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 20 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
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 139 116
Rank change year-on-year -52 -23 +52
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 33 24 60
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.50% 0.69% 1.31%
As % of the Vendors category 1.14% 1.34% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 34
10th Percentile £314 £416 £416
25th Percentile £401 £459 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £613 £504
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +21.59% +2.81%
75th Percentile £477 £681 £591
90th Percentile £623 £700 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -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 2,890 1,790 2,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.70% 51.41% 49.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,784 1,207 1,373
10th Percentile £270 £205 £252
25th Percentile £430 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% -3.39% +3.51%
75th Percentile £613 £592 £630
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.68% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 103 111
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.44 £27.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £20.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +91.25% -65.13% +9.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.30 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -23.79% -24.79%

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 20 September 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

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 20 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 -30 22 £456 +7.35% 13
Berkshire -15 18 £433 - 8
Hampshire -37 6 £350 -46.15% 7
Surrey -14 3 £425 - 6
Buckinghamshire - 3 £463 - 2
Oxfordshire -31 1 £480 +12.94% 3
Home Counties - 1 £600 -
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 2 (6.06%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 19 (57.58%) WAN
2 16 (48.48%) Firewall
3 14 (42.42%) LAN
4 12 (36.36%) BGP
4 12 (36.36%) SD-WAN
5 11 (33.33%) Network Security
6 9 (27.27%) OSPF
6 9 (27.27%) VPN
7 8 (24.24%) MPLS
8 6 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (18.18%) SSL
9 5 (15.15%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (15.15%) IPsec
9 5 (15.15%) NGFW
9 5 (15.15%) VLAN
9 5 (15.15%) VXLAN
10 4 (12.12%) BIG-IP
10 4 (12.12%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (12.12%) EIGRP
10 4 (12.12%) Junos
General
1 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Network Engineer
2 11 (33.33%) Architect
3 8 (24.24%) Network Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) NOC Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Implementation Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) IP Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Junior
6 2 (6.06%) Junior Network Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Network Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Senior IP Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) NETCONF
1 4 (12.12%) RESTCONF
2 3 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (6.06%) gRPC
3 2 (6.06%) OpenConfig
3 2 (6.06%) YANG
4 1 (3.03%) 802.1X
4 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.21%) Change Management
1 7 (21.21%) Load Balancing
1 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
1 7 (21.21%) Validation
2 6 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (18.18%) Project Delivery
2 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (15.15%) ITIL
3 5 (15.15%) Network Architecture
3 5 (15.15%) SIEM
4 4 (12.12%) High Availability
4 4 (12.12%) Migration
5 3 (9.09%) Presales
5 3 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (9.09%) Runbook
5 3 (9.09%) Security Architecture
5 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
5 3 (9.09%) Test Strategy
5 3 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (48.48%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (42.42%) SC Cleared
2 14 (42.42%) Security Cleared
3 11 (33.33%) CCNP
4 6 (18.18%) CCIE
5 4 (12.12%) CCSE
5 4 (12.12%) JNCIE
6 3 (9.09%) CCSM
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (6.06%) CISSP
8 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
8 1 (3.03%) CCDE
8 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) FortiGate
2 6 (18.18%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) CASB
3 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (72.73%) Cisco
2 13 (39.39%) Juniper
3 9 (27.27%) F5
4 8 (24.24%) CheckPoint
4 8 (24.24%) Palo Alto
4 8 (24.24%) VMware
5 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
6 3 (9.09%) Arista
6 3 (9.09%) Aruba
7 2 (6.06%) Tufin
8 1 (3.03%) Avaya
8 1 (3.03%) Citrix
8 1 (3.03%) Ekahau
8 1 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (3.03%) Huawei
8 1 (3.03%) IBM
8 1 (3.03%) Infoblox
8 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds