Fortinet Contract Job Trends in the South East

Fortinet
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 November 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
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 125 165
Rank change year-on-year -19 +40 +32
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 35 52 41
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.86% 1.26% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.65% 2.54% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 33 15
10th Percentile £413 £440 £192
25th Percentile £422 £463 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +12.24% -18.33%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £544
90th Percentile £698 £625 £653
England median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,117 2,050 2,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.23% 49.75% 52.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,445 1,315 1,765
10th Percentile £215 £256 £205
25th Percentile £388 £412 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.34% +2.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £605
90th Percentile £663 £690 £678
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.57% - -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 63 128
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.88 £16.18
25th Percentile £15.75 £23.84 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +9.21% +79.54%
75th Percentile £40.65 £67.26 £65.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £74.14 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -24.24% -25.84% +62.56%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Fortinet job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Fortinet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Fortinet

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fortinet in the South East over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fortinet in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Fortinet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Fortinet

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fortinet within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 November 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
Thames Valley -11 21 £425 -22.02% 6
Berkshire -9 15 £430 -17.31% 1
Hampshire -30 11 £650 +20.93% 1
Oxfordshire -7 6 £425 -32.00% 3
Surrey -7 2 - - 4
West Sussex - 1 £475 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (17.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.71%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) IaaS
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (5.71%) PaaS
3 2 (5.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) BGP
2 16 (45.71%) OSPF
3 15 (42.86%) Firewall
4 14 (40.00%) MPLS
4 14 (40.00%) WAN
5 11 (31.43%) VLAN
6 10 (28.57%) VPN
7 9 (25.71%) LAN
8 8 (22.86%) SD-WAN
9 7 (20.00%) SNMP
9 7 (20.00%) TACACS
9 7 (20.00%) Wireless
10 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
11 5 (14.29%) Network Security
12 3 (8.57%) Broadband
12 3 (8.57%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (8.57%) Multicast
12 3 (8.57%) NaaS
12 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (8.57%) Wireshark
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.14%) Telecoms
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Advertising
4 2 (5.71%) Police
5 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.86%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Network Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Designer
3 6 (17.14%) IP Designer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Network Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Product Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Telecoms Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Validation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) NETCONF
1 1 (2.86%) OpenConfig
1 1 (2.86%) RESTCONF
1 1 (2.86%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 7 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) TM Forum
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (22.86%) Validation
2 6 (17.14%) Incident Response
2 6 (17.14%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (11.43%) High Availability
5 3 (8.57%) AI
5 3 (8.57%) Generative AI
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (8.57%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (8.57%) Migration
5 3 (8.57%) Observability
5 3 (8.57%) Product Management
5 3 (8.57%) Service Catalogue
5 3 (8.57%) Test Scripting
6 2 (5.71%) Architectural Design
6 2 (5.71%) Operational Stability
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
3 10 (28.57%) CCIE
4 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
5 7 (20.00%) CCNP
5 7 (20.00%) JNCIE
6 6 (17.14%) AWS Certification
7 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
8 2 (5.71%) CISSP
8 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (2.86%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) SLA
2 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (17.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Ansible
2 7 (20.00%) FortiGate
3 6 (17.14%) Terraform
4 3 (8.57%) Iperf
4 3 (8.57%) Nmap
5 2 (5.71%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (5.71%) SCCM
5 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (62.86%) Cisco
2 13 (37.14%) Juniper
3 10 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 8 (22.86%) SolarWinds
4 8 (22.86%) VMware
5 7 (20.00%) F5
5 7 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 4 (11.43%) Aruba
7 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
8 2 (5.71%) Dell
8 2 (5.71%) Tenable
9 1 (2.86%) HP
9 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.86%) Zscaler