JNCIE Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert (JNCIE)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for JNCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JNCIE 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.064% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £360 £530 £488
% change year-on-year -32.08% +8.72% -9.30%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

JNCIE 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,080 638 783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.69% 27.63% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 395 488
10th Percentile £260 £225 £284
25th Percentile £405 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.43% +2.47%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £715 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 30 45
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.59
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.07 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +5.13% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £32.20 £52.50 £68.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.21% -7.50% +16.67%

JNCIE
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

JNCIE job vacancy trend in the Midlands

JNCIE
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JNCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JNCIE

JNCIE
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JNCIE within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
West Midlands - 2 £525 -
JNCIE
England

JNCIE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPv4
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE Security
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Forcepoint
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) VMware