Juniper Engineer Contract Job Trends

Juniper Engineer
UK

The median Juniper Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 523 608
Rank change year-on-year -19 +85 +214
Contract jobs requiring a Juniper Engineer 26 36 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.093% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.10% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 14
10th Percentile £426 £438 £313
25th Percentile £453 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £569 £510 £531
90th Percentile £598 £588 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 -
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,003 35,798 46,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.95% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,960 22,064 31,748
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,684 1,483
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%

Juniper Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Juniper Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Juniper Engineer in the UK

Juniper Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Juniper Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Juniper Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Juniper Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Juniper Engineer over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Juniper Engineer in the UK

Juniper Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Juniper Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Juniper Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Juniper Engineer
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Juniper Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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 +8 26 £475 - 2
London +26 17 £475 - 2
UK excluding London -21 9 £550 +15.79% 1
South East +9 7 £550 +15.79% 1
Work from Home +31 2 £419 - 1
West Midlands -9 2 £600 -
Midlands -15 2 £600 -

Juniper Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Juniper Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Juniper Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Juniper
2 23 (88.46%) Cisco
3 12 (46.15%) OSPF
3 12 (46.15%) BGP
4 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
5 10 (38.46%) Firewall
6 9 (34.62%) JNCIA
6 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
6 9 (34.62%) F5
7 8 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (30.77%) CCNP
8 7 (26.92%) Firmware
8 7 (26.92%) Python
8 7 (26.92%) IPsec
9 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
9 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (23.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
9 6 (23.08%) EIGRP
10 5 (19.23%) C++
10 5 (19.23%) Perl
10 5 (19.23%) DNS
10 5 (19.23%) HTTPS
10 5 (19.23%) Bash
10 5 (19.23%) JNCIS
10 5 (19.23%) PKI
10 5 (19.23%) VLAN
10 5 (19.23%) Network Segmentation
10 5 (19.23%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (19.23%) Kalman Filter

Juniper Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Akamai
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) BGP
1 12 (46.15%) OSPF
2 10 (38.46%) Firewall
3 7 (26.92%) IPsec
4 6 (23.08%) EIGRP
4 6 (23.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (19.23%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (19.23%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (19.23%) DNS
5 5 (19.23%) HTTPS
5 5 (19.23%) VLAN
6 4 (15.38%) LAN
6 4 (15.38%) WAN
6 4 (15.38%) Wireshark
7 3 (11.54%) SNMP
8 2 (7.69%) Internet
8 2 (7.69%) MPLS
8 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
8 2 (7.69%) VPN
8 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 5 (19.23%) PKI
3 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (19.23%) Kalman Filter
2 5 (19.23%) Network Segmentation
3 4 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (11.54%) High Availability
4 3 (11.54%) Migration
4 3 (11.54%) Network Design
5 2 (7.69%) Change Control
5 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 2 (7.69%) Patch Management
5 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.69%) Strategic Planning
5 2 (7.69%) Zero Trust
6 1 (3.85%) Data Protection
6 1 (3.85%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (3.85%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (3.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Bash
2 5 (19.23%) C++
2 5 (19.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) JNCIA
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 8 (30.77%) CCNP
3 8 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (19.23%) JNCIS
5 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (7.69%) CCDA
6 2 (7.69%) CCDP
6 2 (7.69%) CCNA
7 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.85%) JNCIE
7 1 (3.85%) JNCIP
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Firmware
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) FortiGate
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) Juniper
2 23 (88.46%) Cisco
3 9 (34.62%) F5
4 4 (15.38%) SolarWinds
5 3 (11.54%) Fortinet
5 3 (11.54%) Palo Alto
6 2 (7.69%) VMware
7 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.85%) Zscaler