JNCIA Contract Job Trends

Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JNCIA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 524 554
Rank change year-on-year -42 +30 +199
Contract jobs citing JNCIA 19 10 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.050% 0.032% 0.099%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.11% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 34
10th Percentile £190 £165 £335
25th Percentile £226 £190 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £495 £580
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% -14.66% +16.00%
75th Percentile £469 £538 £700
90th Percentile £493 £568 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £525 £675
% change year-on-year -23.81% -22.22% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

JNCIA 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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,847 9,424 13,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 29.88% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,500 5,673 8,379
10th Percentile £315 £300 £298
25th Percentile £416 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £723 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 947 460 894
10th Percentile £15.95 £18.69 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.10 £24.18 £21.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -17.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62.38 £65.71 £65.56
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% -10.53% +5.56%

JNCIA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JNCIA job vacancy trend in the UK

JNCIA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JNCIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JNCIA

JNCIA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JNCIA over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JNCIA in the UK

JNCIA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JNCIA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JNCIA

JNCIA
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JNCIA within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England -56 18 £425 -14.14% 12
London -16 9 £450 +136.84% 4
Work from Home -7 8 £233 -30.08% 1
UK excluding London -64 8 £400 -23.81% 10
South East -20 5 £400 -23.81% 5
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 - - 4
South West - 1 - - 1

JNCIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (15.79%) MS Visio
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Route 53
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Firewall
2 10 (52.63%) BGP
2 10 (52.63%) OSPF
3 7 (36.84%) DNS
4 6 (31.58%) VPN
4 6 (31.58%) Wireless
5 5 (26.32%) EIGRP
5 5 (26.32%) HTTPS
5 5 (26.32%) IPsec
5 5 (26.32%) Network Security
6 4 (21.05%) Junos
6 4 (21.05%) LAN
6 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
6 4 (21.05%) WAN
7 2 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (10.53%) DWDM
7 2 (10.53%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (10.53%) VLAN
7 2 (10.53%) VXLAN
8 1 (5.26%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Electronics
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Local Government
3 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.79%) Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Network Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Juniper Specialist
4 3 (15.79%) Network Specialist
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Core Network Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Design Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) 802.1X
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) PKI
2 4 (21.05%) NHS
3 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
4 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.26%) CSOC
5 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Kalman Filter
1 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (21.05%) High Availability
2 4 (21.05%) Knowledge Transfer
2 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
2 4 (21.05%) Network Architecture
2 4 (21.05%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (15.79%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (15.79%) Programme Management
3 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
4 2 (10.53%) Migration
4 2 (10.53%) Runbook
4 2 (10.53%) SIEM
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Bash
2 5 (26.32%) C++
2 5 (26.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) JNCIS
2 13 (68.42%) CCNP
2 13 (68.42%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (42.11%) JNCIP
4 6 (31.58%) CCNA
5 4 (21.05%) DBS Check
6 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
7 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 1 (5.26%) CCIE
8 1 (5.26%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (5.26%) CCIE Security
8 1 (5.26%) CCSA
8 1 (5.26%) CCSE
8 1 (5.26%) CEH
8 1 (5.26%) CISM
8 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (5.26%) Degree
8 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
8 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Firmware
2 1 (5.26%) KVM
2 1 (5.26%) RHEV
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Nagios
3 1 (5.26%) Proxmox
3 1 (5.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Juniper
2 13 (68.42%) Cisco
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) SAP
4 2 (10.53%) Arista
4 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.26%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.26%) F5
5 1 (5.26%) Forcepoint
5 1 (5.26%) IBM
5 1 (5.26%) Okta
5 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.26%) Qualys
5 1 (5.26%) Rapid7
5 1 (5.26%) Remedy
5 1 (5.26%) Ruckus Wireless
5 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.26%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) VMware