A+ Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

CompTIA A+ Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for A+ Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 457 610
Rank change year-on-year +120 +153 -139
Contract jobs citing A+ Certification 4 11 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.044% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.098% 0.17% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £234 £150 -
25th Percentile £284 £166 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% - -
75th Percentile £343 £238 -
90th Percentile £353 £294 -
UK median daily rate £200 £125 £145
% change year-on-year +60.00% -13.79% -48.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -6.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,100 6,366 8,706
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.20% 25.37% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 4,286 6,114
10th Percentile £331 £381 £369
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 275 222
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.25 £19.37
25th Percentile £25.13 £42.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.68 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year -33.51% +32.56% +21.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.44
90th Percentile £83.20 £83.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

A+ Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing A+ Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

A+ Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

A+ Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing A+ Certification.

A+ Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing A+ Certification.

A+ Certification hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

A+ Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Data Technician
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNA
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCENT
2 2 (50.00%) MCSA
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) KVM
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow