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 19 January 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
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 356 344
Rank change year-on-year +54 -12 +84
Permanent jobs citing Fortinet 69 92 150
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.56% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.14% 1.46% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 51 60 139
10th Percentile £41,000 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £35,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £62,813 £75,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -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 6,070 6,311 9,475
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.77% 38.54% 41.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,206 3,632 7,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,831
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.58% -5.28%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,775 £91,934
UK median annual salary £51,000 £57,443 £54,500
% change year-on-year -11.22% +5.40% -5.22%

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 19 January 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 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.58%) Azure
2 11 (15.94%) AWS
2 11 (15.94%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.25%) AWS Direct Connect
3 5 (7.25%) SaaS
3 5 (7.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.90%) OCI
7 1 (1.45%) GCP
7 1 (1.45%) GitHub
7 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.45%) IaaS
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.45%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.45%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.45%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (69.57%) Firewall
2 42 (60.87%) WAN
3 31 (44.93%) LAN
3 31 (44.93%) SD-WAN
4 25 (36.23%) VPN
5 17 (24.64%) Cisco ASA
5 17 (24.64%) MPLS
6 14 (20.29%) BGP
7 13 (18.84%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (18.84%) WLAN
8 12 (17.39%) Network Security
9 10 (14.49%) OSPF
10 9 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (13.04%) NX-OS
11 8 (11.59%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (10.14%) VLAN
12 7 (10.14%) VXLAN
12 7 (10.14%) Wireless
13 6 (8.70%) DNS
14 5 (7.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Git
1 1 (1.45%) GitLab
1 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Finance
3 6 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Banking
5 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Electronics
7 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Law
7 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (59.42%) Network Engineer
2 18 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (20.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (17.39%) Senior
5 9 (13.04%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) Network Operations Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) Operations Engineer
7 7 (10.14%) Cisco Engineer
7 7 (10.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 7 (10.14%) IT Engineer
8 6 (8.70%) Architect
8 6 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Firewall Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Lead
10 4 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.35%) Network Manager
11 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.45%) Django
1 1 (1.45%) Flask
1 1 (1.45%) FreeSWITCH
1 1 (1.45%) Jinja
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (1.45%) OAuth
1 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
1 1 (1.45%) pytest
1 1 (1.45%) REST
1 1 (1.45%) RFC 2833
1 1 (1.45%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (1.45%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.54%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.35%) CMDB
3 3 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.90%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.90%) IoT
4 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) CCTV
5 1 (1.45%) Derivative
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Windows
2 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.14%) Linux
4 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.45%) CentOS
5 1 (1.45%) Debian
5 1 (1.45%) OpenWrt
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (17.39%) Cloud Security
3 12 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (13.04%) Kalman Filter
4 9 (13.04%) Presales
4 9 (13.04%) Runbook
4 9 (13.04%) Zero Trust
5 8 (11.59%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (11.59%) Mentoring
5 8 (11.59%) Network Design
5 8 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (10.14%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (8.70%) High Availability
7 6 (8.70%) ITIL
7 6 (8.70%) Network Architecture
7 6 (8.70%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (8.70%) Project Delivery
8 5 (7.25%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.14%) Python
2 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.25%) Bash
4 4 (5.80%) SQL
5 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.45%) C
6 1 (1.45%) C++
6 1 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (31.88%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (18.84%) CCNP
3 7 (10.14%) Degree
4 5 (7.25%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.25%) CCNA
5 4 (5.80%) CCIE
5 4 (5.80%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.45%) CCSP
8 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.90%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (18.84%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.59%) Firmware
3 3 (4.35%) Docker
3 3 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.45%) iptables
5 1 (1.45%) Kamailio
5 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (20.29%) FortiGate
2 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (7.25%) Ansible
4 4 (5.80%) Nagios
5 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.35%) Terraform
6 1 (1.45%) Argo
6 1 (1.45%) Autotask
6 1 (1.45%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.45%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (73.91%) Cisco
2 19 (27.54%) Microsoft
3 13 (18.84%) CheckPoint
3 13 (18.84%) Palo Alto
4 12 (17.39%) Juniper
5 10 (14.49%) SolarWinds
6 8 (11.59%) VMware
7 6 (8.70%) Meraki
8 5 (7.25%) Aruba
8 5 (7.25%) Dynatrace
8 5 (7.25%) F5
8 5 (7.25%) ServiceNow
9 4 (5.80%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (2.90%) BT
11 2 (2.90%) ConnectWise
11 2 (2.90%) Draytek
11 2 (2.90%) Mitel
12 1 (1.45%) HP
12 1 (1.45%) Huawei