Juniper Contract Job Trends in Reading

Juniper
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 2 September 2025, 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
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 57 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +18
Contract jobs citing Juniper 10 34 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.71% 3.07% 3.01%
As % of the Vendors category 2.74% 5.83% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 17
10th Percentile - £469 £424
25th Percentile - £571 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £605 £490
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% +23.47% -2.00%
75th Percentile - £608 £577
90th Percentile - £629 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £605 £489
% change year-on-year -9.09% +23.72% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.00
Median hourly rate - £76.99 £69.75
Median % change year-on-year - +10.38% +168.27%
75th Percentile - - £75.69
90th Percentile - - £76.47
Berkshire median hourly rate - £73.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +11.36% +175.00%

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 365 583 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 62.39% 52.62% 51.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 328 386
10th Percentile £350 £359 £321
25th Percentile £450 £482 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £700 £765 £706
Berkshire median daily rate £532 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -7.57% +9.52% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 19 14
10th Percentile - £14.50 £27.20
25th Percentile £14.75 £31.63 £49.68
Median hourly rate £18.13 £61.06 £64.09
Median % change year-on-year -70.32% -4.72% +83.68%
75th Percentile £36.38 £61.60 £66.38
90th Percentile £44.78 £75.29 £73.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.81 £58.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year -66.13% -2.52% +6.67%

Juniper
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Juniper as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Juniper in Reading

Juniper
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Juniper

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Juniper

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Wireless
2 5 (50.00%) BGP
2 5 (50.00%) LAN
2 5 (50.00%) MPLS
2 5 (50.00%) OSPF
2 5 (50.00%) SNMP
2 5 (50.00%) TACACS
2 5 (50.00%) WAN
3 4 (40.00%) VLAN
4 3 (30.00%) 802.11
4 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (10.00%) Firewall
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Designer
1 5 (50.00%) IP Designer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Wireless Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Data Collection
3 3 (30.00%) Network Design
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 5 (50.00%) CCIE
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (50.00%) JNCIE
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) F5
2 6 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (50.00%) VMware
4 4 (40.00%) Aruba
5 3 (30.00%) AirMagnet
5 3 (30.00%) Ekahau
5 3 (30.00%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (30.00%) Meraki
6 1 (10.00%) HP