JNCIA Contract Job Trends

Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JNCIA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 675 542 535
Rank change year-on-year -133 -7 +63
Contract jobs citing JNCIA 10 18 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.055% 0.057%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.059% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 14
10th Percentile £314 £313 £354
25th Percentile £394 £450 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £445 £538 £533
90th Percentile £511 £548 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £416 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -20.72% +23.53% -39.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,913 10,304 11,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.38% 31.27% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,307 6,385 7,210
10th Percentile £350 £297 £313
25th Percentile £437 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,262 825 738
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.99 £15.10
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.56
Median hourly rate £48.61 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.28% -47.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £87.16 £71.37 £75.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £49.00
% change year-on-year +89.03% -48.67% -4.85%

JNCIA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JNCIA job vacancy trend in the UK

JNCIA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JNCIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JNCIA

JNCIA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JNCIA over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JNCIA in the UK

JNCIA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JNCIA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JNCIA

JNCIA
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JNCIA within the UK over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -90 9 £416 -20.72% 6
England -124 7 £417 -12.24% 5
North of England - 6 £417 -
Yorkshire - 5 £418 -
Work from Home - 3 £500 - 4
Wales - 2 £200 -
South East -69 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £375 -

JNCIA
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) VPN
3 6 (60.00%) Network Security
4 5 (50.00%) LAN
4 5 (50.00%) WAN
5 4 (40.00%) DNS
6 2 (20.00%) BGP
6 2 (20.00%) DHCP
6 2 (20.00%) OSPF
6 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (20.00%) Wireless
7 1 (10.00%) BIG-IP
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (10.00%) DWDM
7 1 (10.00%) Junos
7 1 (10.00%) tcpdump
7 1 (10.00%) VLAN
7 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
7 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Field Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Field Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) High Availability
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) JNCIS
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (50.00%) CCNA
4 3 (30.00%) CCNP
5 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (10.00%) JNCIP
6 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Juniper
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (40.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) Arista
5 1 (10.00%) Aruba
5 1 (10.00%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (10.00%) F5
5 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (10.00%) Meraki
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) Splunk