Spanning Tree Protocol
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Spanning Tree skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Spanning Tree over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 845 934 1186
Rank change year-on-year +89 +252 -298
Permanent jobs citing Spanning Tree 39 41 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.041% 0.034%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.26% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 30 37 49
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £43,125 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £49,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% -9.55% -
75th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,650 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +0.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,475 15,695 21,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.78% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,380 7,937 11,850
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

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

Spanning Tree
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Spanning Tree in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spanning Tree over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Spanning Tree in the UK

Spanning Tree
Top 11 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 20 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London -10 32 £52,500 +10.53% 3
England +83 31 £53,500 +7.00% 6
Work from Home +85 14 £43,250 -3.89% 2
South East +3 11 £53,000 +6.53% 1
Scotland -62 8 £32,500 -7.14%
London +111 7 £75,000 +38.89% 4
West Midlands +19 7 - -
Midlands -1 7 - -
North of England +35 4 £66,250 +40.96%
North West 0 4 £66,250 +40.96%
South West -21 2 £49,500 +10.00% 2

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:

Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) AWS
3 1 (2.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 28 (71.79%) Firewall
2 26 (66.67%) OSPF
2 26 (66.67%) VLAN
3 25 (64.10%) BGP
4 24 (61.54%) HSRP
5 23 (58.97%) WAN
6 21 (53.85%) IPsec
6 21 (53.85%) VPN
7 20 (51.28%) LAN
8 16 (41.03%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (38.46%) DHCP
10 13 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
10 13 (33.33%) DNS
10 13 (33.33%) SD-WAN
10 13 (33.33%) TCP/IP
11 12 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
11 12 (30.77%) VoIP
11 12 (30.77%) VRRP
12 11 (28.21%) EIGRP
12 11 (28.21%) MPLS
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Retail
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Finance
5 2 (5.13%) Billing
5 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Military
6 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Network Engineer
2 16 (41.03%) Senior
3 11 (28.21%) Network Support
4 10 (25.64%) Senior Network Engineer
5 9 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (20.51%) Network Technician
7 7 (17.95%) Analyst
7 7 (17.95%) Network Analyst
8 6 (15.38%) Network Operations Analyst
8 6 (15.38%) Operations Analyst
8 6 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (15.38%) Senior Network Analyst
8 6 (15.38%) Senior Operations Analyst
9 5 (12.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (12.82%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (7.69%) Network Support Engineer
10 3 (7.69%) Support Engineer
11 2 (5.13%) Network Support Technician
11 2 (5.13%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Data Centre
2 7 (17.95%) FMCG
3 1 (2.56%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Debian
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Project Delivery
2 8 (20.51%) ITSM
2 8 (20.51%) Network Monitoring
3 7 (17.95%) Business Analysis
3 7 (17.95%) Change Management
3 7 (17.95%) Customer Experience
3 7 (17.95%) Demand Management
3 7 (17.95%) High Availability
3 7 (17.95%) Network Architecture
3 7 (17.95%) Network Virtualisation
3 7 (17.95%) Release Management
4 5 (12.82%) Asset Management
4 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
5 2 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (5.13%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (5.13%) Network Design
5 2 (5.13%) Network Management
6 1 (2.56%) Agile
6 1 (2.56%) Logistics
Qualifications
1 23 (58.97%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (56.41%) CCNP
3 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
4 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 7 (17.95%) CCDP
5 7 (17.95%) CCIE
5 7 (17.95%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 3 (7.69%) CCNA
7 1 (2.56%) Degree
7 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.56%) JNCIA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Firmware
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.13%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) FortiGate
1 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 33 (84.62%) Cisco
2 19 (48.72%) Juniper
3 10 (25.64%) F5
3 10 (25.64%) Palo Alto
4 8 (20.51%) Meraki
5 7 (17.95%) Ekahau
6 5 (12.82%) CheckPoint
7 4 (10.26%) VMware
8 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
9 2 (5.13%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (5.13%) ConnectWise
9 2 (5.13%) Huawei
9 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.56%) Citrix