Juniper
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Juniper products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Juniper over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Juniper Networks.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 332 455
Rank change year-on-year +113 +123 -32
Contract jobs citing Juniper 480 454 462
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 0.76% 0.52%
As % of the Vendors category 2.60% 1.77% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 283 307
10th Percentile £313 £330 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £584
90th Percentile £735 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £450
% change year-on-year -4.52% +10.56% +13.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 15
10th Percentile £23.69 £24.20 £22.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £50.52 £25.88
Median hourly rate £32.50 £62.00 £43.74
Median % change year-on-year -47.58% +41.75% +82.25%
75th Percentile £41.25 £64.62 £49.05
90th Percentile £75.24 £71.99 £56.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.50 £62.00 £46.39
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.66% +118.28%

All Vendors
UK

Juniper is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

Juniper
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Juniper as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Juniper in the UK

Juniper
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Juniper.

Daily rate trend for Juniper in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Juniper over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Juniper in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Juniper.

Hourly rate trend for Juniper in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Juniper over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Juniper in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Juniper within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +158 466 £475 -5.00% 122
UK excluding London +103 389 £475 -4.52% 93
South East +68 202 £550 +10.00% 41
Midlands +77 116 £350 -20.77% 16
West Midlands +75 112 £350 -17.65% 14
London +68 74 £563 +12.50% 32
Work from Home +42 73 £475 -5.66% 57
South West +17 33 £650 +3.67% 7
North of England +23 28 £425 -10.53% 16
Yorkshire +27 18 £488 -2.50% 6
East of England +12 14 £475 +25.83% 10
North West -6 5 £350 -24.73% 8
North East - 5 £375 - 3
East Midlands +14 4 £600 +15.72% 2

Juniper
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 6 (1.25%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (0.21%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 33 (6.88%) Azure
2 27 (5.63%) AWS
3 13 (2.71%) OCI
4 11 (2.29%) SaaS
5 9 (1.88%) PaaS
6 7 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (0.63%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.42%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.42%) GCP
8 2 (0.42%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.42%) Nutanix
8 2 (0.42%) Rubrik
8 2 (0.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.21%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.21%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 229 (47.71%) WAN
2 199 (41.46%) BGP
3 171 (35.63%) Firewall
4 157 (32.71%) VPN
5 152 (31.67%) MPLS
6 130 (27.08%) IPsec
7 112 (23.33%) LAN
8 83 (17.29%) OSPF
9 73 (15.21%) Junos
10 63 (13.13%) Network Security
11 53 (11.04%) Cisco ASA
12 50 (10.42%) Wi-Fi
13 44 (9.17%) Wireless
14 43 (8.96%) EIGRP
15 42 (8.75%) Cisco Firepower
16 32 (6.67%) DNS
16 32 (6.67%) SSL
17 29 (6.04%) Cisco ISE
18 28 (5.83%) Cisco Nexus
18 28 (5.83%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (0.21%) Power BI
1 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (4.17%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (1.25%) JIRA
3 3 (0.63%) Git
3 3 (0.63%) Hudson
4 1 (0.21%) GitLab
4 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (11.67%) Public Sector
2 55 (11.46%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.17%) Finance
4 35 (7.29%) Telecoms
5 27 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.92%) Aerospace
7 11 (2.29%) Banking
7 11 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.46%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.46%) Digital Economy
9 7 (1.46%) Marketing
9 7 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.04%) Military
11 4 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.63%) Electronics
12 3 (0.63%) Law
13 2 (0.42%) Advertising
13 2 (0.42%) Legal
13 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 191 (39.79%) Network Engineer
2 111 (23.13%) Architect
3 81 (16.88%) Network Architect
4 49 (10.21%) WAN Engineer
5 45 (9.38%) Network Support
6 44 (9.17%) Network Specialist
7 32 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 31 (6.46%) Cisco Engineer
9 30 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
9 30 (6.25%) Senior
10 29 (6.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 28 (5.83%) Juniper Engineer
12 24 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
12 24 (5.00%) Support Engineer
13 22 (4.58%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 21 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (3.96%) 2nd Line Support
16 18 (3.75%) Senior Network Engineer
17 14 (2.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 13 (2.71%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.63%) 802.1X
1 3 (0.63%) Jinja
1 3 (0.63%) JSON
1 3 (0.63%) NETCONF
1 3 (0.63%) RESTful
1 3 (0.63%) XML
1 3 (0.63%) YANG
2 2 (0.42%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 97 (20.21%) PKI
2 63 (13.13%) Data Centre
3 15 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.29%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (1.88%) Blackberry
6 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.46%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.04%) Social Media
9 3 (0.63%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.42%) CSOC
10 2 (0.42%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.42%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.42%) Thin Client
10 2 (0.42%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.21%) Clustering
11 1 (0.21%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.21%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.21%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.63%) Windows
2 25 (5.21%) Linux
3 22 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 16 (3.33%) Windows XP
5 15 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (2.92%) Windows 10
6 14 (2.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (2.29%) Unix
8 3 (0.63%) VMS
8 3 (0.63%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (22.92%) Network Design
2 75 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (13.54%) Load Balancing
4 47 (9.79%) ITIL
5 37 (7.71%) Project Management
6 36 (7.50%) Agile
6 36 (7.50%) Customer Requirements
7 32 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (6.25%) Network Management
8 30 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
9 29 (6.04%) Project Delivery
10 28 (5.83%) Change Management
10 28 (5.83%) Decision-Making
10 28 (5.83%) High Availability
11 26 (5.42%) Incident Management
12 24 (5.00%) Break/Fix
12 24 (5.00%) Migration
12 24 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
13 23 (4.79%) ArchiMate
13 23 (4.79%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (3.96%) PowerShell
2 16 (3.33%) Python
3 3 (0.63%) Bash
3 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.21%) C
4 1 (0.21%) Java
4 1 (0.21%) SQL
Qualifications
1 320 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 131 (27.29%) SC Cleared
3 115 (23.96%) Cisco Certification
4 113 (23.54%) DV Cleared
5 90 (18.75%) CCNP
6 57 (11.88%) CCNA
7 42 (8.75%) Degree
8 33 (6.88%) JNCIA
9 26 (5.42%) JNCIS
10 15 (3.13%) CCIE
11 12 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (2.29%) HND
13 9 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (1.46%) CCDP
14 7 (1.46%) CCSA
14 7 (1.46%) CISM
15 5 (1.04%) JNCIE
15 5 (1.04%) JNCIP
16 4 (0.83%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.54%) SLA
2 4 (0.83%) NCSC
2 4 (0.83%) QA
3 2 (0.42%) GDPR
3 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 33 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (3.75%) Hyper-V
3 17 (3.54%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.25%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.83%) vSphere
7 3 (0.63%) Ceph
7 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.42%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.21%) Docker
9 1 (0.21%) KVM
Systems Management
1 38 (7.92%) FortiGate
2 24 (5.00%) Endace
3 15 (3.13%) NetBackup
3 15 (3.13%) SCCM
3 15 (3.13%) SCOM
4 14 (2.92%) vCenter Server
4 14 (2.92%) WSUS
5 13 (2.71%) EMC NetWorker
6 12 (2.50%) Ansible
6 12 (2.50%) Nessus
7 11 (2.29%) Terraform
8 4 (0.83%) Kubernetes
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.42%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.42%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.42%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.42%) VxRail
11 1 (0.21%) Nagios
11 1 (0.21%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 327 (68.13%) Cisco
2 85 (17.71%) Palo Alto
3 75 (15.63%) Fortinet
4 56 (11.67%) F5
5 42 (8.75%) VMware
6 34 (7.08%) Nokia
7 30 (6.25%) CheckPoint
8 28 (5.83%) Microsoft
9 26 (5.42%) Extreme Networks
10 22 (4.58%) Aruba
11 20 (4.17%) IBM
12 17 (3.54%) Blue Coat
12 17 (3.54%) Meraki
13 16 (3.33%) EMC
14 15 (3.13%) Dell
14 15 (3.13%) HP
15 14 (2.92%) Brocade
15 14 (2.92%) Citrix
15 14 (2.92%) Oracle
15 14 (2.92%) Symantec