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 5 August 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
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 141 121
Rank change year-on-year -48 -20 +55
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 42 22 71
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.63% 0.63% 1.43%
As % of the Vendors category 1.44% 1.20% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 14 42
10th Percentile £323 £508 -
25th Percentile £400 £528 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +21.05% -8.43%
75th Percentile £480 £625 £583
90th Percentile £508 £693 £636
England median daily rate £494 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -4.08% -0.96% +4.00%
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 £77.00 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year +27.49% - -

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 2,908 1,837 2,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.64% 52.68% 47.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,827 1,213 1,432
10th Percentile £280 £209 £255
25th Percentile £425 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £512 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.38% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 119 139
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.00 £22.54
Median hourly rate £59.95 £19.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +215.51% -66.87% +27.44%
75th Percentile £83.00 £38.42 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.20 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -32 28 £463 +2.78% 9
Berkshire -9 19 £411 -8.61% 1
Hampshire -45 9 £388 -34.04% 10
Buckinghamshire - 6 £463 - 4
Surrey -22 3 £425 - 5
Oxfordshire - 3 £480 - 4
Kent - 1 £563 - 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 2 (4.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) AWS
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.38%) GCP
5 1 (2.38%) IaaS
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.38%) PaaS
5 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (57.14%) WAN
2 22 (52.38%) Firewall
3 19 (45.24%) BGP
4 17 (40.48%) LAN
5 14 (33.33%) MPLS
5 14 (33.33%) OSPF
6 12 (28.57%) SD-WAN
7 10 (23.81%) Network Security
8 9 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
8 9 (21.43%) VPN
9 7 (16.67%) DNS
9 7 (16.67%) IPsec
9 7 (16.67%) Wireshark
10 6 (14.29%) DHCP
10 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
10 6 (14.29%) VXLAN
10 6 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (14.29%) Wireless
11 5 (11.90%) Cisco Firepower
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) JIRA
1 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 6 (14.29%) Finance
5 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
5 5 (11.90%) Retail
6 3 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Network Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Network Architect
4 5 (11.90%) NOC Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) IP Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Junior
7 2 (4.76%) Junior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Network Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Senior IP Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Technical Design Authority
7 2 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) NETCONF
1 4 (9.52%) OpenConfig
1 4 (9.52%) RESTCONF
1 4 (9.52%) YANG
2 3 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Data Centre
2 7 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.76%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
2 6 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (2.38%) VMS
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.43%) Change Management
1 9 (21.43%) ITIL
1 9 (21.43%) SIEM
2 8 (19.05%) Network Monitoring
3 7 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 7 (16.67%) Network Design
4 6 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 6 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 5 (11.90%) Presales
5 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (9.52%) Fault Management
6 4 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (9.52%) Test Automation
6 4 (9.52%) Test Strategy
6 4 (9.52%) Validation
7 3 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (7.14%) Security Operations
7 3 (7.14%) Security Testing
7 3 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) Python
2 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (45.24%) Security Cleared
3 18 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 16 (38.10%) CCNP
5 7 (16.67%) CCSE
6 6 (14.29%) CCIE
7 5 (11.90%) CCSM
8 4 (9.52%) JNCIE
9 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
9 2 (4.76%) CCIP
9 2 (4.76%) CCNA
9 2 (4.76%) Degree
9 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
10 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
10 1 (2.38%) CCDA
10 1 (2.38%) CCDP
10 1 (2.38%) CISSP
10 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) FortiGate
2 6 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) CASB
3 2 (4.76%) Terraform
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 30 (71.43%) Cisco
2 16 (38.10%) Juniper
3 14 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 12 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 12 (28.57%) VMware
5 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
6 9 (21.43%) F5
7 5 (11.90%) Aruba
8 4 (9.52%) Arista
9 3 (7.14%) Infoblox
10 2 (4.76%) HP
10 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
10 2 (4.76%) Tufin
11 1 (2.38%) Avaya
11 1 (2.38%) BT
11 1 (2.38%) Huawei
11 1 (2.38%) IBM
11 1 (2.38%) McAfee
11 1 (2.38%) NetScout
11 1 (2.38%) Zscaler