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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 470 533
Rank change year-on-year -26 +63 +127
Contract jobs citing Multicast 41 47 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.22% 1.25% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 41
10th Percentile £464 £461 £400
25th Percentile £503 £550 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £627 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% -7.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £799 £675 £750
90th Percentile £804 £750 -
UK median daily rate £596 £627 £675
% change year-on-year -4.94% -7.11% +12.50%

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 3,349 3,763 5,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.00% 12.30% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,160 2,175 3,403
10th Percentile £205 £225 £210
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £606
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 134 327
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £18.34
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.07% -25.45% +30.95%

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 1 December 2025.

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

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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 December 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 +29 35 £659 +1.38% 11
South East -9 3 £650 +18.18% 6
North of England -52 2 £550 +4.76%
West Midlands -27 1 £617 +23.40% 1
North West -31 1 £550 +4.76%
Yorkshire -45 1 - -
Midlands -45 1 £617 +23.40% 1
South West - 1 £550 - 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 (2.44%) CICS
1 1 (2.44%) Confluence
1 1 (2.44%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.44%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.88%) AWS
1 2 (4.88%) Azure
2 1 (2.44%) GCP
2 1 (2.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (39.02%) BGP
2 14 (34.15%) OSPF
3 13 (31.71%) Firewall
4 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
5 9 (21.95%) Ethernet VPN
6 8 (19.51%) VXLAN
6 8 (19.51%) Wireshark
7 5 (12.20%) tcpdump
8 4 (9.76%) MPLS
8 4 (9.76%) VPN
9 3 (7.32%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (7.32%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (7.32%) IGMP
9 3 (7.32%) VLAN
10 2 (4.88%) IPv6
10 2 (4.88%) LAN
10 2 (4.88%) Unicast
10 2 (4.88%) WAN
11 1 (2.44%) DNS
11 1 (2.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) KDB
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) GCC
1 8 (19.51%) GDB
2 4 (9.76%) Git
3 3 (7.32%) GitLab
3 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.88%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.44%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.44%) JIRA
5 1 (2.44%) Maven
General
1 24 (58.54%) Social Skills
2 15 (36.59%) Banking
2 15 (36.59%) Front Office
3 11 (26.83%) Finance
4 7 (17.07%) International Banking
5 6 (14.63%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Network Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) C++ Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Tester
5 2 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Tester
5 2 (4.88%) Validation Tester
6 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (2.44%) Senior Server Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (39.02%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (31.71%) Middleware
3 8 (19.51%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 8 (19.51%) STL
4 5 (12.20%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (2.44%) LDAP
5 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (19.51%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (17.07%) Data Centre
4 5 (12.20%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (9.76%) Derivative
6 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.88%) Fixed Income
6 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.44%) CCTV
7 1 (2.44%) Clustering
7 1 (2.44%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.44%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Linux
2 4 (9.76%) Windows
3 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.44%) MVS
4 1 (2.44%) Solaris
4 1 (2.44%) Unix
4 1 (2.44%) VMS
4 1 (2.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Low Latency
2 15 (36.59%) High Availability
3 12 (29.27%) Electronic Trading
3 12 (29.27%) Test Automation
4 9 (21.95%) DevOps
5 8 (19.51%) Risk Management
6 7 (17.07%) Algorithmic Trading
6 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (14.63%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (12.20%) Benchmarking
8 5 (12.20%) Migration
8 5 (12.20%) Observability
8 5 (12.20%) Performance Analysis
8 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
8 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
8 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (9.76%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) SQL
3 8 (19.51%) Bash
3 8 (19.51%) C++
3 8 (19.51%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.32%) C#
4 3 (7.32%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) CCIE
1 7 (17.07%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) CCNP
4 1 (2.44%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) EMIR
1 3 (7.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.88%) KVM
3 1 (2.44%) NFS
3 1 (2.44%) SRDF
3 1 (2.44%) Terminal Services
3 1 (2.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (34.15%) Ansible
2 7 (17.07%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (12.20%) Grafana
3 5 (12.20%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.32%) Iperf
4 3 (7.32%) Nmap
4 3 (7.32%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.88%) Terraform
5 2 (4.88%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.44%) Nessus
6 1 (2.44%) Puppet
6 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Arista
2 12 (29.27%) Cisco
2 12 (29.27%) Solace
3 8 (19.51%) Fortinet
4 6 (14.63%) Palo Alto
5 5 (12.20%) SolarWinds
5 5 (12.20%) TIBCO
6 3 (7.32%) Bloomberg
6 3 (7.32%) CheckPoint
6 3 (7.32%) F5
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.32%) NYFIX
6 3 (7.32%) Refinitiv
6 3 (7.32%) VMware
7 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.44%) Dell
8 1 (2.44%) EMC
8 1 (2.44%) IBM
8 1 (2.44%) NetApp
8 1 (2.44%) Oracle