Network+ Certification Contracts

CompTIA Network+ (CompTIA N+)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Network+ Certification 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 565 671 830
Rank change year-on-year +106 +159 -138
Contract jobs citing Network+ Certification 35 45 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.076% 0.037%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.27% 0.28% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 38 21
10th Percentile £148 - -
25th Percentile £231 £105 £123
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £123 £275
Median % change year-on-year +173.83% -55.18% +57.14%
75th Percentile £387 £525 £500
90th Percentile £468 £550 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £124 £180
% change year-on-year +174.19% -31.11% +22.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 1
10th Percentile £12.50 - -
25th Percentile £14.88 - £13.13
Median hourly rate £20.74 - £13.75
75th Percentile £25.83 - £14.38
90th Percentile £35.54 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 - £13.75
% change year-on-year - - -40.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 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%

Network+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network+ Certification over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network+ Certification over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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
UK excluding London +55 30 £340 +174.19% 19
England +108 28 £339 +171.00% 39
North of England +38 12 £340 +209.09% 7
Yorkshire +29 11 £339 +207.26% 3
Work from Home +129 9 £308 -38.50% 16
Scotland +45 7 £107 -2.73% 1
London +108 5 £200 +81.82% 19
South East +25 5 £450 +219.15% 4
Midlands +27 3 £300 +124.30% 4
East Midlands +17 2 - -
South West +13 2 £500 -9.09% 2
North West +26 1 £388 +89.02% 2
West Midlands +23 1 £300 +141.94% 4
East of England +14 1 - - 2

Network+ Certification
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) AWS
2 1 (2.86%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.86%) GCP
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Firewall
2 8 (22.86%) SAN
2 8 (22.86%) WAN
3 6 (17.14%) DNS
4 5 (14.29%) DHCP
4 5 (14.29%) LAN
4 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (11.43%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (11.43%) WLAN
6 3 (8.57%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (8.57%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (8.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (5.71%) CATAPAN
7 2 (5.71%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (5.71%) Network Security
7 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.86%) Internet
8 1 (2.86%) VPN
8 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Public Sector
3 7 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Advertising
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) IT Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Field Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Field Service Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Data Centre Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Data Centre Technician
4 4 (11.43%) Data Technician
4 4 (11.43%) Network Technician
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Network Technician
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Technician
5 3 (8.57%) IT Technician
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Configuration Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Administrator
7 1 (2.86%) Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Service Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) EDI
2 2 (5.71%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 5 (14.29%) NHS
3 5 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (8.57%) CCTV
4 3 (8.57%) Operational Technology
4 3 (8.57%) SCADA
5 1 (2.86%) CMDB
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.86%) Life Science
5 1 (2.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Windows 10
3 4 (11.43%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.86%) Customer Service
3 7 (20.00%) Break/Fix
4 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
5 5 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 5 (14.29%) ITIL
6 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (11.43%) Migration
6 4 (11.43%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (11.43%) Runbook
7 3 (8.57%) Network Design
7 3 (8.57%) Network Virtualisation
8 2 (5.71%) Asset Management
8 2 (5.71%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (5.71%) Data Protection
8 2 (5.71%) High Availability
8 2 (5.71%) Service Management
8 2 (5.71%) Software Testing
9 1 (2.86%) Change Management
9 1 (2.86%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (74.29%) CCNA
1 26 (74.29%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (51.43%) A+ Certification
3 13 (37.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (34.29%) MCSE
5 7 (20.00%) Degree
6 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (11.43%) CCNP
7 4 (11.43%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (11.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (11.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
9 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
9 1 (2.86%) CISA
9 1 (2.86%) CISM
9 1 (2.86%) CISSP
9 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
9 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
9 1 (2.86%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) COBIT
3 1 (2.86%) COSO
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (17.14%) Hyper-V
3 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 4 (11.43%) KVM
4 4 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (11.43%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (11.43%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (8.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) vCenter Server
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.71%) Nagios
2 2 (5.71%) SCCM
2 2 (5.71%) WSUS
2 2 (5.71%) ZABBIX
3 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
1 9 (25.71%) VMware
2 8 (22.86%) Dell
3 6 (17.14%) Cisco
4 4 (11.43%) Palo Alto
5 3 (8.57%) CheckPoint
6 2 (5.71%) Juniper
7 1 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (2.86%) Citrix
7 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle
7 1 (2.86%) SAP
7 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds