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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 646 828
Rank change year-on-year +101 +182 -132
Contract jobs citing Network+ Certification 34 48 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.084% 0.040%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.27% 0.31% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 41 23
10th Percentile £156 - £123
25th Percentile £247 £105 £126
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £339 £134 £325
Median % change year-on-year +153.27% -58.85% +85.71%
75th Percentile £445 £538 £625
90th Percentile £494 £550 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £134 £325
% change year-on-year +184.11% -58.85% +120.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 1
10th Percentile £12.00 - -
25th Percentile £13.25 - £13.13
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £13.75
75th Percentile £25.83 - £14.38
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 - £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 12,775 15,576 19,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 27.20% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,956 10,400 12,640
10th Percentile £308 £330 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,057 771 774
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +25.14% +21.73%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.95
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% +5.26%

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 20 May 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
Top 13 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 20 May 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
UK excluding London +46 31 £380 +184.11% 44
England +99 26 £340 +51.11% 67
North of England +36 12 £340 +209.09% 15
Yorkshire +27 10 £338 +206.12% 6
Work from Home +114 8 £388 -22.50% 14
Scotland +46 8 £107 -2.73% 3
South East +24 5 £450 +219.15% 9
London +95 3 £200 +72.04% 23
Midlands +16 3 £300 +124.30% 10
South West -4 3 £500 -9.09% 4
North West +16 2 £425 +107.32% 5
East Midlands +15 2 - - 5
West Midlands +21 1 £300 +141.94% 5

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 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.88%) AWS
1 2 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.94%) GCP
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) Firewall
1 9 (26.47%) SAN
2 8 (23.53%) WAN
3 6 (17.65%) DNS
4 5 (14.71%) DHCP
4 5 (14.71%) LAN
5 4 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (11.76%) WLAN
6 3 (8.82%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (8.82%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (8.82%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (8.82%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.88%) CATAPAN
7 2 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (5.88%) Network Security
8 1 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.94%) Internet
8 1 (2.94%) VPN
8 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
3 11 (32.35%) Public Sector
4 6 (17.65%) Finance
5 4 (11.76%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) IT Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Field Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Field Service Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Network Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Network Technician
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Network Technician
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Technician
5 3 (8.82%) Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Data Centre Technician
5 3 (8.82%) Data Technician
6 2 (5.88%) Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) IT Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) IT Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) IT Technician
6 2 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Data Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) EDI
2 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (58.82%) Data Centre
2 9 (26.47%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (11.76%) NHS
3 4 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (8.82%) CCTV
4 3 (8.82%) Operational Technology
4 3 (8.82%) SCADA
5 2 (5.88%) CMDB
6 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.94%) Life Science
6 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.94%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Windows 10
3 3 (8.82%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (26.47%) Customer Service
3 8 (23.53%) Break/Fix
4 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
5 4 (11.76%) ITIL
6 3 (8.82%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
6 3 (8.82%) Migration
6 3 (8.82%) Network Design
6 3 (8.82%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (8.82%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (8.82%) Runbook
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Security
7 2 (5.88%) DevSecOps
7 2 (5.88%) Incident Response
7 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (5.88%) Security Hardening
7 2 (5.88%) Task Automation
7 2 (5.88%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (79.41%) CCNA
1 27 (79.41%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (44.12%) A+ Certification
3 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (29.41%) MCSE
5 6 (17.65%) Degree
6 5 (14.71%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (11.76%) CCNP
8 3 (8.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (5.88%) CISM
9 2 (5.88%) CISSP
9 2 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
10 1 (2.94%) CISA
10 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
10 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
10 1 (2.94%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) GDPR
3 2 (5.88%) COBIT
3 2 (5.88%) COSO
3 2 (5.88%) NIST
3 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (14.71%) Hyper-V
3 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
4 3 (8.82%) KVM
4 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (8.82%) VMware NSX
4 3 (8.82%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Nagios
1 3 (8.82%) vCenter Server
1 3 (8.82%) ZABBIX
2 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Dell
2 8 (23.53%) VMware
3 6 (17.65%) Cisco
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.76%) Palo Alto
5 3 (8.82%) CheckPoint
6 2 (5.88%) Juniper
6 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.94%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (2.94%) Citrix
7 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.94%) Oracle
7 1 (2.94%) SAP
7 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.94%) Splunk