Spanning Tree Contract Job Trends in the South East

Spanning Tree Protocol
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Spanning Tree skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 - 198
Rank change year-on-year - - +65
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 3 0 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.075% - 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% - 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £380
25th Percentile - - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.62%
75th Percentile - - £463
90th Percentile - - £470
England median daily rate £500 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +21.21% -21.43% +16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 622 724 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.60% 17.79% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 410 653
10th Percentile £204 £237 £205
25th Percentile £332 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £588 £601 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 39 77
10th Percentile £18.41 £26.85 £18.00
25th Percentile £29.89 £35.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £84.66 £75.00 £75.67
90th Percentile £90.04 - £77.39
England median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +26.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Spanning Tree job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spanning Tree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spanning Tree

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Thames Valley - 3 £500 -
Berkshire - 3 £500 -
Spanning Tree
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) TACACS
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) IPv6
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) VSAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Ceph
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) Meraki
3 1 (33.33%) VMware