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 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
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 361 352
Rank change year-on-year +59 -9 +82
Permanent jobs citing Fortinet 79 66 177
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 0.43% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 1.28% 1.08% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 54 47 165
10th Percentile £41,500 £30,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £40,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £66,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 6,183 6,132 11,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.59% 39.49% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,348 3,641 9,312
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,625 £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 £75,900 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £88,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -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 19 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 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.27%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.97%) Azure
2 17 (21.52%) AWS
3 12 (15.19%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.92%) AWS Direct Connect
5 9 (11.39%) SaaS
5 9 (11.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.80%) GitHub
6 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.53%) OCI
8 1 (1.27%) GCP
8 1 (1.27%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.27%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.27%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 57 (72.15%) Firewall
2 50 (63.29%) WAN
3 38 (48.10%) SD-WAN
4 35 (44.30%) LAN
5 30 (37.97%) VPN
6 25 (31.65%) Cisco ASA
7 22 (27.85%) MPLS
8 20 (25.32%) BGP
9 19 (24.05%) WLAN
10 18 (22.78%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (20.25%) NX-OS
11 16 (20.25%) OSPF
12 15 (18.99%) Cisco ISE
12 15 (18.99%) Network Security
13 13 (16.46%) VXLAN
14 12 (15.19%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (13.92%) IPsec
16 9 (11.39%) NetScaler
16 9 (11.39%) VLAN
16 9 (11.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.80%) MySQL
2 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) GitLab
2 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Finance
3 7 (8.86%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Banking
5 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.27%) Electronics
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Law
7 1 (1.27%) Marketing
7 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (60.76%) Network Engineer
2 24 (30.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (25.32%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (17.72%) Senior
5 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 12 (15.19%) Network Operations Engineer
5 12 (15.19%) Operations Engineer
6 11 (13.92%) Cisco Engineer
6 11 (13.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 11 (13.92%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (11.39%) Firewall Engineer
8 8 (10.13%) IT Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) Architect
9 6 (7.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Lead
11 4 (5.06%) Presales Solution Architect
11 4 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (3.80%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.80%) Django
1 3 (3.80%) Flask
1 3 (3.80%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (3.80%) Jinja
1 3 (3.80%) OAuth
1 3 (3.80%) OAuth2
1 3 (3.80%) pytest
1 3 (3.80%) REST
1 3 (3.80%) RFC 2833
1 3 (3.80%) SQLAlchemy
1 3 (3.80%) WebRTC
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (35.44%) Data Centre
2 9 (11.39%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.80%) CMDB
3 3 (3.80%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.80%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.80%) IoT
3 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.27%) CCTV
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.27%) Derivative
5 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Replication
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.25%) Windows
2 9 (11.39%) Linux
2 9 (11.39%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.06%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.27%) CentOS
4 1 (1.27%) Debian
4 1 (1.27%) OpenWrt
4 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (18.99%) Cloud Security
4 14 (17.72%) Kalman Filter
4 14 (17.72%) Runbook
4 14 (17.72%) Zero Trust
5 13 (16.46%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (13.92%) Network Segmentation
7 9 (11.39%) Mentoring
7 9 (11.39%) Network Design
7 9 (11.39%) Presales
8 8 (10.13%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (10.13%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (8.86%) ITIL
9 7 (8.86%) Network Architecture
10 6 (7.59%) Containerisation
10 6 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (7.59%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (7.59%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.13%) Python
2 7 (8.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.80%) Bash
3 3 (3.80%) C
3 3 (3.80%) C++
3 3 (3.80%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (31.65%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (18.99%) CCNP
3 8 (10.13%) CCNA
4 7 (8.86%) Degree
5 5 (6.33%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.33%) CCIE
5 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
7 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.53%) CCSA
8 2 (2.53%) CCSE
8 2 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.27%) CCSP
9 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.27%) MCSA
9 1 (1.27%) MCSE
9 1 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (15.19%) Active Directory
2 11 (13.92%) Firmware
3 5 (6.33%) Docker
3 5 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.06%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.80%) Kamailio
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.53%) vSphere
7 1 (1.27%) iptables
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (17.72%) FortiGate
2 6 (7.59%) Ansible
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.06%) Nagios
4 4 (5.06%) Terraform
5 3 (3.80%) Argo
6 2 (2.53%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.27%) Grafana
7 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 60 (75.95%) Cisco
2 20 (25.32%) CheckPoint
2 20 (25.32%) Microsoft
3 16 (20.25%) SolarWinds
4 13 (16.46%) Meraki
4 13 (16.46%) Palo Alto
5 11 (13.92%) Dynatrace
5 11 (13.92%) VMware
6 10 (12.66%) Juniper
7 9 (11.39%) ServiceNow
8 6 (7.59%) Aruba
9 5 (6.33%) F5
10 4 (5.06%) Draytek
10 4 (5.06%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (3.80%) BT
11 3 (3.80%) ConnectWise
11 3 (3.80%) Dell
11 3 (3.80%) Mitel
11 3 (3.80%) Zscaler
12 2 (2.53%) Splunk