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 16 February 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
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 142 144
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +48
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 38 19 72
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.81% 0.61% 1.31%
As % of the Vendors category 1.70% 1.21% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 20
10th Percentile £361 £478 £381
25th Percentile £416 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +27.78% -25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £550
90th Percentile £728 - £580
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%

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 2,240 1,571 2,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.79% 50.18% 49.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,601 1,005 1,723
10th Percentile £258 £248 £205
25th Percentile £411 £409 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 51 157
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.50 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.75 £24.18 £18.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -36.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60.94 £63.13 £63.00
90th Percentile £88.63 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.89 £28.25
% change year-on-year -22.87% +9.35% -15.67%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -3 26 £450 - 15
Berkshire +3 18 £459 +1.94% 1
Hampshire -30 7 £650 +10.64% 6
Oxfordshire - 7 £438 - 10
Kent - 3 £563 - 2
Surrey -12 1 - - 1
West Sussex - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 - 4
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 3 (7.89%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.53%) OpenShift
3 4 (10.53%) SaaS
4 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.89%) IaaS
4 3 (7.89%) PaaS
5 2 (5.26%) GCP
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Akamai
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (52.63%) Firewall
2 15 (39.47%) MPLS
2 15 (39.47%) WAN
3 12 (31.58%) BGP
4 11 (28.95%) VPN
5 10 (26.32%) OSPF
6 9 (23.68%) SD-WAN
7 8 (21.05%) LAN
8 7 (18.42%) SNMP
8 7 (18.42%) TCP/IP
8 7 (18.42%) VLAN
9 6 (15.79%) Multicast
10 5 (13.16%) TACACS
10 5 (13.16%) Wireless
10 5 (13.16%) Wireshark
11 4 (10.53%) Broadband
11 4 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (10.53%) Network Security
12 3 (7.89%) NaaS
12 3 (7.89%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Telecoms
3 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.16%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Finance
6 2 (5.26%) Aviation
6 2 (5.26%) Police
7 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Architect
1 10 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Senior
3 5 (13.16%) Network Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Designer
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) IP Designer
4 3 (7.89%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Product Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Security Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Security Product Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Tester
4 3 (7.89%) Tester
4 3 (7.89%) Validation Tester
5 2 (5.26%) IP Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) NETCONF
1 2 (5.26%) OpenConfig
1 2 (5.26%) RESTCONF
1 2 (5.26%) YANG
2 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Data Centre
1 8 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) Life Science
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) TM Forum
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.63%) VMS
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (18.42%) Test Automation
1 7 (18.42%) Validation
2 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
3 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (10.53%) Network Design
4 4 (10.53%) Observability
4 4 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
5 3 (7.89%) AI
5 3 (7.89%) Change Control
5 3 (7.89%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (7.89%) Migration
5 3 (7.89%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (7.89%) Product Management
5 3 (7.89%) Regression Testing
5 3 (7.89%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) Bash
3 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (42.11%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
3 11 (28.95%) CCIE
4 10 (26.32%) CCNP
5 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared
6 5 (13.16%) JNCIE
7 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
8 3 (7.89%) CCNA
8 3 (7.89%) Degree
8 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
9 2 (5.26%) BC Cleared
9 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (5.26%) CCIP
9 2 (5.26%) CCSE
9 2 (5.26%) CISSP
9 2 (5.26%) ISTQB
9 2 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) NCSC
1 3 (7.89%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.89%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.63%) Docker
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Ansible
2 5 (13.16%) Terraform
3 4 (10.53%) Iperf
3 4 (10.53%) Nmap
4 3 (7.89%) FortiGate
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (5.26%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (5.26%) Grafana
5 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.26%) SCCM
5 2 (5.26%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.63%) CASB
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (2.63%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.63%) Puppet
6 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.63%) Salt
6 1 (2.63%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 23 (60.53%) Cisco
2 15 (39.47%) CheckPoint
3 13 (34.21%) Juniper
4 11 (28.95%) Palo Alto
5 10 (26.32%) SolarWinds
6 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
6 7 (18.42%) VMware
7 5 (13.16%) Aruba
7 5 (13.16%) F5
8 3 (7.89%) Tenable
9 2 (5.26%) Arista
9 2 (5.26%) Dell
9 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
9 2 (5.26%) Tufin
9 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.63%) BT
10 1 (2.63%) Ericsson
10 1 (2.63%) HP
10 1 (2.63%) Mavenir
10 1 (2.63%) Oracle