Junos Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Juniper Junos OS
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Junos skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 108 139
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 +19
Contract jobs citing Junos 13 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.55% 0.18% 0.073%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.70% 0.92% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £138 £569 -
25th Percentile £278 £578 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £613 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.10% - -
75th Percentile £556 £653 -
90th Percentile £571 £666 -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 -
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - -
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.02 - £63.00
% change year-on-year - - +68.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

Junos falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 351 326 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.72% 19.46% 24.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 156 371
10th Percentile £219 £234 £205
25th Percentile £303 £390 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +0.53% -7.32%
75th Percentile £560 £590 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.53% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 47
10th Percentile £19.00 £19.12 £16.70
25th Percentile £23.02 £20.04 £23.07
Median hourly rate £36.00 £21.83 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.91% -54.04% +41.79%
75th Percentile £76.00 £23.37 £83.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £24.14 £87.53
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £56.95
% change year-on-year -22.05% +9.75% +26.56%

Junos
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Junos job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Junos
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Junos
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junos in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Junos in the Thames Valley

Junos
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Junos in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Junos in the Thames Valley

Junos
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 Junos within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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 13 £520 -15.10% 8
Junos
South East

Junos
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 13 (100.00%) BGP
1 13 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 13 (100.00%) DHCP
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
1 13 (100.00%) LAN
1 13 (100.00%) OSPF
1 13 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 13 (100.00%) WAN
2 11 (84.62%) Cisco ISE
General
1 4 (30.77%) Military
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Network Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
1 6 (46.15%) Senior Network Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Firewall Specialist
2 5 (38.46%) Network Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Clustering
2 12 (92.31%) PKI
3 11 (84.62%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) High Availability
1 13 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 13 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 12 (92.31%) Observability
3 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (46.15%) Availability Management
4 6 (46.15%) ITIL
4 6 (46.15%) Service Management
5 5 (38.46%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (69.23%) DV Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) JNCIA
3 5 (38.46%) JNCIP
3 5 (38.46%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
1 13 (100.00%) F5
1 13 (100.00%) Juniper
1 13 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 13 (100.00%) Splunk
2 11 (84.62%) Extreme Networks