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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 435 521
Rank change year-on-year -68 +86 +89
Contract jobs citing Multicast 40 54 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.17% 1.57% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 38
10th Percentile £418 £500 £447
25th Percentile £485 £521 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £650 £688
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £744 £750
90th Percentile £920 £750 -
UK median daily rate £523 £614 £688
% change year-on-year -14.83% -10.76% +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 3,430 3,431 5,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.43% 12.95% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,242 1,970 3,277
10th Percentile £204 £218 £205
25th Percentile £355 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £676 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.42% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 106 380
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.41 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +140.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £75.71
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% -32.50% +141.49%

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 February 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 1 February 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 -39 26 £525 -19.23% 13
North West -27 9 £490 -6.67% 2
West Midlands -35 9 £617 +23.40% 1
Midlands -52 9 £617 +23.40% 1
North of England -59 9 £490 -6.67% 2
South East -15 4 £650 +13.04% 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (5.00%) IBM Watson
3 1 (2.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 21 (52.50%) BGP
2 15 (37.50%) VPN
3 14 (35.00%) TCP/IP
4 12 (30.00%) OSPF
5 11 (27.50%) Firewall
6 10 (25.00%) Wireshark
7 9 (22.50%) DNS
7 9 (22.50%) MPLS
8 8 (20.00%) DMZ
9 7 (17.50%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (15.00%) LAN
10 6 (15.00%) WAN
11 4 (10.00%) tcpdump
11 4 (10.00%) VLAN
12 3 (7.50%) EIGRP
12 3 (7.50%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (7.50%) Network Security
12 3 (7.50%) VXLAN
13 2 (5.00%) DWDM
13 2 (5.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) KDB
2 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
1 5 (12.50%) GitLab
2 3 (7.50%) GCC
2 3 (7.50%) GDB
3 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) Maven
4 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Banking
3 11 (27.50%) Finance
4 10 (25.00%) Front Office
5 9 (22.50%) Investment Banking
6 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
7 3 (7.50%) Financial Institution
8 2 (5.00%) International Banking
8 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Aviation
9 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Data Network Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Developer
5 3 (7.50%) C++ Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Tester
5 3 (7.50%) Web Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Core Network Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Tester
6 2 (5.00%) Validation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (15.00%) Middleware
3 4 (10.00%) Ultra Messaging
4 3 (7.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (7.50%) STL
5 2 (5.00%) Django
6 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (10.00%) Derivative
2 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.50%) CCTV
5 1 (2.50%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Low Latency
2 8 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 8 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (17.50%) Algorithmic Trading
3 7 (17.50%) DevOps
3 7 (17.50%) Electronic Trading
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
4 6 (15.00%) Observability
5 5 (12.50%) Benchmarking
5 5 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 5 (12.50%) High Availability
5 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (10.00%) Migration
6 4 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
6 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) Bash
3 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
4 3 (7.50%) C#
4 3 (7.50%) C++
5 2 (5.00%) Java
6 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) CCIE
2 5 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.00%) CCNP
4 1 (2.50%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.50%) PMP
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) EMIR
1 3 (7.50%) MiFID
2 1 (2.50%) GRC
2 1 (2.50%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) KVM
3 1 (2.50%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Ansible
2 6 (15.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (10.00%) Grafana
4 4 (10.00%) Iperf
4 4 (10.00%) Nmap
5 3 (7.50%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.50%) Nessus
7 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (2.50%) Terraform
7 1 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) Cisco
2 14 (35.00%) F5
3 7 (17.50%) CheckPoint
3 7 (17.50%) Palo Alto
4 6 (15.00%) Arista
4 6 (15.00%) Fortinet
4 6 (15.00%) Solace
5 5 (12.50%) SolarWinds
6 4 (10.00%) Dell
6 4 (10.00%) TIBCO
6 4 (10.00%) VMware
7 3 (7.50%) Bloomberg
7 3 (7.50%) NYFIX
7 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
7 3 (7.50%) Refinitiv
8 2 (5.00%) IBM
8 2 (5.00%) NetScout
8 2 (5.00%) SevOne
8 2 (5.00%) Splunk
9 1 (2.50%) Microsoft