Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert (JNCIE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JNCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 708 857 909
Rank change year-on-year +149 +52 +306
Permanent jobs citing JNCIE 4 21 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.021% 0.063%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.077% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 55
10th Percentile £61,375 £61,000 -
25th Percentile £61,563 £74,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.74% -3.13% +22.14%
75th Percentile £66,563 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £67,125 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -0.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

JNCIE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,097 27,438 33,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.19% 27.71% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,306 17,258 15,028
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,563
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -9.34% +8.30%
75th Percentile £68,525 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £51,603
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.11% +3.21%

JNCIE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JNCIE in the UK

JNCIE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JNCIE.

Salary trend for JNCIE in the UK

JNCIE
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JNCIE within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +131 4 £63,750 -20.31% 14
London +116 3 £62,500 -10.71% 6
Work from Home +113 2 - - 6
UK excluding London +171 1 £65,000 -18.75% 9
North of England +46 1 £65,000 -18.75% 2
North West +4 1 £65,000 -18.75% 1

JNCIE
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) Junos
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (50.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCIE
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) JNCIP
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler