Spanning Tree Contracts in the UK excluding London

Spanning Tree Protocol
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 329 379 447
Rank change year-on-year +50 +68 +55
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 7 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.096% 0.062%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.58% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 14
10th Percentile £433 £317 -
25th Percentile £463 £377 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £325
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% +56.38% -23.53%
75th Percentile £525 £515 £466
90th Percentile - £518 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £325
% change year-on-year -2.44% +57.69% -27.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,965 3,454 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.39% 16.63% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,982 2,287
10th Percentile £200 £204 £207
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 358 328
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.48 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Spanning Tree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Spanning Tree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Spanning Tree in the UK excluding London

Spanning Tree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spanning Tree in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Spanning Tree in the UK excluding London

Spanning Tree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spanning Tree in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Spanning Tree in the UK excluding London

Spanning Tree
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South West +48 4 £500 -
South East +45 2 £500 +74.52% 5
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -
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UK

Spanning Tree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
2 5 (71.43%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (57.14%) LAN
3 4 (57.14%) OSPF
3 4 (57.14%) WAN
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (42.86%) DNS
4 3 (42.86%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (28.57%) IPv6
5 2 (28.57%) SAN
5 2 (28.57%) TACACS
5 2 (28.57%) VSAN
6 1 (14.29%) DHCP
6 1 (14.29%) VLAN
6 1 (14.29%) VoIP
6 1 (14.29%) VPN
6 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (28.57%) Runbook
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Aruba
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds