Spanning Tree Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Spanning Tree Protocol
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 301 335 470
Rank change year-on-year +34 +135 +154
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 3 10 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.065% 0.027%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.62% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile - £385 £453
25th Percentile £475 £431 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -29.29% +47.37%
75th Percentile £525 £515 -
90th Percentile - £515 -
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £325
% change year-on-year -2.44% +57.69% -27.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Spanning Tree
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Spanning Tree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spanning Tree trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Spanning Tree
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Spanning Tree.

Spanning Tree daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco