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 1 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
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 76 85
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 8 16 8
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.33% 1.47% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 2.20% 2.82% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - £463 £415
25th Percentile - £475 £439
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 -
Berkshire median daily rate £350 £545 £490
% change year-on-year -35.78% +11.22% -16.60%

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 363 567 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 60.40% 51.97% 51.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 313 381
10th Percentile £301 £363 £250
25th Percentile £450 £482 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £638
90th Percentile £663 £738 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -7.94% +8.62% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 12
10th Percentile - £14.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.75 £52.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £60.60 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -70.09% -5.77% +21.34%
75th Percentile £36.38 £61.60 £66.77
90th Percentile £44.78 £75.72 £74.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.38 £58.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year -65.16% -2.52% +9.09%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Fortinet in Reading

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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

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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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) BGP
1 6 (75.00%) LAN
1 6 (75.00%) MPLS
1 6 (75.00%) OSPF
1 6 (75.00%) SNMP
1 6 (75.00%) TACACS
1 6 (75.00%) WAN
1 6 (75.00%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
General
1 6 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Designer
1 6 (75.00%) IP Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Product Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (75.00%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Product Backlog
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (75.00%) CCIE
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (75.00%) JNCIE
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (75.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Juniper
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 7 (87.50%) F5
3 6 (75.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Aruba
4 1 (12.50%) HP