Network+ Certification Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

CompTIA Network+ (CompTIA N+)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Network+ Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Network+ Certification 15 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.92% - 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.16% - 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £219 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £270 - -
90th Percentile £459 - -
South East median daily rate £244 £488 £200
% change year-on-year -49.95% +143.75% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

Network+ Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 695 447 885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 42.77% 34.62% 45.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 224 466
10th Percentile £255 £247 £205
25th Percentile £345 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £615
90th Percentile £625 £686 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.19% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 29 72
10th Percentile £20.12 £41.25 £42.00
25th Percentile £26.39 £55.87 £52.72
Median hourly rate £73.50 £61.76 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.01% +0.26% -4.99%
75th Percentile £95.00 £74.87 £70.50
90th Percentile £103.00 £86.08 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.87 £58.30
% change year-on-year -56.54% -0.73% +29.56%

Network+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network+ Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Network+ Certification job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network+ Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network+ Certification

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network+ Certification in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network+ Certification in Berkshire

Network+ Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network+ Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network+ Certification

Network+ Certification
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. 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
Wokingham - 13 £238 - 1
Reading - 1 £625 - 4
Network+ Certification
South East

Network+ Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) DHCP
1 14 (93.33%) DNS
1 14 (93.33%) TCP/IP
1 14 (93.33%) VLAN
2 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) VPN
3 3 (20.00%) BGP
3 3 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (20.00%) LAN
3 3 (20.00%) Network Security
3 3 (20.00%) OSPF
3 3 (20.00%) WAN
3 3 (20.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (93.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 11 (73.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Linux
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 11 (73.33%) ITIL
1 11 (73.33%) Preventative Maintenance
1 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (73.33%) Service Management
1 11 (73.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) SC Cleared
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (73.33%) Azure Certification
2 11 (73.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (73.33%) Server+ Certification
3 4 (26.67%) CCNP
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) CCNA
4 1 (6.67%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Hyper-V
1 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
1 11 (73.33%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Juniper
2 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds