JNCIP Contract Job Trends in England

Juniper Networks Certified Internet Professional (JNCIP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JNCIP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 497 511
Rank change year-on-year -93 +14 +95
Contract jobs citing JNCIP 19 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.042% 0.040% 0.051%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 10
10th Percentile £227 £304 £298
25th Percentile £236 £320 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £399 £529
Median % change year-on-year +30.41% -24.59% +32.19%
75th Percentile £713 £546 £614
90th Percentile £788 £585 £660
UK median daily rate £520 £399 £529
% change year-on-year +30.41% -24.59% +11.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.67 - -
Median hourly rate £71.33 - £65.00
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £71.33 - £65.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

JNCIP 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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,495 8,639 10,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.76% 31.31% 30.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,767 5,446 6,482
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 646 767
10th Percentile £17.97 £18.13 £15.01
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £54.25 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +115.71% -45.54% -16.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.93 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.02 £78.30
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +105.77% -41.51% -22.77%

JNCIP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

JNCIP job vacancy trend in England

JNCIP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JNCIP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JNCIP

JNCIP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JNCIP in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JNCIP in England

JNCIP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JNCIP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JNCIP

JNCIP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JNCIP within the England region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
South East -58 12 £515 +14.44% 1
London -73 6 £725 +101.39% 3
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
JNCIP
UK

JNCIP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 16 (84.21%) Firewall
2 12 (63.16%) DNS
2 12 (63.16%) LAN
2 12 (63.16%) WAN
3 11 (57.89%) DHCP
4 8 (42.11%) BGP
5 7 (36.84%) BIG-IP
5 7 (36.84%) Ethernet VPN
5 7 (36.84%) Junos
5 7 (36.84%) OSPF
5 7 (36.84%) VXLAN
6 6 (31.58%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (26.32%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (26.32%) VPN
7 5 (26.32%) Wireless
8 4 (21.05%) Network Security
8 4 (21.05%) NGFW
8 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
8 4 (21.05%) VLAN
9 2 (10.53%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
General
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (21.05%) Automotive
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Legal
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Military
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Network Engineer
2 12 (63.16%) Senior
2 12 (63.16%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) IP Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Network Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) PKI
2 10 (52.63%) Data Centre
3 7 (36.84%) Clustering
4 4 (21.05%) Driving Licence
4 4 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (21.05%) IoT
4 4 (21.05%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (21.05%) NHS
4 4 (21.05%) Public Cloud
4 4 (21.05%) Robotics
5 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) ITIL
2 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (47.37%) ITSM
3 9 (47.37%) Service Management
4 7 (36.84%) High Availability
4 7 (36.84%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (36.84%) Load Balancing
4 7 (36.84%) Observability
5 5 (26.32%) Migration
6 4 (21.05%) AI
6 4 (21.05%) Availability Management
6 4 (21.05%) Change Management
6 4 (21.05%) DevOps
6 4 (21.05%) Information Security
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
6 4 (21.05%) Validation
7 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Bash
1 4 (21.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) JNCIS
2 13 (68.42%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (47.37%) JNCIA
4 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
5 5 (26.32%) CCNP
5 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.26%) CCIE
6 1 (5.26%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) FortiGate
2 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) systemd
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) Juniper
2 13 (68.42%) Cisco
3 8 (42.11%) Extreme Networks
4 7 (36.84%) F5
4 7 (36.84%) SolarWinds
4 7 (36.84%) Splunk
5 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
6 4 (21.05%) MikroTik
6 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
7 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.26%) Meraki
7 1 (5.26%) Motorola