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 23 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 508 539
Rank change year-on-year -104 +31 +116
Contract jobs citing JNCIA 23 12 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.042% 0.092%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.14% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 29
10th Percentile £263 £268 £335
25th Percentile £384 £291 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £323 £425
Median % change year-on-year +29.46% -24.12% -5.56%
75th Percentile £509 £439 £575
90th Percentile £520 £488 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £290 £425
% change year-on-year +44.83% -31.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.67 - -
Median hourly rate £71.33 - -
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 15,370 8,878 12,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 31.03% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,197 5,609 7,914
10th Percentile £350 £275 £307
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £645
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,105 502 1,060
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.04 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.34 £17.80
Median hourly rate £48.05 £33.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.37% -15.63% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +46.15% -20.62% -18.12%

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 23 May 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 9 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 23 May 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 -102 21 £420 +30.23% 4
UK excluding London -84 20 £420 +44.83% 5
South East - 12 £520 - 1
North of England -69 7 £416 +43.52% 1
Yorkshire -57 6 £417 +43.74%
Work from Home -40 4 £275 - 3
London -77 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £375 - 1
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 (13.04%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.35%) Route 53
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (82.61%) Firewall
2 12 (52.17%) BGP
2 12 (52.17%) LAN
2 12 (52.17%) OSPF
2 12 (52.17%) WAN
3 10 (43.48%) DNS
3 10 (43.48%) Ethernet VPN
3 10 (43.48%) Junos
3 10 (43.48%) VXLAN
4 9 (39.13%) Network Security
4 9 (39.13%) VPN
5 7 (30.43%) BIG-IP
5 7 (30.43%) DHCP
6 6 (26.09%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
7 4 (17.39%) VLAN
8 3 (13.04%) Wireless
9 2 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (8.70%) DWDM
9 2 (8.70%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Military
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Electronics
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Network Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Senior
2 8 (34.78%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Juniper Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Core Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Juniper Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) 802.1X
2 2 (8.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Data Centre
2 7 (30.43%) Clustering
2 7 (30.43%) PKI
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.70%) NHS
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (52.17%) High Availability
3 9 (39.13%) ITIL
3 9 (39.13%) ITSM
3 9 (39.13%) Service Management
4 8 (34.78%) Load Balancing
5 7 (30.43%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (30.43%) Observability
6 4 (17.39%) Availability Management
7 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
7 3 (13.04%) Network Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
8 2 (8.70%) Change Management
8 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (8.70%) Migration
8 2 (8.70%) Runbook
8 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (95.65%) JNCIS
2 13 (56.52%) JNCIP
3 12 (52.17%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
5 5 (21.74%) CCNP
5 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
6 4 (17.39%) CCNA
7 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
7 1 (4.35%) Degree
7 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Firmware
1 1 (4.35%) KVM
1 1 (4.35%) RHEV
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) FortiGate
2 7 (30.43%) Ansible
3 5 (21.74%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Nagios
4 1 (4.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Juniper
2 13 (56.52%) Cisco
3 8 (34.78%) F5
3 8 (34.78%) SolarWinds
3 8 (34.78%) Splunk
4 7 (30.43%) Extreme Networks
5 5 (21.74%) Fortinet
6 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
7 2 (8.70%) Arista
8 1 (4.35%) Aruba
8 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
8 1 (4.35%) Meraki
8 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 1 (4.35%) SAP
8 1 (4.35%) VMware