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 11 September 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
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 139 117
Rank change year-on-year -50 -22 +42
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 35 27 63
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.53% 0.77% 1.35%
As % of the Vendors category 1.20% 1.50% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 37
10th Percentile £316 £413 £420
25th Percentile £404 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £480 £663 £590
90th Percentile £610 £700 £638
England median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +7.14%
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 £77.50 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +28.32% - -

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 2,916 1,806 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.85% 51.53% 49.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,809 1,209 1,374
10th Percentile £280 £205 £255
25th Percentile £430 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.62% +3.75%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £633
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 107 123
10th Percentile £14.37 £14.20 £16.05
25th Percentile £16.63 £15.31 £27.25
Median hourly rate £38.25 £20.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +91.25% -65.13% +11.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.42 £61.60
90th Percentile £93.25 £81.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.31%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -23 25 £463 +8.82% 7
Berkshire -11 18 £433 +23.57% 2
Hampshire -40 6 £350 -46.15% 4
Buckinghamshire - 4 £463 - 2
Oxfordshire -22 3 £480 +12.94% 3
Surrey -23 3 £425 - 4
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 2 (5.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 21 (60.00%) WAN
2 17 (48.57%) Firewall
3 16 (45.71%) LAN
4 14 (40.00%) BGP
5 13 (37.14%) Network Security
6 12 (34.29%) SD-WAN
7 11 (31.43%) OSPF
8 8 (22.86%) MPLS
8 8 (22.86%) VPN
9 7 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (17.14%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (14.29%) DNS
11 5 (14.29%) IPsec
11 5 (14.29%) NGFW
11 5 (14.29%) SSL
11 5 (14.29%) VLAN
11 5 (14.29%) VXLAN
11 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Telecoms
4 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
4 4 (11.43%) Retail
5 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Network Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Architect
3 8 (22.86%) Network Architect
4 5 (14.29%) Senior
5 4 (11.43%) NOC Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Implementation Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) IP Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) IP Network Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Junior
7 2 (5.71%) Junior Network Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Network Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Senior IP Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) NETCONF
1 4 (11.43%) RESTCONF
2 2 (5.71%) gRPC
2 2 (5.71%) OpenConfig
2 2 (5.71%) REST
2 2 (5.71%) YANG
3 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Change Management
2 7 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 7 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (17.14%) ITIL
3 6 (17.14%) Project Delivery
3 6 (17.14%) SIEM
3 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (17.14%) Validation
4 5 (14.29%) Network Architecture
5 4 (11.43%) Presales
6 3 (8.57%) Fault Management
6 3 (8.57%) High Availability
6 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (8.57%) Runbook
6 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (8.57%) Test Automation
6 3 (8.57%) Test Strategy
6 3 (8.57%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
3 12 (34.29%) CCNP
4 6 (17.14%) CCIE
5 5 (14.29%) CCSE
6 4 (11.43%) CCSM
6 4 (11.43%) JNCIE
7 2 (5.71%) CISSP
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.86%) CCDE
8 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) FortiGate
2 6 (17.14%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) CASB
Vendors
1 25 (71.43%) Cisco
2 13 (37.14%) Juniper
3 9 (25.71%) CheckPoint
3 9 (25.71%) F5
3 9 (25.71%) VMware
4 8 (22.86%) Palo Alto
5 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
6 3 (8.57%) Arista
6 3 (8.57%) Aruba
6 3 (8.57%) Infoblox
7 2 (5.71%) Tufin
8 1 (2.86%) Avaya
8 1 (2.86%) Ekahau
8 1 (2.86%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (2.86%) Huawei
8 1 (2.86%) IBM
8 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds