Juniper Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Juniper
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 22 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
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 103 130
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 +16
Contract jobs citing Juniper 3 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.20% 0.37% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.97% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £414 £393 £460
25th Percentile £421 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -15.38% +36.84%
75th Percentile £458 £588 -
90th Percentile £465 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +8.25%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 635 621 948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 43.02% 38.76% 41.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 351 548
10th Percentile £263 £178 £192
25th Percentile £400 £340 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £484
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.98% +2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 39 40
10th Percentile £16.51 £15.10 £15.94
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.34 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +20.97% +10.05%
75th Percentile £31.50 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £36.41 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.36% -21.43% +11.01%

Juniper
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Juniper job vacancy trend in Scotland

Juniper
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Juniper

Juniper
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Juniper

Juniper
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Juniper within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 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
Edinburgh - 3 £440 - 1
Juniper
UK

Juniper
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (66.67%) Catchpoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) BCP
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Arista
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) AppNeta