Hybrid/Remote Fortinet Job Trends

Fortinet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 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
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 327 352
Rank change year-on-year +33 +25 +100
Permanent jobs citing Fortinet 91 61 222
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.48% 0.71%
As % of the Vendors category 1.68% 1.16% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 59 50 207
10th Percentile £39,700 £32,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £36,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -20.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £75,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.21% -7.83% +9.52%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,402 5,250 12,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.02% 40.91% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,449 3,761 10,131
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,728 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,750 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +12.00% -13.04%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Fortinet and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Fortinet job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Fortinet
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fortinet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fortinet over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Fortinet salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Fortinet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.10%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (46.15%) Azure
2 28 (30.77%) AWS
3 22 (24.18%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (12.09%) AWS Direct Connect
5 9 (9.89%) Mimecast
5 9 (9.89%) SaaS
5 9 (9.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (4.40%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.40%) OCI
7 3 (3.30%) GCP
7 3 (3.30%) GitHub
7 3 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.20%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.10%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 69 (75.82%) Firewall
2 51 (56.04%) WAN
3 39 (42.86%) LAN
4 36 (39.56%) SD-WAN
5 33 (36.26%) VPN
6 25 (27.47%) Cisco ASA
7 20 (21.98%) Network Security
8 19 (20.88%) BGP
9 18 (19.78%) Cisco Firepower
9 18 (19.78%) Cisco ISE
10 17 (18.68%) VLAN
10 17 (18.68%) WLAN
11 16 (17.58%) MPLS
11 16 (17.58%) OSPF
12 15 (16.48%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (15.38%) NX-OS
13 14 (15.38%) VXLAN
14 12 (13.19%) Unified Communications
15 11 (12.09%) IPsec
16 9 (9.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) MySQL
2 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.10%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) GitLab
2 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.19%) Finance
3 10 (10.99%) Banking
3 10 (10.99%) Telecoms
4 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.69%) Retail
6 6 (6.59%) Marketing
6 6 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (43.96%) Network Engineer
2 29 (31.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (20.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Senior
5 11 (12.09%) Cisco Engineer
5 11 (12.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (12.09%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Network Operations Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Operations Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Architect
7 9 (9.89%) Firewall Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Collaboration Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Network Specialist
11 4 (4.40%) Network Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.59%) XMPP
2 3 (3.30%) Django
2 3 (3.30%) Flask
2 3 (3.30%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (3.30%) Jinja
2 3 (3.30%) OAuth
2 3 (3.30%) OAuth2
2 3 (3.30%) pytest
2 3 (3.30%) REST
2 3 (3.30%) RFC 2833
2 3 (3.30%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (3.30%) WebRTC
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.27%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.89%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.79%) Driving Licence
4 7 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 6 (6.59%) FlexPod
5 6 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.59%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (5.49%) Replication
6 5 (5.49%) Web Conferencing
7 4 (4.40%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (3.30%) IoT
9 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.20%) e-Learning
10 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.10%) CCTV
10 1 (1.10%) CMDB
10 1 (1.10%) Derivative
10 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.27%) Windows
2 13 (14.29%) Linux
2 13 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.40%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.20%) CentOS
5 1 (1.10%) Debian
5 1 (1.10%) OpenWrt
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (27.47%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (17.58%) Cloud Security
4 16 (17.58%) Zero Trust
5 14 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 14 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 13 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (13.19%) Kalman Filter
7 12 (13.19%) Presales
7 12 (13.19%) Runbook
8 11 (12.09%) Network Segmentation
9 10 (10.99%) ITIL
10 9 (9.89%) Time Management
11 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (8.79%) Network Architecture
11 8 (8.79%) Vulnerability Management
12 7 (7.69%) Incident Response
12 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.48%) Python
2 12 (13.19%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.40%) SQL
4 3 (3.30%) Bash
4 3 (3.30%) C
4 3 (3.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (29.67%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (20.88%) CCNP
3 10 (10.99%) CCNA
4 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.59%) CCIE
6 6 (6.59%) Degree
7 5 (5.49%) CCSE
8 4 (4.40%) CCSA
8 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.40%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.30%) DBS Check
9 3 (3.30%) JNCIP
9 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.20%) CCIE Security
10 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.20%) JNCIE
10 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.40%) GDPR
3 3 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.30%) NIST
3 3 (3.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 14 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.99%) Firmware
3 6 (6.59%) Hyper-V
3 6 (6.59%) vSphere
4 5 (5.49%) Docker
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (5.49%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (3.30%) Kamailio
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (1.10%) iptables
7 1 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) Ansible
2 12 (13.19%) Terraform
3 10 (10.99%) FortiGate
4 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.59%) Cisco CUCM
5 6 (6.59%) Grafana
5 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.30%) Argo
6 3 (3.30%) SCCM
7 2 (2.20%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.20%) Nagios
8 1 (1.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (69.23%) Cisco
2 36 (39.56%) Microsoft
3 24 (26.37%) Palo Alto
4 23 (25.27%) CheckPoint
5 21 (23.08%) VMware
6 14 (15.38%) Meraki
6 14 (15.38%) SolarWinds
7 12 (13.19%) Sophos
8 11 (12.09%) Dynatrace
9 10 (10.99%) Splunk
10 9 (9.89%) Juniper
10 9 (9.89%) ServiceNow
11 7 (7.69%) Draytek
11 7 (7.69%) SonicWALL
12 6 (6.59%) Zscaler
13 5 (5.49%) Barracuda Networks
13 5 (5.49%) N-able
13 5 (5.49%) NetApp
14 4 (4.40%) Dell
14 4 (4.40%) Okta