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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 411 535
Rank change year-on-year -95 +124 +2
Contract jobs citing Multicast 91 67 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.27% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.25% 2.10% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 44 8
10th Percentile £400 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £500 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £444
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +23.94% -29.00%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £465
90th Percentile £712 £793 £551
UK median daily rate £490 £550 £444
% change year-on-year -10.91% +23.94% -29.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £38.75 -

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 4,050 3,191 4,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 12.90% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,505 1,986 2,858
10th Percentile £253 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 130 393
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.64 £13.57
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £29.52 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -6.25% +117.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.43 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £42.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.78% +6.88% +110.53%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -73 46 £600 +4.35% 17
North West -10 35 £575 +5.99% 2
North of England -39 35 £575 +5.99% 5
West Midlands - 33 £413 - 1
Midlands - 33 £413 - 2
South East -54 5 £525 +13.51% 11
East of England -27 2 £500 +42.86% 3
South West -32 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.10%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.79%) AWS
2 6 (6.59%) Azure
3 5 (5.49%) GCP
4 2 (2.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.20%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.10%) IaaS
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.10%) OCI
5 1 (1.10%) PaaS
5 1 (1.10%) SaaS
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 68 (74.73%) BGP
2 46 (50.55%) VPN
3 42 (46.15%) Firewall
4 38 (41.76%) DMZ
5 34 (37.36%) DNS
6 29 (31.87%) OSPF
6 29 (31.87%) WAN
7 19 (20.88%) MPLS
8 15 (16.48%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (16.48%) Network Security
9 13 (14.29%) LAN
9 13 (14.29%) VLAN
10 11 (12.09%) EIGRP
11 9 (9.89%) VXLAN
12 8 (8.79%) IGMP
13 7 (7.69%) HSRP
14 6 (6.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 6 (6.59%) VRRP
14 6 (6.59%) Wireshark
15 5 (5.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) KDB
2 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.10%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Git
1 4 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.30%) JIRA
3 2 (2.20%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.20%) GitLab
4 1 (1.10%) Maven
General
1 31 (34.07%) Banking
2 25 (27.47%) Finance
3 23 (25.27%) Investment Banking
4 9 (9.89%) Financial Institution
4 9 (9.89%) Front Office
5 7 (7.69%) Social Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.20%) Aviation
8 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (68.13%) Network Engineer
2 37 (40.66%) Cisco Engineer
2 37 (40.66%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 36 (39.56%) Data Network Engineer
4 33 (36.26%) Network Security Engineer
4 33 (36.26%) Security Engineer
4 33 (36.26%) Senior
5 32 (35.16%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 32 (35.16%) Data Engineer
6 16 (17.58%) Senior Network Engineer
7 15 (16.48%) Web Engineer
8 8 (8.79%) Developer
9 7 (7.69%) Java Developer
10 6 (6.59%) Senior Developer
11 5 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (4.40%) Data Centre Engineer
13 3 (3.30%) Firewall Engineer
13 3 (3.30%) IP Network Engineer
13 3 (3.30%) Juniper Engineer
13 3 (3.30%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (7.69%) Ultra Messaging
2 4 (4.40%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.20%) .NET
3 2 (2.20%) Django
4 1 (1.10%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.69%) Equities
4 6 (6.59%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.20%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) CCTV
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Eurex
6 1 (1.10%) MPEG
6 1 (1.10%) Replication
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Windows
3 2 (2.20%) Unix
3 2 (2.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.96%) Load Balancing
2 25 (27.47%) Low Latency
3 12 (13.19%) Electronic Trading
4 11 (12.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (7.69%) Algorithmic Trading
5 7 (7.69%) Multithreading
5 7 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 6 (6.59%) Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (5.49%) CI/CD
7 5 (5.49%) Migration
7 5 (5.49%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (5.49%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (5.49%) Roadmaps
7 5 (5.49%) Test Automation
7 5 (5.49%) Validation
8 4 (4.40%) Architectural Design
8 4 (4.40%) Change Management
8 4 (4.40%) Network Design
8 4 (4.40%) Network Optimisation
8 4 (4.40%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.88%) Python
2 10 (10.99%) Java
3 4 (4.40%) Bash
3 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.40%) SQL
4 2 (2.20%) C++
4 2 (2.20%) Perl
4 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (13.19%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (9.89%) CCIE
3 8 (8.79%) CCNP
4 5 (5.49%) Degree
4 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.20%) BC Cleared
6 2 (2.20%) CCIP
6 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.20%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) CCDA
7 1 (1.10%) CCDP
7 1 (1.10%) CCNA
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) NCSC
2 2 (2.20%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) GRC
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.20%) Firmware
2 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.10%) Docker
3 1 (1.10%) GridGain
3 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Ansible
2 6 (6.59%) Terraform
3 5 (5.49%) Grafana
3 5 (5.49%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.30%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (3.30%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (2.20%) Iperf
5 2 (2.20%) Nmap
5 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (2.20%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.10%) CASB
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 71 (78.02%) Cisco
2 54 (59.34%) F5
3 26 (28.57%) Arista
4 22 (24.18%) Palo Alto
5 21 (23.08%) Fortinet
6 13 (14.29%) CheckPoint
7 7 (7.69%) Juniper
8 6 (6.59%) Splunk
9 5 (5.49%) VMware
10 4 (4.40%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.30%) Dell
11 3 (3.30%) McAfee
11 3 (3.30%) Meraki
11 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
11 3 (3.30%) SevOne
12 2 (2.20%) IBM
12 2 (2.20%) ION Trading
12 2 (2.20%) NetScout
12 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
12 2 (2.20%) Solace