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 17 September 2025, 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 123 168
Rank change year-on-year -14 +45 +36
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 24 61 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 1.33% 0.82%
As % of the Vendors category 1.34% 2.69% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 35 25
10th Percentile £416 £418 £275
25th Percentile £459 £456 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% +2.04% -18.33%
75th Percentile £681 £590 £663
90th Percentile £700 £638 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -4.39%

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 1,791 2,265 2,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.44% 49.34% 52.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,369 1,912
10th Percentile £205 £251 £205
25th Percentile £363 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £597 £631 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 114 136
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £14.91 £27.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £57.35 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -65.13% +10.37% +159.80%
75th Percentile £35.89 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £79.25 £70.00 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Fortinet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Fortinet 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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
Hampshire -17 11 £650 +30.00%
Thames Valley -12 10 £425 -22.73% 1
Berkshire -1 7 - -
Oxfordshire -11 3 £425 -32.00% 1
Surrey -8 2 - - 7
West Sussex - 1 £475 - 1
Fortinet
England

Fortinet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
1 6 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) BGP
1 15 (62.50%) OSPF
2 11 (45.83%) Firewall
3 10 (41.67%) VLAN
4 9 (37.50%) MPLS
5 8 (33.33%) LAN
5 8 (33.33%) WAN
6 7 (29.17%) VPN
6 7 (29.17%) Wireless
7 6 (25.00%) SNMP
7 6 (25.00%) TACACS
8 5 (20.83%) Network Security
8 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
9 3 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (12.50%) Multicast
9 3 (12.50%) Wireshark
10 2 (8.33%) IPsec
10 2 (8.33%) SSL
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Advertising
4 2 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Aviation
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Designer
2 6 (25.00%) IP Designer
3 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Network Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Validation Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco Network Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Juniper Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Network Security Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Validation
2 7 (29.17%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (16.67%) High Availability
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
6 2 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (8.33%) Network Architecture
6 2 (8.33%) Network Design
6 2 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Debt
6 2 (8.33%) Test Planning
6 2 (8.33%) Web Filtering
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 8 (33.33%) CCIE
5 7 (29.17%) CCNP
6 6 (25.00%) AWS Certification
6 6 (25.00%) JNCIE
7 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (4.17%) CCNA
7 1 (4.17%) JNCIS
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.83%) FortiGate
4 3 (12.50%) Iperf
4 3 (12.50%) Nmap
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) Cisco
2 10 (41.67%) Juniper
3 7 (29.17%) CheckPoint
3 7 (29.17%) F5
3 7 (29.17%) Palo Alto
3 7 (29.17%) SolarWinds
4 6 (25.00%) VMware
5 4 (16.67%) Aruba
6 3 (12.50%) HP
7 1 (4.17%) Zscaler