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 9 February 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
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 348 359
Rank change year-on-year +55 +11 +86
Permanent jobs citing Fortinet 75 74 185
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.47% 0.47% 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 1.21% 1.19% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 54 47 173
10th Percentile £41,500 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £36,625 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £58,850
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -6.54% -9.46%
75th Percentile £82,500 £66,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,000 £89,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% -

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 6,210 6,230 11,326
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.83% 39.49% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,247 3,635 9,361
10th Percentile £30,400 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.75% -11.30%

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 9 February 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 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.33%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) Azure
2 14 (18.67%) AWS
3 10 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (12.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 7 (9.33%) SaaS
5 7 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (4.00%) GitHub
6 3 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.67%) OCI
8 1 (1.33%) GCP
8 1 (1.33%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.33%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (70.67%) Firewall
2 47 (62.67%) WAN
3 36 (48.00%) SD-WAN
4 32 (42.67%) LAN
5 28 (37.33%) VPN
6 22 (29.33%) Cisco ASA
7 20 (26.67%) MPLS
8 18 (24.00%) BGP
9 17 (22.67%) WLAN
10 16 (21.33%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (20.00%) Network Security
12 14 (18.67%) NX-OS
12 14 (18.67%) OSPF
13 13 (17.33%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (14.67%) VXLAN
15 9 (12.00%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (12.00%) IPsec
15 9 (12.00%) Wireless
16 8 (10.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (4.00%) MySQL
2 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) GitLab
2 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Finance
3 7 (9.33%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Banking
5 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Electronics
7 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Law
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (61.33%) Network Engineer
2 21 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (24.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (18.67%) Senior
5 11 (14.67%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) Network Operations Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) Operations Engineer
7 9 (12.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 9 (12.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 8 (10.67%) IT Engineer
9 7 (9.33%) Firewall Engineer
10 6 (8.00%) Architect
10 6 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) Lead
12 4 (5.33%) Presales Solution Architect
12 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
13 3 (4.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) Django
1 3 (4.00%) Flask
1 3 (4.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (4.00%) Jinja
1 3 (4.00%) OAuth
1 3 (4.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (4.00%) pytest
1 3 (4.00%) REST
1 3 (4.00%) RFC 2833
1 3 (4.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 3 (4.00%) WebRTC
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 26 (34.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.00%) CMDB
3 3 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.67%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.67%) IoT
4 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.33%) CCTV
5 1 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.33%) Derivative
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Windows
2 8 (10.67%) Linux
3 7 (9.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.33%) CentOS
5 1 (1.33%) Debian
5 1 (1.33%) OpenWrt
5 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (17.33%) Cloud Security
4 12 (16.00%) Kalman Filter
4 12 (16.00%) Runbook
4 12 (16.00%) Zero Trust
5 11 (14.67%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 9 (12.00%) Network Design
6 9 (12.00%) Network Segmentation
6 9 (12.00%) Presales
7 8 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (9.33%) ITIL
8 7 (9.33%) Network Architecture
8 7 (9.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (8.00%) Containerisation
9 6 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.00%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (8.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.33%) Python
2 6 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.00%) Bash
3 3 (4.00%) C
3 3 (4.00%) C++
3 3 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (20.00%) CCNP
3 8 (10.67%) CCNA
4 7 (9.33%) Degree
5 5 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.67%) CCIE
6 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
7 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.67%) CCSA
8 2 (2.67%) CCSE
8 2 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.33%) CCSP
9 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.33%) MCSA
9 1 (1.33%) MCSE
9 1 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.33%) Firmware
3 5 (6.67%) Docker
4 3 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.00%) Kamailio
4 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.33%) iptables
6 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.33%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (18.67%) FortiGate
2 5 (6.67%) Ansible
2 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.33%) Nagios
4 3 (4.00%) Argo
4 3 (4.00%) Terraform
5 2 (2.67%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (76.00%) Cisco
2 18 (24.00%) CheckPoint
2 18 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (18.67%) SolarWinds
4 12 (16.00%) Palo Alto
5 11 (14.67%) Meraki
6 10 (13.33%) Juniper
7 9 (12.00%) Dynatrace
7 9 (12.00%) VMware
8 7 (9.33%) ServiceNow
9 6 (8.00%) Aruba
10 5 (6.67%) F5
11 4 (5.33%) Extreme Networks
12 3 (4.00%) BT
12 3 (4.00%) Dell
12 3 (4.00%) Draytek
12 3 (4.00%) Mitel
12 3 (4.00%) Zscaler
13 2 (2.67%) ConnectWise
14 1 (1.33%) Okta