Juniper Engineer Contract Job Trends

Juniper Engineer
UK

The median Juniper Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 506 570
Rank change year-on-year -79 +64 +113
Contract jobs requiring a Juniper Engineer 40 13 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.045% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.048% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 8 11
10th Percentile £296 £451 £463
25th Percentile £400 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +17.95%
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 41,143 26,962 41,094
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 92.84% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,657 17,725 26,925
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.54%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,568 945 2,533
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.03 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.74 £20.94 £16.25
Median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.81 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £32.90
% change year-on-year +25.94% -3.45% -21.68%

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 1 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 1 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 -88 32 £550 -6.38% 4
UK excluding London -69 29 £550 -8.33% 4
South East -33 24 £550 -8.33% 4
Work from Home -35 10 £350 -26.32%
London -67 7 £550 +15.79%
Wales - 4 - -
East of England - 1 £475 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 40 (100.00%) Juniper
2 20 (50.00%) Cisco
3 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
4 17 (42.50%) Firewall
5 14 (35.00%) BGP
5 14 (35.00%) SC Cleared
6 13 (32.50%) Collaborative Working
7 11 (27.50%) OSPF
8 9 (22.50%) JNCIP
8 9 (22.50%) JNCIS
8 9 (22.50%) Junos
8 9 (22.50%) VXLAN
8 9 (22.50%) WAN
9 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.00%) VLAN
10 7 (17.50%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (17.50%) VPN
11 6 (15.00%) Ansible
11 6 (15.00%) AWS
11 6 (15.00%) Azure
11 6 (15.00%) High Availability
11 6 (15.00%) JNCIA
11 6 (15.00%) LAN
11 6 (15.00%) Network Security
11 6 (15.00%) Python
12 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
12 5 (12.50%) GCP
12 5 (12.50%) MPLS
13 4 (10.00%) Change Management
13 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis

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 (15.00%) AWS
1 6 (15.00%) Azure
2 5 (12.50%) GCP
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (42.50%) Firewall
2 14 (35.00%) BGP
3 11 (27.50%) OSPF
4 9 (22.50%) Junos
4 9 (22.50%) VXLAN
4 9 (22.50%) WAN
5 8 (20.00%) VLAN
6 7 (17.50%) Ethernet VPN
6 7 (17.50%) VPN
7 6 (15.00%) LAN
7 6 (15.00%) Network Security
8 5 (12.50%) MPLS
9 4 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (7.50%) DMZ
10 3 (7.50%) IGMP
10 3 (7.50%) Multicast
10 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
11 1 (2.50%) Wireless
11 1 (2.50%) WLAN
General
1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Electronics
3 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.50%) Marketing
3 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) NHS
2 8 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.00%) High Availability
4 4 (10.00%) Change Management
4 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (7.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (7.50%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (7.50%) Investment Management
5 3 (7.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (7.50%) Load Balancing
5 3 (7.50%) Low Latency
5 3 (7.50%) Network Design
5 3 (7.50%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (7.50%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (7.50%) Operational Stability
5 3 (7.50%) Programme Management
6 1 (2.50%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (2.50%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) JNCIP
3 9 (22.50%) JNCIS
4 6 (15.00%) JNCIA
5 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
6 3 (7.50%) CCNP
6 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.50%) Degree
7 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Grafana
2 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) Juniper
2 20 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (7.50%) Arista
3 3 (7.50%) F5
3 3 (7.50%) Palo Alto
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft