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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 521 542
Rank change year-on-year -52 +21 +179
Contract jobs citing JNCIA 24 11 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.036% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% 0.12% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 38
10th Percentile £190 £190 £320
25th Percentile £244 £238 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -11.21% +7.00%
75th Percentile £494 £509 £688
90th Percentile £518 £527 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £495 £535
% change year-on-year - -7.48% -26.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.67 - -
Median hourly rate £71.33 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +103.80% - -
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 - -

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 13,835 9,174 13,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.88% 29.74% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,124 5,605 8,280
10th Percentile £325 £294 £290
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £618 £629 £650
90th Percentile £720 £715 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £504 £530
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 437 962
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.67 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.17 £24.18 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% -2.58%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.25 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.97% +2.62%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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
England -83 22 £438 -7.89% 6
UK excluding London -66 14 £495 - 5
South East -22 11 £495 -4.35% 5
Work from Home -14 9 £275 +44.74% 2
London -48 7 £190 -42.86% 1
Yorkshire -63 2 - -
North of England -64 2 - -
South West - 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 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Route 53
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (70.83%) Firewall
2 14 (58.33%) BGP
2 14 (58.33%) OSPF
3 10 (41.67%) DNS
3 10 (41.67%) Junos
4 9 (37.50%) LAN
4 9 (37.50%) WAN
5 8 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 8 (33.33%) VXLAN
6 6 (25.00%) Network Security
6 6 (25.00%) VPN
6 6 (25.00%) Wireless
7 5 (20.83%) BIG-IP
7 5 (20.83%) DHCP
8 4 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
9 3 (12.50%) EIGRP
9 3 (12.50%) HTTPS
9 3 (12.50%) IPsec
9 3 (12.50%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Electronics
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Local Government
4 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (12.50%) Marketing
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Military
6 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (91.67%) Network Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Juniper Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Juniper Specialist
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Network Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Core Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Design Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 8 (33.33%) PKI
3 5 (20.83%) Clustering
4 4 (16.67%) NHS
5 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (4.17%) CSOC
6 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) High Availability
3 6 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (25.00%) ITIL
3 6 (25.00%) ITSM
3 6 (25.00%) Service Management
4 5 (20.83%) Load Balancing
4 5 (20.83%) Observability
5 4 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.67%) Network Architecture
5 4 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (12.50%) Availability Management
6 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (12.50%) Programme Management
6 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Bash
2 3 (12.50%) C++
2 3 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (91.67%) JNCIS
2 16 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (62.50%) JNCIP
4 11 (45.83%) CCNP
5 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 6 (25.00%) CCNA
7 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
8 4 (16.67%) DBS Check
9 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
10 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
10 1 (4.17%) CCIE
10 1 (4.17%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 1 (4.17%) CCIE Security
10 1 (4.17%) CCSA
10 1 (4.17%) CCSE
10 1 (4.17%) CEH
10 1 (4.17%) CISM
10 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (4.17%) Degree
10 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Firmware
2 1 (4.17%) KVM
2 1 (4.17%) RHEV
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Ansible
2 5 (20.83%) FortiGate
3 4 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) Nagios
4 1 (4.17%) Proxmox
4 1 (4.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) Juniper
2 16 (66.67%) Cisco
3 6 (25.00%) F5
3 6 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 6 (25.00%) Splunk
4 5 (20.83%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (12.50%) SAP
6 2 (8.33%) Arista
6 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (4.17%) IBM
7 1 (4.17%) Okta
7 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.17%) Qualys
7 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
7 1 (4.17%) Ruckus Wireless
7 1 (4.17%) Tenable