Juniper Contract Job Trends in London

Juniper
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Juniper products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Juniper over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, 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 Juniper Networks.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 289 312
Rank change year-on-year -88 +23 +10
Contract jobs citing Juniper 60 77 74
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 1.23% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 49 51
10th Percentile £362 £325 £390
25th Percentile £450 £388 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.22% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £594
90th Percentile £734 £547 £688
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £67.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +183.61% -
75th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £67.50 £25.65
% change year-on-year +14.07% +163.16% -61.12%

All Vendors
London

Juniper 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,453 6,253 6,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.94% 45.86% 42.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,519 4,084 4,796
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £754 £763
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 121 88
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.68
25th Percentile £20.79 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -13.95%
75th Percentile £57.86 £43.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £35.52 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +41.21% -10.18% -29.20%

Juniper
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Juniper job vacancy trend in London

Juniper
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Juniper.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Juniper

Juniper
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Juniper in London over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Juniper in London

Juniper
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Juniper.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Juniper

Juniper
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Juniper within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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 London -11 8 £450 +20.00%
Central London -9 7 £600 +15.38% 6
West London -40 1 £525 +31.25% 1
Juniper
England

Juniper
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (18.33%) AWS
3 8 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 7 (11.67%) GitHub
5 6 (10.00%) GCP
6 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.67%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 47 (78.33%) Firewall
2 26 (43.33%) BGP
3 25 (41.67%) VPN
4 19 (31.67%) WAN
5 18 (30.00%) Network Security
6 16 (26.67%) OSPF
7 13 (21.67%) LAN
7 13 (21.67%) VLAN
8 12 (20.00%) TCP/IP
8 12 (20.00%) Wireless
9 10 (16.67%) DNS
10 9 (15.00%) DHCP
10 9 (15.00%) IPsec
11 8 (13.33%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 8 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (11.67%) VXLAN
13 6 (10.00%) Multicast
13 6 (10.00%) NX-OS
13 6 (10.00%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Git
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.33%) Finance
4 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Retail
5 4 (6.67%) Automotive
5 4 (6.67%) Law
6 3 (5.00%) Local Government
7 2 (3.33%) Banking
7 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (73.33%) Network Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Senior
2 9 (15.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Network Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Data Network Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Designer
7 3 (5.00%) Network Designer
8 2 (3.33%) Administrator
8 2 (3.33%) Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) Design Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Firewall Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.00%) SAML
3 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (36.67%) Data Centre
2 13 (21.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (6.67%) PKI
3 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.67%) Robotics
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.33%) IoT
4 2 (3.33%) NHS
4 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.67%) CCTV
5 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Linux
3 4 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.67%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Migration
2 13 (21.67%) Project Delivery
3 9 (15.00%) Runbook
3 9 (15.00%) Validation
4 8 (13.33%) Change Management
4 8 (13.33%) ITIL
4 8 (13.33%) Network Design
4 8 (13.33%) Zero Trust
5 7 (11.67%) Cloud Security
5 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (10.00%) Load Balancing
7 5 (8.33%) Design Patterns
7 5 (8.33%) Low Latency
7 5 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 5 (8.33%) Project Planning
8 4 (6.67%) DevOps
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (6.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.33%) Python
2 4 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (26.67%) CCNP
3 10 (16.67%) Degree
4 7 (11.67%) CCNA
4 7 (11.67%) JNCIP
4 7 (11.67%) JNCIS
5 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.00%) CCIE
7 3 (5.00%) CCSE
7 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.67%) CISSP
9 1 (1.67%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.67%) HND
9 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.67%) IAG
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (26.67%) Ansible
2 15 (25.00%) Terraform
3 7 (11.67%) FortiGate
4 4 (6.67%) Grafana
4 4 (6.67%) systemd
5 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.67%) SCCM
6 1 (1.67%) SCOM
6 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (85.00%) Cisco
2 34 (56.67%) Palo Alto
3 17 (28.33%) Fortinet
4 15 (25.00%) F5
5 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
6 10 (16.67%) Zscaler
7 8 (13.33%) Arista
8 7 (11.67%) Aruba
9 6 (10.00%) Infoblox
9 6 (10.00%) VMware
10 5 (8.33%) CheckPoint
11 4 (6.67%) Citrix
11 4 (6.67%) MikroTik
12 3 (5.00%) Meraki
12 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
13 2 (3.33%) Forcepoint
14 1 (1.67%) Dell
14 1 (1.67%) HP
14 1 (1.67%) McAfee
14 1 (1.67%) Siemens