Spanning Tree Contracts in England

Spanning Tree Protocol
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Spanning Tree skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spanning Tree over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 511 630
Rank change year-on-year +45 +119 +130
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 19 31 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.083% 0.046%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.60% 0.62% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 20 18
10th Percentile £448 £300 -
25th Percentile £475 £359 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £325
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% +56.38% -27.78%
75th Percentile £525 £516 £475
90th Percentile £561 £614 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £325
% change year-on-year -2.44% +57.69% -27.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Spanning Tree in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Spanning Tree in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spanning Tree in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spanning Tree in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Spanning Tree in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +40 12 - - 1
South West +48 4 £500 -
South East +45 2 £500 +74.52% 5
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) GitHub
1 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 18 (94.74%) BGP
2 17 (89.47%) Firewall
3 16 (84.21%) OSPF
4 14 (73.68%) Cisco IOS
5 12 (63.16%) EIGRP
5 12 (63.16%) Network Security
5 12 (63.16%) RIP
6 8 (42.11%) HSRP
7 7 (36.84%) VRRP
7 7 (36.84%) Wireshark
8 6 (31.58%) NX-OS
9 4 (21.05%) DNS
9 4 (21.05%) LAN
9 4 (21.05%) WAN
10 3 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (15.79%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (10.53%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (10.53%) VLAN
11 2 (10.53%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
General
1 12 (63.16%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Network Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Deployment Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Security Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) 802.1X
2 2 (10.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) CatOS
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Matrix Organization
2 11 (57.89%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (57.89%) Service Management
3 5 (26.32%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (10.53%) Runbook
6 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.26%) Load Balancing
6 1 (5.26%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (57.89%) CCNP
3 4 (21.05%) CCSE
3 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) CCNA
4 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) CCIE
5 1 (5.26%) CCSA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (36.84%) Juniper
3 5 (26.32%) CheckPoint
4 2 (10.53%) Dell
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.26%) Aruba
5 1 (5.26%) Blue Coat
5 1 (5.26%) F5
5 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.26%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.26%) McAfee
5 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto