Multicast Contract Job Trends in England

Multicast
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Multicast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 424 517
Rank change year-on-year -84 +93 +68
Contract jobs citing Multicast 42 54 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.22% 1.59% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 37
10th Percentile £419 £500 £442
25th Percentile £485 £521 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £753 £744 £750
90th Percentile £906 £750 -
UK median daily rate £525 £614 £675
% change year-on-year -14.43% -9.11% +8.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,449 3,387 5,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.43% 12.99% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,258 1,940 3,285
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £356 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.88% -7.43%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 105 386
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.41
25th Percentile £18.94 £20.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +141.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £75.96
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +146.91%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Multicast job vacancy trend in England

Multicast
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Multicast

Multicast
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast in England over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in England

Multicast
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Multicast.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Multicast

Multicast
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multicast within the England region over the 6 months to 3 February 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
London -30 26 £525 -19.23% 13
West Midlands -31 10 £617 +23.40% 1
North West -32 10 £490 -6.67% 2
Midlands -55 10 £617 +23.40% 1
North of England -58 10 £490 -6.67% 2
South East -24 5 £650 +13.04% 4
Multicast
UK

Multicast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (7.14%) AWS
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (4.76%) IBM Watson
3 1 (2.38%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 23 (54.76%) BGP
2 17 (40.48%) VPN
3 15 (35.71%) TCP/IP
4 13 (30.95%) OSPF
5 12 (28.57%) Firewall
6 11 (26.19%) Wireshark
7 10 (23.81%) DNS
7 10 (23.81%) MPLS
8 9 (21.43%) DMZ
9 8 (19.05%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (14.29%) LAN
10 6 (14.29%) WAN
11 5 (11.90%) VLAN
12 4 (9.52%) tcpdump
13 3 (7.14%) EIGRP
13 3 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
13 3 (7.14%) Network Security
13 3 (7.14%) VXLAN
14 2 (4.76%) DWDM
14 2 (4.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) KDB
2 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
1 5 (11.90%) GitLab
2 3 (7.14%) GCC
2 3 (7.14%) GDB
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.38%) Maven
4 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Banking
3 11 (26.19%) Finance
4 10 (23.81%) Front Office
4 10 (23.81%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
6 3 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.76%) Aviation
7 2 (4.76%) International Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Cisco Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Data Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Data Network Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Network Security Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Security Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Tester
5 3 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Tester
5 3 (7.14%) Validation Tester
5 3 (7.14%) Web Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Core Network Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (14.29%) Middleware
3 4 (9.52%) Ultra Messaging
4 3 (7.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (7.14%) STL
5 2 (4.76%) Django
6 1 (2.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (9.52%) Derivative
2 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) CCTV
5 1 (2.38%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Low Latency
2 9 (21.43%) Load Balancing
2 9 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 7 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
3 7 (16.67%) DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 6 (14.29%) Observability
5 5 (11.90%) Benchmarking
5 5 (11.90%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (11.90%) Decision-Making
5 5 (11.90%) High Availability
5 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
6 4 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (9.52%) Migration
6 4 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) Python
2 11 (26.19%) Bash
3 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 7 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (7.14%) C#
4 3 (7.14%) C++
5 2 (4.76%) Java
6 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) CCIE
2 6 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (11.90%) CCNP
4 2 (4.76%) BC Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) EMIR
1 3 (7.14%) MiFID
2 2 (4.76%) NCSC
3 1 (2.38%) GRC
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.38%) KVM
3 1 (2.38%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Ansible
2 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 5 (11.90%) Iperf
3 5 (11.90%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (11.90%) Nmap
4 4 (9.52%) Grafana
5 3 (7.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.38%) Nessus
7 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (2.38%) Terraform
7 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) Cisco
2 15 (35.71%) F5
3 8 (19.05%) CheckPoint
3 8 (19.05%) Palo Alto
4 7 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 6 (14.29%) Arista
5 6 (14.29%) Solace
5 6 (14.29%) SolarWinds
6 4 (9.52%) Dell
6 4 (9.52%) TIBCO
6 4 (9.52%) VMware
7 3 (7.14%) Bloomberg
7 3 (7.14%) NYFIX
7 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 3 (7.14%) Refinitiv
8 2 (4.76%) IBM
8 2 (4.76%) NetScout
8 2 (4.76%) SevOne
8 2 (4.76%) Splunk
8 2 (4.76%) Tufin