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 8 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 270 311
Rank change year-on-year -27 +41 +88
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 80 97 75
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 0.68% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 1.20% 1.55% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 63 50
10th Percentile £411 £405 £375
25th Percentile £450 £478 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £743
90th Percentile £613 £650 £888
England median daily rate £478 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -9.91% +6.00% -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 6,676 6,270 7,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.58% 43.98% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,367 3,901 4,953
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £640 £648 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 68 109
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.86 £15.90
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% -5.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £41.85 £62.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.12 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +47.11%

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 8 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 8 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
Central London +4 8 £475 -29.89% 11
West London -12 7 £450 - 1
East London - 3 £525 - 1
South London -4 1 - - 3
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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (38.75%) Azure
2 26 (32.50%) AWS
3 10 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (10.00%) GCP
5 7 (8.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.75%) GitHub
7 3 (3.75%) Route 53
8 2 (2.50%) Akamai
8 2 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.50%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.50%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.50%) ShareGate
9 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.25%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 54 (67.50%) Firewall
2 33 (41.25%) WAN
3 29 (36.25%) SD-WAN
4 28 (35.00%) VPN
5 23 (28.75%) LAN
5 23 (28.75%) Network Security
6 19 (23.75%) BGP
7 17 (21.25%) OSPF
7 17 (21.25%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (16.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 13 (16.25%) TCP/IP
9 12 (15.00%) Wireless
10 8 (10.00%) DNS
11 7 (8.75%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (8.75%) SSL
12 5 (6.25%) DHCP
12 5 (6.25%) Internet
12 5 (6.25%) IPsec
12 5 (6.25%) NGFW
13 4 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) JIRA
2 4 (5.00%) GitLab
3 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.50%) Git
General
1 15 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 13 (16.25%) Finance
3 12 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Local Government
7 3 (3.75%) Military
8 2 (2.50%) Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.50%) Law
8 2 (2.50%) Legal
8 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Electronics
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (33.75%) Network Engineer
2 17 (21.25%) Architect
3 16 (20.00%) Network Architect
4 10 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Lead
5 9 (11.25%) Network Security Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Senior
7 7 (8.75%) Network Design Architect
8 6 (7.50%) Network Specialist
9 5 (6.25%) Consultant
10 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Firewall Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Lead Network Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Migration Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Network Security Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Security Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 3 (3.75%) Senior Network Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.50%) JSON
2 2 (2.50%) NETCONF
2 2 (2.50%) XML
2 2 (2.50%) YANG
3 1 (1.25%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.75%) PKI
4 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.50%) Life Science
5 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.50%) SCADA
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (21.25%) SIEM
2 15 (18.75%) Migration
3 14 (17.50%) Incident Response
3 14 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (16.25%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (16.25%) Network Design
5 11 (13.75%) Cloud Security
6 10 (12.50%) Change Management
6 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (11.25%) Agile
7 9 (11.25%) ITIL
7 9 (11.25%) Roadmaps
8 8 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 8 (10.00%) DevOps
8 8 (10.00%) Information Security
8 8 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
8 8 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (8.75%) Network Architecture
9 7 (8.75%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.50%) Python
2 5 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.75%) SQL
5 1 (1.25%) Bash
5 1 (1.25%) C++
5 1 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.75%) SC Cleared
3 17 (21.25%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (17.50%) CCNP
5 9 (11.25%) CCNA
5 9 (11.25%) CISSP
5 9 (11.25%) Degree
6 6 (7.50%) CISM
7 5 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (5.00%) CCIE
8 4 (5.00%) CISA
8 4 (5.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.50%) CCSE
9 2 (2.50%) HP ASE
9 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.50%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.50%) JNCIS
9 2 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) NIST
2 7 (8.75%) GDPR
2 7 (8.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.75%) SLA
5 1 (1.25%) PMO
5 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) FortiGate
2 13 (16.25%) Terraform
3 12 (15.00%) Ansible
4 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (5.00%) CSIRT
5 4 (5.00%) QRadar
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (55.00%) Cisco
2 34 (42.50%) Palo Alto
3 20 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 14 (17.50%) CheckPoint
5 13 (16.25%) Aruba
6 12 (15.00%) F5
6 12 (15.00%) Juniper
7 7 (8.75%) Citrix
8 6 (7.50%) Meraki
9 5 (6.25%) Forcepoint
9 5 (6.25%) SolarWinds
9 5 (6.25%) Splunk
9 5 (6.25%) Zscaler
10 4 (5.00%) Arista
11 3 (3.75%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (3.75%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (3.75%) Infoblox
12 2 (2.50%) 3PAR
12 2 (2.50%) ProCurve
12 2 (2.50%) Trend Micro