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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 346 395
Rank change year-on-year -17 +49 +120
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 10 23 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.13% 0.059%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.46% 0.82% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 11
10th Percentile - £350 £400
25th Percentile - £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -2.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £528 £515 £575
90th Percentile £563 £516 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +9.29% -3.68% -

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 2,169 2,801 3,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.10% 15.33% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 1,650 2,138
10th Percentile £204 £206 £205
25th Percentile £325 £358 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £576
90th Percentile £640 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 277 190
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £56.91
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% -3.58% +100.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £45.63 £48.56 £54.00
% change year-on-year -6.04% -10.07% +54.29%

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 15 August 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 East +29 6 £500 +74.52% 2
West Midlands - 2 £525 -
Midlands - 2 £525 - 1
North of England -37 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £575 - 2
North East - 1 - -
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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 (20.00%) GitHub
1 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) BGP
1 8 (80.00%) OSPF
2 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) TACACS
2 5 (50.00%) VLAN
3 4 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (40.00%) Firewall
3 4 (40.00%) IPv6
3 4 (40.00%) SAN
3 4 (40.00%) VSAN
4 3 (30.00%) EIGRP
4 3 (30.00%) WAN
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (20.00%) DMVPN
5 2 (20.00%) IPsec
5 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
5 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
6 1 (10.00%) Network Security
6 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) NetBackup Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
2 1 (10.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Signage
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) B2B
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Network Management
3 1 (10.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Ceph
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Dell
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) 3PAR
4 1 (10.00%) Brocade
4 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Meraki
4 1 (10.00%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto