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 1 January 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 259 251
Rank change year-on-year -134 -8 +283
Permanent jobs citing Juniper 124 393 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 1.05% 1.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.97% 2.99% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 106 288 275
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,100
25th Percentile £45,313 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,125 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 12,736 13,161 12,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.36% 35.32% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,044 6,421 9,682
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £60,250 £65,000 £62,833
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -94 55 £55,500 +0.91% 20
Midlands -21 28 £61,000 +1.67% 3
West Midlands -25 24 £61,000 -2.01% 3
North West +14 15 £50,000 - 9
North of England -6 15 £50,000 - 18
Northern Ireland - 15 £33,750 - 1
East of England 0 6 £75,000 -6.25% 2
East Midlands -6 4 £61,123 +62.99%
Scotland +5 2 £42,500 +4.94% 1
South West -31 2 - - 12
Wales - 1 £32,500 - 4
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 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.29%) Azure
2 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (2.42%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.61%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.81%) AWS
5 1 (0.81%) GCP
5 1 (0.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (62.90%) Firewall
2 68 (54.84%) LAN
3 67 (54.03%) WAN
4 37 (29.84%) VPN
5 23 (18.55%) Junos
6 15 (12.10%) Cisco IOS
6 15 (12.10%) MPLS
7 12 (9.68%) Cisco ISE
7 12 (9.68%) Network Security
8 10 (8.06%) BGP
8 10 (8.06%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (8.06%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (7.26%) Intrusion Detection
9 9 (7.26%) NX-OS
9 9 (7.26%) SD-WAN
10 8 (6.45%) Ethernet
10 8 (6.45%) Wireless
11 7 (5.65%) IPsec
12 6 (4.84%) ADSL
12 6 (4.84%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.42%) GIS
2 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.81%) Git
1 1 (0.81%) GitLab
1 1 (0.81%) JIRA
1 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 39 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.29%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (8.87%) Finance
4 6 (4.84%) Law
5 5 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.42%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.42%) Retail
6 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.81%) Electronics
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (38.71%) Network Engineer
2 19 (15.32%) Architect
3 16 (12.90%) Cisco Engineer
3 16 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (12.10%) Juniper Engineer
4 15 (12.10%) Senior
5 13 (10.48%) Firewall Engineer
5 13 (10.48%) LAN Engineer
5 13 (10.48%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 13 (10.48%) Presales Engineer
5 13 (10.48%) Senior Network Engineer
5 13 (10.48%) WAN Engineer
6 12 (9.68%) Network Architect
6 12 (9.68%) NOC Engineer
6 12 (9.68%) Support Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Design Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Network Design Engineer
8 9 (7.26%) Senior Network Design Engineer
8 9 (7.26%) Technical Engineer
8 9 (7.26%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.55%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.26%) PKI
3 2 (1.61%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (32.26%) Windows
2 9 (7.26%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.45%) Linux
4 5 (4.03%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.81%) Unix
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.97%) Network Design
2 22 (17.74%) High Availability
2 22 (17.74%) Presales
3 21 (16.94%) ITIL
4 18 (14.52%) Requirements Gathering
5 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (10.48%) ITSM
6 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (9.68%) Service Management
7 12 (9.68%) SIEM
8 11 (8.87%) Project Delivery
8 11 (8.87%) Requirements Management
8 11 (8.87%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (8.06%) Change Management
10 9 (7.26%) Network Monitoring
10 9 (7.26%) Proactive Monitoring
11 8 (6.45%) Agile
11 8 (6.45%) Customer Service
11 8 (6.45%) Programme Management
12 7 (5.65%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.23%) Bash
2 3 (2.42%) Python
2 3 (2.42%) SQL
3 2 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 65 (52.42%) Security Cleared
2 49 (39.52%) Cisco Certification
3 46 (37.10%) DV Cleared
4 44 (35.48%) CCNA
5 40 (32.26%) SC Cleared
6 23 (18.55%) JNCIA
7 22 (17.74%) CCNP
8 12 (9.68%) Degree
9 10 (8.06%) JNCIS
10 4 (3.23%) Azure Certification
11 3 (2.42%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (2.42%) DBS Check
11 3 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (1.61%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.81%) CCIE
13 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.81%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.10%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (18.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.06%) VMware NSX
4 9 (7.26%) Firmware
5 3 (2.42%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.61%) KVM
6 2 (1.61%) RHEV
6 2 (1.61%) Terminal Server
6 2 (1.61%) Xen
7 1 (0.81%) iptables
7 1 (0.81%) pfSense
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (8.06%) vCenter Server
2 8 (6.45%) Endace
3 5 (4.03%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.23%) SCOM
5 3 (2.42%) Ansible
5 3 (2.42%) SCCM
6 2 (1.61%) Nagios
6 2 (1.61%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.81%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.81%) Grafana
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.81%) Puppet
7 1 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 118 (95.16%) Cisco
2 38 (30.65%) Fortinet
3 30 (24.19%) VMware
4 21 (16.94%) Aruba
4 21 (16.94%) SolarWinds
5 18 (14.52%) Microsoft
6 11 (8.87%) McAfee
7 10 (8.06%) Dell
8 9 (7.26%) Broadcom
9 7 (5.65%) F5
10 6 (4.84%) Remedy
11 4 (3.23%) Extreme Networks
11 4 (3.23%) HP
12 2 (1.61%) Fujitsu
12 2 (1.61%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.61%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.61%) Veeam
13 1 (0.81%) CheckPoint
13 1 (0.81%) Commvault
13 1 (0.81%) Veritas