13 12 (8.05%) Cloud Security
13 12 (8.05%) Network Monitoring
13 12 (8.05%) Validation
14 11 (7.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 29 (19.46%) Python
2 7 (4.70%) Bash
2 7 (4.70%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.01%) SQL
4 1 (0.67%) C++
4 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 50 (33.56%) Security Cleared
2 46 (30.87%) Cisco Certification
3 39 (26.17%) SC Cleared
4 32 (21.48%) CCNP
5 26 (17.45%) CCIE
6 17 (11.41%) CISSP
7 14 (9.40%) Degree
8 13 (8.72%) AWS Certification
8 13 (8.72%) CCNA
9 12 (8.05%) JNCIE
10 8 (5.37%) Azure Certification
11 6 (4.03%) CCIE Security
11 6 (4.03%) CISM
11 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
12 4 (2.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (2.68%) CCSE
12 4 (2.68%) CCSP
12 4 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (2.01%) CISA
13 3 (2.01%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.08%) NIST
2 16 (10.74%) GDPR
2 16 (10.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.70%) SLA
4 6 (4.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (4.03%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.68%) NCSC
6 3 (2.01%) RMADS
7 2 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.34%) GRC
7 2 (1.34%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.34%) QA
8 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (9.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (8.72%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.71%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.34%) Firmware
5 1 (0.67%) Docker
5 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (20.13%) Ansible
2 26 (17.45%) FortiGate
3 24 (16.11%) Terraform
4 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.68%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (2.68%) Iperf
5 4 (2.68%) Nmap
6 3 (2.01%) CSIRT
6 3 (2.01%) QRadar
6 3 (2.01%) SCCM
7 2 (1.34%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.34%) Grafana
7 2 (1.34%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.34%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.67%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.67%) Puppet
8 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 90 (60.40%) Cisco
2 61 (40.94%) Palo Alto
3 38 (25.50%) Juniper
4 29 (19.46%) CheckPoint
4 29 (19.46%) F5
5 25 (16.78%) Microsoft
6 22 (14.77%) Aruba
6 22 (14.77%) SolarWinds
7 16 (10.74%) VMware
8 12 (8.05%) Meraki
9 10 (6.71%) Zscaler
10 6 (4.03%) Arista
10 6 (4.03%) Tenable
11 5 (3.36%) Splunk
12 4 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (2.68%) Infoblox
13 3 (2.01%) Extreme Networks
13 3 (2.01%) McAfee
13 3 (2.01%) Nokia
13 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow