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 23 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 509 562
Rank change year-on-year -70 +53 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Juniper Engineer 36 12 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.041% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.044% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 10
10th Percentile £278 £451 £456
25th Percentile £400 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £588 £548
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +7.31% +13.77%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £825
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +60.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 42,836 27,359 40,556
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.64% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,486 17,911 26,489
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,746 1,013 2,627
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.44 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.60 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £28.88 £37.18
% change year-on-year +52.38% -22.34% -12.52%

Juniper Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Juniper Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Juniper Engineer job vacancy trend 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 23 April 2026.

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 23 April 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 -83 28 £550 -6.38% 1
UK excluding London -84 27 £550 -8.33% 1
South East -35 22 £550 -8.33%
Work from Home -23 10 £306 -35.53% 1
London -51 5 £450 -5.26%
Wales - 4 - -
East of England - 1 £475 -

Juniper Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2026, Juniper Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Juniper Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Juniper
2 19 (52.78%) Cisco
3 15 (41.67%) Firewall
4 14 (38.89%) BGP
4 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
5 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 11 (30.56%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (27.78%) OSPF
8 9 (25.00%) VXLAN
9 8 (22.22%) Junos
10 7 (19.44%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (19.44%) Python
11 6 (16.67%) Ansible
11 6 (16.67%) AWS
11 6 (16.67%) Azure
11 6 (16.67%) VLAN
11 6 (16.67%) VPN
11 6 (16.67%) WAN
12 5 (13.89%) GCP
12 5 (13.89%) High Availability
12 5 (13.89%) JNCIA
12 5 (13.89%) JNCIP
12 5 (13.89%) JNCIS
12 5 (13.89%) MPLS
12 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (11.11%) Change Management
13 4 (11.11%) Network Security
13 4 (11.11%) Palo Alto
14 3 (8.33%) Arista
14 3 (8.33%) Cisco ASA

Juniper Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) AWS
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (41.67%) Firewall
2 14 (38.89%) BGP
3 10 (27.78%) OSPF
4 9 (25.00%) VXLAN
5 8 (22.22%) Junos
6 7 (19.44%) Ethernet VPN
7 6 (16.67%) VLAN
7 6 (16.67%) VPN
7 6 (16.67%) WAN
8 5 (13.89%) MPLS
9 4 (11.11%) Network Security
10 3 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (8.33%) DMZ
10 3 (8.33%) IGMP
10 3 (8.33%) LAN
10 3 (8.33%) Multicast
11 2 (5.56%) Wireless
12 1 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (2.78%) NX-OS
12 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Finance
2 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Electronics
3 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.56%) Marketing
3 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 8 (22.22%) NHS
2 1 (2.78%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (13.89%) High Availability
2 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (11.11%) Change Management
4 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (8.33%) Investment Management
4 3 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (8.33%) Load Balancing
4 3 (8.33%) Low Latency
4 3 (8.33%) Operational Stability
5 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (5.56%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (5.56%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (5.56%) Programme Management
6 1 (2.78%) AI
6 1 (2.78%) ITIL
6 1 (2.78%) ITSM
6 1 (2.78%) Migration
6 1 (2.78%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) JNCIA
3 5 (13.89%) JNCIP
3 5 (13.89%) JNCIS
4 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
5 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) CCNP
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Grafana
2 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (100.00%) Juniper
2 19 (52.78%) Cisco
3 4 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.33%) Arista
4 3 (8.33%) F5
5 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.56%) SAP
6 1 (2.78%) Aruba
6 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.78%) Dell
6 1 (2.78%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.78%) VMware