Network+ Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

CompTIA Network+ (CompTIA N+)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 354 409 491
Rank change year-on-year +55 +82 -61
Contract jobs citing Network+ Certification 31 35 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.15% 0.066%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% 0.46% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 15
10th Percentile £220 - £123
25th Percentile £310 £105 £126
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £125 £325
Median % change year-on-year +204.00% -61.54% +120.71%
75th Percentile £469 £540 £701
90th Percentile £498 £550 £786
UK median daily rate £339 £125 £325
% change year-on-year +171.00% -61.54% +85.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 1
10th Percentile £12.00 - -
25th Percentile £13.25 - £13.13
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,404 7,527 8,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.48% 32.71% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,312 5,028 5,210
10th Percentile £270 £286 £260
25th Percentile £425 £422 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 598 524
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.91 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +42.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.11
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Network+ Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network+ Certification in the UK excluding London

Network+ Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network+ Certification in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Network+ Certification in the UK excluding London

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Network+ Certification in the UK excluding London

Network+ Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network+ Certification in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Network+ Certification in the UK excluding London

Network+ Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +46 8 £107 -2.73% 1
South East +36 5 £450 +219.15% 7
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 the UK excluding London 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 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) AWS
1 1 (3.23%) Azure
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
1 1 (3.23%) GCP
1 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) SAN
2 8 (25.81%) Firewall
2 8 (25.81%) WAN
3 6 (19.35%) DNS
4 5 (16.13%) DHCP
4 5 (16.13%) LAN
5 4 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (12.90%) WLAN
6 3 (9.68%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (9.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (9.68%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (9.68%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
7 2 (6.45%) CATAPAN
7 2 (6.45%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (6.45%) Network Security
8 1 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (3.23%) VPN
8 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (51.61%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 11 (35.48%) Public Sector
4 6 (19.35%) Finance
5 4 (12.90%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (3.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) IT Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Field Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Field Service Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Network Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Network Technician
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Network Technician
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Technician
5 3 (9.68%) Data Centre Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Data Centre Technician
6 2 (6.45%) Data Technician
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) IT Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) IT Operations Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) IT Technician
6 2 (6.45%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Security Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Electrical Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) EDI
2 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (61.29%) Data Centre
2 9 (29.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (12.90%) NHS
3 4 (12.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (9.68%) CCTV
4 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 3 (9.68%) Operational Technology
4 3 (9.68%) SCADA
5 2 (6.45%) CMDB
6 1 (3.23%) Life Science
6 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
1 4 (12.90%) Windows 10
2 3 (9.68%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) Customer Service
3 8 (25.81%) Break/Fix
4 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
4 4 (12.90%) ITIL
5 3 (9.68%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (9.68%) Configuration Management
5 3 (9.68%) Migration
5 3 (9.68%) Network Design
5 3 (9.68%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (9.68%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (9.68%) Runbook
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Security
6 2 (6.45%) DevSecOps
6 2 (6.45%) Incident Response
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (6.45%) Security Hardening
6 2 (6.45%) Service Management
6 2 (6.45%) Task Automation
6 2 (6.45%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (87.10%) CCNA
1 27 (87.10%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (41.94%) A+ Certification
3 10 (32.26%) MCSE
3 10 (32.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (12.90%) CCNP
4 4 (12.90%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (12.90%) Degree
5 3 (9.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (6.45%) CISM
6 2 (6.45%) CISSP
6 2 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
7 1 (3.23%) CISA
7 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) GDPR
3 2 (6.45%) COBIT
3 2 (6.45%) COSO
3 2 (6.45%) NIST
3 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.68%) KVM
3 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (9.68%) VMware NSX
3 3 (9.68%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) vCenter Server
2 2 (6.45%) Nagios
2 2 (6.45%) ZABBIX
3 1 (3.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Dell
2 7 (22.58%) VMware
3 6 (19.35%) Cisco
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.90%) Palo Alto
5 3 (9.68%) CheckPoint
6 2 (6.45%) Juniper
6 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
7 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle
7 1 (3.23%) Splunk