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 23 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
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 253 273
Rank change year-on-year -100 +20 +49
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 105 120 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.89% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.22% 1.93% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 74 73
10th Percentile £400 £400 £380
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £624 £613 £650
England median daily rate £478 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -4.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.25 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +27.91% - -

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 8,608 6,211 6,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.67% 46.10% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,610 4,018 4,705
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -1.22% -4.23%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 128 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.56 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -6.90% -20.42%
75th Percentile £62.44 £39.06 £61.39
90th Percentile £81.63 £63.40 £76.13
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.25
% change year-on-year +29.22% -10.97% -29.38%

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 23 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fortinet in London over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Fortinet in London

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 23 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
Central London -13 16 £525 -6.67% 8
West London -42 3 £500 +11.11%
South London -12 2 £545 -0.84% 1
North London - 1 £225 - 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 (3.81%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (34.29%) Azure
2 25 (23.81%) AWS
3 7 (6.67%) GitHub
3 7 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.81%) GCP
6 4 (3.81%) Serverless
6 4 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.86%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (2.86%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.90%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.95%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 95 (90.48%) Firewall
2 41 (39.05%) WAN
3 38 (36.19%) BGP
4 30 (28.57%) Network Security
5 26 (24.76%) VPN
6 25 (23.81%) VLAN
7 21 (20.00%) OSPF
8 17 (16.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 16 (15.24%) Multicast
10 14 (13.33%) LAN
11 13 (12.38%) Cisco IOS
11 13 (12.38%) DNS
12 12 (11.43%) NX-OS
13 11 (10.48%) SD-WAN
13 11 (10.48%) Wireless
14 9 (8.57%) TCP/IP
15 8 (7.62%) IPsec
16 7 (6.67%) DHCP
16 7 (6.67%) MPLS
16 7 (6.67%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 6 (5.71%) JIRA
2 4 (3.81%) Git
3 3 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.86%) GitLab
3 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.38%) Finance
3 11 (10.48%) Banking
4 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.76%) Retail
6 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Law
6 4 (3.81%) Legal
7 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Military
8 2 (1.90%) Police
9 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (60.95%) Network Engineer
2 18 (17.14%) Senior
3 15 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 15 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) Senior Network Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Architect
5 11 (10.48%) Network Architect
6 8 (7.62%) Firewall Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Network Security Architect
7 6 (5.71%) Security Architect
8 4 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) LAN Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Senior Firewall Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) IT Engineer
10 2 (1.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 2 (1.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.00%) Terraform
2 6 (5.71%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.90%) eBPF
4 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.95%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (30.48%) Data Centre
2 13 (12.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.81%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.95%) CMDB
6 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.62%) Windows
2 6 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.90%) Linux
4 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 17 (16.19%) Migration
3 14 (13.33%) Validation
4 13 (12.38%) Cloud Security
4 13 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (12.38%) Zero Trust
5 11 (10.48%) DevOps
5 11 (10.48%) Low Latency
6 10 (9.52%) Network Design
6 10 (9.52%) Runbook
7 9 (8.57%) Mentoring
8 8 (7.62%) CI/CD
8 8 (7.62%) Load Balancing
9 7 (6.67%) Agile
9 7 (6.67%) ITSM
9 7 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
9 7 (6.67%) Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (6.67%) SIEM
10 6 (5.71%) Security Architecture
10 6 (5.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.19%) Python
2 8 (7.62%) Bash
3 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (31.43%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (27.62%) CCNP
3 18 (17.14%) Security Cleared
4 17 (16.19%) SC Cleared
5 11 (10.48%) CCIE
6 7 (6.67%) Degree
7 4 (3.81%) CCSE
7 4 (3.81%) CISSP
8 2 (1.90%) CCIE Security
8 2 (1.90%) CISM
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.95%) CCNA
9 1 (0.95%) CCSA
9 1 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.95%) CSPO
9 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.90%) NIST
1 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.90%) QA
2 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.95%) GRC
2 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (7.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.81%) Firmware
3 3 (2.86%) Docker
3 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (26.67%) Ansible
2 24 (22.86%) FortiGate
3 9 (8.57%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.81%) Grafana
6 3 (2.86%) Consul
6 3 (2.86%) Puppet
6 3 (2.86%) Salt
7 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.95%) CASB
8 1 (0.95%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 74 (70.48%) Cisco
2 52 (49.52%) Palo Alto
3 23 (21.90%) F5
4 22 (20.95%) Arista
5 19 (18.10%) CheckPoint
6 17 (16.19%) Juniper
7 16 (15.24%) Microsoft
7 16 (15.24%) Zscaler
8 8 (7.62%) Aruba
9 6 (5.71%) Splunk
10 5 (4.76%) Blue Coat
10 5 (4.76%) Infoblox
10 5 (4.76%) SolarWinds
11 4 (3.81%) Riverbed
11 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
11 4 (3.81%) VMware
12 3 (2.86%) Dell
12 3 (2.86%) Tenable
13 2 (1.90%) ForeScout
13 2 (1.90%) Qualys