JNCIS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for JNCIS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 - 132
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing JNCIS 5 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.21% - 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.48% - 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.16%
75th Percentile - - £516
90th Percentile - - £570
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £488
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.67 - -
Median hourly rate £71.33 - -
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £71.33 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

JNCIS 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,044 593 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 44.11% 35.49% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 332 664
10th Percentile £258 £245 £205
25th Percentile £356 £370 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +1.49%
75th Percentile £574 £638 £615
90th Percentile £638 £684 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 31 94
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.70 £18.00
25th Percentile £19.37 £44.50 £45.21
Median hourly rate £27.50 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year -55.28% +5.48% +6.00%
75th Percentile £82.25 £65.62 £68.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.08 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.77 £56.75 £59.50
% change year-on-year -54.59% -4.63% +32.22%

JNCIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JNCIS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

JNCIS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

JNCIS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JNCIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JNCIS

JNCIS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JNCIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JNCIS

JNCIS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JNCIS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 February 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
Berkshire - 5 £520 - 4
JNCIS
South East

JNCIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) BIG-IP
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) Junos
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) OSPF
1 4 (80.00%) VXLAN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ISE
General
1 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 4 (80.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) Availability Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) JNCIA
1 5 (100.00%) JNCIP
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Extreme Networks
1 4 (80.00%) F5
1 4 (80.00%) Juniper
1 4 (80.00%) SolarWinds
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk