Junos Contract Job Trends

Juniper Junos OS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Junos skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 530 535
Rank change year-on-year -138 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Junos 14 30 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.091% 0.074%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.28% 0.80% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 26 18
10th Percentile £356 £419 £339
25th Percentile £472 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +56.92%
75th Percentile £556 - £675
90th Percentile £613 £613 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +81.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Junos falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,051 3,768 4,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.24% 11.48% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,910 2,381 2,585
10th Percentile £231 £219 £225
25th Percentile £389 £361 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £606
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £453 £485
% change year-on-year +4.86% -6.60% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 200 199
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.48 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -17.05% -11.49%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.29 £42.50 £57.30
% change year-on-year -38.15% -25.83% -0.35%

Junos
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Junos relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Junos job vacancy trend in the UK

Junos
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Junos.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Junos

Junos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junos over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Junos in the UK

Junos
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Junos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Junos

Junos
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 Junos within the UK over the 6 months to 6 October 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 -137 14 £500 - 4
UK excluding London -115 13 £500 - 3
South East -66 8 £500 - 1
East of England - 3 - -
North of England - 2 £475 - 2
North West - 2 £475 - 1
Work from Home - 2 £250 - 2

Junos
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 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) BGP
2 7 (50.00%) OSPF
2 7 (50.00%) WAN
3 6 (42.86%) LAN
3 6 (42.86%) Network Security
4 5 (35.71%) VXLAN
5 4 (28.57%) BIG-IP
5 4 (28.57%) SD-WAN
5 4 (28.57%) VPN
6 3 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (21.43%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (21.43%) DHCP
6 3 (21.43%) DNS
6 3 (21.43%) EIGRP
6 3 (21.43%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (21.43%) NX-OS
6 3 (21.43%) SSL
6 3 (21.43%) VLAN
6 3 (21.43%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Games
1 1 (7.14%) Police
1 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
1 4 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Implementation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Network Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Network Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) 802.1X
2 2 (14.29%) gRPC
2 2 (14.29%) NETCONF
2 2 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) RESTCONF
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) CMDB
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Animation
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Load Balancing
2 4 (28.57%) Validation
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Observability
4 2 (14.29%) Runbook
4 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
5 1 (7.14%) AI
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) CCIE
4 2 (14.29%) CCNP
4 2 (14.29%) JNCIE
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) ProxySG
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Juniper
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco
2 7 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (35.71%) F5
4 3 (21.43%) Aruba
4 3 (21.43%) CheckPoint
4 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
5 2 (14.29%) Arista
5 2 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 2 (14.29%) Splunk
5 2 (14.29%) Tufin
6 1 (7.14%) Blue Coat
6 1 (7.14%) Google
6 1 (7.14%) Perforce
6 1 (7.14%) VMware