Spanning Tree Contract Job Trends in London

Spanning Tree Protocol
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Spanning Tree skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 377 403
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 +177
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 2 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.019% 0.065%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 0.20% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile - £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -16.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £525 £663
90th Percentile - - £835
England median daily rate £500 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +21.21% -8.33% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.00
Median hourly rate - - £34.00
75th Percentile - - £36.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £34.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,296 1,477 2,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.28% 9.52% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 914 1,474
10th Percentile £299 £258 £225
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 54
10th Percentile £19.01 £23.70 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +44.66% +5.10%
75th Percentile £33.19 £49.50 £61.31
90th Percentile £60.83 £74.10 £79.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% -11.49% +27.23%

Spanning Tree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Spanning Tree job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spanning Tree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spanning Tree

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spanning Tree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spanning Tree

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) RIP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCSA
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki