Fortinet Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Fortinet
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.01% 2.45% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 2.44% 5.71% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £513 £497 -
25th Percentile £523 £515 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +12.82% +14.71%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £506
90th Percentile £569 £610 -
South West median daily rate £540 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.00% +17.65%

All Vendors
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 82 70 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 41.41% 42.94% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 41 34
10th Percentile £191 £369 £168
25th Percentile £225 £450 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £550 £262
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +109.92% -41.45%
75th Percentile £552 £649 £488
90th Percentile £588 £830 £643
South West median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.10% -6.51% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £38.43 - £23.90
25th Percentile £41.69 £12.50 £32.19
Median hourly rate £52.00 £13.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +300.00% -71.74% +2.22%
75th Percentile £61.13 £15.00 £46.09
90th Percentile £63.15 £15.90 £46.14
South West median hourly rate £23.58 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -63.73% +18.18% -15.38%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Fortinet job vacancy trend in Somerset

Fortinet
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Fortinet

Fortinet
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fortinet within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Taunton - 1 £513 - 1
Fortinet
South West

Fortinet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DWDM
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) SDH
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam