A+ Certification Contract Job Trends in the South East

CompTIA A+ Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for A+ Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 181 190
Rank change year-on-year +37 +9 +68
Contract jobs citing A+ Certification 15 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.44% 0.087% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.12% 0.20% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 15
10th Percentile £130 - £141
25th Percentile £133 - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £166 £160 £210
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% -23.81% +40.00%
75th Percentile £208 - -
90th Percentile £232 - £419
England median daily rate £202 £175 £215
% change year-on-year +15.43% -18.60% +95.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £89.63 - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.87 £16.30 £16.83
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.12% +8.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

A+ 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,338 1,981 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 38.92% 43.17% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,245 1,341
10th Percentile £222 £336 £270
25th Percentile £413 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £717 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 158 135
10th Percentile - £22.36 £25.13
25th Percentile £18.87 £46.64 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.70 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.41% -3.84% +33.33%
75th Percentile £68.50 £72.22 £73.73
90th Percentile £81.00 £87.46 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -53.43% -1.42% +21.73%

A+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for A+ Certification in the South East

A+ Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing A+ Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing A+ Certification

A+ Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing A+ Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for A+ Certification in the South East

A+ Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing A+ Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing A+ Certification

A+ Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Thames Valley +20 9 £130 -18.75% 22
Oxfordshire -5 6 - - 3
Surrey - 3 £196 - 9
Berkshire - 3 £130 - 10
West Sussex - 2 £202 - 6
Hampshire - 1 - - 8
A+ Certification
England

A+ Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) VPN
2 5 (33.33%) Wireless
3 4 (26.67%) DHCP
4 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (13.33%) SAN
6 1 (6.67%) FTP
6 1 (6.67%) Internet
6 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (6.67%) IP Telephony
6 1 (6.67%) LAN
6 1 (6.67%) MPLS
6 1 (6.67%) NAS
6 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
6 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (6.67%) Skype
6 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
6 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) IT Support
2 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) IT Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) IT Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Service Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (13.33%) IT Support Technician
5 2 (13.33%) IT Technician
5 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Service Support Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Support Technician
6 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) JSON
1 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
5 1 (6.67%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (66.67%) ITIL
3 7 (46.67%) Customer Service
4 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (40.00%) ITSM
5 5 (33.33%) Service Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
6 4 (26.67%) Service Management
6 4 (26.67%) Time Management
7 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
8 2 (13.33%) Application Packaging
8 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
9 1 (6.67%) Break/Fix
9 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 1 (6.67%) Inventory Management
9 1 (6.67%) Threat Management
9 1 (6.67%) Ticket Management
9 1 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Java
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (40.00%) Degree
3 5 (33.33%) MCSA
4 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (13.33%) MCP
6 2 (13.33%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (6.67%) CCNA
7 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
7 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (6.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (13.33%) XenApp
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Malwarebytes
1 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (46.67%) ServiceNow
3 6 (40.00%) Cisco
4 5 (33.33%) Citrix
5 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
5 4 (26.67%) Palo Alto
6 3 (20.00%) Dell
7 2 (13.33%) Ivanti
8 1 (6.67%) F5
8 1 (6.67%) VMware