Multicast Contract Job Trends in London

Multicast
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Multicast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 339 349
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 +88
Contract jobs citing Multicast 25 28 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.00% 1.98% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 33
10th Percentile £463 £560 £525
25th Percentile £486 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £796 £750 £750
90th Percentile £838 - -
England median daily rate £634 £639 £688
% change year-on-year -0.78% -7.13% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,253 1,411 1,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.74% 9.90% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 869 1,243
10th Percentile £300 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £628 £628
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -1.60% +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 59
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £31.13 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £75.31 £76.50
England median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +10.00% -38.04% +121.53%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Multicast relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Multicast job vacancy trend in London

Multicast
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Multicast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Multicast

Multicast
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast in London over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in London

Multicast
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Multicast.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Multicast

Multicast
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multicast within the London region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Central London -4 1 - - 5
East London - 1 - - 1
Multicast
England

Multicast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (4.00%) AWS
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) BGP
1 7 (28.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (24.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 6 (24.00%) OSPF
2 6 (24.00%) VXLAN
3 4 (16.00%) Firewall
3 4 (16.00%) tcpdump
3 4 (16.00%) Wireshark
4 2 (8.00%) IGMP
4 2 (8.00%) IPv6
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (4.00%) FabricPath
5 1 (4.00%) HSRP
5 1 (4.00%) LAN
5 1 (4.00%) VPN
5 1 (4.00%) VRRP
5 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) KDB
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) GCC
1 4 (16.00%) GDB
2 3 (12.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (44.00%) Front Office
3 9 (36.00%) Banking
4 7 (28.00%) Finance
5 4 (16.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (12.00%) International Banking
7 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (4.00%) Retail
8 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Developer
1 5 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) C++ Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) CCTV Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Quantitative Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (28.00%) Middleware
3 4 (16.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 4 (16.00%) STL
3 4 (16.00%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (16.00%) Derivative
3 4 (16.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) CCTV
6 1 (4.00%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Low Latency
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
2 8 (32.00%) High Availability
3 7 (28.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 7 (28.00%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (20.00%) Benchmarking
4 5 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (16.00%) Observability
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.00%) Bash
4 4 (16.00%) C++
5 3 (12.00%) C#
6 2 (8.00%) Java
7 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) CCIE
1 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.00%) CCIE Data Center
2 1 (4.00%) CCNP
2 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.00%) PMP
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) EMIR
1 3 (12.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.00%) KVM
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Ansible
1 6 (24.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (16.00%) Grafana
2 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.00%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (8.00%) ZABBIX
5 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Arista
1 7 (28.00%) Solace
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco
2 4 (16.00%) TIBCO
3 3 (12.00%) Bloomberg
3 3 (12.00%) NYFIX
3 3 (12.00%) Refinitiv
4 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.00%) F5
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) NVIDIA
5 1 (4.00%) VMware