Network+ Certification Contract Job Trends

CompTIA Network+ (CompTIA N+)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Network+ Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 518 598
Rank change year-on-year -20 +80 +187
Contract jobs citing Network+ Certification 30 41 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.29% 0.36% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 47
10th Percentile £215 £368 £102
25th Percentile £219 £456 £134
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £500 £380
Median % change year-on-year -41.00% +31.58% +245.45%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £546
90th Percentile £700 - £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £295 £488 £380
% change year-on-year -39.49% +28.29% +245.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.50 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10,329 11,269 13,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.35% 29.26% 28.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,453 6,946 8,930
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 654 722
10th Percentile £17.91 £17.00 £16.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% -9.22% +21.18%
75th Percentile £45.40 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £76.00 £78.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% - +16.67%

Network+ Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network+ Certification over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Network+ Certification
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +8 30 £295 -41.00% 207
UK excluding London -9 28 £295 -39.49% 207
South East +33 16 £267 -43.79% 54
Midlands -12 11 £700 - 33
Work from Home +35 10 £244 -51.20% 19
West Midlands -8 8 £700 - 16
South West +21 7 £700 +16.67% 18
East Midlands 0 3 £121 - 17
London +14 2 £413 -19.51% 49

Network+ Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.33%) IIS
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) Azure Stack
3 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) DNS
1 11 (36.67%) TCP/IP
2 10 (33.33%) VLAN
3 9 (30.00%) DHCP
4 6 (20.00%) Firewall
5 3 (10.00%) SAN
6 2 (6.67%) LAN
6 2 (6.67%) VPN
6 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
7 1 (3.33%) VoIP
7 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) IT Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Senior
5 6 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Senior IT Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Network Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Field Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Field Service Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) IT Support
8 2 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) IT Technician
9 1 (3.33%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) CSS
1 3 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) ODBC
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Life Science
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Windows
2 10 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (40.00%) ITIL
4 9 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (30.00%) Preventative Maintenance
4 9 (30.00%) Service Management
4 9 (30.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 4 (13.33%) DevOps
8 3 (10.00%) Agile
8 3 (10.00%) Break/Fix
8 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 2 (6.67%) Configuration Management
9 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
9 2 (6.67%) Patch Management
10 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 1 (3.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
10 1 (3.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Java
1 4 (13.33%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.00%) Kotlin
3 2 (6.67%) Bash
3 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Azure Certification
2 14 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (36.67%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 9 (30.00%) CCNA
5 9 (30.00%) Server+ Certification
6 6 (20.00%) A+ Certification
7 3 (10.00%) CCNP
7 3 (10.00%) MCSE
8 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
9 1 (3.33%) CCENT
9 1 (3.33%) Degree
9 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
9 1 (3.33%) JNCIP
9 1 (3.33%) MCP
9 1 (3.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Hyper-V
1 9 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Grafana
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Dell
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) F5
4 2 (6.67%) Juniper
4 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) NetScout