Fortinet Contracts

Fortinet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 June 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
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 366 377
Rank change year-on-year +60 +11 +162
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 225 234 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.54% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 1.61% 1.27% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 135 243
10th Percentile £400 £355 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £594 £650
90th Percentile £838 £675 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £17.79 - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.79 - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,985 18,388 24,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.69% 42.30% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,593 11,439 16,126
10th Percentile £278 £267 £267
25th Percentile £404 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £640
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 628 1,149 642
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.23 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £22.50 £42.33
Median % change year-on-year +17.27% -46.84% +96.87%
75th Percentile £55.06 £57.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.72 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.66% -38.57% +79.49%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fortinet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fortinet in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fortinet.

Daily rate trend for Fortinet in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fortinet over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fortinet in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fortinet.

Hourly rate trend for Fortinet in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fortinet within the UK over the 6 months to 8 June 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
England +45 180 £550 +10.00% 250
London +43 92 £513 -2.38% 82
UK excluding London +6 90 £550 +22.22% 216
Work from Home +55 83 £551 +10.20% 160
Midlands +30 29 £550 - 15
North of England +31 25 £500 - 51
West Midlands +36 24 £551 +2.51% 7
South East -12 18 £575 +27.78% 77
North West +18 13 £500 -4.76% 22
Scotland +6 7 £431 +15.00% 31
Yorkshire +14 6 £575 +180.49% 19
South West +28 5 £600 +23.08% 16
East Midlands +11 5 £430 -28.33% 7
North East +4 5 - - 10
East of England +19 4 £388 -22.50% 13
Wales - 2 £478 - 11

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 69 (30.67%) Azure
2 60 (26.67%) AWS
3 30 (13.33%) GCP
4 19 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (8.44%) IaaS
4 19 (8.44%) PaaS
4 19 (8.44%) SaaS
5 5 (2.22%) Cloudflare
6 2 (0.89%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.44%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 162 (72.00%) Firewall
2 82 (36.44%) BGP
3 74 (32.89%) VPN
4 73 (32.44%) OSPF
5 70 (31.11%) Network Security
6 62 (27.56%) WAN
7 45 (20.00%) SD-WAN
8 42 (18.67%) DNS
9 37 (16.44%) TCP/IP
10 36 (16.00%) MPLS
11 29 (12.89%) DHCP
12 27 (12.00%) LAN
12 27 (12.00%) Wireless
13 24 (10.67%) IPsec
14 21 (9.33%) VLAN
15 19 (8.44%) HTTP
16 18 (8.00%) HTTPS
17 12 (5.33%) Cisco Nexus
17 12 (5.33%) HSRP
17 12 (5.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.44%) Power BI
2 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.00%) GitLab
2 4 (1.78%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.78%) JIRA
General
1 55 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (12.44%) Finance
4 13 (5.78%) Banking
5 11 (4.89%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.11%) Law
7 7 (3.11%) Legal
7 7 (3.11%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.89%) Aviation
11 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Military
12 1 (0.44%) Police
12 1 (0.44%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 69 (30.67%) Network Engineer
2 58 (25.78%) Architect
3 29 (12.89%) Network Architect
4 25 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 22 (9.78%) Cloud Architect
6 21 (9.33%) Cisco Engineer
6 21 (9.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 20 (8.89%) Security Architect
8 18 (8.00%) Cloud Native Architect
8 18 (8.00%) Firewall Engineer
9 17 (7.56%) Network Security Architect
9 17 (7.56%) Senior
10 12 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.33%) Security Engineer
11 11 (4.89%) Consultant
11 11 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.44%) AWS Architect
12 10 (4.44%) IT Engineer
12 10 (4.44%) Network Consultant
13 9 (4.00%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.78%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.44%) Jinja
2 1 (0.44%) JSON
2 1 (0.44%) NETCONF
2 1 (0.44%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.44%) Data Centre
2 22 (9.78%) Cloud Native
3 20 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.44%) CSOC
4 10 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.56%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.67%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.22%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.22%) PKI
7 5 (2.22%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.89%) Clustering
10 2 (0.89%) Derivative
10 2 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.89%) SCADA
11 1 (0.44%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.44%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.56%) Linux
2 16 (7.11%) Windows
3 10 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (4.44%) VMS
4 6 (2.67%) Check Point GAiA
4 6 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.89%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Solaris
6 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (12.89%) Network Architecture
3 29 (12.89%) Network Design
4 25 (11.11%) High Availability
5 23 (10.22%) Network Monitoring
5 23 (10.22%) Sprint Planning
5 23 (10.22%) Test Automation
6 22 (9.78%) Migration
7 20 (8.89%) DevOps
8 19 (8.44%) Roadmaps
9 18 (8.00%) SIEM
10 17 (7.56%) Zero Trust
11 16 (7.11%) ITIL
12 15 (6.67%) Agile
13 14 (6.22%) CI/CD
14 12 (5.33%) Data Protection
14 12 (5.33%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (4.89%) Configuration Management
15 11 (4.89%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.00%) Python
2 19 (8.44%) Bicep
3 10 (4.44%) Bash
4 4 (1.78%) Perl
5 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.44%) R
6 1 (0.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (25.33%) CCNP
3 50 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 41 (18.22%) SC Cleared
5 33 (14.67%) CCIE
6 21 (9.33%) Degree
7 19 (8.44%) CCNA
8 12 (5.33%) DV Cleared
9 10 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (4.44%) JNCIS
10 7 (3.11%) JNCIE
11 6 (2.67%) CCSE
12 5 (2.22%) AWS Certification
12 5 (2.22%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.78%) APMP
13 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 3 (1.33%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.67%) NIST
3 3 (1.33%) SLA
4 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.44%) PMO
5 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 5 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.89%) Firmware
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (20.89%) FortiGate
2 40 (17.78%) Ansible
3 36 (16.00%) Terraform
4 6 (2.67%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (2.22%) Puppet
6 4 (1.78%) OpenView
7 3 (1.33%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco LMS
9 1 (0.44%) Nagios
9 1 (0.44%) SCCM
9 1 (0.44%) TrustSec
9 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 148 (65.78%) Cisco
2 70 (31.11%) Palo Alto
3 58 (25.78%) CheckPoint
4 41 (18.22%) F5
5 24 (10.67%) SolarWinds
6 22 (9.78%) Arista
6 22 (9.78%) Juniper
7 18 (8.00%) ServiceNow
7 18 (8.00%) Splunk
7 18 (8.00%) VMware
8 15 (6.67%) Meraki
9 13 (5.78%) Aruba
10 12 (5.33%) Infoblox
10 12 (5.33%) Zscaler
11 11 (4.89%) Microsoft
12 10 (4.44%) Red Hat
13 9 (4.00%) HP
14 6 (2.67%) Fujitsu
15 5 (2.22%) Citrix
15 5 (2.22%) Veeam