Multicast Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Multicast skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Multicast over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 417 590
Rank change year-on-year +85 +173 -145
Contract jobs citing Multicast 9 51 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.20% 0.057%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.57% 1.77% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 35 20
10th Percentile £435 £486 £457
25th Percentile £544 £550 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +6.19% +33.57%
75th Percentile £748 £700 £707
90th Percentile £750 £713 £788
UK median daily rate £593 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -5.20% +4.17% +26.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Multicast is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,567 2,884 4,286
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.39% 11.50% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 1,907 2,899
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.10 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Multicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Multicast trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Multicast.

Multicast daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Multicast over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Multicast daily rate histogram 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) BGP
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) WAN
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) LAN
3 3 (33.33%) MPLS
3 3 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (22.22%) DMZ
4 2 (22.22%) OSPF
4 2 (22.22%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 1 (11.11%) Unicast
5 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Voice Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Genesys Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (11.11%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 3 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (22.22%) Network Design
3 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Conversational UI
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Low Latency
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCIE
1 2 (22.22%) CCNP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) F5
3 3 (33.33%) Genesys
3 3 (33.33%) Google
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Arista
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto