Fortinet Contracts 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 25 August 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
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 122 162
Rank change year-on-year -15 +40 +49
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Fortinet 24 66 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.68% 1.38% 0.79%
As % of the Vendors category 1.31% 2.84% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 40 26
10th Percentile £474 £424 £291
25th Percentile £525 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -3.06% -18.33%
75th Percentile £663 £583 £633
90th Percentile £700 £638 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,829 2,321 2,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.84% 48.64% 52.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 1,400 1,937
10th Percentile £207 £254 £205
25th Percentile £364 £403 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.71% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 133 130
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.25 £26.03 £18.08
Median hourly rate £19.00 £57.35 £47.95
Median % change year-on-year -66.87% +19.60% +139.75%
75th Percentile £40.65 £61.30 £62.88
90th Percentile £76.65 £70.00 £71.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -27.50% +77.78%

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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 25 August 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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DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -12 14 £600 +33.33% 11
Berkshire -3 7 £450 -18.18% 5
Thames Valley -23 7 £450 -20.56% 9
Surrey -5 2 - - 7
West Sussex - 1 £475 - 1
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England

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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 4 (16.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 3 (12.50%) Azure
4 2 (8.33%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) BGP
1 11 (45.83%) OSPF
2 10 (41.67%) Firewall
3 8 (33.33%) VLAN
3 8 (33.33%) VPN
3 8 (33.33%) WAN
4 7 (29.17%) MPLS
5 6 (25.00%) LAN
6 5 (20.83%) Wireless
7 4 (16.67%) SNMP
7 4 (16.67%) TACACS
8 3 (12.50%) Network Security
8 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
9 2 (8.33%) IPsec
9 2 (8.33%) SSL
10 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (4.17%) Multicast
10 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Advertising
4 2 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.33%) Aviation
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Network Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Designer
3 4 (16.67%) IP Designer
3 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco Network Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Juniper Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Integrator
6 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Jinja
1 1 (4.17%) JSON
1 1 (4.17%) NETCONF
1 1 (4.17%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Network Design
2 6 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 5 (20.83%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (16.67%) High Availability
4 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.67%) Validation
5 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
6 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.33%) Service Design
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Debt
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (8.33%) Web Filtering
6 2 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
4 10 (41.67%) CCNP
5 6 (25.00%) CCIE
6 5 (20.83%) CCNA
6 5 (20.83%) JNCIS
7 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
7 4 (16.67%) JNCIE
8 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
9 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (4.17%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) FortiGate
3 4 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) Iperf
4 1 (4.17%) Nmap
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Cisco
2 12 (50.00%) Juniper
3 7 (29.17%) F5
4 5 (20.83%) Palo Alto
5 4 (16.67%) Aruba
5 4 (16.67%) VMware
6 3 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 3 (12.50%) HP
6 3 (12.50%) Zscaler
7 2 (8.33%) Citrix
7 2 (8.33%) Fujitsu
8 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
8 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds