Multicast Contracts in Central London

Multicast
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 132 163
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 +27
Contract jobs citing Multicast 6 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.041% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.79% 0.41% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £543 - £580
25th Percentile £550 £715 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £730 £625
Median % change year-on-year +19.86% +16.80% +5.93%
75th Percentile £913 £745 £675
90th Percentile £1,019 - £690
London median daily rate £575 £610 £625
% change year-on-year -5.74% -2.40% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 215 243 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.77% 9.93% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 169 269
10th Percentile £263 £211 £208
25th Percentile £448 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £675
90th Percentile £711 £739 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £16.59 £24.64
90th Percentile - £17.99 £30.86
London median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Multicast in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Multicast in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Multicast in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multicast within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +9 2 £1,061 +45.27% 6
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (16.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (33.33%) VXLAN
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) IGMP
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) C++ Developer
1 2 (33.33%) C++ Quantitative Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Low Latency C++ Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Quantitative Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (33.33%) TWAP
2 2 (33.33%) VWAP
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 2 (33.33%) Market Making
3 1 (16.67%) Garbage Collection
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Quantitative Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Stress Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) F5