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 10 May 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
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 134 117
Rank change year-on-year -40 -17 +66
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 40 16 77
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.68% 0.53% 1.40%
As % of the Vendors category 1.61% 1.01% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 14 32
10th Percentile £353 £525 £401
25th Percentile £406 £528 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% +27.78% -25.00%
75th Percentile £569 £622 £550
90th Percentile £720 £625 £620
England median daily rate £525 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.02% +0.71%

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 2,492 1,586 2,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 42.26% 52.53% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,735 1,062 1,581
10th Percentile £282 £241 £213
25th Percentile £413 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £610 £603 £606
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 88 183
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £26.63 £16.95 £16.87
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.83 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.44% -50.34% +11.11%
75th Percentile £88.00 £60.47 £61.30
90th Percentile - £72.00 £66.62
England median hourly rate £32.00 £27.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +18.52% +20.00% -43.75%

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 10 May 2026.

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 10 May 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 -19 24 £480 +6.67% 6
Berkshire -14 15 £475 +5.56% 3
Hampshire -24 9 £435 -24.35% 6
Oxfordshire - 5 £480 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 4 £463 - 2
Kent - 3 £563 -
Surrey - 2 - - 6
West Sussex - 1 - -
Fortinet
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 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Akamai
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.50%) IaaS
6 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.50%) PaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (65.00%) Firewall
2 20 (50.00%) WAN
3 18 (45.00%) BGP
4 14 (35.00%) MPLS
4 14 (35.00%) OSPF
5 13 (32.50%) LAN
6 9 (22.50%) SD-WAN
6 9 (22.50%) TCP/IP
6 9 (22.50%) VPN
7 7 (17.50%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (17.50%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (17.50%) VLAN
8 6 (15.00%) DHCP
8 6 (15.00%) DNS
8 6 (15.00%) Network Security
8 6 (15.00%) SNMP
8 6 (15.00%) VXLAN
8 6 (15.00%) Wireless
8 6 (15.00%) Wireshark
9 5 (12.50%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
1 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Finance
4 6 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.50%) Retail
7 2 (5.00%) Aviation
7 2 (5.00%) Police
8 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Network Architect
5 4 (10.00%) IP Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) IP Specialist
6 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (7.50%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) NOC Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Product Manager
6 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Security Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Security Product Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Junior
7 2 (5.00%) Junior Network Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) NETCONF
1 4 (10.00%) OpenConfig
1 4 (10.00%) RESTCONF
1 4 (10.00%) YANG
2 3 (7.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (17.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.50%) Life Science
6 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) ITIL
1 8 (20.00%) Network Design
2 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.00%) SIEM
4 5 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (10.00%) DevOps
5 4 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 4 (10.00%) Migration
5 4 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.00%) Security Testing
5 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (10.00%) Validation
6 3 (7.50%) Commercial Awareness
6 3 (7.50%) Digital Innovation
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (7.50%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (7.50%) Product Strategy
6 3 (7.50%) Product Vision
6 3 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (45.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (42.50%) SC Cleared
4 15 (37.50%) CCNP
5 8 (20.00%) CCIE
6 5 (12.50%) CCSE
7 4 (10.00%) JNCIE
8 3 (7.50%) CCNA
8 3 (7.50%) CCSM
8 3 (7.50%) Degree
9 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
9 2 (5.00%) BC Cleared
9 2 (5.00%) CCIP
9 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
9 2 (5.00%) ISTQB
10 1 (2.50%) CCDA
10 1 (2.50%) CCDP
10 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) SLA
2 3 (7.50%) NCSC
3 2 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) GRC
4 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.50%) Docker
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Ansible
2 5 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 3 (7.50%) Terraform
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (5.00%) Iperf
4 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.00%) Nmap
4 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) CASB
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (2.50%) Fluentd
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.50%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.50%) Salt
5 1 (2.50%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 24 (60.00%) Cisco
2 15 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 12 (30.00%) Juniper
4 11 (27.50%) CheckPoint
4 11 (27.50%) VMware
5 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
6 7 (17.50%) F5
7 5 (12.50%) Aruba
8 3 (7.50%) Arista
8 3 (7.50%) Infoblox
8 3 (7.50%) SolarWinds
9 2 (5.00%) HP
9 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
9 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
9 2 (5.00%) Tufin
9 2 (5.00%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.50%) Avaya
10 1 (2.50%) Ericsson
10 1 (2.50%) IBM
10 1 (2.50%) McAfee