Multicast Contracts

Multicast
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Multicast skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Multicast over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 574 737
Rank change year-on-year 0 +163 -125
Contract jobs citing Multicast 16 112 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 1.58% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 76 87
10th Percentile £400 £363 £500
25th Percentile £408 £542 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £465 £675 £738
90th Percentile £551 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £325 £575
% change year-on-year +29.23% -43.48% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £34.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Multicast 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 5,438 7,076 9,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.46% 12.74% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,228 4,556 6,439
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +1.74% +5.56% +9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 446 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.72 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.76% -13.95% -2.27%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Multicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Multicast in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Multicast.

Daily rate trend for Multicast in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Multicast.

Hourly rate trend for Multicast in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multicast within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +9 14 £444 -29.00% 11
London +15 10 £438 -30.00% 10
Work from Home +71 6 £448 -25.33% 6
South East +15 1 £420 -20.75%
UK excluding London +13 1 £420 +29.23% 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) BGP
2 10 (62.50%) Network Security
3 8 (50.00%) Firewall
3 8 (50.00%) MPLS
3 8 (50.00%) OSPF
4 7 (43.75%) LAN
4 7 (43.75%) WAN
5 6 (37.50%) EIGRP
6 5 (31.25%) DNS
6 5 (31.25%) VPN
7 4 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (25.00%) DMZ
8 3 (18.75%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (18.75%) Internet
9 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (6.25%) NGFW
9 1 (6.25%) VLAN
9 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Support
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) C++ Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior C++ Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Equities
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (18.75%) Change Management
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
3 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Network Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 2 (12.50%) Network Design
5 1 (6.25%) Configuration Management
5 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Project Management
5 1 (6.25%) SOA
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (6.25%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) CCNP
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CCIE
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Cisco
2 8 (50.00%) F5
3 7 (43.75%) CheckPoint
3 7 (43.75%) Palo Alto
4 3 (18.75%) Dell
5 1 (6.25%) Aruba
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.25%) VMware