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 10 May 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 223 335
Rank change year-on-year -120 +112 +117
Contract jobs citing Juniper 181 463 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 1.08% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 2.53% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 251 262
10th Percentile £308 £313 £314
25th Percentile £410 £363 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +10.62%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £619
90th Percentile £650 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +10.53% -4.52% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 13
10th Percentile £27.80 £23.64 £24.74
25th Percentile £41.75 £24.25 £51.37
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -47.58% +41.75%
75th Percentile £66.88 £41.25 £63.23
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.24 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -36.67% -51.61% +39.33%

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 13,971 18,276 24,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.52% 42.44% 42.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,753 11,338 16,597
10th Percentile £281 £263 £271
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £620 £630 £647
90th Percentile £716 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.20% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 1,110 684
10th Percentile £14.63 £12.11 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.48 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%
75th Percentile £57.31 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% -42.77% +100.53%

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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 10 May 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 10 May 2025.

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 10 May 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 -107 173 £525 +7.69% 266
UK excluding London -99 113 £525 +10.53% 233
South East -48 57 £575 +4.55% 81
London +33 52 £475 -15.56% 82
Work from Home +4 29 £500 +5.26% 136
South West +33 26 £545 -16.23% 24
Midlands -57 20 £425 +13.33% 31
West Midlands -53 15 £300 -14.29% 19
East Midlands +10 5 £618 +2.92% 11
Scotland - 5 £387 - 21
East of England +24 3 £400 -15.79% 16
North West +11 1 £425 +21.43% 34
North of England -9 1 £425 - 55
Wales - 1 £475 - 4

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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 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (14.36%) Azure
2 25 (13.81%) AWS
3 11 (6.08%) PaaS
3 11 (6.08%) SaaS
4 5 (2.76%) GCP
5 3 (1.66%) GitHub
5 3 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.55%) Akamai
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 81 (44.75%) Firewall
2 75 (41.44%) WAN
3 60 (33.15%) LAN
4 57 (31.49%) VPN
5 52 (28.73%) BGP
6 47 (25.97%) OSPF
7 44 (24.31%) MPLS
8 42 (23.20%) Network Security
9 35 (19.34%) Wireless
10 32 (17.68%) IPsec
11 27 (14.92%) DNS
12 24 (13.26%) Wireshark
13 23 (12.71%) VLAN
14 21 (11.60%) EIGRP
14 21 (11.60%) SD-WAN
15 20 (11.05%) Ethernet
15 20 (11.05%) LTE
16 17 (9.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 17 (9.39%) SAN
16 17 (9.39%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (1.10%) GitLab
1 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.55%) Git
General
1 70 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.23%) Telecoms
3 29 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.92%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.39%) Finance
6 4 (2.21%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.66%) Military
8 2 (1.10%) Banking
8 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Aviation
9 1 (0.55%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.55%) French Language
9 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
9 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Police
9 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (40.33%) Network Engineer
2 32 (17.68%) Architect
3 26 (14.36%) Network Architect
4 16 (8.84%) Senior
5 15 (8.29%) IP Engineer
6 14 (7.73%) Test Engineer
7 13 (7.18%) Administrator
7 13 (7.18%) Network Administrator
8 12 (6.63%) Support Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Network Security Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Security Engineer
10 10 (5.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 10 (5.52%) 2nd Line Support
10 10 (5.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (5.52%) Juniper Engineer
11 9 (4.97%) Network Support
11 9 (4.97%) Senior Network Engineer
12 8 (4.42%) Network Support Engineer
13 7 (3.87%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
13 7 (3.87%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.18%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.10%) JSON
2 2 (1.10%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.10%) XML
3 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.55%) gRPC
3 1 (0.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.60%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.39%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.08%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (5.52%) Blackberry
4 10 (5.52%) CMDB
4 10 (5.52%) PKI
5 4 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.66%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.10%) Clustering
7 2 (1.10%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.55%) IoT
8 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.55%) Replication
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.81%) Linux
2 22 (12.15%) Unix
3 5 (2.76%) CatOS
3 5 (2.76%) Windows
3 5 (2.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.55%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (35.36%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (15.47%) Network Design
3 25 (13.81%) Network Monitoring
4 23 (12.71%) Customer Requirements
4 23 (12.71%) ITIL
4 23 (12.71%) Migration
5 22 (12.15%) Project Management
6 19 (10.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 18 (9.94%) Change Management
7 18 (9.94%) Service Management
8 17 (9.39%) Regression Testing
9 16 (8.84%) Fault Management
9 16 (8.84%) Roadmaps
9 16 (8.84%) Test Strategy
10 15 (8.29%) Network Architecture
10 15 (8.29%) Network Management
11 14 (7.73%) Customer Service
12 13 (7.18%) Load Balancing
13 12 (6.63%) Agile
13 12 (6.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.39%) Java
2 15 (8.29%) Python
3 5 (2.76%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.66%) Perl
4 3 (1.66%) VB
5 1 (0.55%) Bash
5 1 (0.55%) C
5 1 (0.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (53.04%) Security Cleared
2 82 (45.30%) Cisco Certification
3 74 (40.88%) CCNP
4 63 (34.81%) SC Cleared
5 51 (28.18%) DV Cleared
6 25 (13.81%) CCNA
7 19 (10.50%) Degree
8 17 (9.39%) ISEB
8 17 (9.39%) ISTQB
9 16 (8.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 12 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (6.63%) JNCIS
11 10 (5.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (3.87%) CCIE
12 7 (3.87%) CCSE
12 7 (3.87%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (3.31%) CCSA
13 6 (3.31%) JNCIA
14 5 (2.76%) JNCIP
15 4 (2.21%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) SLA
2 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 17 (9.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.21%) Firmware
4 3 (1.66%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.10%) vSphere
6 1 (0.55%) FreeRADIUS
6 1 (0.55%) iptables
Systems Management
1 14 (7.73%) Ansible
2 10 (5.52%) FortiGate
3 5 (2.76%) Cisco Prime
3 5 (2.76%) Terraform
4 4 (2.21%) CA Spectrum
5 3 (1.66%) Nagios
5 3 (1.66%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.10%) Iperf
6 2 (1.10%) Netcool
6 2 (1.10%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (1.10%) WSUS
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.55%) Grafana
7 1 (0.55%) Graylog
7 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.55%) logstash
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.55%) Puppet
7 1 (0.55%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 149 (82.32%) Cisco
2 46 (25.41%) Palo Alto
3 42 (23.20%) F5
4 31 (17.13%) Microsoft
4 31 (17.13%) SolarWinds
5 28 (15.47%) CheckPoint
6 23 (12.71%) Fortinet
7 21 (11.60%) VMware
8 14 (7.73%) Aruba
8 14 (7.73%) Nokia
9 13 (7.18%) Ericsson
9 13 (7.18%) Meraki
10 10 (5.52%) Avaya
10 10 (5.52%) Ribbon
11 8 (4.42%) Zscaler
12 7 (3.87%) Arista
12 7 (3.87%) Fujitsu
12 7 (3.87%) HP
13 5 (2.76%) NETGEAR
13 5 (2.76%) TP-LINK