Fortinet Contract Job Trends in Reading

Fortinet
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 13 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 78 81
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 15 13 5
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 2.14% 1.20% 0.48%
As % of the Vendors category 3.19% 2.42% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 5
10th Percentile £350 £463 £450
25th Percentile £415 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £540 £490
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +10.20% -18.33%
75th Percentile £731 £583 -
90th Percentile £750 £586 -
Berkshire median daily rate £480 £520 £490
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% -18.33%

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 470 537 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 66.95% 49.63% 52.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 340 372
10th Percentile £306 £386 £206
25th Percentile £450 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -3.76%
75th Percentile £624 £660 £623
90th Percentile £663 £715 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 5 14
10th Percentile £14.53 £27.35 £59.09
25th Percentile £14.75 £29.00 £60.88
Median hourly rate £57.25 £42.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +34.71% -32.85% +19.42%
75th Percentile £82.25 £74.87 £65.19
90th Percentile £97.25 £82.45 £67.36
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £62.40
% change year-on-year -63.36% -9.06% +47.68%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Fortinet job vacancy trend in Reading

Fortinet
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fortinet in Reading over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fortinet in Reading

Fortinet
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (40.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) IaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) BGP
1 8 (53.33%) MPLS
1 8 (53.33%) SNMP
1 8 (53.33%) TACACS
1 8 (53.33%) WAN
2 6 (40.00%) LAN
2 6 (40.00%) OSPF
2 6 (40.00%) Wireless
3 5 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Designer
1 6 (40.00%) IP Designer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Security Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Security Product Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (13.33%) IP Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) Product Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Product Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) NETCONF
1 2 (13.33%) OpenConfig
1 2 (13.33%) RESTCONF
1 2 (13.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Data Centre
1 8 (53.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 6 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 6 (40.00%) Validation
2 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 3 (20.00%) Digital Innovation
3 3 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (20.00%) Product Strategy
3 3 (20.00%) Product Vision
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (13.33%) Application Packaging
4 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (13.33%) Network Design
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Product Management
4 2 (13.33%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
4 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) CCIE
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (53.33%) JNCIE
2 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Juniper
2 8 (53.33%) Cisco
2 8 (53.33%) F5
3 6 (40.00%) VMware
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
6 2 (13.33%) Tenable