Fortinet Contract Job Trends in London

Fortinet
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 267 314
Rank change year-on-year -20 +47 +96
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 94 99 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.68% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 1.39% 1.53% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 64 55
10th Percentile £406 £408 £378
25th Percentile £450 £488 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £607 £741
90th Percentile £601 £650 £883
England median daily rate £500 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -4.76%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,784 6,455 7,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.05% 44.16% 40.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,432 4,023 5,044
10th Percentile £350 £313 £298
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 70 110
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.80 £16.56
25th Percentile £21.60 £23.80 £22.19
Median hourly rate £25.74 £33.00 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -22.02% -11.22% +45.17%
75th Percentile £41.89 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.94 £81.93 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -20.58% -34.78% +70.37%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fortinet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Fortinet job vacancy trend in London

Fortinet
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Fortinet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fortinet in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fortinet in London

Fortinet
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Fortinet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fortinet within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
West London -4 15 £450 - 2
Central London 0 8 £475 -29.89% 26
South London -3 4 £550 - 5
East London - 3 £525 - 1
Fortinet
England

Fortinet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.19%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (32.98%) Azure
2 26 (27.66%) AWS
3 10 (10.64%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (8.51%) GCP
5 7 (7.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (5.32%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.26%) Akamai
8 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.19%) GitHub
8 3 (3.19%) Route 53
9 2 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.13%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.13%) Nutanix
9 2 (2.13%) ShareGate
10 1 (1.06%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.06%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 66 (70.21%) Firewall
2 40 (42.55%) SD-WAN
3 37 (39.36%) WAN
4 33 (35.11%) LAN
5 28 (29.79%) VPN
6 27 (28.72%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (26.60%) Cisco Nexus
7 25 (26.60%) Network Security
8 22 (23.40%) BGP
9 20 (21.28%) OSPF
10 13 (13.83%) TCP/IP
11 12 (12.77%) Wireless
12 8 (8.51%) DNS
13 7 (7.45%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (7.45%) SSL
14 5 (5.32%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (5.32%) DHCP
14 5 (5.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 5 (5.32%) Internet
14 5 (5.32%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 5 (5.32%) JIRA
2 4 (4.26%) GitLab
3 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.13%) Git
General
1 17 (18.09%) Public Sector
2 13 (13.83%) Finance
2 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.64%) Telecoms
4 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Local Government
7 3 (3.19%) Military
8 2 (2.13%) Banking
8 2 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.13%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Legal
8 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Electronics
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.06%) Marketing
9 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (32.98%) Network Engineer
2 24 (25.53%) Architect
3 22 (23.40%) Network Architect
4 10 (10.64%) Network Design Architect
4 10 (10.64%) Security Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Lead
5 9 (9.57%) Network Security Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Senior
6 8 (8.51%) Network Specialist
7 5 (5.32%) Consultant
7 5 (5.32%) Designer
7 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Network Designer
7 5 (5.32%) Network Security Architect
7 5 (5.32%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Network Specialist
9 3 (3.19%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.13%) JSON
2 2 (2.13%) NETCONF
2 2 (2.13%) XML
2 2 (2.13%) YANG
3 1 (1.06%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (4.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.19%) PKI
4 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.13%) Life Science
5 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.13%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.13%) SCADA
6 1 (1.06%) IoT
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) NHS
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.09%) Network Design
1 17 (18.09%) SIEM
2 15 (15.96%) Migration
3 14 (14.89%) Incident Response
3 14 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (13.83%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (11.70%) Cloud Security
6 10 (10.64%) Change Management
6 10 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (10.64%) ITIL
6 10 (10.64%) Network Monitoring
7 9 (9.57%) Agile
7 9 (9.57%) Roadmaps
8 8 (8.51%) Data Loss Prevention
8 8 (8.51%) DevOps
8 8 (8.51%) Information Security
8 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (7.45%) Network Architecture
9 7 (7.45%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.64%) Python
2 5 (5.32%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.19%) SQL
5 1 (1.06%) Bash
5 1 (1.06%) C++
5 1 (1.06%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 18 (19.15%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (14.89%) CCNP
5 10 (10.64%) CCNA
6 9 (9.57%) CISSP
6 9 (9.57%) Degree
7 6 (6.38%) CISM
8 5 (5.32%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (4.26%) CCIE
9 4 (4.26%) CISA
9 4 (4.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.13%) CCSE
10 2 (2.13%) HP ASE
10 2 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.13%) JNCIA
10 2 (2.13%) JNCIS
10 2 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) NIST
2 7 (7.45%) GDPR
2 7 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.19%) SLA
5 1 (1.06%) PMO
5 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (20.21%) FortiGate
2 13 (13.83%) Terraform
3 12 (12.77%) Ansible
4 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.26%) CSIRT
5 4 (4.26%) QRadar
6 2 (2.13%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (60.64%) Cisco
2 34 (36.17%) Palo Alto
3 21 (22.34%) Microsoft
4 14 (14.89%) CheckPoint
4 14 (14.89%) F5
4 14 (14.89%) Juniper
5 13 (13.83%) Aruba
6 7 (7.45%) Citrix
6 7 (7.45%) SolarWinds
7 6 (6.38%) Meraki
8 5 (5.32%) Forcepoint
8 5 (5.32%) Splunk
8 5 (5.32%) Zscaler
9 4 (4.26%) Arista
10 3 (3.19%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (3.19%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (3.19%) Infoblox
11 2 (2.13%) 3PAR
11 2 (2.13%) ProCurve
11 2 (2.13%) Trend Micro