Fortinet Contracts in the Midlands

Fortinet
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 19 August 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
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 114 121
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 +74
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 21 18 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.83% 0.68% 1.02%
As % of the Vendors category 1.78% 1.49% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 20
10th Percentile £400 - £288
25th Percentile £435 £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £580 £441
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +31.44% -1.94%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £538
90th Percentile £600 £625 £569
England median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,181 1,209 1,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 46.79% 45.37% 50.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 825 992
10th Percentile £223 £263 £207
25th Percentile £350 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -2.06%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.90% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 39 47
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £12.80
25th Percentile £17.59 £13.98 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.08 £16.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.08% -25.24% +25.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £38.13 £59.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £90.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -17.14% +55.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Fortinet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Fortinet in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fortinet in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Fortinet in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fortinet in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fortinet in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fortinet within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
West Midlands 0 17 £550 -5.42% 11
East Midlands -9 4 £430 +14.67% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 16 (76.19%) Firewall
2 11 (52.38%) Network Security
3 10 (47.62%) SD-WAN
4 9 (42.86%) VPN
5 8 (38.10%) TCP/IP
5 8 (38.10%) WAN
5 8 (38.10%) Wireless
6 7 (33.33%) BGP
7 6 (28.57%) IPsec
7 6 (28.57%) OSPF
7 6 (28.57%) SSL
7 6 (28.57%) VLAN
8 5 (23.81%) DHCP
8 5 (23.81%) DNS
9 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (14.29%) LAN
9 3 (14.29%) Wireshark
10 2 (9.52%) Ethereal
10 2 (9.52%) Unified Communications
10 2 (9.52%) VoIP
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 3 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Check Point Expert
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Network Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Network Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Network Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Break Fix Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.76%) CSOC
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.76%) VMS
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) High Availability
2 7 (33.33%) SIEM
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) ITIL
5 4 (19.05%) Service Management
6 3 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
7 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
7 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
7 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
7 2 (9.52%) Network Design
7 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (4.76%) Break/Fix
8 1 (4.76%) Customer Experience
8 1 (4.76%) Event Correlation
8 1 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (4.76%) Proactive Monitoring
8 1 (4.76%) Validation
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (33.33%) CCIE
3 6 (28.57%) CCNP
3 6 (28.57%) CCSE
4 3 (14.29%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
6 1 (4.76%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 4 (19.05%) OpenView
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (4.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Cisco
2 7 (33.33%) F5
3 6 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 4 (19.05%) Palo Alto
5 2 (9.52%) Meraki
5 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.76%) Arista
6 1 (4.76%) Juniper
6 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.76%) Splunk