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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 437 506
Rank change year-on-year -71 +69 +89
Contract jobs citing Multicast 33 57 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.98% 1.63% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 32 38
10th Percentile £464 £438 £499
25th Percentile £498 £541 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £639 £688
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -7.13% +10.00%
75th Percentile £743 £741 £750
90th Percentile £838 £750 -
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £688
% change year-on-year -13.33% -12.73% +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 3,366 3,500 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.64% 12.80% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,178 2,045 3,127
10th Percentile £205 £220 £207
25th Percentile £358 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 103 312
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +120.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.25 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +125.96%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -23 25 £613 -5.77% 14
West Midlands -37 4 £617 +23.40% 3
Midlands -49 4 £617 +23.40% 3
North of England -58 4 - - 3
South East -23 3 £650 +18.18% 11
North West -35 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -56 1 - - 1
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 1 (3.03%) CICS
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.06%) AWS
1 2 (6.06%) Azure
2 1 (3.03%) GCP
2 1 (3.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (39.39%) BGP
2 11 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 9 (27.27%) Firewall
3 9 (27.27%) OSPF
4 7 (21.21%) VPN
4 7 (21.21%) Wireshark
5 6 (18.18%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (18.18%) VXLAN
6 4 (12.12%) DNS
6 4 (12.12%) tcpdump
7 3 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (9.09%) DMZ
7 3 (9.09%) MPLS
7 3 (9.09%) VLAN
8 2 (6.06%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (6.06%) IGMP
8 2 (6.06%) IPv6
8 2 (6.06%) LAN
8 2 (6.06%) WAN
9 1 (3.03%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) KDB
2 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) GCC
1 4 (12.12%) GDB
2 3 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) GitLab
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) Artifactory
3 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.03%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
4 1 (3.03%) Maven
General
1 17 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Banking
3 11 (33.33%) Front Office
4 7 (21.21%) Finance
4 7 (21.21%) Investment Banking
5 3 (9.09%) International Banking
5 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Network Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Cisco Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) C++ Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Data Network Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Tester
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Tester
6 2 (6.06%) Validation Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (24.24%) Middleware
3 4 (12.12%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 4 (12.12%) STL
3 4 (12.12%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (3.03%) LDAP
4 1 (3.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (15.15%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
3 4 (12.12%) Derivative
3 4 (12.12%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) CCTV
5 1 (3.03%) Clustering
5 1 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.03%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (39.39%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) MVS
4 1 (3.03%) Solaris
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
4 1 (3.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Low Latency
2 9 (27.27%) High Availability
3 8 (24.24%) DevOps
3 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
4 7 (21.21%) Algorithmic Trading
4 7 (21.21%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (15.15%) Benchmarking
5 5 (15.15%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
5 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (15.15%) Migration
5 5 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
5 5 (15.15%) Roadmaps
6 4 (12.12%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
6 4 (12.12%) Observability
6 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.12%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) SQL
3 7 (21.21%) Bash
3 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.12%) C++
5 3 (9.09%) C#
5 3 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) CCIE
2 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (9.09%) CCNP
4 1 (3.03%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) EMIR
1 3 (9.09%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.06%) KVM
3 1 (3.03%) NFS
3 1 (3.03%) SRDF
3 1 (3.03%) Terminal Services
3 1 (3.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.03%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Ansible
2 6 (18.18%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (12.12%) Grafana
3 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.09%) Iperf
4 3 (9.09%) Nmap
4 3 (9.09%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.06%) Terraform
5 2 (6.06%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.03%) Nessus
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Cisco
2 7 (21.21%) Arista
2 7 (21.21%) Solace
3 5 (15.15%) F5
3 5 (15.15%) Fortinet
4 4 (12.12%) SolarWinds
4 4 (12.12%) TIBCO
5 3 (9.09%) Bloomberg
5 3 (9.09%) CheckPoint
5 3 (9.09%) NYFIX
5 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 3 (9.09%) Refinitiv
5 3 (9.09%) VMware
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.03%) Dell
7 1 (3.03%) EMC
7 1 (3.03%) IBM
7 1 (3.03%) NetApp
7 1 (3.03%) Oracle