Network+ Certification Contracts in England

CompTIA Network+ (CompTIA N+)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Network+ Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 600 738
Rank change year-on-year +95 +138 -105
Contract jobs citing Network+ Certification 26 40 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.071% 0.083% 0.044%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.23% 0.30% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 33 20
10th Percentile £200 - £120
25th Percentile £281 £105 £123
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £175 £250
Median % change year-on-year +94.29% -30.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £453 £538 £669
90th Percentile £495 £550 £800
UK median daily rate £339 £125 £325
% change year-on-year +171.00% -61.54% +85.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £16.25 - -
25th Percentile £21.53 - £13.13
Median hourly rate £24.87 - £13.75
75th Percentile £25.83 - £14.38
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £17.50 - £13.75
% change year-on-year - - -40.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Network+ Certification 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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,220 13,267 15,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.80% 27.53% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,953 8,906 10,133
10th Percentile £313 £333 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 672 677
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.53 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.87 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.93 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% +27.98% +10.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.23 £68.48
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%

Network+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Network+ Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network+ Certification in England

Network+ Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network+ Certification in England.

Daily rate trend for Network+ Certification in England

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network+ Certification in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network+ Certification in England

Network+ Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network+ Certification in England.

Hourly rate trend for Network+ Certification in England

Network+ Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network+ Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England +39 12 £340 +209.09% 7
Yorkshire +23 10 £338 +206.12% 3
South East +36 5 £450 +219.15% 7
London +93 3 £200 +72.04% 16
Midlands +21 3 £300 +124.30% 5
South West -4 3 £500 -9.09% 2
North West +21 2 £425 +107.32% 1
East Midlands +12 2 - - 3
West Midlands +23 1 £300 +141.94% 2
Network+ Certification
UK

Network+ Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) AWS
1 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.85%) GCP
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) Firewall
2 8 (30.77%) WAN
3 6 (23.08%) DNS
4 5 (19.23%) DHCP
4 5 (19.23%) LAN
5 4 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (15.38%) WLAN
6 3 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (11.54%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (11.54%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (11.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
7 2 (7.69%) CATAPAN
7 2 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (7.69%) Network Security
8 1 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (3.85%) Internet
8 1 (3.85%) SAN
8 1 (3.85%) VPN
8 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
4 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (3.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Network Engineer
1 5 (19.23%) Senior
2 4 (15.38%) IT Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Network Technician
2 4 (15.38%) Senior Network Technician
2 4 (15.38%) Senior Technician
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Data Centre Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Data Centre Technician
3 3 (11.54%) Data Technician
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Operations Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Technician
4 2 (7.69%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Security Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Design Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Security Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) EDI
2 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 4 (15.38%) NHS
2 4 (15.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (11.54%) CCTV
3 3 (11.54%) Operational Technology
3 3 (11.54%) SCADA
4 2 (7.69%) CMDB
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Life Science
5 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Windows 10
3 3 (11.54%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
3 4 (15.38%) ITIL
4 3 (11.54%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
4 3 (11.54%) Migration
4 3 (11.54%) Network Design
4 3 (11.54%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (11.54%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (11.54%) Runbook
5 2 (7.69%) Agile
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security
5 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 2 (7.69%) DevSecOps
5 2 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (7.69%) Problem Management
5 2 (7.69%) Security Hardening
5 2 (7.69%) Task Automation
5 2 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (73.08%) CCNA
1 19 (73.08%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (26.92%) A+ Certification
3 6 (23.08%) Degree
4 5 (19.23%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (15.38%) CCNP
6 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (11.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (7.69%) CISM
7 2 (7.69%) CISSP
7 2 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (7.69%) MCSE
7 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
8 1 (3.85%) CISA
8 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
8 1 (3.85%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) GDPR
3 2 (7.69%) COBIT
3 2 (7.69%) COSO
3 2 (7.69%) NIST
3 2 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
3 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 3 (11.54%) KVM
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (11.54%) VMware NSX
4 3 (11.54%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Nagios
1 3 (11.54%) vCenter Server
1 3 (11.54%) ZABBIX
2 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) VMware
2 6 (23.08%) Cisco
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 3 (11.54%) CheckPoint
5 2 (7.69%) Juniper
5 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (3.85%) Citrix
6 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.85%) Dell
6 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (3.85%) SAP
6 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.85%) Splunk