Fortinet Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Fortinet
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Fortinet products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fortinet over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Fortinet, Inc.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 82 110
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 +7
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 10 29 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.80% 1.79% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 3.58% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 7
10th Percentile - £463 £417
25th Percentile - £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £545 £490
Median % change year-on-year -35.78% +11.22% -18.33%
75th Percentile - £583 -
90th Percentile - £615 £559
South East median daily rate £475 £545 £490
% change year-on-year -12.84% +11.22% -18.33%

All Vendors
Berkshire

Fortinet falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 769 810 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 61.57% 49.94% 52.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 451 561
10th Percentile £278 £334 £205
25th Percentile £420 £432 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £663 £711 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 35
10th Percentile £14.58 £14.50 £18.68
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.41 £47.87
Median hourly rate £20.38 £58.17 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.97% -7.66% +18.87%
75th Percentile £36.89 £61.60 £68.63
90th Percentile £52.75 £63.59 £76.63
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.00 £50.03
% change year-on-year -64.91% +13.93% +120.68%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fortinet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Fortinet job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Fortinet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Fortinet

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Fortinet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Fortinet

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fortinet within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +26 9 £350 -35.78% 1
Fortinet
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (60.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) BGP
1 6 (60.00%) LAN
1 6 (60.00%) MPLS
1 6 (60.00%) OSPF
1 6 (60.00%) SNMP
1 6 (60.00%) TACACS
1 6 (60.00%) WAN
1 6 (60.00%) Wireless
2 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
General
1 6 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Designer
1 6 (60.00%) IP Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Product Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Product Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (60.00%) Validation
3 3 (30.00%) Product Management
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Product Backlog
5 1 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (60.00%) CCIE
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (60.00%) JNCIE
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (60.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Juniper
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) F5
3 6 (60.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Aruba
4 1 (10.00%) HP