Junos Contracts

Juniper Junos OS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Junos skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Junos over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 501 630
Rank change year-on-year +6 +129 +162
Contract jobs citing Junos 14 70 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 1.30% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 36 37
10th Percentile £359 £288 -
25th Percentile £466 £363 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% +7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £613 £416 £423
90th Percentile £635 £606 £475
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £375 £275
% change year-on-year +53.33% +36.36% -31.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £15.00
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £15.00
% change year-on-year - - -67.39%

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 3,755 5,394 7,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.83% 12.67% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,291 3,215 4,577
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £362 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -4.85% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £694 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 417 458
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.05 £16.30 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.70 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.25% +116.22% -34.70%
75th Percentile £57.80 £63.75 £59.21
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £45.88 £18.00
% change year-on-year -46.25% +154.89% -16.28%

Junos
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junos in the UK

Junos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Junos in the UK

Junos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junos over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Junos in the UK

Junos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Junos in the UK

Junos
Top 7 Contract 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 19 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 -4 13 £575 +53.33% 24
UK excluding London -8 9 £575 +53.33% 20
South East +33 7 £575 +76.92% 10
London +47 4 £675 +68.75% 4
Midlands -33 1 £275 -26.67% 2
West Midlands -44 1 £275 -26.67% 2
East of England - 1 £400 - 4

Junos
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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) LAN
2 8 (57.14%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (42.86%) BGP
4 6 (42.86%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (42.86%) WAN
5 5 (35.71%) MPLS
5 5 (35.71%) OSPF
6 4 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (28.57%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (28.57%) VPN
6 4 (28.57%) VXLAN
7 3 (21.43%) Firewall
8 2 (14.29%) EIGRP
8 2 (14.29%) Ethernet
8 2 (14.29%) IOS XR
8 2 (14.29%) Multicast
8 2 (14.29%) Network Security
8 2 (14.29%) NX-OS
8 2 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Network Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) WAN Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) LAN Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) gRPC
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Preventative Maintenance
3 5 (35.71%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Change Management
6 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Network Design
6 2 (14.29%) Security Patching
6 2 (14.29%) Validation
7 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
7 1 (7.14%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
7 1 (7.14%) ITIL
7 1 (7.14%) Observability
7 1 (7.14%) Programme Management
7 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) JNCIE
3 2 (14.29%) JNCIP
3 2 (14.29%) JNCIS
4 1 (7.14%) CCIE
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) JNCIA
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Ansible
2 6 (42.86%) FortiGate
2 6 (42.86%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Nagios
3 1 (7.14%) OpenView
3 1 (7.14%) OPNET
3 1 (7.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Cisco
2 9 (64.29%) Juniper
3 6 (42.86%) Citrix
3 6 (42.86%) F5
4 2 (14.29%) Arista
4 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.14%) HP
5 1 (7.14%) Mellanox
5 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA
5 1 (7.14%) SAP