Multicast Contract Job Trends in Central London

Multicast
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Multicast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 119 132
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +30
Contract jobs citing Multicast 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.12% 0.30% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.96% 2.80% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £451 £543 -
25th Percentile £509 £550 £715
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £875 £730
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% +19.86% +16.80%
75th Percentile £665 £913 £745
90th Percentile £695 £1,019 -
London median daily rate £470 £563 £593
% change year-on-year -16.44% -5.06% -5.20%

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 153 214 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.26% 10.69% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 146 167
10th Percentile £239 £259 £206
25th Percentile £422 £420 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +19.72% -18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £639 £600
90th Percentile £738 £709 £741
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -12.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £20.08 - -
25th Percentile £21.98 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.79 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.71%
75th Percentile £26.11 - £16.59
90th Percentile - - £17.99
London median hourly rate £25.31 £42.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -40.45% +86.81% -47.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Multicast relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Multicast job vacancy trend in Central London

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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Multicast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Multicast

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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 4 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Multicast.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Multicast

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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 4 May 2026. 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 -12 3 £610 -42.53% 5
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London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DVB
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Broadcast Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Broadcast Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Java Concurrency
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (33.33%) MPEG
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (66.67%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithmic Pricing
2 1 (33.33%) Broadcast Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Solace
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase