Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JNCIS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 692 841
Rank change year-on-year +118 +149 -159
Contract jobs citing JNCIS 26 24 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.041% 0.025%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 16
10th Percentile - £373 £275
25th Percentile £335 £425 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -2.22% +39.92%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £627
90th Percentile £581 £675 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £570 -
% change year-on-year -21.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £41.76
25th Percentile - - £42.41
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.54
90th Percentile - - £48.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

JNCIS is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,178 16,121 19,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 27.29% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,130 10,752 12,590
10th Percentile £300 £330 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £744 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 841 765
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.84 £20.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.88%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.72 £34.38
% change year-on-year -17.66% +44.65% -0.48%

JNCIS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JNCIS in the UK

JNCIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JNCIS in the UK

JNCIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JNCIS over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JNCIS in the UK

JNCIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JNCIS in the UK

JNCIS
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JNCIS within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +122 24 £494 -10.23% 10
UK excluding London +64 22 £450 -21.05% 6
South East +18 12 £550 -3.51% 2
Work from Home +132 10 £345 -39.47% 4
Midlands - 5 £450 -
West Midlands - 5 £450 -
South West - 3 £413 -
London +111 2 £650 +136.36% 3
North East - 2 £345 - 1
North of England - 2 £345 - 3

JNCIS
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) BGP
2 11 (42.31%) MPLS
3 8 (30.77%) Firewall
3 8 (30.77%) OSPF
4 6 (23.08%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (23.08%) LAN
4 6 (23.08%) WAN
5 5 (19.23%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (19.23%) EIGRP
5 5 (19.23%) VPN
6 3 (11.54%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (11.54%) DNS
6 3 (11.54%) IPsec
6 3 (11.54%) Junos
6 3 (11.54%) VLAN
7 2 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.85%) CATAPAN
8 1 (3.85%) IPv4
8 1 (3.85%) IPv6
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.85%) German Language
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Network Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Designer
2 8 (30.77%) Network Designer
3 7 (26.92%) Architect
3 7 (26.92%) Network Architect
4 5 (19.23%) Network Operations Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Network Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Systems Architect
6 1 (3.85%) WAN Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Debian
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) High Availability
1 5 (19.23%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (7.69%) Migration
4 2 (7.69%) Network Architecture
4 2 (7.69%) Network Design
4 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 2 (7.69%) Project Management
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.85%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (3.85%) Mentoring
5 1 (3.85%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (3.85%) Runbook
5 1 (3.85%) Task Automation
5 1 (3.85%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) CCNP
1 17 (65.38%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
3 13 (50.00%) CCNA
4 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
5 9 (34.62%) JNCIA
6 2 (7.69%) Degree
7 1 (3.85%) CCDP
7 1 (3.85%) CCIE
7 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.85%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) Icinga
1 1 (3.85%) Nagios
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (88.46%) Juniper
2 14 (53.85%) Cisco
3 2 (7.69%) F5
3 2 (7.69%) Nokia
4 1 (3.85%) Arista
4 1 (3.85%) Aruba
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) MikroTik
4 1 (3.85%) TP-LINK
4 1 (3.85%) ZyXEL