Multicast Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Multicast
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Multicast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Multicast 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.79% - 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £490 £525 -
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 126 83 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.21% 18.53% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 45 69
10th Percentile £313 £203 £143
25th Percentile £356 £263 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -11.76% +2.00%
75th Percentile £509 £538 £567
90th Percentile £629 £717 £586
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile - - £18.68
25th Percentile £15.50 - £20.11
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.55%
75th Percentile £31.06 - £24.25
90th Percentile £67.25 - £25.30
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.76 £41.23
% change year-on-year +69.39% -39.95% +99.13%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Multicast job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Multicast
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Multicast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Multicast

Multicast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Core Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) SevOne
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware