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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 670 829
Rank change year-on-year +114 +159 -109
Contract jobs citing Spanning Tree 28 27 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.049% 0.022%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.52% 0.38% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 14
10th Percentile £316 - £374
25th Percentile £377 £313 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -2.70% +22.52%
75th Percentile £525 £478 £484
90th Percentile £729 £699 £493
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +12.94% +5.88% +12.96%

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 5,422 7,095 9,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.41% 12.77% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,210 4,570 6,438
10th Percentile £210 £244 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 445 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £51.28
90th Percentile £70.90 £75.00 £65.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%

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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 12 June 2024.

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 10 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 12 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +88 27 £504 +12.00% 3
UK excluding London +26 18 £508 +12.94% 2
North West +20 12 £515 +14.44%
North of England +18 12 £515 +14.44%
Work from Home +117 9 £495 -29.29% 2
London +86 8 £500 - 1
South East +17 3 £287 -59.07%
East of England +4 2 £375 -46.43%
West Midlands +15 1 - -
Midlands +8 1 - -

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (100.00%) Firewall
2 26 (92.86%) OSPF
3 23 (82.14%) BGP
4 21 (75.00%) HSRP
5 20 (71.43%) Cisco ASA
6 19 (67.86%) Cisco ISE
7 17 (60.71%) IPsec
8 16 (57.14%) Cisco Firepower
8 16 (57.14%) SNMP
9 15 (53.57%) EIGRP
9 15 (53.57%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (42.86%) NetScaler
10 12 (42.86%) VLAN
11 11 (39.29%) VPN
12 10 (35.71%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (28.57%) LAN
14 7 (25.00%) WAN
15 6 (21.43%) DHCP
15 6 (21.43%) DNS
15 6 (21.43%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
General
1 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (78.57%) Network Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) Senior
3 8 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Network Support
6 2 (7.14%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Network Specialist
7 1 (3.57%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) Jinja
2 6 (21.43%) 802.1X
3 3 (10.71%) JSON
3 3 (10.71%) NETCONF
3 3 (10.71%) RESTful
3 3 (10.71%) XML
3 3 (10.71%) YANG
4 1 (3.57%) LAMP
4 1 (3.57%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (3.57%) LDAP
4 1 (3.57%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 4 (14.29%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Change Management
1 13 (46.43%) ITIL
2 12 (42.86%) DevOps
2 12 (42.86%) Network Management
3 11 (39.29%) ITSM
4 5 (17.86%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.71%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
5 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
5 3 (10.71%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 1 (3.57%) Business Strategy
7 1 (3.57%) Computer Science
7 1 (3.57%) Customer Service
7 1 (3.57%) Incident Management
7 1 (3.57%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (3.57%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (3.57%) Statistics
7 1 (3.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 13 (46.43%) Perl
3 12 (42.86%) Tcl
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) CCNP
1 17 (60.71%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 15 (53.57%) SC Cleared
4 14 (50.00%) CCNA
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Firmware
2 1 (3.57%) Ceph
2 1 (3.57%) iptables
2 1 (3.57%) KVM
2 1 (3.57%) Lustre
2 1 (3.57%) NFS
2 1 (3.57%) Samba
2 1 (3.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (57.14%) Ansible
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (3.57%) HAProxy
4 1 (3.57%) SELinux
4 1 (3.57%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 27 (96.43%) Cisco
2 21 (75.00%) Palo Alto
3 15 (53.57%) SolarWinds
4 12 (42.86%) Citrix
5 7 (25.00%) F5
6 6 (21.43%) Juniper
7 3 (10.71%) Aruba
7 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
7 3 (10.71%) Meraki
8 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
9 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
9 1 (3.57%) SonicWALL