Spanning Tree Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Spanning Tree skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spanning Tree over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 460 617
Rank change year-on-year +133 +157 -135
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 10 7 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.066% 0.027% 0.018%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.64% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £385 £453 £453
25th Percentile £431 £663 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% +47.37% +58.33%
75th Percentile £515 - £549
90th Percentile £515 - £586
UK median daily rate £513 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +57.69% -27.78% +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Spanning Tree is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,565 2,953 4,336
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.33% 11.55% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 1,964 2,940
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £704 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 97 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.70 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%

Spanning Tree
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spanning Tree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spanning Tree trend for jobs with a WFH option

Spanning Tree
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spanning Tree.

Spanning Tree daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Spanning Tree
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Spanning Tree over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Spanning Tree daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Spanning Tree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (90.00%) BGP
2 9 (90.00%) OSPF
3 8 (80.00%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (80.00%) HSRP
4 7 (70.00%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (70.00%) EIGRP
4 7 (70.00%) IPsec
5 6 (60.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (60.00%) NetScaler
5 6 (60.00%) SNMP
5 6 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (20.00%) VLAN
6 2 (20.00%) VPN
7 1 (10.00%) IGRP
7 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 1 (10.00%) VRRP
7 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Police
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Jinja
2 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Change Management
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) ITIL
1 6 (60.00%) Network Management
2 5 (50.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Perl
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) CCNA
3 5 (50.00%) CCNP
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (60.00%) Citrix
3 6 (60.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (10.00%) Arista
5 1 (10.00%) F5