Juniper Contracts

Juniper
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Juniper products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Juniper over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 217 322
Rank change year-on-year -128 +105 +132
Contract jobs citing Juniper 179 485 464
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 1.11% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 1.29% 2.62% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 265 288
10th Percentile £307 £313 £325
25th Percentile £406 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £615
90th Percentile £641 £733 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +10.53% -4.52% +10.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 19 14
10th Percentile £27.80 £23.69 £22.78
25th Percentile £41.75 £24.25 £50.10
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £61.35
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -47.03% +40.26%
75th Percentile £66.88 £41.25 £63.23
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.24 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £46.50 £61.35
% change year-on-year -59.14% -24.21% +32.26%

All Vendors
UK

Juniper falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Juniper in the UK

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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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Juniper in the UK

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Top 15 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 30 April 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 -130 172 £525 +10.53% 103
UK excluding London -107 113 £525 +10.53% 81
South East -55 57 £575 +4.55% 30
London +12 51 £475 -15.56% 28
Work from Home +5 28 £500 +5.26% 59
South West +38 26 £545 -16.23% 17
Midlands -56 19 £350 - 10
West Midlands -58 14 £300 -14.29% 6
Scotland - 6 £399 - 5
East Midlands +11 5 £618 +2.92% 4
East of England +22 3 £400 -15.79% 3
North of England +2 2 £488 +14.71% 9
North West +7 1 £425 +21.43% 5
North East -4 1 £550 +46.67% 1
Wales - 1 £475 - 2

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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 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.85%) Azure
2 22 (12.29%) AWS
3 11 (6.15%) PaaS
3 11 (6.15%) SaaS
4 4 (2.23%) GCP
5 3 (1.68%) GitHub
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.56%) Akamai
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 77 (43.02%) Firewall
2 75 (41.90%) WAN
3 59 (32.96%) LAN
4 56 (31.28%) VPN
5 51 (28.49%) BGP
6 47 (26.26%) OSPF
7 43 (24.02%) MPLS
8 42 (23.46%) Network Security
9 32 (17.88%) IPsec
9 32 (17.88%) Wireless
10 27 (15.08%) DNS
11 23 (12.85%) VLAN
11 23 (12.85%) Wireshark
12 21 (11.73%) EIGRP
13 20 (11.17%) SD-WAN
14 18 (10.06%) Ethernet
14 18 (10.06%) LTE
15 17 (9.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 17 (9.50%) SAN
15 17 (9.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (1.12%) GitLab
1 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.56%) Git
General
1 64 (35.75%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.88%) Telecoms
3 29 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (14.53%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.94%) Finance
6 4 (2.23%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.68%) Military
8 2 (1.12%) Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) French Language
9 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (40.78%) Network Engineer
2 32 (17.88%) Architect
3 26 (14.53%) Network Architect
4 15 (8.38%) Senior
5 14 (7.82%) IP Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Test Engineer
7 12 (6.70%) Support Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Administrator
8 11 (6.15%) Network Administrator
8 11 (6.15%) Network Security Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Security Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (5.59%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) Juniper Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Network Support
10 8 (4.47%) Network Support Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Senior Network Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.26%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.12%) JSON
2 2 (1.12%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.12%) XML
3 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.17%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.94%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.15%) PKI
3 11 (6.15%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (5.59%) Blackberry
5 8 (4.47%) CMDB
6 3 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.68%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.12%) Clustering
7 2 (1.12%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.56%) FMCG
8 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) Replication
8 1 (0.56%) SCADA
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.53%) Linux
2 22 (12.29%) Unix
3 5 (2.79%) CatOS
3 5 (2.79%) Windows
3 5 (2.79%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (2.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (34.08%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (16.20%) Network Design
3 24 (13.41%) Network Monitoring
4 23 (12.85%) Customer Requirements
4 23 (12.85%) Migration
5 21 (11.73%) Project Management
6 20 (11.17%) ITIL
7 16 (8.94%) Regression Testing
7 16 (8.94%) Roadmaps
7 16 (8.94%) Root Cause Analysis
7 16 (8.94%) Service Management
8 15 (8.38%) Change Management
8 15 (8.38%) Fault Management
8 15 (8.38%) Load Balancing
8 15 (8.38%) Network Architecture
8 15 (8.38%) Network Management
8 15 (8.38%) Test Strategy
9 12 (6.70%) Commercial Awareness
9 12 (6.70%) Customer Service
9 12 (6.70%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.94%) Java
2 14 (7.82%) Python
3 5 (2.79%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.68%) Perl
4 3 (1.68%) VB
5 1 (0.56%) Bash
5 1 (0.56%) C
5 1 (0.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (54.75%) Security Cleared
2 77 (43.02%) Cisco Certification
3 70 (39.11%) CCNP
4 64 (35.75%) SC Cleared
5 53 (29.61%) DV Cleared
6 22 (12.29%) CCNA
7 18 (10.06%) Degree
8 16 (8.94%) ISEB
8 16 (8.94%) ISTQB
9 15 (8.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 12 (6.70%) JNCIS
11 11 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (5.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (3.91%) CCSE
14 6 (3.35%) CCIE
14 6 (3.35%) CCSA
15 5 (2.79%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (2.79%) JNCIA
15 5 (2.79%) JNCIP
16 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.91%) SLA
2 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 17 (9.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.23%) Firmware
4 3 (1.68%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.12%) vSphere
6 1 (0.56%) FreeRADIUS
6 1 (0.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 13 (7.26%) Ansible
2 11 (6.15%) FortiGate
3 6 (3.35%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (2.23%) CA Spectrum
4 4 (2.23%) Terraform
5 3 (1.68%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.12%) Iperf
6 2 (1.12%) Nagios
6 2 (1.12%) Netcool
6 2 (1.12%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.12%) WSUS
7 1 (0.56%) Cacti
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.56%) OpenView
7 1 (0.56%) OPNET
7 1 (0.56%) Puppet
7 1 (0.56%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 145 (81.01%) Cisco
2 47 (26.26%) Palo Alto
3 45 (25.14%) F5
4 31 (17.32%) SolarWinds
5 29 (16.20%) CheckPoint
5 29 (16.20%) Microsoft
6 25 (13.97%) Fortinet
7 21 (11.73%) VMware
8 14 (7.82%) Aruba
8 14 (7.82%) Nokia
9 13 (7.26%) Ericsson
10 12 (6.70%) Meraki
11 10 (5.59%) Avaya
11 10 (5.59%) Ribbon
12 9 (5.03%) HP
13 8 (4.47%) Zscaler
14 7 (3.91%) Fujitsu
15 6 (3.35%) Arista
16 5 (2.79%) NETGEAR
16 5 (2.79%) TP-LINK