Fortinet Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Fortinet
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 78 97
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 +19
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.52% 0.46% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 1.10% 1.00% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £458 - -
25th Percentile £525 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% - -
75th Percentile £625 £538 -
90th Percentile £633 - -
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £250
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% -52.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £43.75

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 545 498 639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 47.15% 45.48% 40.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 296 455
10th Percentile £311 £334 £248
25th Percentile £381 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £590
90th Percentile £683 £675 £700
North West median daily rate £465 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -7.00% -1.96% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 16 23
10th Percentile £19.01 £22.25 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.52 £29.88 £16.27
Median hourly rate £22.41 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.05% +83.41% -56.78%
75th Percentile £29.22 £33.75 £44.69
90th Percentile £31.40 £44.38 £53.80
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.63% -7.14% +74.43%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Fortinet job vacancy trend in Manchester

Fortinet
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fortinet in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fortinet in Manchester

Fortinet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (16.67%) IPsec
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) MPLS
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) SNMP
4 1 (16.67%) SSL
4 1 (16.67%) TACACS
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Design Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Presales
2 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Service Design
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Aruba
4 1 (16.67%) Ekahau
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft