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 26 March 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
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 134 132
Rank change year-on-year -34 -2 +54
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 39 21 77
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.72% 0.71% 1.37%
As % of the Vendors category 1.58% 1.36% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 28
10th Percentile £366 £505 £400
25th Percentile £420 £531 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +27.78% -25.00%
75th Percentile £561 £625 £513
90th Percentile £716 - £558
England median daily rate £500 £551 £500
% change year-on-year -9.26% +10.20% -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 2,472 1,540 2,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.74% 52.42% 48.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,740 1,033 1,666
10th Percentile £303 £243 £213
25th Percentile £413 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £606 £618 £600
90th Percentile £694 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 87 165
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.85 £17.60
Median hourly rate £36.71 £25.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.84% -47.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £84.50 £62.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.88 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -31.48%

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

Fortinet
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fortinet in the South East over the 6 months to 26 March 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 26 March 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 -15 27 £475 +11.76% 5
Berkshire -22 18 £459 +7.94% 1
Hampshire -39 7 £468 -18.70% 7
Oxfordshire - 6 £478 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 3 £463 - 3
Kent - 3 £563 -
Surrey -12 1 - - 5
West Sussex - 1 - - 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 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (10.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) AWS
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.26%) SaaS
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.69%) IaaS
3 3 (7.69%) PaaS
4 2 (5.13%) GCP
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Akamai
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (58.97%) Firewall
2 18 (46.15%) WAN
3 15 (38.46%) BGP
4 14 (35.90%) MPLS
5 11 (28.21%) OSPF
6 10 (25.64%) SD-WAN
6 10 (25.64%) VPN
7 9 (23.08%) TCP/IP
8 8 (20.51%) LAN
9 7 (17.95%) VLAN
10 6 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (15.38%) SNMP
10 6 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (12.82%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (12.82%) DHCP
11 5 (12.82%) DNS
11 5 (12.82%) IPv6
11 5 (12.82%) Wireshark
12 4 (10.26%) IPsec
12 4 (10.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
1 2 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Telecoms
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Aviation
6 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.13%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Military
7 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Network Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) IP Specialist
5 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Product Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Security Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Security Product Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (5.13%) IP Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) IP Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) NOC Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Security Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) NETCONF
1 4 (10.26%) OpenConfig
1 4 (10.26%) RESTCONF
1 4 (10.26%) YANG
2 2 (5.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 7 (17.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (5.13%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.56%) Life Science
7 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.56%) TM Forum
7 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 4 (10.26%) Linux
3 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (17.95%) Network Design
3 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (12.82%) ITIL
4 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
5 4 (10.26%) Observability
5 4 (10.26%) Presales
5 4 (10.26%) SIEM
5 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.69%) AI
6 3 (7.69%) Change Control
6 3 (7.69%) Change Management
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps
6 3 (7.69%) Load Balancing
6 3 (7.69%) Migration
6 3 (7.69%) Security Operations
6 3 (7.69%) Security Testing
6 3 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) Bash
3 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (25.64%) CCNP
5 8 (20.51%) CCIE
6 4 (10.26%) CCNA
6 4 (10.26%) CCSE
6 4 (10.26%) JNCIE
7 3 (7.69%) Degree
7 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
8 2 (5.13%) BC Cleared
8 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (5.13%) CCIP
8 2 (5.13%) CCSM
8 2 (5.13%) CISSP
8 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
8 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
8 2 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) SLA
2 3 (7.69%) NCSC
3 2 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) NIST
4 1 (2.56%) GRC
4 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.56%) Docker
4 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Ansible
2 5 (12.82%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (5.13%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (5.13%) Grafana
3 2 (5.13%) Iperf
3 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Nmap
3 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.13%) SCCM
3 2 (5.13%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.56%) CASB
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.56%) Fluentd
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.56%) Puppet
4 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (2.56%) Salt
4 1 (2.56%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 21 (53.85%) Cisco
2 14 (35.90%) Juniper
3 12 (30.77%) CheckPoint
3 12 (30.77%) Palo Alto
4 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
5 7 (17.95%) VMware
6 6 (15.38%) Aruba
7 5 (12.82%) F5
8 4 (10.26%) SolarWinds
9 3 (7.69%) Infoblox
9 3 (7.69%) Tenable
10 2 (5.13%) Arista
10 2 (5.13%) Dell
10 2 (5.13%) HP
10 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
10 2 (5.13%) Tufin
10 2 (5.13%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.56%) Ericsson
11 1 (2.56%) McAfee
11 1 (2.56%) Oracle