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 11 January 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
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 291 311
Rank change year-on-year -22 +20 +140
Contract jobs citing Juniper 51 65 92
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.46% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 0.78% 1.05% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 54
10th Percentile £259 £397 £450
25th Percentile £350 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £580 £561
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +3.39% +21.30%
75th Percentile £491 £675 £734
90th Percentile £575 £688 £875
England median daily rate £475 £523 £523
% change year-on-year -9.13% +0.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £29.85
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +40.35%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £78.65
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year - -46.95% +75.95%

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 6,554 6,163 7,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.46% 43.89% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,284 3,821 5,012
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £756
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 68 116
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.86 £14.99
25th Percentile £21.23 £23.80 £20.94
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.42 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.26% -5.50% +33.00%
75th Percentile £41.85 £62.06 £53.31
90th Percentile £67.70 £84.28 £86.38
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -20.58% -31.63% +46.27%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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
Central London -11 5 £190 -70.77% 5
West London -13 4 £380 +49.02% 1
South London - 2 £413 - 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 5 (9.80%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) MS Visio
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) Azure
2 8 (15.69%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) GCP
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.92%) OCI
6 1 (1.96%) Akamai
6 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 35 (68.63%) Firewall
2 22 (43.14%) Network Security
3 19 (37.25%) BGP
4 18 (35.29%) OSPF
5 17 (33.33%) WAN
6 14 (27.45%) LAN
7 11 (21.57%) IPsec
7 11 (21.57%) VPN
8 9 (17.65%) EIGRP
8 9 (17.65%) Wireless
9 8 (15.69%) SD-WAN
9 8 (15.69%) VLAN
10 7 (13.73%) DNS
10 7 (13.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 7 (13.73%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
12 5 (9.80%) BIG-IP
12 5 (9.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 5 (9.80%) HTTPS
12 5 (9.80%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) GitLab
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (19.61%) Public Sector
4 9 (17.65%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Finance
6 3 (5.88%) Local Government
7 2 (3.92%) Military
8 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (56.86%) Network Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Juniper Engineer
3 12 (23.53%) Architect
4 11 (21.57%) Network Architect
5 7 (13.73%) Network Security Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Security Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Audio Visual Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Network Security Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Network Specialist
7 3 (5.88%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Senior
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Firewall Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Network Specialist
8 2 (3.92%) Wireless Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.96%) CrewAI
1 1 (1.96%) JSON
1 1 (1.96%) LangChain
1 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Data Centre
2 7 (13.73%) PKI
3 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.96%) SCADA
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (23.53%) Migration
3 9 (17.65%) Network Design
4 8 (15.69%) Kalman Filter
5 7 (13.73%) Runbook
6 6 (11.76%) Change Management
6 6 (11.76%) ITIL
6 6 (11.76%) Security Architecture
6 6 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (9.80%) Agile
7 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (9.80%) Project Management
7 5 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (9.80%) TOGAF
8 4 (7.84%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (7.84%) Load Balancing
8 4 (7.84%) Network Architecture
8 4 (7.84%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) Python
2 6 (11.76%) Bash
3 5 (9.80%) C++
3 5 (9.80%) Perl
4 1 (1.96%) Go
4 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (43.14%) CCNP
3 15 (29.41%) Security Cleared
4 12 (23.53%) JNCIP
5 11 (21.57%) JNCIS
6 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
7 8 (15.69%) JNCIA
8 7 (13.73%) CCSE
8 7 (13.73%) JNCIE
9 6 (11.76%) CCIE
10 5 (9.80%) CCNA
11 4 (7.84%) Degree
11 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
12 3 (5.88%) DBS Check
13 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (1.96%) CCDE
13 1 (1.96%) CISSP
13 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
13 1 (1.96%) PMP
13 1 (1.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) PMO
1 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Firmware
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) KVM
2 1 (1.96%) Squid
2 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Ansible
1 10 (19.61%) Terraform
2 3 (5.88%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (70.59%) Cisco
2 20 (39.22%) Palo Alto
3 13 (25.49%) Fortinet
4 11 (21.57%) F5
5 10 (19.61%) CheckPoint
6 7 (13.73%) Zscaler
7 6 (11.76%) Aruba
7 6 (11.76%) Remedy
8 5 (9.80%) ServiceNow
9 3 (5.88%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (3.92%) Arista
10 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.96%) AlgoSec
11 1 (1.96%) Broadcom
11 1 (1.96%) Google
11 1 (1.96%) Infoblox
11 1 (1.96%) Meraki
11 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.96%) NetApp
11 1 (1.96%) Ruckus Wireless