Network+ Certification Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

CompTIA Network+ (CompTIA N+)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Network+ Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 - 138
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Network+ Certification 17 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.80% - 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.93% - 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £219 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £244 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £410 - -
90th Percentile £471 - -
South East median daily rate £250 £488 £200
% change year-on-year -48.72% +143.75% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 882 645 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 41.25% 37.15% 42.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 366 655
10th Percentile £255 £220 £205
25th Percentile £350 £352 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.15% +2.20%
75th Percentile £560 £638 £619
90th Percentile £638 £686 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 33 74
10th Percentile £15.87 £20.37 £21.61
25th Percentile £19.54 £42.88 £48.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year -59.10% +5.48% +101.03%
75th Percentile £68.50 £65.62 £68.29
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.85 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%

Network+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Network+ Certification job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Network+ Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Network+ Certification

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network+ Certification in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network+ Certification in the Thames Valley

Network+ Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Network+ Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Network+ Certification

Network+ Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Berkshire - 15 £238 - 6
Oxfordshire - 2 £450 - 2
Network+ Certification
South East

Network+ Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) IIS
1 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) AWS
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (88.24%) DNS
1 15 (88.24%) TCP/IP
2 14 (82.35%) DHCP
2 14 (82.35%) VLAN
3 6 (35.29%) VPN
4 5 (29.41%) Firewall
5 4 (23.53%) LAN
5 4 (23.53%) Network Security
5 4 (23.53%) WAN
6 3 (17.65%) BGP
6 3 (17.65%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (17.65%) OSPF
6 3 (17.65%) WLAN
7 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (82.35%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Support Engineer
2 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
1 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) ITIL
1 12 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (64.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (64.71%) Preventative Maintenance
2 11 (64.71%) Service Management
2 11 (64.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
3 3 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) High Availability
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Bash
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) SC Cleared
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) Azure Certification
2 11 (64.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (64.71%) Server+ Certification
3 5 (29.41%) CCNP
3 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.76%) CCNA
4 2 (11.76%) Degree
5 1 (5.88%) A+ Certification
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Hyper-V
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Nagios
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
1 11 (64.71%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco
3 3 (17.65%) Juniper
3 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto