Fortinet Contracts in the West Midlands

Fortinet
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 102 104
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +69
Contract jobs citing Fortinet 17 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.02% 0.27% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 2.18% 0.58% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 12
10th Percentile £458 £510 £288
25th Percentile £500 £525 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £580 £441
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +31.44% +3.82%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £525
90th Percentile £565 - £536
England median daily rate £540 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 780 857 1,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 46.79% 46.32% 50.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 600 705
10th Percentile £208 £263 £211
25th Percentile £330 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £600
90th Percentile £644 £701 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 22
10th Percentile £13.78 £13.05 £16.31
25th Percentile £22.10 £14.06 £17.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £16.82 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year +78.36% -27.66% +40.91%
75th Percentile £41.81 £42.13 £50.88
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £94.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% -18.31% +57.78%

Fortinet
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Fortinet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Fortinet in the West Midlands

Fortinet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Fortinet in the West Midlands

Fortinet
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fortinet within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +11 9 £550 - 3
Warwickshire +2 8 £539 -7.63% 1
Fortinet
England

Fortinet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) Firewall
1 11 (64.71%) Network Security
2 8 (47.06%) TCP/IP
2 8 (47.06%) VPN
3 7 (41.18%) SD-WAN
3 7 (41.18%) Wireless
4 6 (35.29%) BGP
4 6 (35.29%) IPsec
4 6 (35.29%) OSPF
4 6 (35.29%) SSL
4 6 (35.29%) VLAN
5 5 (29.41%) DHCP
5 5 (29.41%) DNS
5 5 (29.41%) WAN
6 3 (17.65%) Wireshark
7 2 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (11.76%) Ethereal
7 2 (11.76%) MPLS
7 2 (11.76%) Unified Communications
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Check Point Expert
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Network Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Network Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Network Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) CSOC
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Check Point GAiA
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.76%) VMS
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) High Availability
2 8 (47.06%) SIEM
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) ITIL
5 4 (23.53%) Service Management
6 3 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
6 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.76%) Event Correlation
7 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) Network Design
8 1 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
8 1 (5.88%) Proactive Monitoring
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (41.18%) CCIE
3 6 (35.29%) CCNP
3 6 (35.29%) CCSE
4 3 (17.65%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) FortiGate
2 4 (23.53%) OpenView
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Cisco
2 8 (47.06%) F5
3 6 (35.29%) CheckPoint
4 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.76%) Meraki
5 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.76%) Splunk
6 1 (5.88%) Arista