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 9 July 2026, 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
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 147 120
Rank change year-on-year -27 -27 +63
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 46 18 86
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.71% 0.54% 1.51%
As % of the Vendors category 1.67% 1.00% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 13 41
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £403 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -28.00%
75th Percentile £480 £613 £550
90th Percentile £569 £625 £638
England median daily rate £484 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.95% +10.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.50 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.50 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +13.42% - -

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 2,755 1,796 2,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 42.54% 53.56% 47.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,783 1,175 1,582
10th Percentile £283 £220 £246
25th Percentile £419 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -0.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £693 £656 £699
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 113 188
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £24.81 £15.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £19.91 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +163.69% -61.34% +14.44%
75th Percentile £85.00 £38.42 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £69.22 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -30.56%

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

Fortinet
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

Fortinet
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fortinet in the South East over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fortinet in the South East

Fortinet
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

Fortinet
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 9 July 2026. 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 -27 28 £463 +2.78% 8
Berkshire -9 19 £413 -8.33% 4
Hampshire -33 11 £435 -24.35% 4
Buckinghamshire - 6 £463 - 1
Oxfordshire - 3 £480 - 3
Surrey - 3 £425 - 7
Kent - 2 £369 -
West Sussex - 1 - -
Fortinet
England

Fortinet
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 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) IaaS
6 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.17%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (56.52%) Firewall
2 23 (50.00%) WAN
3 20 (43.48%) BGP
4 16 (34.78%) LAN
4 16 (34.78%) OSPF
5 15 (32.61%) MPLS
6 12 (26.09%) SD-WAN
6 12 (26.09%) VPN
7 11 (23.91%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (21.74%) Network Security
9 9 (19.57%) Cisco Nexus
9 9 (19.57%) Wireshark
10 7 (15.22%) DNS
10 7 (15.22%) IPsec
10 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
11 6 (13.04%) DHCP
11 6 (13.04%) VLAN
11 6 (13.04%) VXLAN
11 6 (13.04%) Wireless
12 5 (10.87%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
1 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.17%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 11 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Telecoms
4 6 (13.04%) Finance
5 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing
5 5 (10.87%) Retail
6 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.35%) Aviation
8 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Military
8 1 (2.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Architect
3 6 (13.04%) Network Architect
4 5 (10.87%) NOC Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) IP Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Tester
7 2 (4.35%) Implementation Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Junior
7 2 (4.35%) Junior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior IP Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) 802.1X
1 3 (6.52%) NETCONF
1 3 (6.52%) OpenConfig
1 3 (6.52%) RESTCONF
1 3 (6.52%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Windows
2 6 (13.04%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) VMS
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) ITIL
2 9 (19.57%) Change Management
2 9 (19.57%) SIEM
3 8 (17.39%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (15.22%) Network Architecture
4 7 (15.22%) Network Design
5 6 (13.04%) Load Balancing
5 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
5 6 (13.04%) Validation
6 5 (10.87%) Presales
6 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.87%) Project Delivery
6 5 (10.87%) Regression Testing
6 5 (10.87%) Security Testing
6 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (10.87%) Test Strategy
7 4 (8.70%) DevOps
7 4 (8.70%) Fault Management
7 4 (8.70%) Migration
7 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) Python
2 3 (6.52%) Bash
3 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (47.83%) Cisco Certification
1 22 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 21 (45.65%) SC Cleared
3 18 (39.13%) CCNP
4 7 (15.22%) CCIE
4 7 (15.22%) CCSE
5 5 (10.87%) CCSM
6 3 (6.52%) JNCIE
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.35%) BC Cleared
7 2 (4.35%) CCIP
7 2 (4.35%) CCNA
7 2 (4.35%) Degree
7 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.35%) ISTQB
8 1 (2.17%) CCDA
8 1 (2.17%) CCDP
8 1 (2.17%) CISSP
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.17%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) SLA
2 3 (6.52%) NCSC
3 2 (4.35%) QA
4 1 (2.17%) GRC
4 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.17%) Docker
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Ansible
1 8 (17.39%) FortiGate
2 3 (6.52%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) CASB
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (4.35%) Grafana
3 2 (4.35%) Iperf
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) Nmap
3 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.17%) Fluentd
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.17%) Puppet
4 1 (2.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) Cisco
2 16 (34.78%) CheckPoint
3 15 (32.61%) Juniper
4 14 (30.43%) Palo Alto
5 13 (28.26%) VMware
6 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
7 8 (17.39%) F5
8 5 (10.87%) Arista
8 5 (10.87%) Aruba
9 4 (8.70%) SolarWinds
9 4 (8.70%) Tufin
10 3 (6.52%) Infoblox
11 2 (4.35%) HP
11 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
12 1 (2.17%) Avaya
12 1 (2.17%) Ekahau
12 1 (2.17%) IBM
12 1 (2.17%) Mavenir
12 1 (2.17%) Meraki
12 1 (2.17%) Zscaler