JNCIS Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for JNCIS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JNCIS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £375 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

JNCIS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 255 116 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 37.01% 27.49% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 75 91
10th Percentile £313 £230 £158
25th Percentile £358 £343 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +6.74%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £540
90th Percentile £679 £600 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile - £24.13 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £29.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +21.91% -25.94%
75th Percentile £19.00 £85.44 £30.37
90th Percentile - £86.00 £38.45
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year +39.88% +102.37% -55.39%

JNCIS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JNCIS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

JNCIS job vacancy trend in Cheshire

JNCIS
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing JNCIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing JNCIS

JNCIS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JNCIS within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
Knutsford - 1 £375 -
JNCIS
North West

JNCIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki