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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 407 511
Rank change year-on-year -97 +104 +29
Contract jobs citing Multicast 70 57 30
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.24% 0.080%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.87% 1.77% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 22
10th Percentile £400 £478 £401
25th Percentile £402 £511 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £580 £688
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% -15.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £709 £675 £750
90th Percentile £815 £750 -
UK median daily rate £485 £575 £688
% change year-on-year -15.65% -16.36% +10.00%

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 3,743 3,215 5,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.94% 13.27% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,395 2,012 3,169
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £382 £366 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £492 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +0.41% +3.16% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 120 376
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.91 £13.68
25th Percentile £19.09 £21.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.02 £35.75 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -8.92% +106.58%
75th Percentile £66.94 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% +7.69% +68.39%

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

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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 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in England

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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

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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 27 March 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 -68 42 £506 -15.67% 16
North West -16 23 £490 -6.67% 1
West Midlands -36 23 £413 - 7
Midlands -44 23 £413 - 8
North of England -51 23 £490 -6.67% 3
South East -49 4 £600 +20.00% 5
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 8 (11.43%) AWS
2 6 (8.57%) Azure
3 5 (7.14%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.86%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.43%) IaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.43%) OCI
5 1 (1.43%) PaaS
5 1 (1.43%) SaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (71.43%) BGP
2 32 (45.71%) VPN
3 28 (40.00%) Firewall
4 26 (37.14%) DMZ
5 24 (34.29%) OSPF
6 22 (31.43%) DNS
7 20 (28.57%) WAN
8 15 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (21.43%) MPLS
9 12 (17.14%) LAN
10 11 (15.71%) Network Security
10 11 (15.71%) TCP/IP
11 10 (14.29%) EIGRP
11 10 (14.29%) Wireshark
12 9 (12.86%) IGMP
13 8 (11.43%) VXLAN
14 7 (10.00%) HSRP
15 6 (8.57%) VRRP
16 5 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
16 5 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) KDB
2 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.43%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Git
2 5 (7.14%) GitLab
3 4 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (4.29%) JIRA
5 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.86%) Maven
6 1 (1.43%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.43%) GCC
6 1 (1.43%) GDB
6 1 (1.43%) IntelliJ
General
1 27 (38.57%) Banking
2 24 (34.29%) Finance
3 18 (25.71%) Investment Banking
4 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 13 (18.57%) Front Office
6 9 (12.86%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.86%) Aviation
10 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.43%) International Banking
10 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (54.29%) Network Engineer
2 25 (35.71%) Cisco Engineer
2 25 (35.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 25 (35.71%) Data Network Engineer
3 22 (31.43%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 22 (31.43%) Data Engineer
3 22 (31.43%) Network Security Engineer
3 22 (31.43%) Security Engineer
4 18 (25.71%) Senior
5 10 (14.29%) Web Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Data Centre Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Juniper Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 2 (2.86%) Network Architect
9 2 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.14%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (10.00%) Ultra Messaging
3 5 (7.14%) Middleware
4 2 (2.86%) Django
5 1 (1.43%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (1.43%) Java Concurrency
5 1 (1.43%) React
5 1 (1.43%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (5.71%) Derivative
3 4 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.29%) Equities
5 2 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.86%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.43%) CCTV
6 1 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.71%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) VMS
2 2 (2.86%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (41.43%) Load Balancing
2 23 (32.86%) Low Latency
3 10 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
4 9 (12.86%) Algorithmic Trading
5 8 (11.43%) Roadmaps
5 8 (11.43%) Test Automation
6 7 (10.00%) DevOps
6 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (10.00%) Observability
7 6 (8.57%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 5 (7.14%) Migration
8 5 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (7.14%) Project Delivery
9 4 (5.71%) Benchmarking
9 4 (5.71%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (5.71%) Multithreading
9 4 (5.71%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) Python
2 8 (11.43%) Bash
3 7 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.57%) Java
4 6 (8.57%) SQL
5 3 (4.29%) C#
6 1 (1.43%) C++
6 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.86%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (11.43%) CCIE
3 4 (5.71%) CCNP
3 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.29%) Degree
5 2 (2.86%) BC Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) CCIP
5 2 (2.86%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.43%) CCDA
6 1 (1.43%) CCDP
6 1 (1.43%) CCNA
6 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) EMIR
1 3 (4.29%) MiFID
1 3 (4.29%) NCSC
2 2 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) GRC
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Firmware
2 1 (1.43%) GridGain
2 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (22.86%) Ansible
2 9 (12.86%) Grafana
2 9 (12.86%) Prometheus
3 6 (8.57%) Terraform
4 5 (7.14%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (4.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (2.86%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (2.86%) Iperf
6 2 (2.86%) Nmap
6 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.43%) CASB
7 1 (1.43%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (71.43%) Cisco
2 38 (54.29%) F5
3 17 (24.29%) Arista
4 16 (22.86%) Palo Alto
5 13 (18.57%) CheckPoint
6 11 (15.71%) Fortinet
7 7 (10.00%) Juniper
8 6 (8.57%) Solace
9 4 (5.71%) SolarWinds
9 4 (5.71%) TIBCO
10 3 (4.29%) Bloomberg
10 3 (4.29%) Dell
10 3 (4.29%) Meraki
10 3 (4.29%) NYFIX
10 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
10 3 (4.29%) Refinitiv
10 3 (4.29%) SevOne
10 3 (4.29%) VMware
11 2 (2.86%) Splunk
11 2 (2.86%) Tufin