Spanning Tree Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Spanning Tree Protocol
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Spanning Tree skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.045% - 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% - 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.43%
75th Percentile £430 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £500 £458
% change year-on-year +20.00% +9.29% -3.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

Spanning Tree falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 271 235 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.26% 18.52% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 101 122
10th Percentile £303 £225 £205
25th Percentile £405 £363 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +31.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £573
90th Percentile £600 £688 £575
England median daily rate £500 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.48% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 69 70
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.31 £29.00 £17.27
Median hourly rate £61.76 £62.00 £49.28
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +25.81% -24.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.23 £87.60 -
England median hourly rate £26.72 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -22.73% -2.64%

Spanning Tree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spanning Tree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Spanning Tree job vacancy trend in the East of England

Spanning Tree
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Spanning Tree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Spanning Tree

Spanning Tree
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 27 August 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £420 - 1
Spanning Tree
England

Spanning Tree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco