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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 454 498
Rank change year-on-year -81 +44 +46
Contract jobs citing Multicast 96 53 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.21% 1.62% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 39 18
10th Percentile £413 £419 £434
25th Percentile £454 £513 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.70%
75th Percentile £675 £798 £663
90th Percentile £720 £808 £694
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -12.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £36.63 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.10% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £39.69 -
90th Percentile - £39.88 -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £38.75 -
% change year-on-year +87.10% - -

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 4,345 3,273 3,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.34% 11.75% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,564 2,061 2,306
10th Percentile £250 £225 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.21% +1.25%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 168 194
10th Percentile £16.02 £15.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £21.33 £24.75 £23.90
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.66 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -30.85% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -22.94% -15.84% -10.60%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -84 54 £600 -7.98% 91
North of England -36 29 £575 +4.55% 5
North West -30 27 £575 +4.55% 2
West Midlands -16 24 - - 3
Midlands -22 24 - - 3
South East -69 5 £600 +4.35% 13
East of England -32 2 £500 +42.86% 1
Yorkshire -36 2 - - 3
South West -39 2 £600 +9.09% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.29%) AWS
2 6 (6.25%) Azure
2 6 (6.25%) GCP
3 2 (2.08%) IBM Watson
3 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.04%) OCI
4 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (58.33%) BGP
2 36 (37.50%) Firewall
3 35 (36.46%) VPN
4 28 (29.17%) VLAN
5 27 (28.13%) DNS
5 27 (28.13%) WAN
6 26 (27.08%) DMZ
7 19 (19.79%) OSPF
8 10 (10.42%) Wireless
9 9 (9.38%) MPLS
9 9 (9.38%) Network Security
9 9 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (8.33%) LAN
10 8 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
10 8 (8.33%) VXLAN
11 6 (6.25%) BIG-IP
11 6 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) KDB
2 1 (1.04%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Artifactory
1 2 (2.08%) Git
1 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.08%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (32.29%) Finance
2 28 (29.17%) Banking
3 21 (21.88%) Investment Banking
4 10 (10.42%) Social Skills
5 8 (8.33%) Front Office
6 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.21%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.21%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.08%) Billing
8 2 (2.08%) French Language
9 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 73 (76.04%) Network Engineer
2 32 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 32 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 30 (31.25%) Senior
4 24 (25.00%) Data Network Engineer
4 24 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 24 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 24 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 23 (23.96%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 23 (23.96%) Data Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Web Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Implementation Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Core Network Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Middleware Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Developer
9 4 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.17%) Senior Firewall Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (5.21%) Middleware
3 4 (4.17%) 802.1X
3 4 (4.17%) Terraform
3 4 (4.17%) Ultra Messaging
4 2 (2.08%) .NET
4 2 (2.08%) eBPF
4 2 (2.08%) HTML
4 2 (2.08%) HTML5
4 2 (2.08%) NETCONF
4 2 (2.08%) REST
4 2 (2.08%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.04%) Data Centre
2 16 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (8.33%) Digital Signage
4 5 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.21%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.17%) Equities
6 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.13%) Replication
7 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.08%) Derivative
7 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.08%) Social Media
8 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.04%) CCTV
8 1 (1.04%) Eurex
8 1 (1.04%) MPEG
8 1 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.46%) Windows
2 8 (8.33%) Linux
3 4 (4.17%) Unix
4 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.29%) Load Balancing
2 26 (27.08%) Low Latency
3 14 (14.58%) Migration
3 14 (14.58%) Project Delivery
4 11 (11.46%) Electronic Trading
4 11 (11.46%) Validation
5 9 (9.38%) High Availability
6 8 (8.33%) Use Case
7 7 (7.29%) Algorithmic Trading
8 6 (6.25%) Change Management
8 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (6.25%) Network Optimisation
8 6 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (5.21%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (5.21%) Change Control
9 5 (5.21%) Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (5.21%) Roadmaps
9 5 (5.21%) Runbook
9 5 (5.21%) Ultra-Low Latency
9 5 (5.21%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.75%) Python
2 7 (7.29%) SQL
3 6 (6.25%) Java
3 6 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.13%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.08%) C#
5 2 (2.08%) C++
5 2 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (11.46%) CCNP
3 6 (6.25%) CCIE
4 5 (5.21%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.13%) Degree
5 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.08%) CCNA
7 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (3.13%) vSphere
3 2 (2.08%) KVM
4 1 (1.04%) Firmware
4 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (8.33%) Ansible
1 8 (8.33%) Cisco Prime
2 6 (6.25%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.08%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 2 (2.08%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 64 (66.67%) Cisco
2 41 (42.71%) F5
3 30 (31.25%) Arista
4 15 (15.63%) Fortinet
5 13 (13.54%) Palo Alto
6 6 (6.25%) Aruba
6 6 (6.25%) Splunk
7 5 (5.21%) Solace
8 4 (4.17%) Bloomberg
8 4 (4.17%) VMware
9 3 (3.13%) CheckPoint
9 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
9 3 (3.13%) Sitecore
10 2 (2.08%) IBM
10 2 (2.08%) ION Trading
10 2 (2.08%) McAfee
10 2 (2.08%) NetScout
10 2 (2.08%) NYFIX
10 2 (2.08%) Peplink
10 2 (2.08%) TIBCO