Spanning Tree Job Trends

Spanning Tree Protocol
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Spanning Tree skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 695 690
Rank change year-on-year +48 -5 +295
Permanent jobs citing Spanning Tree 6 4 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.007% 0.056%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.063% 0.056% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 16
10th Percentile £42,723 - £49,268
25th Percentile £44,933 £42,000 £53,259
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,160 £53,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% -0.93% -13.60%
75th Percentile £55,245 £69,375 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,598 £72,750 £68,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,160 £42,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.90% -22.22% +13.68%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,596 7,151 7,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.00% 13.36% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,882 3,712 6,352
10th Percentile £25,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,625 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -

Spanning Tree
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spanning Tree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Spanning Tree job vacancy trend in the UK

Spanning Tree
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spanning Tree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spanning Tree

Spanning Tree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spanning Tree over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Spanning Tree in the UK

Spanning Tree
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spanning Tree within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +64 6 £46,160 -13.72%
UK excluding London +57 3 £46,160 +9.90%
London +55 2 £42,500 -43.33%
East of England +25 2 £46,160 +9.90%
Work from Home +67 1 £80,000 +23.08%
North of England - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -

Spanning Tree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (50.00%) VLAN
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (33.33%) BGP
4 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (33.33%) OSPF
4 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) VXLAN
5 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
5 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
5 1 (16.67%) FTP
5 1 (16.67%) IPsec
5 1 (16.67%) SNMP
5 1 (16.67%) TACACS
5 1 (16.67%) Wireless
5 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) BCP
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (16.67%) Aruba
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) VMware