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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 486 545
Rank change year-on-year +26 +59 +134
Contract jobs citing Multicast 57 43 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.73% 1.11% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 40
10th Percentile £464 £435 £375
25th Percentile £500 £485 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £560 £648
Median % change year-on-year +10.18% -13.51% +3.60%
75th Percentile £775 £675 £750
90th Percentile £800 £693 -
UK median daily rate £575 £560 £648
% change year-on-year +2.68% -13.51% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - -
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
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 3,295 3,883 5,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.66% 12.16% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,104 2,234 3,564
10th Percentile £216 £240 £220
25th Percentile £360 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 147 311
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.87 £17.30
25th Percentile £20.00 £26.25 £23.05
Median hourly rate £34.00 £57.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.61% +1.35% +36.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.45
% change year-on-year -29.98% -13.97% +41.73%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +53 47 £654 +0.62% 12
North of England -36 5 £550 +4.76% 1
South East +8 4 £575 +4.55% 7
North West -20 4 £550 +4.76% 1
South West - 4 £550 -
West Midlands -19 1 £617 +23.40% 3
Midlands -24 1 £617 +23.40% 3
Yorkshire -31 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 2 (3.51%) nginx
2 1 (1.75%) CICS
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.75%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.04%) AWS
2 6 (10.53%) Azure
3 4 (7.02%) GCP
3 4 (7.02%) GitHub
4 2 (3.51%) SaaS
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (47.37%) BGP
2 22 (38.60%) OSPF
3 18 (31.58%) Firewall
4 16 (28.07%) Ethernet VPN
5 13 (22.81%) TCP/IP
6 12 (21.05%) VXLAN
7 8 (14.04%) Wireshark
8 7 (12.28%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (12.28%) LAN
8 7 (12.28%) VLAN
8 7 (12.28%) VPN
9 6 (10.53%) IGMP
9 6 (10.53%) MPLS
9 6 (10.53%) WAN
10 5 (8.77%) tcpdump
10 5 (8.77%) Unicast
11 4 (7.02%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (3.51%) IOS XR
13 2 (3.51%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) KDB
2 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) GCC
1 9 (15.79%) GDB
2 6 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (7.02%) Git
4 3 (5.26%) GitLab
5 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.75%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.75%) JIRA
6 1 (1.75%) Maven
General
1 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 18 (31.58%) Banking
3 17 (29.82%) Front Office
4 15 (26.32%) Finance
5 8 (14.04%) International Banking
5 8 (14.04%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Network Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) Senior
3 12 (21.05%) Developer
4 8 (14.04%) C++ Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.26%) LAN Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Tester
7 2 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Juniper Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) LAN/WAN Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Network Specialist
7 2 (3.51%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Network Consultant
7 2 (3.51%) Validation Tester
7 2 (3.51%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.58%) FIX Protocol
2 14 (24.56%) Middleware
3 9 (15.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 9 (15.79%) STL
4 6 (10.53%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.75%) LDAP
5 1 (1.75%) React
5 1 (1.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.07%) Data Centre
2 14 (24.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (15.79%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (7.02%) Derivative
4 4 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.51%) Clustering
6 2 (3.51%) Fixed Income
6 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.51%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.51%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.75%) Equities
7 1 (1.75%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.75%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) MVS
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Solaris
3 1 (1.75%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.88%) Low Latency
2 15 (26.32%) High Availability
3 13 (22.81%) Electronic Trading
3 13 (22.81%) Test Automation
4 9 (15.79%) DevOps
4 9 (15.79%) Risk Management
5 8 (14.04%) Algorithmic Trading
5 8 (14.04%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.28%) Change Control
6 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (8.77%) Benchmarking
8 5 (8.77%) Decision-Making
8 5 (8.77%) Multithreading
8 5 (8.77%) Observability
8 5 (8.77%) Performance Analysis
8 5 (8.77%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (7.02%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) Python
2 9 (15.79%) C++
3 8 (14.04%) Bash
3 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
3 8 (14.04%) SQL
4 4 (7.02%) Java
5 3 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) CCIE
1 9 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) CCNP
4 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) JNCIA
5 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.75%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) EMIR
1 3 (5.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Firmware
1 5 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.51%) KVM
4 1 (1.75%) NFS
4 1 (1.75%) SRDF
4 1 (1.75%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (35.09%) Ansible
2 7 (12.28%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 5 (8.77%) Grafana
5 3 (5.26%) Iperf
5 3 (5.26%) Nmap
5 3 (5.26%) Terraform
5 3 (5.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (3.51%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.75%) Icinga
7 1 (1.75%) Nagios
7 1 (1.75%) Nessus
7 1 (1.75%) Observium
7 1 (1.75%) Puppet
7 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (42.11%) Arista
2 23 (40.35%) Cisco
3 14 (24.56%) Solace
4 10 (17.54%) Palo Alto
5 8 (14.04%) Fortinet
6 6 (10.53%) F5
6 6 (10.53%) VMware
7 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
7 5 (8.77%) SolarWinds
7 5 (8.77%) TIBCO
8 4 (7.02%) Bloomberg
8 4 (7.02%) CheckPoint
8 4 (7.02%) Refinitiv
9 3 (5.26%) NYFIX
10 2 (3.51%) Juniper
11 1 (1.75%) Dell
11 1 (1.75%) EMC
11 1 (1.75%) NetApp
11 1 (1.75%) Oracle
11 1 (1.75%) Red Hat