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 20 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 369 365
Rank change year-on-year +56 -4 +72
Permanent jobs citing Fortinet 98 66 229
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.44% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 1.71% 0.94% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 62 57 209
10th Percentile £28,328 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,125 £92,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% +6.65%

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 5,718 7,027 13,256
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.42% 46.55% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,746 3,874 9,832
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,000 £31,549
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -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 20 May 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 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.86%) Azure
2 31 (31.63%) AWS
3 25 (25.51%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (11.22%) AWS Direct Connect
5 10 (10.20%) Mimecast
6 9 (9.18%) SaaS
6 9 (9.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.10%) OCI
9 4 (4.08%) GCP
9 4 (4.08%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.06%) GitHub
10 3 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.04%) OneDrive
12 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (1.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 75 (76.53%) Firewall
2 53 (54.08%) WAN
3 39 (39.80%) LAN
3 39 (39.80%) SD-WAN
4 33 (33.67%) VPN
5 27 (27.55%) Network Security
6 26 (26.53%) Cisco ASA
7 21 (21.43%) Cisco Firepower
8 20 (20.41%) BGP
8 20 (20.41%) VLAN
8 20 (20.41%) WLAN
9 18 (18.37%) Cisco ISE
10 17 (17.35%) MPLS
10 17 (17.35%) OSPF
11 16 (16.33%) VXLAN
12 15 (15.31%) Unified Communications
12 15 (15.31%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (13.27%) NX-OS
14 12 (12.24%) DNS
15 11 (11.22%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) MySQL
2 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.02%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.02%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Git
General
1 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.27%) Banking
2 13 (13.27%) Telecoms
3 11 (11.22%) Finance
4 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.20%) Retail
5 9 (9.18%) Marketing
6 6 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.02%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.02%) French Language
8 1 (1.02%) German Language
8 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.02%) Legal
8 1 (1.02%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (39.80%) Network Engineer
2 26 (26.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (16.33%) Senior
4 15 (15.31%) IT Engineer
5 14 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (13.27%) Architect
7 11 (11.22%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (10.20%) Cisco Engineer
9 9 (9.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 9 (9.18%) Firewall Engineer
9 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
9 9 (9.18%) Network Operations Engineer
9 9 (9.18%) Operations Engineer
9 9 (9.18%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (8.16%) Network Specialist
11 7 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
11 7 (7.14%) Network Security Specialist
11 7 (7.14%) Security Specialist
12 6 (6.12%) Collaboration Engineer
12 6 (6.12%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.18%) XMPP
2 3 (3.06%) Django
2 3 (3.06%) Flask
2 3 (3.06%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (3.06%) Jinja
2 3 (3.06%) OAuth
2 3 (3.06%) OAuth2
2 3 (3.06%) pytest
2 3 (3.06%) REST
2 3 (3.06%) RFC 2833
2 3 (3.06%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (3.06%) WebRTC
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.53%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.20%) Onboarding
3 9 (9.18%) FlexPod
3 9 (9.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (9.18%) Management Information System
3 9 (9.18%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (7.14%) Driving Licence
5 6 (6.12%) Replication
5 6 (6.12%) Web Conferencing
6 4 (4.08%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.06%) IoT
8 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.02%) CMDB
9 1 (1.02%) e-Learning
9 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.45%) Windows
2 12 (12.24%) Linux
3 10 (10.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.06%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.02%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (27.55%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (20.41%) Zero Trust
4 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (18.37%) Project Delivery
5 15 (15.31%) Mentoring
6 14 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 14 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (14.29%) ITIL
6 14 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
7 13 (13.27%) Presales
7 13 (13.27%) Time Management
8 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (11.22%) Kalman Filter
9 11 (11.22%) Runbook
10 9 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (9.18%) Customer Requirements
10 9 (9.18%) Data Management
10 9 (9.18%) Performance Management
10 9 (9.18%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.37%) Python
2 13 (13.27%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.08%) SQL
4 3 (3.06%) C
4 3 (3.06%) C++
5 2 (2.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (24.49%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (19.39%) CCNP
3 10 (10.20%) CCNA
3 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (8.16%) CCIE
5 6 (6.12%) CCSE
5 6 (6.12%) DBS Check
6 5 (5.10%) CCSA
7 4 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.08%) JNCIE
7 4 (4.08%) JNCIP
8 3 (3.06%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.06%) CCIE Security
8 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.06%) Degree
8 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.04%) MCSA
9 2 (2.04%) MCSE
10 1 (1.02%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.08%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.06%) NIST
3 3 (3.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (15.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (12.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.18%) Firmware
4 6 (6.12%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (6.12%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (6.12%) vSphere
5 4 (4.08%) Docker
6 3 (3.06%) Kamailio
7 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (1.02%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (16.33%) Ansible
2 12 (12.24%) FortiGate
2 12 (12.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (12.24%) Terraform
3 9 (9.18%) Cisco CUCM
3 9 (9.18%) Grafana
4 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
5 6 (6.12%) SCCM
6 3 (3.06%) Argo
7 2 (2.04%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.04%) Nagios
Vendors
1 61 (62.24%) Cisco
2 41 (41.84%) Microsoft
3 28 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 23 (23.47%) CheckPoint
5 18 (18.37%) VMware
6 14 (14.29%) Meraki
7 13 (13.27%) SonicWALL
7 13 (13.27%) Sophos
7 13 (13.27%) Splunk
8 12 (12.24%) SolarWinds
9 11 (11.22%) Dynatrace
10 9 (9.18%) Draytek
10 9 (9.18%) ServiceNow
11 8 (8.16%) Zscaler
12 7 (7.14%) Juniper
13 6 (6.12%) Barracuda Networks
13 6 (6.12%) N-able
13 6 (6.12%) NetApp
14 4 (4.08%) Datto
14 4 (4.08%) Okta