A+ Certification Contracts in the North of England

CompTIA A+ Certification
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for A+ Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 202 245
Rank change year-on-year +27 +43 -62
Contract jobs citing A+ Certification 9 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.19% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.73% 0.54% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 7
10th Percentile £225 - £114
25th Percentile £310 £105 £123
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £110 £125
Median % change year-on-year +195.45% -12.00% -55.20%
75th Percentile £360 £116 £129
90th Percentile £364 £161 £133
England median daily rate £200 £150 £140
% change year-on-year +33.33% +7.14% -49.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

A+ 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 North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,233 1,484 1,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.27% 25.61% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 1,049 986
10th Percentile £300 £320 £200
25th Percentile £415 £431 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £487
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.75% +8.28%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 70 83
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.16 £25.75 £16.44
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.29 £32.37
Median % change year-on-year -60.14% +24.46% +22.16%
75th Percentile £39.54 £52.77 £50.27
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.30 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
% change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +2.36%

A+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for A+ Certification in the North of England

A+ Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing A+ Certification in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for A+ Certification in the North of England

A+ Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing A+ Certification in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for A+ Certification in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing A+ Certification in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for A+ Certification in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing A+ Certification within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Yorkshire +23 7 £338 +197.36% 2
North West +20 2 £194 +76.14% 7
A+ Certification
England

A+ Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DHCP
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
1 4 (44.44%) Remote Desktop
1 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (22.22%) LAN
2 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) IT Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Data Centre Technician
2 3 (33.33%) Data Technician
2 3 (33.33%) IT Technician
2 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows 10
3 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (44.44%) Runbook
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Security
4 1 (11.11%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) CCNA
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 5 (55.56%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (44.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (22.22%) CCENT
5 2 (22.22%) MCSA
6 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
6 1 (11.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
1 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (55.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (44.44%) KVM
3 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (44.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) vCenter Server
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Apple