Fortinet Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Fortinet
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Fortinet products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fortinet over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Fortinet, Inc.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 353 470
Rank change year-on-year -37 +117 -28
Permanent jobs citing Fortinet 250 213 299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.63% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 1.43% 1.53% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 187 185 248
10th Percentile £28,800 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,375 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +0.49% +0.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.00% -8.26% +4.55%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Fortinet falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,482 13,901 23,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.50% 41.17% 32.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10,261 7,381 16,145
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,876 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.07% +10.00% -13.04%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Fortinet job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Fortinet
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fortinet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fortinet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Fortinet in the UK excluding London

Fortinet
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fortinet within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -13 95 £50,000 - 25
North of England -11 59 £65,000 +13.04% 24
Midlands -8 38 £58,200 -3.00% 13
North West -10 38 £65,000 +13.04% 20
South West -62 29 £50,000 +2.56% 6
West Midlands +1 27 £65,000 +75.68% 8
Yorkshire -25 21 £50,000 -37.50% 4
East of England -18 17 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Scotland +12 12 £50,500 +34.67% 3
East Midlands -24 11 £53,750 -17.31% 5
Fortinet
UK

Fortinet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 24 (9.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.20%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 81 (32.40%) Azure
2 51 (20.40%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (16.40%) AWS
4 19 (7.60%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.20%) Mimecast
6 5 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.20%) GitHub
8 3 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.20%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.80%) IaaS
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.80%) OCI
9 2 (0.80%) PaaS
9 2 (0.80%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.80%) Stripe
10 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 148 (59.20%) Firewall
2 97 (38.80%) WAN
3 85 (34.00%) LAN
4 78 (31.20%) Network Security
5 68 (27.20%) VPN
6 53 (21.20%) Wireless
7 51 (20.40%) SD-WAN
8 44 (17.60%) VLAN
9 24 (9.60%) DNS
9 24 (9.60%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (9.20%) BGP
10 23 (9.20%) WLAN
11 21 (8.40%) MPLS
12 19 (7.60%) DHCP
12 19 (7.60%) WebEx
13 18 (7.20%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (7.20%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (6.80%) TCP/IP
14 17 (6.80%) VoIP
15 16 (6.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.60%) MySQL
2 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.80%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.40%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Git
General
1 43 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.20%) Multimedia
3 22 (8.80%) Presentation Skills
3 22 (8.80%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.40%) Telecoms
5 17 (6.80%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.00%) Retail
8 9 (3.60%) Banking
8 9 (3.60%) Marketing
9 8 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Finance
10 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 44 (17.60%) IT Engineer
3 41 (16.40%) Support Engineer
4 37 (14.80%) IT Support
4 37 (14.80%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (11.20%) Trainee
5 28 (11.20%) Trainee IT Support
5 28 (11.20%) Trainee Support Engineer
6 26 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (10.40%) Senior
7 25 (10.00%) Consultant
8 21 (8.40%) Designer
8 21 (8.40%) Network Designer
9 19 (7.60%) 2nd Line Support
10 16 (6.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 16 (6.40%) Network Consultant
11 15 (6.00%) Senior Network Engineer
12 12 (4.80%) 2nd Line Support Technician
12 12 (4.80%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 12 (4.80%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.00%) XMPP
2 5 (2.00%) REST
3 3 (1.20%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.20%) Django
3 3 (1.20%) Flask
3 3 (1.20%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.20%) Jinja
3 3 (1.20%) JSON
3 3 (1.20%) OAuth
3 3 (1.20%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.20%) pytest
3 3 (1.20%) RFC 2833
3 3 (1.20%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (1.20%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.40%) Driving Licence
2 16 (6.40%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (5.20%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.00%) FlexPod
5 10 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (3.60%) Replication
6 9 (3.60%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.20%) Web Conferencing
8 6 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.80%) CSOC
10 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.80%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.80%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.40%) CMDB
11 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 62 (24.80%) Windows
2 30 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 23 (9.20%) Linux
4 8 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.20%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (19.60%) Project Delivery
2 48 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (17.60%) Mentoring
4 37 (14.80%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (13.20%) ITIL
6 27 (10.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (10.80%) Presales
7 26 (10.40%) Network Design
8 25 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 24 (9.60%) Customer Service
10 22 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (8.80%) Time Management
11 18 (7.20%) Project Management
12 17 (6.80%) Customer Requirements
12 17 (6.80%) High Availability
12 17 (6.80%) Network Monitoring
13 16 (6.40%) Logistics
13 16 (6.40%) Migration
14 15 (6.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.60%) Python
2 13 (5.20%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.60%) Bash
3 4 (1.60%) SQL
4 3 (1.20%) Bicep
4 3 (1.20%) C
4 3 (1.20%) C++
5 2 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 57 (22.80%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (16.40%) CCNA
3 39 (15.60%) CCNP
4 30 (12.00%) Security Cleared
5 22 (8.80%) DBS Check
6 19 (7.60%) SC Cleared
7 11 (4.40%) Azure Certification
8 10 (4.00%) Degree
8 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.20%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.40%) MCSA
10 6 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.60%) CCIE
11 4 (1.60%) CISSP
11 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.20%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.40%) SLA
2 8 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 36 (14.40%) Active Directory
2 33 (13.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 11 (4.40%) vSphere
5 6 (2.40%) Docker
5 6 (2.40%) Firmware
5 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.20%) Kamailio
6 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.40%) XenApp
7 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 24 (9.60%) FortiGate
2 16 (6.40%) SCCM
3 15 (6.00%) Ansible
4 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 10 (4.00%) Grafana
6 8 (3.20%) Terraform
7 4 (1.60%) Iperf
7 4 (1.60%) Kubernetes
8 3 (1.20%) Argo
9 2 (0.80%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.40%) Nagios
10 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 154 (61.60%) Cisco
2 102 (40.80%) Microsoft
3 51 (20.40%) Aruba
4 47 (18.80%) Palo Alto
5 40 (16.00%) VMware
6 31 (12.40%) SonicWALL
7 30 (12.00%) Juniper
8 28 (11.20%) Fujitsu
8 28 (11.20%) Virgin Media
9 24 (9.60%) Meraki
10 16 (6.40%) Sophos
11 14 (5.60%) WatchGuard
12 11 (4.40%) Veeam
13 10 (4.00%) N-able
13 10 (4.00%) Splunk
14 8 (3.20%) Barracuda Networks
14 8 (3.20%) NetApp
14 8 (3.20%) Ruckus Wireless
15 7 (2.80%) CheckPoint
16 6 (2.40%) Dell