Spanning Tree Contract Job Trends in the North West

Spanning Tree Protocol
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Spanning Tree skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.040% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £456 £413 £600
% change year-on-year +10.61% -31.25% +46.34%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 351 320 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.18% 15.00% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 168 317
10th Percentile £170 £202 £301
25th Percentile £332 £362 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% -6.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £673 £675 £672
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.76 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £22.01 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £48.56 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -58.81% +174.04% -10.87%
75th Percentile £70.76 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £52.14 £49.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -14.63% -27.36% +27.13%

Spanning Tree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Spanning Tree job vacancy trend in the North West

Spanning Tree
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Spanning Tree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Spanning Tree

Spanning Tree
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Manchester - 1 £575 -
Spanning Tree
England

Spanning Tree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 IOS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet