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 28 March 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 336 344
Rank change year-on-year +30 +8 +105
Permanent jobs citing Fortinet 88 58 216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.45% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 1.55% 1.11% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 57 48 202
10th Percentile £39,400 £32,125 £41,325
25th Percentile £53,750 £36,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,625 £76,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £73,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.21% -7.83% +6.21%

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 5,676 5,222 12,530
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 33.63% 40.60% 40.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,447 3,718 10,113
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,270 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 28 March 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 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.14%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (44.32%) Azure
2 26 (29.55%) AWS
3 19 (21.59%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
5 9 (10.23%) SaaS
5 9 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (7.95%) Mimecast
7 4 (4.55%) OCI
8 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.41%) GCP
8 3 (3.41%) GitHub
8 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.27%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.14%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 66 (75.00%) Firewall
2 53 (60.23%) WAN
3 40 (45.45%) LAN
4 37 (42.05%) SD-WAN
5 33 (37.50%) VPN
6 25 (28.41%) Cisco ASA
7 19 (21.59%) Network Security
7 19 (21.59%) WLAN
8 18 (20.45%) BGP
8 18 (20.45%) Cisco ISE
9 17 (19.32%) Cisco Firepower
10 16 (18.18%) MPLS
10 16 (18.18%) NX-OS
10 16 (18.18%) OSPF
10 16 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (17.05%) VLAN
12 13 (14.77%) VXLAN
13 11 (12.50%) IPsec
13 11 (12.50%) Unified Communications
14 9 (10.23%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) MySQL
2 3 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.14%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.14%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Git
2 1 (1.14%) GitLab
2 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.91%) Finance
3 11 (12.50%) Banking
4 9 (10.23%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.82%) Retail
7 5 (5.68%) Marketing
8 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.14%) Electronics
11 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (46.59%) Network Engineer
2 29 (32.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (22.73%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 12 (13.64%) Network Operations Engineer
4 12 (13.64%) Operations Engineer
4 12 (13.64%) Senior
5 11 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 11 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (12.50%) IT Engineer
6 10 (11.36%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (10.23%) Firewall Engineer
8 8 (9.09%) Architect
9 6 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Collaboration Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Network Specialist
10 5 (5.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) XMPP
2 3 (3.41%) Django
2 3 (3.41%) Flask
2 3 (3.41%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (3.41%) Jinja
2 3 (3.41%) OAuth
2 3 (3.41%) OAuth2
2 3 (3.41%) pytest
2 3 (3.41%) REST
2 3 (3.41%) RFC 2833
2 3 (3.41%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (3.41%) WebRTC
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.23%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.82%) Driving Licence
3 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.68%) FlexPod
4 5 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.68%) Replication
4 5 (5.68%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.41%) IoT
6 3 (3.41%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.27%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.14%) CCTV
8 1 (1.14%) CMDB
8 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.00%) Windows
2 13 (14.77%) Linux
2 13 (14.77%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.55%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.27%) CentOS
5 1 (1.14%) Debian
5 1 (1.14%) OpenWrt
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (19.32%) Zero Trust
4 15 (17.05%) Cloud Security
5 14 (15.91%) Kalman Filter
5 14 (15.91%) Runbook
6 12 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
6 12 (13.64%) Presales
7 11 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
8 10 (11.36%) Network Architecture
8 10 (11.36%) Project Delivery
9 9 (10.23%) ITIL
10 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (7.95%) Change Management
11 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (7.95%) Vulnerability Management
12 6 (6.82%) SIEM
12 6 (6.82%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.91%) Python
2 11 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.55%) SQL
4 3 (3.41%) Bash
4 3 (3.41%) C
4 3 (3.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (21.59%) CCNP
3 11 (12.50%) CCNA
4 7 (7.95%) Azure Certification
4 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.82%) CCIE
5 6 (6.82%) Degree
6 5 (5.68%) CCSE
7 4 (4.55%) CCSA
7 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.41%) JNCIP
8 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.27%) CCIE Security
9 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.27%) JNCIE
9 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.27%) MCSA
9 2 (2.27%) MCSE
9 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.41%) GDPR
2 3 (3.41%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.27%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (14.77%) Active Directory
1 13 (14.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (12.50%) Firmware
3 6 (6.82%) Hyper-V
3 6 (6.82%) vSphere
4 5 (5.68%) Docker
4 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (5.68%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (3.41%) Kamailio
6 2 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (1.14%) iptables
7 1 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (14.77%) Ansible
2 12 (13.64%) Terraform
3 10 (11.36%) FortiGate
4 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.68%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (5.68%) Grafana
7 3 (3.41%) Argo
8 2 (2.27%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.27%) Nagios
8 2 (2.27%) SCCM
9 1 (1.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (72.73%) Cisco
2 30 (34.09%) Microsoft
3 25 (28.41%) CheckPoint
4 22 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 20 (22.73%) VMware
6 14 (15.91%) Meraki
6 14 (15.91%) SolarWinds
7 11 (12.50%) Dynatrace
8 10 (11.36%) Juniper
9 9 (10.23%) ServiceNow
9 9 (10.23%) Sophos
9 9 (10.23%) Splunk
10 6 (6.82%) Draytek
10 6 (6.82%) Zscaler
11 5 (5.68%) NetApp
11 5 (5.68%) SonicWALL
12 4 (4.55%) Dell
12 4 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
12 4 (4.55%) Okta
13 3 (3.41%) ConnectWise