Network+ Certification Contract Job Trends in Reading

CompTIA Network+ (CompTIA N+)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Network+ Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - 87
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Network+ Certification 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - 0.088%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.58% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.89%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £250 £475 £200
% change year-on-year -47.37% +137.50% -57.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 173 473 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 29.37% 42.96% 35.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 254 260
10th Percentile £354 £409 £279
25th Percentile £450 £564 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £625
90th Percentile £700 £765 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £598 £524
% change year-on-year -14.72% +14.18% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 36 13
10th Percentile £39.73 £50.95 £57.75
25th Percentile £59.19 £60.95 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.33 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% +6.76% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £100.00 £76.64
Berkshire median hourly rate £54.49 £63.15 £63.84
% change year-on-year -13.72% -1.08% +203.63%

Network+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Network+ Certification in Reading

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Network+ Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Network+ Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform