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 22 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 541 541
Rank change year-on-year -130 0 +81
Contract jobs citing JNCIA 12 17 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.052% 0.064%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.071% 0.17% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 16
10th Percentile £330 £312 £356
25th Percentile £405 £419 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.11% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £547
90th Percentile £524 £549 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -20.60% +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 16,851 10,283 11,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.31% 31.34% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,273 6,344 7,361
10th Percentile £350 £289 £313
25th Percentile £434 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -0.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £716 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,270 822 804
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.96 £14.49
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £48.84 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.19% -41.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £72.54 £53.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £73.75 £75.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +89.03% -47.05% -5.00%

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 22 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 22 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 -98 11 £417 -20.60% 3
England -120 9 £418 -12.11% 3
North of England - 6 £417 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £418 -
South East -69 3 £520 -3.26%
Work from Home - 3 £500 - 2
Wales - 2 £200 -
North West - 1 £375 - 1

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 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
2 7 (58.33%) VPN
3 6 (50.00%) LAN
3 6 (50.00%) Network Security
3 6 (50.00%) WAN
4 5 (41.67%) DNS
5 3 (25.00%) BGP
5 3 (25.00%) DHCP
5 3 (25.00%) OSPF
6 2 (16.67%) BIG-IP
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (16.67%) Junos
6 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
6 2 (16.67%) VXLAN
6 2 (16.67%) Wireless
7 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (8.33%) VLAN
7 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Field Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) 802.1X
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 2 (16.67%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) High Availability
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) ITSM
2 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Observability
2 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) Availability Management
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Runbook
4 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) JNCIS
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (41.67%) CCNA
4 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (25.00%) CCNP
5 3 (25.00%) JNCIP
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (8.33%) Degree
6 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Juniper
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
4 2 (16.67%) F5
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 2 (16.67%) Splunk
5 1 (8.33%) Arista
5 1 (8.33%) Aruba
5 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
5 1 (8.33%) Meraki