JNCIA Contracts

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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 553 652
Rank change year-on-year +35 +99 +160
Contract jobs citing JNCIA 16 32 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.074% 0.057%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% 0.25% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 17
10th Percentile £275 £355 £150
25th Percentile £304 £406 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £491 £575 £488
90th Percentile £511 £644 £510
UK excluding London median daily rate £408 £450 -
% change year-on-year -9.44% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +333.33% -67.94%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £15.00

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 9,498 12,868 14,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.99% 29.81% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,860 7,945 9,899
10th Percentile £275 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £701 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 635 1,115 731
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.19 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.15 £40.94 £55.33
Median % change year-on-year -31.24% -26.00% +24.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £43.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -36.92% -19.87% +53.33%

JNCIA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JNCIA in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JNCIA.

Daily rate trend for JNCIA in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JNCIA over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JNCIA in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JNCIA.

Hourly rate trend for JNCIA in the UK

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Top 8 Contract 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 30 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +41 15 £400 -11.11% 109
London +57 12 £400 -9.86% 19
UK excluding London +19 3 £408 -9.44% 96
Work from Home +28 2 - - 79
North of England +5 2 £290 -31.76% 19
Yorkshire +3 2 £290 -42.00% 6
Midlands +11 1 £525 - 10
West Midlands +7 1 £525 - 7

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Visio
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) Firewall
2 14 (87.50%) WAN
3 12 (75.00%) LAN
4 11 (68.75%) BGP
4 11 (68.75%) OSPF
5 10 (62.50%) TCP/IP
5 10 (62.50%) VPN
6 8 (50.00%) IPsec
7 7 (43.75%) VLAN
8 6 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (37.50%) DNS
8 6 (37.50%) Network Security
9 5 (31.25%) DWDM
10 4 (25.00%) EIGRP
10 4 (25.00%) Wireless
11 3 (18.75%) Broadband
11 3 (18.75%) HSRP
11 3 (18.75%) Internet
11 3 (18.75%) MPLS
11 3 (18.75%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Aviation
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Check Point Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Check Point Support
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall Support
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Junior
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
2 5 (31.25%) Network Architecture
3 4 (25.00%) Change Management
3 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Network Design
4 3 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (18.75%) Runbook
4 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (12.50%) Change Control
5 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
5 2 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
5 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) C++
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (75.00%) CCNP
3 11 (68.75%) CCNA
4 10 (62.50%) JNCIS
5 7 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (43.75%) Degree
6 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) CCSA
7 2 (12.50%) CCSE
7 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
8 1 (6.25%) JNCIP
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Firmware
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Ansible
2 5 (31.25%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (68.75%) Juniper
3 6 (37.50%) Palo Alto
4 5 (31.25%) Arista
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (18.75%) Aruba
6 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
6 3 (18.75%) Fortinet
6 3 (18.75%) Meraki
7 2 (12.50%) F5
7 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 2 (12.50%) VMware
8 1 (6.25%) Oracle