Juniper Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Juniper
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Juniper products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Juniper over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Juniper Networks.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 210 360
Rank change year-on-year -239 +150 +109
Permanent jobs citing Juniper 112 364 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 1.37% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 0.73% 3.62% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 89 302 382
10th Percentile £40,700 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +12.24% +3.16%
75th Percentile £66,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,200 £67,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Juniper falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,428 10,047 24,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.50% 37.84% 36.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,892 6,443 17,533
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £32,250 £35,000 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,613 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

Juniper
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Juniper relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Juniper job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Juniper
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Juniper.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Juniper

Juniper
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Juniper in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Juniper in the UK excluding London

Juniper
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Juniper within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -169 38 £58,000 +5.45% 14
North of England -71 29 £50,000 -9.09% 11
North West -30 27 £50,000 -11.11% 7
West Midlands -90 27 £62,500 -3.85% 3
Midlands -108 27 £62,500 -3.85% 3
Northern Ireland - 6 £31,500 - 1
East of England -48 5 £75,000 +25.00% 1
South West -56 5 £60,000 +114.29% 6
Yorkshire -50 2 £45,500 +40.00% 4
Scotland - 2 £41,250 - 1
Juniper
UK

Juniper
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.96%) Azure
2 12 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (5.36%) Entra ID
3 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
4 5 (4.46%) Apigee
4 5 (4.46%) AWS
4 5 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (4.46%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 79 (70.54%) Firewall
2 68 (60.71%) WAN
3 58 (51.79%) LAN
4 17 (15.18%) Cisco ISE
5 16 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
6 12 (10.71%) Junos
6 12 (10.71%) VPN
6 12 (10.71%) Wireless
7 11 (9.82%) SD-WAN
8 9 (8.04%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (8.04%) Network Security
8 9 (8.04%) NX-OS
8 9 (8.04%) WebEx
9 8 (7.14%) BGP
10 7 (6.25%) MPLS
11 6 (5.36%) HTTP
11 6 (5.36%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (5.36%) SNMP
11 6 (5.36%) WLAN
12 5 (4.46%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) GIS
2 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.89%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.89%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.89%) MySQL
3 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.25%) GitLab
2 4 (3.57%) JIRA
3 3 (2.68%) Subversion
4 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.89%) Git
5 1 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
General
1 31 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
3 15 (13.39%) Finance
4 10 (8.93%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.68%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.68%) Retail
7 1 (0.89%) Electronics
7 1 (0.89%) Law
7 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (30.36%) Network Engineer
2 22 (19.64%) Cisco Engineer
2 22 (19.64%) Juniper Engineer
3 21 (18.75%) LAN Engineer
4 19 (16.96%) Firewall Engineer
4 19 (16.96%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 19 (16.96%) Presales Engineer
4 19 (16.96%) WAN Engineer
5 16 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 16 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
5 16 (14.29%) Technical Support
5 16 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
6 14 (12.50%) Architect
6 14 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) Senior
8 8 (7.14%) Designer
8 8 (7.14%) Network Designer
9 5 (4.46%) Digital Architect
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) Jinja
1 5 (4.46%) JSON
1 5 (4.46%) REST
1 5 (4.46%) XML
1 5 (4.46%) YAML
1 5 (4.46%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 15 (13.39%) PKI
3 6 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (31.25%) Windows
2 12 (10.71%) Linux
3 10 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.46%) Unix
5 3 (2.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.89%) CentOS
6 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.32%) Presales
2 20 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (16.07%) Network Design
4 17 (15.18%) SIEM
5 16 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
6 11 (9.82%) ITIL
7 9 (8.04%) Change Management
7 9 (8.04%) Customer Requirements
7 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (8.04%) ITSM
7 9 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (7.14%) High Availability
8 8 (7.14%) Incident Response
8 8 (7.14%) Migration
8 8 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (7.14%) Service Management
8 8 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (6.25%) Agile
9 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.04%) Python
2 5 (4.46%) JavaScript
2 5 (4.46%) SQL
3 3 (2.68%) Bash
3 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.68%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (23.21%) DV Cleared
4 25 (22.32%) CCNA
5 20 (17.86%) Degree
5 20 (17.86%) JNCIA
6 18 (16.07%) SC Cleared
7 7 (6.25%) DBS Check
8 6 (5.36%) CCNP
9 5 (4.46%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.68%) ISTQB
10 3 (2.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (1.79%) MCSA
11 2 (1.79%) MCSE
11 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.89%) CCIE
12 1 (0.89%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.89%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.89%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (0.89%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (11.61%) Active Directory
3 9 (8.04%) Firmware
3 9 (8.04%) VMware NSX
4 7 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.68%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.89%) iptables
6 1 (0.89%) pfSense
6 1 (0.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (8.04%) vCenter Server
2 8 (7.14%) Endace
3 6 (5.36%) Ansible
4 3 (2.68%) NetBackup
4 3 (2.68%) SCCM
4 3 (2.68%) SCOM
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.89%) Grafana
6 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.89%) Puppet
6 1 (0.89%) Terraform
6 1 (0.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 108 (96.43%) Cisco
2 39 (34.82%) Fortinet
3 36 (32.14%) VMware
4 31 (27.68%) Aruba
5 22 (19.64%) Microsoft
6 21 (18.75%) Dell
7 19 (16.96%) McAfee
8 13 (11.61%) F5
9 10 (8.93%) SolarWinds
10 9 (8.04%) Broadcom
11 8 (7.14%) HP
12 6 (5.36%) Palo Alto
12 6 (5.36%) Red Hat
13 5 (4.46%) Veeam
14 2 (1.79%) Arista
14 2 (1.79%) Citrix
14 2 (1.79%) Draytek
14 2 (1.79%) Extreme Networks
14 2 (1.79%) SonicWALL
14 2 (1.79%) WatchGuard