Juniper Job Trends

Juniper
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 November 2025, 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
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 363 329
Rank change year-on-year +77 -34 +373
Permanent jobs citing Juniper 455 444 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.65% 0.96%
As % of the Vendors category 2.12% 1.98% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 155 276 395
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,200 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,200 £80,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.71% - +5.00%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,467 22,403 22,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.33% 32.91% 41.96%
Number of salaries quoted 11,608 11,595 17,249
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £29,245
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

Juniper
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Juniper job vacancy trend in the UK

Juniper
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Juniper.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Juniper

Juniper
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Juniper over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Juniper in the UK

Juniper
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Juniper within the UK over the 6 months to 7 November 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 +89 437 £58,000 +5.45% 237
UK excluding London +100 410 £55,500 +5.71% 188
Work from Home +223 304 £58,000 +5.45% 75
North of England +153 260 £58,000 +5.45% 26
North West +160 258 £58,000 +10.48% 21
South East -66 67 £55,500 +0.91% 119
Midlands +62 53 £67,500 +34.93% 20
London -13 40 £70,000 +3.70% 98
West Midlands +47 39 £72,500 +38.10% 16
East Midlands +37 14 £65,000 +73.33% 3
Northern Ireland - 11 £37,500 - 2
South West +6 9 £52,500 +23.53% 8
Scotland -9 5 £52,500 +22.81%
East of England +14 4 £68,000 -15.00% 13
Yorkshire +2 2 £62,500 -21.88% 3
Wales - 1 £32,500 -

Juniper
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (3.08%) Confluence
2 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.22%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (5.71%) Azure
2 21 (4.62%) AWS
3 14 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (3.08%) Amazon ELB
3 14 (3.08%) Amazon Glacier
3 14 (3.08%) Amazon S3
3 14 (3.08%) AWS KMS
3 14 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 13 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.10%) Entra ID
6 4 (0.88%) Azure Stack
7 2 (0.44%) Akamai
7 2 (0.44%) GCP
8 1 (0.22%) Google Drive
8 1 (0.22%) IaaS
8 1 (0.22%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 329 (72.31%) VPN
2 277 (60.88%) Cisco IOS
3 112 (24.62%) Firewall
4 83 (18.24%) WAN
5 76 (16.70%) LAN
6 42 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
7 38 (8.35%) Junos
8 33 (7.25%) MPLS
9 23 (5.05%) BGP
10 22 (4.84%) Network Security
11 21 (4.62%) VLAN
12 17 (3.74%) Cisco ISE
13 16 (3.52%) DHCP
13 16 (3.52%) TCP/IP
14 15 (3.30%) DNS
14 15 (3.30%) Wireless
15 14 (3.08%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (3.08%) OSPF
16 12 (2.64%) SD-WAN
17 10 (2.20%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (3.74%) Git
2 15 (3.30%) Jenkins
2 15 (3.30%) JIRA
3 14 (3.08%) Vagrant
4 6 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 277 (60.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 269 (59.12%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (14.73%) Social Skills
4 21 (4.62%) Finance
5 20 (4.40%) Public Sector
6 8 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.54%) Law
8 5 (1.10%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.88%) Military
10 3 (0.66%) Retail
11 2 (0.44%) Advertising
11 2 (0.44%) Back Office
11 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Aviation
12 1 (0.22%) Avionics
12 1 (0.22%) Local Government
12 1 (0.22%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (63.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (15.16%) Network Engineer
3 34 (7.47%) Support Engineer
4 29 (6.37%) Architect
5 19 (4.18%) Network Architect
5 19 (4.18%) Senior
6 18 (3.96%) Infrastructure Support
6 18 (3.96%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 13 (2.86%) Senior Network Engineer
7 13 (2.86%) Technical Engineer
7 13 (2.86%) Technical Support
7 13 (2.86%) Technical Support Engineer
8 11 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (2.20%) Consultant
9 10 (2.20%) Design Engineer
9 10 (2.20%) Network Design Engineer
10 9 (1.98%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (1.98%) NOC Engineer
10 9 (1.98%) Senior Design Engineer
10 9 (1.98%) Senior Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (57.58%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.66%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 262 (57.58%) Cyberattack
2 36 (7.91%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.08%) Replication
4 9 (1.98%) PKI
5 7 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.88%) Operational Technology
8 4 (0.88%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.44%) CMDB
10 2 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.22%) CCTV
11 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.22%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 332 (72.97%) Windows
2 299 (65.71%) Linux
3 262 (57.58%) Android
4 16 (3.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (3.30%) Windows Server
6 14 (3.08%) VMS
7 7 (1.54%) Unix
8 4 (0.88%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.22%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (65.71%) Problem-Solving
2 291 (63.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 276 (60.66%) DevOps
4 269 (59.12%) Task Automation
5 266 (58.46%) Line Management
6 264 (58.02%) Risk Management
7 262 (57.58%) Mathematics
7 262 (57.58%) Platform Engineering
7 262 (57.58%) Storage Management
8 32 (7.03%) Network Design
9 29 (6.37%) Change Management
9 29 (6.37%) Requirements Gathering
10 27 (5.93%) ITIL
11 26 (5.71%) Project Delivery
12 23 (5.05%) High Availability
13 19 (4.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (4.18%) Network Monitoring
14 18 (3.96%) Mentoring
14 18 (3.96%) SIEM
15 17 (3.74%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 288 (63.30%) Python
2 283 (62.20%) PowerShell
3 266 (58.46%) Bash
4 14 (3.08%) Groovy
5 7 (1.54%) SQL
6 2 (0.44%) Java
7 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 96 (21.10%) Security Cleared
2 78 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
3 66 (14.51%) SC Cleared
4 63 (13.85%) CCNA
5 56 (12.31%) DV Cleared
6 52 (11.43%) CCNP
7 38 (8.35%) Degree
8 25 (5.49%) JNCIA
9 12 (2.64%) JNCIS
10 10 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (1.32%) JNCIP
12 5 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.88%) CCDA
13 4 (0.88%) CCDP
13 4 (0.88%) CCIE
13 4 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.44%) CISSP
15 2 (0.44%) Dell Certification
15 2 (0.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.84%) SLA
2 3 (0.66%) NIST
3 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 272 (59.78%) VMware NSX
2 265 (58.24%) Hyper-V
3 264 (58.02%) vSphere
4 263 (57.80%) Docker
5 42 (9.23%) Active Directory
6 28 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 17 (3.74%) Firmware
8 14 (3.08%) DFS Replication
9 4 (0.88%) Terminal Server
10 3 (0.66%) KVM
11 2 (0.44%) RHEV
11 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 285 (62.64%) Ansible
2 283 (62.20%) Terraform
3 14 (3.08%) Grafana
3 14 (3.08%) Prometheus
4 11 (2.42%) FortiGate
5 10 (2.20%) SCCM
5 10 (2.20%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.54%) Endace
7 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.32%) SCOM
8 4 (0.88%) CASB
8 4 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.44%) Nagios
9 2 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.44%) WSUS
10 1 (0.22%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.22%) CA Spectrum
10 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 422 (92.75%) Cisco
2 264 (58.02%) Splunk
3 262 (57.58%) 3PAR
4 41 (9.01%) Fortinet
5 33 (7.25%) Microsoft
6 32 (7.03%) VMware
7 30 (6.59%) SolarWinds
8 28 (6.15%) Palo Alto
9 22 (4.84%) McAfee
10 17 (3.74%) Dell
10 17 (3.74%) ServiceNow
11 14 (3.08%) Aruba
12 13 (2.86%) Meraki
13 10 (2.20%) CheckPoint
13 10 (2.20%) F5
14 9 (1.98%) Broadcom
14 9 (1.98%) Extreme Networks
15 7 (1.54%) Arista
15 7 (1.54%) Ekahau
15 7 (1.54%) HP