Multicast Contracts in England

Multicast
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Multicast skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Multicast over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 538 550
Rank change year-on-year +108 +12 +135
Contract jobs citing Multicast 68 14 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.038% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.02% 0.29% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 8 60
10th Percentile £424 £400 £346
25th Percentile £500 £408 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £444 £625
Median % change year-on-year +23.94% -29.00% -
75th Percentile £662 £518 £688
90th Percentile £800 £790 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £444 £625
% change year-on-year +23.94% -29.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £34.25
75th Percentile £39.69 - £37.38
90th Percentile £39.88 - £38.95
UK median hourly rate £38.75 - £34.25

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 3,368 4,819 6,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 12.95% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,079 2,868 3,973
10th Percentile £235 £214 £232
25th Percentile £363 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 390 368
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% +101.96% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.10 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -22.41%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Multicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Multicast in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Multicast in England.

Daily rate trend for Multicast in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Multicast in England.

Hourly rate trend for Multicast in England

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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 6 July 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 +83 57 £575 +4.55% 73
North West - 7 £543 -
North of England - 7 £543 - 1
South West - 6 £535 - 1
South East +42 2 £463 +10.12% 21
East of England - 2 £350 - 3
Multicast
UK

Multicast
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.94%) nginx
2 1 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.71%) AWS
2 5 (7.35%) Azure
3 3 (4.41%) GCP
3 3 (4.41%) GitHub
4 2 (2.94%) SaaS
4 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Akamai
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (66.18%) BGP
2 39 (57.35%) OSPF
3 30 (44.12%) Firewall
4 21 (30.88%) VPN
5 18 (26.47%) MPLS
6 14 (20.59%) Ethernet VPN
6 14 (20.59%) IGMP
6 14 (20.59%) WAN
7 13 (19.12%) LAN
8 12 (17.65%) VXLAN
9 10 (14.71%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (11.76%) HSRP
10 8 (11.76%) IPsec
10 8 (11.76%) VRRP
11 7 (10.29%) Broadband
11 7 (10.29%) DNS
11 7 (10.29%) IPv6
12 6 (8.82%) Network Security
12 6 (8.82%) Unicast
12 6 (8.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) KDB
1 1 (1.47%) MySQL
1 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (7.35%) GCC
2 5 (7.35%) GDB
3 4 (5.88%) Git
3 4 (5.88%) GitLab
4 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.47%) JMeter
General
1 23 (33.82%) Finance
2 20 (29.41%) Banking
3 14 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Front Office
5 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) International Banking
5 5 (7.35%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (61.76%) Network Engineer
2 14 (20.59%) Cisco Engineer
2 14 (20.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 14 (20.59%) Implementation Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Senior
4 10 (14.71%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 9 (13.24%) Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Principal Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Principal Network Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) C++ Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Consultant
8 5 (7.35%) WAN Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) LAN Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
10 3 (4.41%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Network Consultant
10 3 (4.41%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (8.82%) Middleware
3 5 (7.35%) 802.1X
3 5 (7.35%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 5 (7.35%) STL
4 2 (2.94%) JSON
4 2 (2.94%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.47%) HTML
5 1 (1.47%) LDAP
5 1 (1.47%) REST
5 1 (1.47%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.94%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (7.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (5.88%) Hedge funds
5 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.94%) Derivative
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) TWAP
6 2 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.94%) VWAP
7 1 (1.47%) Clustering
7 1 (1.47%) Equities
7 1 (1.47%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Low Latency
2 12 (17.65%) Migration
3 11 (16.18%) Network Monitoring
3 11 (16.18%) Project Delivery
4 10 (14.71%) High Availability
5 9 (13.24%) Electronic Trading
6 7 (10.29%) Configuration Management
7 6 (8.82%) Algorithmic Trading
7 6 (8.82%) Change Control
7 6 (8.82%) Change Management
7 6 (8.82%) Test Automation
8 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.35%) Market Making
8 5 (7.35%) Network Design
8 5 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.35%) Risk Management
8 5 (7.35%) Roadmaps
8 5 (7.35%) Validation
9 4 (5.88%) Decision-Making
9 4 (5.88%) High-Frequency Trading
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) Python
2 7 (10.29%) C++
3 5 (7.35%) Java
3 5 (7.35%) Perl
4 4 (5.88%) Bash
4 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.47%) Ruby
5 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (30.88%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (25.00%) CCIE
3 8 (11.76%) CCNP
4 5 (7.35%) CCIE Service Provider
5 4 (5.88%) Degree
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.94%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.47%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Firmware
2 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.94%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (41.18%) Ansible
2 7 (10.29%) ZABBIX
3 5 (7.35%) Puppet
4 4 (5.88%) Nagios
5 3 (4.41%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.94%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.94%) Icinga
6 2 (2.94%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (2.94%) Observium
6 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.94%) Terraform
7 1 (1.47%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.47%) Grafana
7 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (60.29%) Cisco
2 32 (47.06%) Arista
3 13 (19.12%) Fortinet
4 11 (16.18%) F5
4 11 (16.18%) Palo Alto
5 9 (13.24%) SolarWinds
6 7 (10.29%) Solace
7 5 (7.35%) CheckPoint
7 5 (7.35%) Nokia
8 3 (4.41%) Juniper
8 3 (4.41%) McAfee
8 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
8 3 (4.41%) Splunk
8 3 (4.41%) VMware
9 1 (1.47%) AirMagnet
9 1 (1.47%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.47%) Blue Coat
9 1 (1.47%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.47%) TIBCO