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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 306 388
Rank change year-on-year -69 +82 +40
Contract jobs citing Multicast 56 57 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.42% 0.065%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.58% 4.07% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 37 5
10th Percentile £400 £424 -
25th Percentile £409 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +5.26% -8.80%
75th Percentile £647 £775 £625
90th Percentile £715 £800 £850
England median daily rate £525 £563 £449
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.42% -28.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
England median hourly rate - £38.75 -

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 1,565 1,402 1,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.90% 10.27% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 914 1,082
10th Percentile £300 £275 £231
25th Percentile £410 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £724 £725 £713
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 29 43
10th Percentile £18.02 £19.33 £14.68
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £17.32
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +26.05% -33.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -39.27% +10.00% -9.86%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -7 16 £567 -13.59% 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.79%) MTS
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.93%) AWS
2 4 (7.14%) Azure
2 4 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.79%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 38 (67.86%) Firewall
2 31 (55.36%) BGP
3 21 (37.50%) WAN
4 20 (35.71%) OSPF
5 13 (23.21%) Cisco ASA
6 12 (21.43%) VLAN
7 11 (19.64%) LAN
8 10 (17.86%) MPLS
8 10 (17.86%) Network Security
9 9 (16.07%) EIGRP
9 9 (16.07%) VPN
10 8 (14.29%) IGMP
11 6 (10.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 5 (8.93%) BIG-IP
12 5 (8.93%) Cisco Wireless
12 5 (8.93%) HSRP
12 5 (8.93%) Wireless
13 4 (7.14%) DMZ
13 4 (7.14%) VRRP
13 4 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) KDB
2 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.79%) Kdb+
2 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (1.79%) GitLab
3 1 (1.79%) JIRA
3 1 (1.79%) Maven
3 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (48.21%) Finance
2 16 (28.57%) Banking
3 10 (17.86%) Front Office
4 9 (16.07%) Financial Institution
5 8 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 28 (50.00%) Senior
2 12 (21.43%) Senior Network Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Implementation Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Middleware Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Firewall Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Firewall Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Data Centre Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Data Network Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Juniper Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 1 (1.79%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (12.50%) Ultra Messaging
3 5 (8.93%) Middleware
4 2 (3.57%) .NET
5 1 (1.79%) Django
5 1 (1.79%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 12 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (12.50%) Equities
5 6 (10.71%) Algorithms
5 6 (10.71%) Fixed Income
6 5 (8.93%) Digital Signage
7 3 (5.36%) Replication
8 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.79%) CCTV
8 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.79%) Eurex
8 1 (1.79%) MPEG
8 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.07%) Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Unix
3 2 (3.57%) Windows
4 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Low Latency
2 15 (26.79%) Electronic Trading
3 11 (19.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (17.86%) Project Delivery
5 9 (16.07%) Load Balancing
6 7 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
6 7 (12.50%) High Availability
6 7 (12.50%) Multithreading
6 7 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (10.71%) Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (8.93%) Network Optimisation
8 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (8.93%) Ultra-Low Latency
8 5 (8.93%) Use Case
8 5 (8.93%) Virtual Environments
9 4 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (7.14%) CI/CD
9 4 (7.14%) Project Management
10 3 (5.36%) Architectural Design
10 3 (5.36%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) Python
2 10 (17.86%) Java
3 6 (10.71%) SQL
4 4 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.57%) C++
5 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) CCIE
1 4 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
1 1 (1.79%) Firmware
1 1 (1.79%) GridGain
1 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (17.86%) Ansible
2 6 (10.71%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (8.93%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (7.14%) Grafana
4 4 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (7.14%) Terraform
5 2 (3.57%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 30 (53.57%) Cisco
2 24 (42.86%) Arista
2 24 (42.86%) F5
3 18 (32.14%) Palo Alto
4 15 (26.79%) Fortinet
5 9 (16.07%) CheckPoint
6 6 (10.71%) Solace
7 5 (8.93%) Juniper
8 3 (5.36%) Splunk
9 2 (3.57%) Dell
9 2 (3.57%) ION Trading
9 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
9 2 (3.57%) SevOne
9 2 (3.57%) TIBCO
10 1 (1.79%) Aruba
10 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
10 1 (1.79%) MarketAxess
10 1 (1.79%) McAfee
10 1 (1.79%) NetScout
10 1 (1.79%) Tradeweb