Spanning Tree Contracts

Spanning Tree Protocol
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Spanning Tree skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spanning Tree 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 566 695 824
Rank change year-on-year +129 +129 -150
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 32 24 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.040% 0.028%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.57% 0.33% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 16
10th Percentile £300 - £356
25th Percentile £363 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year +57.69% -27.78% +25.00%
75th Percentile £519 £488 £478
90th Percentile £743 £700 £491
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £325 £425
% change year-on-year +56.38% -23.53% +18.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Spanning Tree is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spanning Tree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spanning Tree in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spanning Tree.

Daily rate trend for Spanning Tree in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spanning Tree over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spanning Tree in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spanning Tree.

Hourly rate trend for Spanning Tree in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spanning Tree within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +137 31 £508 +56.38% 7
UK excluding London +70 20 £508 +56.38% 4
North of England +41 12 £515 -26.43%
North West - 12 £515 -
Work from Home +134 10 £495 -29.29% 2
London +106 10 £475 -29.63% 3
South East +27 3 £287 -44.10%
South West +21 2 - - 3
East of England +16 2 £375 -46.43% 1
West Midlands +27 1 - -
Midlands +14 1 - -

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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 (3.13%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (100.00%) Firewall
2 29 (90.63%) OSPF
3 26 (81.25%) BGP
3 26 (81.25%) HSRP
4 22 (68.75%) IPsec
5 21 (65.63%) Cisco ASA
6 18 (56.25%) Cisco ISE
7 17 (53.13%) SNMP
8 16 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
8 16 (50.00%) VPN
9 15 (46.88%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (40.63%) EIGRP
11 12 (37.50%) NetScaler
11 12 (37.50%) VLAN
12 10 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (28.13%) WAN
14 8 (25.00%) LAN
15 7 (21.88%) MPLS
16 6 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
17 5 (15.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) MySQL
1 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
General
1 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (84.38%) Network Engineer
2 12 (37.50%) Senior
3 9 (28.13%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Network Support
6 2 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Network Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) Jinja
2 7 (21.88%) 802.1X
3 3 (9.38%) JSON
3 3 (9.38%) NETCONF
3 3 (9.38%) RESTful
3 3 (9.38%) XML
3 3 (9.38%) YANG
4 1 (3.13%) LAMP
4 1 (3.13%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (3.13%) LDAP
4 1 (3.13%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.63%) PKI
3 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Change Management
1 14 (43.75%) ITIL
2 12 (37.50%) DevOps
2 12 (37.50%) Network Management
3 11 (34.38%) ITSM
4 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (9.38%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
4 3 (9.38%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
4 3 (9.38%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 2 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (6.25%) Project Delivery
5 2 (6.25%) Project Management
5 2 (6.25%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (6.25%) Statistics
6 1 (3.13%) Incident Management
6 1 (3.13%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) Perl
3 12 (37.50%) Tcl
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) Security Cleared
2 16 (50.00%) CCNP
2 16 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (46.88%) SC Cleared
4 13 (40.63%) CCNA
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Firmware
2 1 (3.13%) Ceph
2 1 (3.13%) iptables
2 1 (3.13%) KVM
2 1 (3.13%) Lustre
2 1 (3.13%) NFS
2 1 (3.13%) Samba
2 1 (3.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (3.13%) HAProxy
4 1 (3.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 31 (96.88%) Cisco
2 20 (62.50%) Palo Alto
3 14 (43.75%) SolarWinds
4 12 (37.50%) Citrix
5 7 (21.88%) F5
6 6 (18.75%) Juniper
7 5 (15.63%) Fortinet
8 4 (12.50%) Arista
9 3 (9.38%) Aruba
9 3 (9.38%) Meraki
9 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
10 2 (6.25%) CheckPoint
10 2 (6.25%) SonicWALL