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 1 July 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 243 298
Rank change year-on-year -88 +55 +120
Contract jobs citing Juniper 210 426 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.99% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 1.44% 2.31% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 236 278
10th Percentile £340 £300 £273
25th Percentile £425 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £499
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% +8.72%
75th Percentile £605 £608 £600
90th Percentile £628 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 17
10th Percentile - £23.42 £18.50
25th Percentile £66.25 £23.80 £24.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £40.00 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -34.10% +12.41%
75th Percentile £68.75 £41.25 £63.23
90th Percentile - £75.24 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year - +21.08% +12.41%

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 14,621 18,467 24,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.78% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,943 11,456 16,143
10th Percentile £280 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 701 1,167 649
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.28 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.84 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +81.82%
75th Percentile £53.50 £59.76 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.53 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.44% -23.11% +49.55%

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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 1 July 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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Top 16 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 1 July 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 -87 200 £540 +10.77% 588
UK excluding London -90 132 £550 +15.79% 357
London +34 65 £450 -18.18% 270
South East -37 65 £575 +4.55% 170
South West +39 32 £545 -16.23% 35
Work from Home +23 27 £463 +1.37% 288
Midlands -42 24 £488 +39.29% 50
West Midlands -47 22 £450 +28.57% 36
Scotland - 5 £387 - 19
East of England +20 3 £760 +176.36% 23
East Midlands +3 2 £650 +8.33% 14
North of England -11 2 £463 -2.63% 50
North West +7 1 £425 +21.43% 30
Yorkshire -15 1 £500 +5.26% 20
Wales - 1 £475 - 7
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -

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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 2 (0.95%) nginx
2 1 (0.48%) Confluence
2 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.19%) AWS
2 29 (13.81%) Azure
3 13 (6.19%) SaaS
4 11 (5.24%) PaaS
5 8 (3.81%) GCP
6 6 (2.86%) Akamai
7 5 (2.38%) GitHub
8 4 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 102 (48.57%) Firewall
2 75 (35.71%) WAN
3 65 (30.95%) BGP
4 64 (30.48%) LAN
5 57 (27.14%) VPN
6 56 (26.67%) OSPF
7 46 (21.90%) Network Security
8 43 (20.48%) Wireless
9 40 (19.05%) MPLS
10 34 (16.19%) VLAN
11 31 (14.76%) IPsec
12 29 (13.81%) Wireshark
13 28 (13.33%) DNS
14 27 (12.86%) EIGRP
15 26 (12.38%) SD-WAN
16 21 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
16 21 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 18 (8.57%) DHCP
17 18 (8.57%) LTE
18 17 (8.10%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (1.90%) GitLab
2 3 (1.43%) Git
2 3 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
General
1 77 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.71%) Telecoms
3 28 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.86%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.14%) Finance
6 3 (1.43%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.95%) Banking
7 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.95%) Legal
7 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.95%) Military
8 1 (0.48%) Aviation
8 1 (0.48%) Electronics
8 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.48%) Marketing
8 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Police
8 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 93 (44.29%) Network Engineer
2 32 (15.24%) Architect
3 27 (12.86%) Network Architect
4 19 (9.05%) Administrator
4 19 (9.05%) Network Administrator
5 18 (8.57%) Juniper Engineer
6 17 (8.10%) Network Security Engineer
6 17 (8.10%) Security Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) IP Engineer
8 13 (6.19%) Senior
9 12 (5.71%) Support Engineer
9 12 (5.71%) Test Engineer
10 11 (5.24%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (3.81%) Consultant
12 8 (3.81%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.67%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.95%) JSON
2 2 (0.95%) XML
3 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.48%) gRPC
3 1 (0.48%) HTML
3 1 (0.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.86%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.19%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.24%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (4.76%) Blackberry
5 10 (4.76%) CMDB
5 10 (4.76%) PKI
6 6 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.95%) Clustering
9 2 (0.95%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.48%) Linux
2 18 (8.57%) Unix
3 7 (3.33%) Windows
3 7 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.38%) CatOS
4 5 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (15.24%) Network Monitoring
3 31 (14.76%) Network Design
4 25 (11.90%) Change Management
4 25 (11.90%) Customer Requirements
5 24 (11.43%) ITIL
6 21 (10.00%) Service Management
7 20 (9.52%) Migration
7 20 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
8 18 (8.57%) Customer Service
8 18 (8.57%) Load Balancing
8 18 (8.57%) Project Management
9 16 (7.62%) Agile
10 15 (7.14%) High Availability
10 15 (7.14%) Network Architecture
10 15 (7.14%) Regression Testing
10 15 (7.14%) Roadmaps
11 14 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (6.67%) Fault Management
11 14 (6.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.52%) Python
2 15 (7.14%) Java
3 6 (2.86%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.86%) VB
4 4 (1.90%) Perl
5 1 (0.48%) Bash
5 1 (0.48%) C
5 1 (0.48%) C++
5 1 (0.48%) SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (55.24%) Security Cleared
2 86 (40.95%) Cisco Certification
3 76 (36.19%) CCNP
4 69 (32.86%) DV Cleared
5 61 (29.05%) SC Cleared
6 26 (12.38%) CCNA
7 17 (8.10%) Degree
8 15 (7.14%) ISEB
8 15 (7.14%) ISTQB
8 15 (7.14%) JNCIS
9 14 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 12 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (5.24%) CCSA
11 11 (5.24%) JNCIA
12 10 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (3.33%) CCSE
13 7 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (2.38%) CCIE
14 5 (2.38%) JNCIP
15 4 (1.90%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.19%) SLA
2 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.48%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.48%) GDPR
3 1 (0.48%) NCSC
3 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 15 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (5.24%) Firmware
3 7 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.43%) vSphere
5 2 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.95%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.48%) FreeRADIUS
6 1 (0.48%) iptables
Systems Management
1 20 (9.52%) Ansible
2 19 (9.05%) FortiGate
3 8 (3.81%) CA Spectrum
3 8 (3.81%) Terraform
4 4 (1.90%) Nagios
5 2 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.95%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.95%) Iperf
5 2 (0.95%) Netcool
5 2 (0.95%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (0.95%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.95%) WSUS
6 1 (0.48%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco LMS
6 1 (0.48%) Graylog
6 1 (0.48%) logstash
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 177 (84.29%) Cisco
2 55 (26.19%) F5
3 47 (22.38%) Palo Alto
4 35 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 35 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 31 (14.76%) Fortinet
6 27 (12.86%) Microsoft
7 21 (10.00%) VMware
8 17 (8.10%) Meraki
9 15 (7.14%) Aruba
10 14 (6.67%) Nokia
11 13 (6.19%) Ericsson
12 10 (4.76%) Avaya
12 10 (4.76%) Ribbon
13 7 (3.33%) Citrix
13 7 (3.33%) Fujitsu
13 7 (3.33%) Zscaler
14 6 (2.86%) HP
15 5 (2.38%) NETGEAR
15 5 (2.38%) TP-LINK