Juniper Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Juniper
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 88 36
Rank change year-on-year -7 -52 +103
Contract jobs citing Juniper 46 17 89
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.07% 1.01% 4.81%
As % of the Vendors category 3.89% 2.16% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 12 14
10th Percentile £263 £165 £258
25th Percentile £316 £238 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +46.73% -11.76%
75th Percentile £466 £580 £452
90th Percentile £599 - £504
England median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year - -46.95% +75.95%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,183 788 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.22% 46.85% 51.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 517 607
10th Percentile £263 £212 £216
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% -6.06%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £675
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 22
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.18 £17.50
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.42 £17.75
Median hourly rate £27.21 £29.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +29.67% +28.39%
75th Percentile £32.38 £34.31 £26.94
90th Percentile £58.00 £39.13 £41.48
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

Juniper
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Juniper relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Juniper job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Juniper
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Juniper.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Juniper

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Juniper in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Juniper in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Juniper.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Juniper

Juniper
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Juniper within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Birmingham +10 27 £400 -31.03% 2
Warwickshire - 12 £380 -
Coventry - 3 £425 - 1
Solihull +2 2 £363 +11.54%
Herefordshire - 1 £513 -
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England

Juniper
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (8.70%) AWS
1 4 (8.70%) Azure
1 4 (8.70%) GCP
2 2 (4.35%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (82.61%) VPN
1 38 (82.61%) WAN
2 34 (73.91%) IPsec
3 27 (58.70%) BGP
3 27 (58.70%) MPLS
4 18 (39.13%) Firewall
5 12 (26.09%) Wireless
6 11 (23.91%) DNS
7 10 (21.74%) DMVPN
8 9 (19.57%) Cisco IPT
8 9 (19.57%) SSL
9 8 (17.39%) Network Security
10 6 (13.04%) Junos
11 5 (10.87%) LAN
11 5 (10.87%) SD-WAN
12 4 (8.70%) WLAN
13 3 (6.52%) EIGRP
13 3 (6.52%) OSPF
14 2 (4.35%) DHCP
14 2 (4.35%) IPv4
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (23.91%) Public Sector
2 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Support Engineer
2 15 (32.61%) Network Engineer
3 14 (30.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 13 (28.26%) 3rd Line Support
4 13 (28.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 11 (23.91%) WAN Engineer
6 10 (21.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 6 (13.04%) Architect
7 6 (13.04%) Security Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Network Architect
8 5 (10.87%) Network Support
8 5 (10.87%) Network Support Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 24 (52.17%) PKI
2 14 (30.43%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 16 (34.78%) Network Design
3 9 (19.57%) Change Management
3 9 (19.57%) Inventory Management
4 6 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (10.87%) Project Delivery
5 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (8.70%) Data Protection
6 4 (8.70%) ITIL
6 4 (8.70%) Network Architecture
6 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (6.52%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (6.52%) Network Virtualisation
8 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (4.35%) IT Strategy
8 2 (4.35%) Mentoring
8 2 (4.35%) Performance Monitoring
8 2 (4.35%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (4.35%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 42 (91.30%) Security Cleared
2 36 (78.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) CCNP
3 6 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.70%) CCIE
5 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.35%) CCIE Security
5 2 (4.35%) CCSP
5 2 (4.35%) CISSP
5 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (4.35%) JNCIE
5 2 (4.35%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
2 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Ansible
2 4 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) Cisco
2 14 (30.43%) F5
3 9 (19.57%) Blue Coat
3 9 (19.57%) CheckPoint
4 6 (13.04%) Palo Alto
5 5 (10.87%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.52%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.35%) Forcepoint
7 2 (4.35%) Meraki
7 2 (4.35%) VMware
8 1 (2.17%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.17%) NetScout
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle