Spanning Tree Contracts

Spanning Tree Protocol
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 548 663
Rank change year-on-year +35 +115 +175
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 25 29 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.067% 0.047%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.54% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 21
10th Percentile £411 £316 -
25th Percentile £475 £377 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% +12.94% -2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £488
90th Percentile £526 £729 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £508 £450
% change year-on-year -1.62% +12.94% +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,768 5,374 7,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.52% 12.36% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,279 3,175 4,590
10th Percentile £225 £213 £238
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.98% +3.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 426 451
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.98 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £41.48 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% +110.53% -33.12%
75th Percentile £59.78 £63.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £74.88 £72.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £47.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.57% +150.00% -14.03%

Spanning Tree
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spanning Tree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spanning Tree in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spanning Tree.

Daily rate trend for Spanning Tree in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spanning Tree over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spanning Tree in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spanning Tree.

Hourly rate trend for Spanning Tree in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 June 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
England +54 23 £500 -0.79% 5
London +58 12 - - 3
UK excluding London +41 12 £500 -1.62% 7
South East +50 6 £500 +74.52%
Work from Home +27 4 £500 +1.01% 5
South West +40 3 £500 -
Midlands +10 2 £525 - 1
West Midlands +6 2 £525 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

Spanning Tree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.00%) GitHub
1 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 24 (96.00%) BGP
2 21 (84.00%) OSPF
3 18 (72.00%) Firewall
4 17 (68.00%) EIGRP
5 16 (64.00%) Cisco IOS
6 14 (56.00%) Network Security
7 12 (48.00%) RIP
8 9 (36.00%) Wireshark
9 7 (28.00%) HSRP
9 7 (28.00%) VRRP
10 6 (24.00%) DNS
10 6 (24.00%) NX-OS
10 6 (24.00%) TACACS
11 5 (20.00%) VLAN
11 5 (20.00%) WAN
12 4 (16.00%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (16.00%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (16.00%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (16.00%) IPv6
12 4 (16.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (48.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) NetBackup Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (8.00%) YAML
3 1 (4.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Life Science
1 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) CMDB
2 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) CatOS
2 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Matrix Organization
2 11 (44.00%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (44.00%) Service Management
3 7 (28.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (16.00%) Runbook
6 2 (8.00%) Change Management
6 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (4.00%) B2B
7 1 (4.00%) Cryptography
7 1 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (4.00%) Incident Response
7 1 (4.00%) Migration
7 1 (4.00%) Network Management
7 1 (4.00%) Performance Analysis
7 1 (4.00%) Project Delivery
7 1 (4.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (56.00%) CCNP
3 7 (28.00%) CCNA
4 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) CCSE
6 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
7 1 (4.00%) CCIE
7 1 (4.00%) CCSA
7 1 (4.00%) JNCIA
7 1 (4.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Ceph
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Argo
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.00%) Nagios
2 1 (4.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) Juniper
3 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (16.00%) Dell
5 3 (12.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (8.00%) Meraki
6 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (8.00%) VMware
7 1 (4.00%) 3PAR
7 1 (4.00%) Blue Coat
7 1 (4.00%) Brocade
7 1 (4.00%) IBM
7 1 (4.00%) McAfee
7 1 (4.00%) NetScout
7 1 (4.00%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle
7 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (4.00%) SevOne