A+ Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

CompTIA A+ Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for A+ Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 461 617
Rank change year-on-year +123 +156 -149
Contract jobs citing A+ Certification 6 14 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.039% 0.054% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% 0.21% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 0
10th Percentile - £150 -
25th Percentile £200 £213 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% - -
75th Percentile £338 £238 -
90th Percentile £351 £300 -
UK median daily rate £200 £125 £140
% change year-on-year +60.00% -10.71% -49.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £40.31 - £15.00
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - -6.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

A+ 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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,248 6,609 8,860
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.81% 25.49% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,651 4,438 6,207
10th Percentile £331 £381 £369
25th Percentile £440 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 293 223
10th Percentile £15.66 £20.00 £19.38
25th Percentile £24.25 £42.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +33.80% +21.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

A+ Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing A+ Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

A+ Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

A+ Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing A+ Certification.

A+ Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

A+ Certification
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing A+ Certification.

A+ Certification hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

A+ Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (16.67%) Data Technician
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Smartphone
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Runbook
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CCNA
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) CCENT
3 2 (33.33%) MCSA
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (16.67%) MCSE
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow