Multicast Contracts in London

Multicast
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Multicast skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Multicast over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 376 389
Rank change year-on-year +67 +13 +113
Contract jobs citing Multicast 44 15 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.084% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.35% 0.87% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 77
10th Percentile £493 £400 -
25th Percentile £510 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% -2.40% -
75th Percentile £750 £700 £688
90th Percentile £783 £746 £713
England median daily rate £550 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -12.70% +0.80% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £34.25
75th Percentile - - £37.38
90th Percentile - - £38.95
England median hourly rate - - £34.25

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 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Multicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Multicast in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Multicast in London.

Daily rate trend for Multicast in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Multicast in London.

Hourly rate trend for Multicast in London

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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 1 May 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
Central London +9 6 £875 +19.86% 6
East London +16 2 £543 -
South London - 2 £600 -
Multicast
England

Multicast
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.82%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.82%) AWS
1 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 29 (65.91%) BGP
2 28 (63.64%) OSPF
3 20 (45.45%) Firewall
4 14 (31.82%) MPLS
5 13 (29.55%) IGMP
5 13 (29.55%) VPN
6 9 (20.45%) HSRP
6 9 (20.45%) VRRP
6 9 (20.45%) WAN
7 7 (15.91%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (15.91%) VXLAN
8 6 (13.64%) Broadband
8 6 (13.64%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (13.64%) IPv6
9 5 (11.36%) GPON
9 5 (11.36%) Internet
9 5 (11.36%) LAN
10 4 (9.09%) DNS
10 4 (9.09%) EIGRP
10 4 (9.09%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) KDB
1 1 (2.27%) MySQL
1 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (9.09%) GCC
2 4 (9.09%) GDB
3 2 (4.55%) GitLab
4 1 (2.27%) Git
4 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.27%) JMeter
General
1 14 (31.82%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Banking
4 5 (11.36%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Front Office
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (47.73%) Network Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) Cisco Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 11 (25.00%) Implementation Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 8 (18.18%) Senior
6 7 (15.91%) Consultant
6 7 (15.91%) Developer
7 6 (13.64%) C++ Developer
7 6 (13.64%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) Principal Network Engineer
8 5 (11.36%) Network Consultant
8 5 (11.36%) WAN Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Consultant
10 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Java Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Quantitative Developer
10 2 (4.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 2 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (9.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 4 (9.09%) STL
3 2 (4.55%) 802.1X
3 2 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (2.27%) LDAP
4 1 (2.27%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (2.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Data Centre
2 8 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (11.36%) Hedge funds
4 4 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 4 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (4.55%) Derivative
6 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.55%) TWAP
6 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.55%) VWAP
7 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.27%) Equities
7 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Unix
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Low Latency
2 11 (25.00%) Migration
2 11 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 9 (20.45%) Network Design
3 9 (20.45%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (13.64%) Configuration Management
4 6 (13.64%) High Availability
4 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 5 (11.36%) Algorithmic Trading
6 4 (9.09%) ITIL
6 4 (9.09%) Market Making
6 4 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (9.09%) Risk Management
7 3 (6.82%) Customer Service
7 3 (6.82%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (6.82%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.82%) Runbook
7 3 (6.82%) Validation
8 2 (4.55%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) Python
2 6 (13.64%) C++
3 5 (11.36%) Java
3 5 (11.36%) SQL
4 4 (9.09%) Perl
5 3 (6.82%) Bash
6 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.27%) C#
7 1 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (31.82%) CCIE
3 9 (20.45%) CCNP
4 5 (11.36%) CCIE Service Provider
5 3 (6.82%) Degree
6 2 (4.55%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (6.82%) vSphere
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (38.64%) Ansible
2 7 (15.91%) ZABBIX
3 6 (13.64%) Puppet
4 4 (9.09%) FortiGate
5 3 (6.82%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.55%) Nagios
7 1 (2.27%) Icinga
7 1 (2.27%) Observium
7 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (56.82%) Cisco
2 14 (31.82%) Arista
3 10 (22.73%) Fortinet
4 7 (15.91%) SolarWinds
5 5 (11.36%) F5
5 5 (11.36%) Nokia
6 4 (9.09%) CheckPoint
6 4 (9.09%) Palo Alto
7 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
7 3 (6.82%) VMware
8 2 (4.55%) McAfee
8 2 (4.55%) Splunk
9 1 (2.27%) Microsoft