Network+ Certification Contracts

CompTIA Network+ (CompTIA N+)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Network+ Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 681 831
Rank change year-on-year +127 +150 -151
Contract jobs citing Network+ Certification 37 35 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.057% 0.037%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.28% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 21
10th Percentile £174 - -
25th Percentile £216 £105 £123
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £339 £110 £225
Median % change year-on-year +207.95% -51.11% -9.50%
75th Percentile £398 £126 £500
90th Percentile £548 £238 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £360 £110 £163
% change year-on-year +227.27% -32.31% +10.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 1
10th Percentile £13.85 - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - £13.13
Median hourly rate £24.87 - £13.75
75th Percentile £25.83 - £14.38
90th Percentile £37.39 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.74 - £13.75
% change year-on-year - - -40.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Network+ Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,403 16,529 19,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.12% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,285 11,024 12,694
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £495
% change year-on-year +0.95% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,042 875 782
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £39.96 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% +32.91% -1.25%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.53 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £49.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -18.37% +64.87% -19.68%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network+ Certification.

Daily rate trend for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network+ Certification over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network+ Certification.

Hourly rate trend for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network+ Certification over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network+ Certification in the UK

Network+ Certification
Top 14 Contract 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 17 April 2024. 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 +144 32 £340 +209.09% 69
UK excluding London +59 31 £360 +227.27% 51
North of England +33 13 £340 +209.09% 17
Work from Home +124 11 £275 +22.22% 11
Yorkshire +29 11 £339 +207.26% 5
London +115 6 £200 +72.04% 22
South East +26 6 £450 +219.15% 8
Scotland +40 5 £107 -2.73% 4
Midlands +43 3 £300 +141.94% 16
South West +33 3 £688 +450.00% 2
North West +23 2 £394 +92.07% 10
East Midlands +21 2 - - 5
West Midlands +35 1 £300 +141.94% 11
East of England +9 1 - - 4

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 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) AWS
2 3 (8.11%) Azure
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.70%) GCP
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) Firewall
2 9 (24.32%) WAN
3 7 (18.92%) DNS
4 6 (16.22%) DHCP
4 6 (16.22%) SAN
5 5 (13.51%) LAN
5 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (10.81%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (10.81%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (10.81%) Network Security
6 4 (10.81%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (10.81%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (10.81%) WLAN
7 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
8 2 (5.41%) CATAPAN
8 2 (5.41%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (5.41%) Internet
8 2 (5.41%) Junos
8 2 (5.41%) SDH
9 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 14 (37.84%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (29.73%) Public Sector
4 7 (18.92%) Finance
5 5 (13.51%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Advertising
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) IT Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Field Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Field Service Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Network Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Data Centre Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Data Centre Technician
4 4 (10.81%) Data Technician
4 4 (10.81%) Network Technician
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Network Technician
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Technician
5 3 (8.11%) IT Technician
6 2 (5.41%) Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) IT Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) EDI
2 2 (5.41%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 19 (51.35%) Data Centre
2 6 (16.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (16.22%) Management Information System
3 5 (13.51%) NHS
3 5 (13.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (10.81%) CCTV
4 4 (10.81%) Operational Technology
4 4 (10.81%) SCADA
5 2 (5.41%) CMDB
5 2 (5.41%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Windows
2 6 (16.22%) Windows 10
3 4 (10.81%) Windows 7
4 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (21.62%) ITIL
3 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
3 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
3 6 (16.22%) Customer Service
4 5 (13.51%) Break/Fix
5 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (10.81%) Migration
5 4 (10.81%) Network Design
5 4 (10.81%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (10.81%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (10.81%) Runbook
6 3 (8.11%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (5.41%) ArchiMate
7 2 (5.41%) Asset Management
7 2 (5.41%) BPMN
7 2 (5.41%) Capacity Management
7 2 (5.41%) Data Protection
7 2 (5.41%) High Availability
7 2 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.11%) SQL
3 2 (5.41%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (75.68%) CCNA
1 28 (75.68%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (45.95%) A+ Certification
3 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (27.03%) MCSE
5 7 (18.92%) Degree
6 6 (16.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (13.51%) CCNP
7 5 (13.51%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (10.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (10.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
9 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
9 3 (8.11%) Server+ Certification
10 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
10 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (5.41%) HP ASE
10 2 (5.41%) JNCIA
10 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
11 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (16.22%) Hyper-V
3 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
4 4 (10.81%) KVM
4 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (10.81%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (10.81%) VMware NSX
4 4 (10.81%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) vCenter Server
2 3 (8.11%) Nagios
2 3 (8.11%) ZABBIX
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.41%) SCCM
3 2 (5.41%) WSUS
4 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
1 12 (32.43%) VMware
2 9 (24.32%) Cisco
3 7 (18.92%) Palo Alto
4 6 (16.22%) Dell
5 4 (10.81%) CheckPoint
5 4 (10.81%) Juniper
6 2 (5.41%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (5.41%) Ciena
6 2 (5.41%) Citrix
6 2 (5.41%) EMC
6 2 (5.41%) Google
6 2 (5.41%) Nokia
6 2 (5.41%) SAP
6 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle