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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 523 607
Rank change year-on-year +54 +84 +155
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 23 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.092% 0.075% 0.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.71% 0.58% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 21
10th Percentile - £313 -
25th Percentile £475 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £525 £488
90th Percentile £529 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £450
% change year-on-year -1.62% +12.94% -2.70%

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 3,218 4,788 5,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.84% 12.82% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,997 2,850 3,877
10th Percentile £230 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 394 411
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.61 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +131.58% -22.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.60
90th Percentile £81.35 £73.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.48 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +3.69% +110.53% -33.12%

Spanning Tree
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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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 24 June 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 +58 12 - - 12
South East +50 6 £500 +74.52% 1
South West +40 3 £500 - 1
Midlands +10 2 £525 - 2
West Midlands +6 2 £525 - 2
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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 (8.70%) GitHub
1 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.35%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 22 (95.65%) BGP
2 19 (82.61%) OSPF
3 17 (73.91%) Firewall
4 15 (65.22%) Cisco IOS
4 15 (65.22%) EIGRP
5 13 (56.52%) Network Security
6 12 (52.17%) RIP
7 9 (39.13%) Wireshark
8 7 (30.43%) HSRP
8 7 (30.43%) VRRP
9 6 (26.09%) NX-OS
10 5 (21.74%) DNS
10 5 (21.74%) TACACS
10 5 (21.74%) WAN
11 4 (17.39%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (17.39%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (17.39%) IPv6
11 4 (17.39%) SAN
11 4 (17.39%) VLAN
11 4 (17.39%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
General
1 12 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (91.30%) Network Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Deployment Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Network Deployment Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Network Security Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) NetBackup Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) 802.1X
2 2 (8.70%) YAML
3 1 (4.35%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Life Science
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) CatOS
2 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Matrix Organization
2 11 (47.83%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (47.83%) Service Management
3 6 (26.09%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) Incident Management
4 4 (17.39%) Runbook
5 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (4.35%) B2B
6 1 (4.35%) Change Management
6 1 (4.35%) Cryptography
6 1 (4.35%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.35%) Incident Response
6 1 (4.35%) Migration
6 1 (4.35%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (56.52%) CCNP
3 5 (21.74%) CCNA
3 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
4 4 (17.39%) CCSE
5 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) CCIE
6 1 (4.35%) CCSA
6 1 (4.35%) JNCIA
6 1 (4.35%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Def Stans
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Argo
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Cisco
2 7 (30.43%) Juniper
3 5 (21.74%) CheckPoint
4 4 (17.39%) Dell
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.35%) 3PAR
6 1 (4.35%) Blue Coat
6 1 (4.35%) Brocade
6 1 (4.35%) IBM
6 1 (4.35%) McAfee
6 1 (4.35%) Meraki
6 1 (4.35%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle
6 1 (4.35%) VMware