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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 459 520
Rank change year-on-year -47 +61 +114
Contract jobs citing Multicast 38 52 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.12% 1.40% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 39
10th Percentile £463 £457 £523
25th Percentile £500 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £627 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% -10.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £798 £700 £750
90th Percentile £815 £750 -
UK median daily rate £575 £614 £700
% change year-on-year -6.28% -12.36% +16.67%

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 3,388 3,707 5,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.89% 12.75% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,185 2,175 3,295
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 115 324
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.64 £17.73
25th Percentile £20.42 £21.46 £22.94
Median hourly rate £34.50 £41.00 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% -27.36% +26.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% -31.82% +31.50%

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 15 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

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 15 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 -11 32 £659 +1.38% 11
South East -7 3 £650 +18.18% 1
West Midlands -33 2 £617 +23.40% 1
Midlands -50 2 £617 +23.40% 1
North of England -53 2 - - 2
North West -35 1 - - 2
Yorkshire -48 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 (2.63%) CICS
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.26%) AWS
1 2 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (2.63%) GCP
2 1 (2.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (36.84%) BGP
2 12 (31.58%) OSPF
2 12 (31.58%) TCP/IP
3 11 (28.95%) Firewall
4 8 (21.05%) Wireshark
5 7 (18.42%) Ethernet VPN
5 7 (18.42%) VXLAN
6 5 (13.16%) tcpdump
6 5 (13.16%) VPN
7 3 (7.89%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (7.89%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (7.89%) IGMP
7 3 (7.89%) MPLS
7 3 (7.89%) VLAN
8 2 (5.26%) DNS
8 2 (5.26%) IPv6
8 2 (5.26%) LAN
8 2 (5.26%) WAN
9 1 (2.63%) DMZ
9 1 (2.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) KDB
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) GCC
1 7 (18.42%) GDB
2 4 (10.53%) Git
3 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.26%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.63%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) Maven
General
1 22 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (39.47%) Banking
3 14 (36.84%) Front Office
4 9 (23.68%) Finance
5 7 (18.42%) Investment Banking
6 6 (15.79%) International Banking
7 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
8 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Network Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) C++ Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Tester
5 2 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Tester
5 2 (5.26%) Validation Tester
6 1 (2.63%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (39.47%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (31.58%) Middleware
3 7 (18.42%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 7 (18.42%) STL
4 5 (13.16%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (2.63%) LDAP
5 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (18.42%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
3 5 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (10.53%) Derivative
5 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.26%) Fixed Income
5 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) CCTV
6 1 (2.63%) Clustering
6 1 (2.63%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.63%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (47.37%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) MVS
4 1 (2.63%) Solaris
4 1 (2.63%) Unix
4 1 (2.63%) VMS
4 1 (2.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) Low Latency
2 14 (36.84%) High Availability
3 11 (28.95%) Electronic Trading
3 11 (28.95%) Test Automation
4 9 (23.68%) DevOps
5 7 (18.42%) Algorithmic Trading
5 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (18.42%) Risk Management
6 6 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.16%) Benchmarking
7 5 (13.16%) Migration
7 5 (13.16%) Observability
7 5 (13.16%) Performance Analysis
7 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
7 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (10.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 8 (21.05%) Bash
3 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 7 (18.42%) C++
5 3 (7.89%) C#
5 3 (7.89%) Java
6 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) CCIE
1 6 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) EMIR
1 3 (7.89%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.26%) KVM
3 1 (2.63%) NFS
3 1 (2.63%) SRDF
3 1 (2.63%) Terminal Services
3 1 (2.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (31.58%) Ansible
2 7 (18.42%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (13.16%) Grafana
3 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.89%) Iperf
4 3 (7.89%) Nmap
4 3 (7.89%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.26%) Terraform
5 2 (5.26%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.63%) Nessus
6 1 (2.63%) Puppet
6 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Cisco
2 11 (28.95%) Solace
3 10 (26.32%) Arista
4 7 (18.42%) Fortinet
5 5 (13.16%) Palo Alto
5 5 (13.16%) SolarWinds
5 5 (13.16%) TIBCO
6 4 (10.53%) F5
7 3 (7.89%) Bloomberg
7 3 (7.89%) CheckPoint
7 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
7 3 (7.89%) NYFIX
7 3 (7.89%) Refinitiv
7 3 (7.89%) VMware
8 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.63%) Dell
9 1 (2.63%) EMC
9 1 (2.63%) IBM
9 1 (2.63%) NetApp
9 1 (2.63%) Oracle