JNCIP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Juniper Networks Certified Internet Professional (JNCIP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for JNCIP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 333 404
Rank change year-on-year -57 +71 +75
Contract jobs citing JNCIP 8 15 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.10% 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.30% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 1
10th Percentile - £385 -
25th Percentile £400 £452 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £518 -
90th Percentile £608 £550 -
UK median daily rate £400 £505 £333
% change year-on-year -20.79% +51.88% -30.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

JNCIP 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,776 5,047 7,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.99% 34.69% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,255 3,012 4,335
10th Percentile £256 £225 £250
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% -7.07% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £649
90th Percentile £705 £700 £703
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 393 618
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £15.93
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £51.90
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -20.03% +20.43%
75th Percentile £51.53 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £79.78
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%

JNCIP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JNCIP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

JNCIP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JNCIP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JNCIP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JNCIP

JNCIP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JNCIP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JNCIP in the UK excluding London

JNCIP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JNCIP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JNCIP

JNCIP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JNCIP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East -11 4 £400 -20.79% 2
South West -7 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £525 -
Midlands - 2 £525 -
JNCIP
UK

JNCIP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
1 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 5 (62.50%) BGP
2 5 (62.50%) OSPF
3 3 (37.50%) Junos
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (25.00%) DHCP
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 2 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (25.00%) IPv4
4 2 (25.00%) IPv6
4 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
4 2 (25.00%) LAN
4 2 (25.00%) MPLS
4 2 (25.00%) VLAN
4 2 (25.00%) WAN
4 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (25.00%) Wireless
4 2 (25.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Electronics
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
2 3 (37.50%) Marketing
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Juniper Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Juniper Specialist
2 3 (37.50%) Network Specialist
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) NHS
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (37.50%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (37.50%) Programme Management
3 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Network Design
3 2 (25.00%) Network Management
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CCNP
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) JNCIA
3 3 (37.50%) JNCIS
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (25.00%) CCIE
4 2 (25.00%) CCIE Security
4 2 (25.00%) CCSP
4 2 (25.00%) CISSP
4 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) JNCIE
5 1 (12.50%) CCNA
5 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) Juniper
3 3 (37.50%) SAP
4 2 (25.00%) F5
4 2 (25.00%) Forcepoint
4 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (25.00%) Meraki
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (25.00%) VMware