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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 332 372
Rank change year-on-year -16 +40 +67
Contract jobs citing Multicast 24 31 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.91% 2.29% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 33
10th Percentile £448 £476 £525
25th Percentile £485 £607 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £838 £750 £750
90th Percentile £985 - -
England median daily rate £634 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -2.54% -3.70% +8.00%

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 1,259 1,351 1,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.67% 9.80% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 808 1,280
10th Percentile £283 £258 £210
25th Percentile £409 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -0.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £490 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.04% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 66
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.02 £18.93
25th Percentile - £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +25.00% +1.13%
75th Percentile £35.82 £39.75 £59.69
90th Percentile £87.25 £43.75 £74.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £52.21
% change year-on-year -14.29% -32.96% +140.02%

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 26 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 26 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
East London - 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 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 7 (29.17%) BGP
3 6 (25.00%) OSPF
4 5 (20.83%) Wireshark
5 4 (16.67%) Firewall
5 4 (16.67%) tcpdump
6 3 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (12.50%) LAN
6 3 (12.50%) VXLAN
6 3 (12.50%) WAN
7 2 (8.33%) IPv6
7 2 (8.33%) MPLS
7 2 (8.33%) NAS
7 2 (8.33%) SAN
7 2 (8.33%) VPN
8 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (4.17%) HSRP
8 1 (4.17%) IGMP
8 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) KDB
2 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
1 5 (20.83%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) GCC
2 3 (12.50%) GDB
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) Maven
4 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Front Office
3 8 (33.33%) Banking
3 8 (33.33%) Finance
4 4 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.33%) International Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) C++ Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (25.00%) Middleware
3 4 (16.67%) Ultra Messaging
4 3 (12.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (12.50%) STL
5 1 (4.17%) Django
5 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (16.67%) Derivative
2 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (4.17%) CCTV
5 1 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) VMS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 7 (29.17%) Algorithmic Trading
2 7 (29.17%) DevOps
2 7 (29.17%) Electronic Trading
2 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
3 5 (20.83%) Benchmarking
3 5 (20.83%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (20.83%) High Availability
3 5 (20.83%) Observability
3 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
4 4 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
4 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 6 (25.00%) Bash
4 3 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) CCIE
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.17%) CCIE Data Center
2 1 (4.17%) CCNP
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) EMIR
1 3 (12.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) KVM
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (20.83%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (16.67%) Grafana
5 3 (12.50%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
7 1 (4.17%) Terraform
7 1 (4.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Solace
2 5 (20.83%) Arista
2 5 (20.83%) Cisco
3 4 (16.67%) F5
3 4 (16.67%) TIBCO
4 3 (12.50%) Bloomberg
4 3 (12.50%) NYFIX
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 3 (12.50%) Refinitiv
5 2 (8.33%) Dell
5 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.33%) VMware
6 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.17%) IBM
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.17%) NetScout
6 1 (4.17%) NVIDIA
6 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.17%) SevOne
6 1 (4.17%) Splunk