Unicast Contracts in England

Unicast
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Unicast skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unicast over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 - 599
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unicast 7 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% - 0.025%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £575 - £379
25th Percentile £600 - £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 - £600
75th Percentile £669 - £696
90th Percentile £715 - £750
UK median daily rate £654 - £600

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Unicast 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 3,410 4,164 5,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.26% 12.56% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,100 2,576 3,676
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% +0.65% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 279 233
10th Percentile £14.40 £14.25 £16.13
25th Percentile £24.50 £20.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £84.60 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £45.63 £49.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.89% -10.91% +57.14%

Unicast
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Unicast in England

Unicast
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Unicast in England

Unicast
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unicast in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unicast in England

Unicast
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unicast in England

Unicast
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 Unicast within the England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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 - 7 £654 - 4
Unicast
UK

Unicast
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) Multicast
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Change Control
2 4 (57.14%) Business Case
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CCIE
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Icinga
2 2 (28.57%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) Observium
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Arista
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft