Multicast Contracts in England

Multicast
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 433 522 521
Rank change year-on-year +89 -1 +150
Contract jobs citing Multicast 52 20 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.054% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.64% 0.40% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 14 92
10th Percentile £444 £400 £429
25th Percentile £508 £423 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £749 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -12.70% +0.80% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £34.25
75th Percentile - - £37.38
90th Percentile - - £38.95
UK median hourly rate - - £34.25

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 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Multicast in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Multicast in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Multicast in England

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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 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
London +67 44 £575 -5.74% 44
North West - 4 £530 -
North of England - 4 £530 -
South West - 3 £525 - 1
East of England - 2 £350 - 7
South East +45 1 £425 +3.03% 19
Multicast
UK

Multicast
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (5.77%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.77%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.69%) AWS
2 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.92%) Akamai
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.92%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 35 (67.31%) BGP
2 33 (63.46%) OSPF
3 21 (40.38%) Firewall
4 18 (34.62%) MPLS
4 18 (34.62%) VPN
5 15 (28.85%) IGMP
6 11 (21.15%) WAN
7 10 (19.23%) HSRP
7 10 (19.23%) VRRP
8 9 (17.31%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (15.38%) Broadband
9 8 (15.38%) IPv6
9 8 (15.38%) LAN
9 8 (15.38%) VXLAN
10 7 (13.46%) DNS
10 7 (13.46%) Internet
10 7 (13.46%) IPsec
11 6 (11.54%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (11.54%) Network Security
12 5 (9.62%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) KDB
1 1 (1.92%) MySQL
1 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (7.69%) GCC
2 4 (7.69%) GDB
3 2 (3.85%) GitLab
4 1 (1.92%) Git
4 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.92%) JMeter
General
1 16 (30.77%) Finance
2 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Front Office
8 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 12 (23.08%) Implementation Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) Senior
5 8 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (15.38%) Principal Network Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) Consultant
6 7 (13.46%) Developer
7 6 (11.54%) C++ Developer
8 5 (9.62%) Network Consultant
8 5 (9.62%) WAN Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Security Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (5.77%) Senior Network Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (9.62%) 802.1X
3 4 (7.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 4 (7.69%) STL
4 2 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (1.92%) HTML
5 1 (1.92%) LDAP
5 1 (1.92%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.92%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (9.62%) Hedge funds
4 4 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 4 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.85%) Derivative
6 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.85%) TWAP
6 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.85%) VWAP
7 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.92%) Equities
7 1 (1.92%) FMCG
7 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Unix
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Low Latency
2 13 (25.00%) Migration
2 13 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 12 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (17.31%) Network Design
5 6 (11.54%) Algorithmic Trading
5 6 (11.54%) Configuration Management
5 6 (11.54%) High Availability
5 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
6 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.69%) Change Management
7 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (7.69%) ITIL
7 4 (7.69%) Market Making
7 4 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.69%) Risk Management
7 4 (7.69%) Validation
8 3 (5.77%) B2B
8 3 (5.77%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.92%) Python
2 6 (11.54%) C++
3 5 (9.62%) Java
3 5 (9.62%) Perl
3 5 (9.62%) SQL
4 3 (5.77%) Bash
4 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (40.38%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (32.69%) CCIE
3 11 (21.15%) CCNP
4 5 (9.62%) CCIE Service Provider
5 4 (7.69%) Degree
6 2 (3.85%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.92%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (5.77%) vSphere
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (36.54%) Ansible
2 7 (13.46%) ZABBIX
3 6 (11.54%) Puppet
4 4 (7.69%) FortiGate
4 4 (7.69%) Nagios
5 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.92%) Icinga
6 1 (1.92%) Observium
6 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (63.46%) Cisco
2 16 (30.77%) Arista
3 11 (21.15%) Fortinet
4 9 (17.31%) SolarWinds
5 8 (15.38%) F5
6 5 (9.62%) CheckPoint
6 5 (9.62%) Nokia
6 5 (9.62%) Palo Alto
7 3 (5.77%) McAfee
7 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.77%) Splunk
7 3 (5.77%) VMware
8 1 (1.92%) AirMagnet
8 1 (1.92%) Blue Coat
8 1 (1.92%) Citrix
8 1 (1.92%) Ekahau
8 1 (1.92%) Juniper
8 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.92%) Riverbed
8 1 (1.92%) Zscaler