Juniper Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Juniper
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 13 July 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
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 79 92
Rank change year-on-year -40 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing Juniper 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.21% 0.10% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 0.21% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £406 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year - +21.43% -24.32%
75th Percentile £456 £438 £375
90th Percentile £468 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £425 £350
% change year-on-year +11.76% +21.43% -17.65%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 710 472 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.64% 47.87% 36.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 304 337
10th Percentile £275 £276 £325
25th Percentile £389 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £598 £588
90th Percentile £660 £703 £665
North West median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 24 43
10th Percentile £22.66 £13.00 £12.08
25th Percentile £24.19 £17.85 £13.72
Median hourly rate £33.75 £22.47 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.18% -11.00% +42.49%
75th Percentile £76.19 £56.62 £39.38
90th Percentile £91.25 £62.63 £64.00
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £29.27 £16.06
% change year-on-year +2.49% +82.25% -41.60%

Juniper
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Juniper job vacancy trend in Manchester

Juniper
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Juniper

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Juniper

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) Aruba
3 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (25.00%) Arista
4 1 (25.00%) Perforce
4 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds