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 16 December 2025, 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
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 340 310
Rank change year-on-year +30 -30 +147
Permanent jobs citing Fortinet 62 107 166
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.61% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 0.95% 1.59% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 48 73 152
10th Percentile £30,875 £30,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,625 £62,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,125 £74,500 £106,289
UK median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -

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 6,531 6,743 8,298
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.58% 38.31% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,482 4,090 6,737
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £32,756
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,462 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.03%
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -4.35%

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 16 December 2025.

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 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 27 (43.55%) Azure
2 10 (16.13%) AWS
2 10 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.23%) OCI
5 2 (3.23%) SaaS
5 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) IaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.61%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.61%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.61%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (70.97%) Firewall
2 28 (45.16%) WAN
3 25 (40.32%) LAN
4 20 (32.26%) VPN
5 17 (27.42%) SD-WAN
6 14 (22.58%) Cisco ASA
7 12 (19.35%) MPLS
7 12 (19.35%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (17.74%) Network Security
9 9 (14.52%) BGP
10 8 (12.90%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (12.90%) WLAN
11 7 (11.29%) VLAN
12 6 (9.68%) NX-OS
12 6 (9.68%) OSPF
13 5 (8.06%) SAN
13 5 (8.06%) Wireless
14 4 (6.45%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (6.45%) DNS
14 4 (6.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) GitLab
1 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.52%) Finance
3 6 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Electronics
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (48.39%) Network Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Senior
5 8 (12.90%) Network Operations Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Operations Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Architect
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Administrator
8 4 (6.45%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) DBA
8 4 (6.45%) Lead
8 4 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.45%) SQL DBA
9 3 (4.84%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Consultant
9 3 (4.84%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.19%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.84%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.23%) CMDB
4 2 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.23%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.61%) CCTV
5 1 (1.61%) Derivative
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.74%) Windows
2 7 (11.29%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.06%) Linux
4 1 (1.61%) CentOS
4 1 (1.61%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (1.61%) Debian
4 1 (1.61%) OpenWrt
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (19.35%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (16.13%) Presales
5 9 (14.52%) Cloud Security
5 9 (14.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
6 7 (11.29%) Network Design
6 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
6 7 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (9.68%) DevOps
7 6 (9.68%) High Availability
7 6 (9.68%) Kalman Filter
7 6 (9.68%) Network Architecture
7 6 (9.68%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (9.68%) Runbook
7 6 (9.68%) Service Delivery
7 6 (9.68%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.68%) Bash
1 6 (9.68%) Python
1 6 (9.68%) SQL
2 5 (8.06%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.45%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (30.65%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (19.35%) CCNP
3 7 (11.29%) Degree
4 6 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.45%) CCNA
7 3 (4.84%) CCIE
8 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.61%) CCSE
9 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.61%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.61%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.61%) PMP
9 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.13%) Firmware
3 2 (3.23%) Docker
3 2 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.61%) iptables
4 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (22.58%) FortiGate
2 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.45%) Ansible
4 3 (4.84%) Terraform
5 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.23%) Nagios
6 1 (1.61%) Autotask
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.61%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (74.19%) Cisco
2 23 (37.10%) Microsoft
3 15 (24.19%) Palo Alto
4 14 (22.58%) Juniper
5 10 (16.13%) CheckPoint
6 6 (9.68%) SolarWinds
6 6 (9.68%) VMware
7 5 (8.06%) Aruba
7 5 (8.06%) BT
7 5 (8.06%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (8.06%) F5
7 5 (8.06%) Mitel
8 3 (4.84%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (3.23%) Dynatrace
9 2 (3.23%) Meraki
9 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
9 2 (3.23%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.61%) ConnectWise
10 1 (1.61%) ForeScout
10 1 (1.61%) Ubiquiti