Fortinet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 20 April 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
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 341 481
Rank change year-on-year -64 +140 +90
Permanent jobs citing Fortinet 349 332 451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.79% 0.48%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 2.01% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 215 278 391
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -7.83% +9.52%
75th Percentile £73,875 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,678 16,545 35,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.99% 39.56% 37.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12,191 10,236 25,180
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £35,892 £40,000 £36,247
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Fortinet job vacancy trend in the UK

Fortinet
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fortinet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fortinet over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Fortinet in the UK

Fortinet
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fortinet within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 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
England -52 326 £60,000 +13.21% 88
UK excluding London -114 205 £57,500 +9.52% 69
London +38 118 £60,000 -15.79% 30
Work from Home +36 93 £60,000 +14.29% 33
South East -69 61 £57,500 +8.49% 29
North of England -53 55 £50,000 -9.09% 16
North West -27 43 £50,000 -9.09% 7
South West -45 30 £52,500 +10.53% 1
Midlands -50 26 £61,000 +74.29% 12
East of England -36 18 £56,250 +22.28% 10
West Midlands -42 18 £63,000 +80.00% 6
Yorkshire -55 11 £41,500 -30.83% 7
Northern Ireland - 9 £57,500 - 1
East Midlands -56 8 £50,000 -23.08% 6
Scotland -19 6 £54,750 +36.88% 3
North East - 1 £65,000 - 2

Fortinet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 16 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 129 (36.96%) Azure
2 88 (25.21%) AWS
3 47 (13.47%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (4.58%) Entra ID
5 14 (4.01%) GCP
6 13 (3.72%) Mimecast
7 11 (3.15%) AWS Direct Connect
8 9 (2.58%) SaaS
8 9 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (2.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 6 (1.72%) OCI
11 4 (1.15%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.86%) GitHub
12 3 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.86%) IaaS
13 2 (0.57%) PaaS
13 2 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 192 (55.01%) Firewall
2 152 (43.55%) WAN
3 126 (36.10%) LAN
4 83 (23.78%) SD-WAN
5 74 (21.20%) VPN
6 60 (17.19%) Network Security
7 59 (16.91%) Wireless
8 57 (16.33%) BGP
9 48 (13.75%) MPLS
9 48 (13.75%) OSPF
10 41 (11.75%) VLAN
11 40 (11.46%) Cisco ASA
12 37 (10.60%) Cisco Firepower
13 35 (10.03%) Wi-Fi
14 34 (9.74%) WLAN
15 27 (7.74%) VXLAN
16 26 (7.45%) Cisco ISE
17 21 (6.02%) Cisco Nexus
18 19 (5.44%) WebEx
19 18 (5.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.15%) Big Data
1 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (1.15%) MySQL
2 3 (0.86%) MongoDB
2 3 (0.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.29%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.15%) MLflow
2 3 (0.86%) Git
2 3 (0.86%) JIRA
General
1 79 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.17%) Multimedia
2 39 (11.17%) Presentation Skills
3 28 (8.02%) Finance
4 24 (6.88%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.88%) Telecoms
5 23 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (5.44%) Banking
6 19 (5.44%) Retail
7 12 (3.44%) Marketing
8 9 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.43%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.15%) Billing
11 4 (1.15%) Police
12 2 (0.57%) Advertising
12 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.29%) Legal
13 1 (0.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (32.38%) Network Engineer
2 62 (17.77%) IT Engineer
3 50 (14.33%) Support Engineer
4 46 (13.18%) Senior
5 45 (12.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 45 (12.89%) IT Support
6 44 (12.61%) IT Support Engineer
7 42 (12.03%) Cisco Engineer
8 39 (11.17%) Trainee
8 39 (11.17%) Trainee IT Support
8 39 (11.17%) Trainee Support Engineer
9 35 (10.03%) LAN Engineer
10 33 (9.46%) Architect
10 33 (9.46%) LAN/WAN Engineer
10 33 (9.46%) WAN Engineer
11 30 (8.60%) Consultant
11 30 (8.60%) Firewall Engineer
12 28 (8.02%) Senior Network Engineer
13 25 (7.16%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (6.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.44%) REST
2 9 (2.58%) XMPP
3 4 (1.15%) CSS
3 4 (1.15%) LangChain
3 4 (1.15%) Pandas
3 4 (1.15%) PySpark
3 4 (1.15%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.15%) React
3 4 (1.15%) scikit-learn
3 4 (1.15%) TensorFlow
3 4 (1.15%) XGBoost
4 3 (0.86%) Django
4 3 (0.86%) Flask
4 3 (0.86%) Jinja
4 3 (0.86%) JSON
4 3 (0.86%) OAuth
4 3 (0.86%) OAuth2
4 3 (0.86%) pytest
4 3 (0.86%) RFC 2833
4 3 (0.86%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 59 (16.91%) Data Centre
2 48 (13.75%) Driving Licence
3 26 (7.45%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (5.44%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.58%) FlexPod
8 9 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.29%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.29%) Replication
9 8 (2.29%) Web Conferencing
10 4 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.15%) Digital Signage
10 4 (1.15%) IoT
11 3 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.89%) Windows
2 28 (8.02%) Linux
3 25 (7.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.15%) Unix
4 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.86%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.29%) Debian
7 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.29%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (21.20%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (20.06%) Presales
3 61 (17.48%) Mentoring
4 49 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 44 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (10.60%) ITIL
7 34 (9.74%) Project Delivery
8 32 (9.17%) Zero Trust
9 28 (8.02%) Computer Science
10 26 (7.45%) Kalman Filter
10 26 (7.45%) Network Segmentation
11 25 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (7.16%) Network Design
12 24 (6.88%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (6.59%) AI
14 22 (6.30%) Customer Service
15 21 (6.02%) Customer Engagement
16 20 (5.73%) High Availability
16 20 (5.73%) Roadmaps
16 20 (5.73%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.19%) Python
2 28 (8.02%) PowerShell
3 10 (2.87%) SQL
4 4 (1.15%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.15%) R
5 3 (0.86%) Bash
5 3 (0.86%) Bicep
5 3 (0.86%) C
5 3 (0.86%) C++
Qualifications
1 129 (36.96%) Cisco Certification
2 93 (26.65%) CCNP
3 64 (18.34%) CCNA
4 43 (12.32%) Degree
5 36 (10.32%) CCIE
6 29 (8.31%) Security Cleared
7 24 (6.88%) JNCIA
8 23 (6.59%) CCSE
8 23 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (5.16%) CCSA
10 17 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (4.58%) SC Cleared
12 10 (2.87%) Azure Certification
12 10 (2.87%) JNCIP
12 10 (2.87%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (2.01%) DBS Check
13 7 (2.01%) DV Cleared
14 6 (1.72%) CISSP
15 5 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.29%) GDPR
3 7 (2.01%) SLA
4 5 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.86%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (9.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (9.46%) Active Directory
3 20 (5.73%) Firmware
4 18 (5.16%) Hyper-V
5 12 (3.44%) Docker
5 12 (3.44%) vSphere
6 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.86%) Kamailio
7 3 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.29%) iptables
8 1 (0.29%) pfSense
8 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.29%) XenApp
8 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (13.75%) FortiGate
2 43 (12.32%) Ansible
3 21 (6.02%) Terraform
4 19 (5.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (4.01%) Grafana
6 9 (2.58%) Cisco CUCM
6 9 (2.58%) Kubernetes
7 8 (2.29%) Nagios
7 8 (2.29%) SCCM
8 7 (2.01%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.86%) Argo
9 3 (0.86%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.57%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.29%) Nessus
11 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 214 (61.32%) Cisco
2 108 (30.95%) Microsoft
3 84 (24.07%) Palo Alto
4 58 (16.62%) Juniper
5 52 (14.90%) CheckPoint
6 50 (14.33%) Aruba
7 49 (14.04%) VMware
8 42 (12.03%) Meraki
9 40 (11.46%) CrowdStrike
10 39 (11.17%) Fujitsu
10 39 (11.17%) Virgin Media
11 25 (7.16%) SolarWinds
12 19 (5.44%) Sophos
13 16 (4.58%) Splunk
14 15 (4.30%) F5
14 15 (4.30%) ServiceNow
15 14 (4.01%) Arista
15 14 (4.01%) SonicWALL
15 14 (4.01%) Tenable
16 11 (3.15%) Draytek