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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 306 361
Rank change year-on-year -54 +55 +41
Contract jobs citing Multicast 43 43 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.34% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.10% 3.31% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 27 14
10th Percentile - £485 £419
25th Percentile £400 £505 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -9.43% +6.00%
75th Percentile £716 £750 £749
90th Percentile £865 - £750
England median daily rate £520 £575 £663
% change year-on-year -9.57% -13.21% +6.00%

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 1,389 1,298 1,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.10% 10.23% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 843 1,175
10th Percentile £300 £263 £206
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +2.56% -11.88%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £607
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 63
10th Percentile £20.38 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.02 £27.47 £18.36
Median hourly rate £25.79 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +98.86% -38.89%
75th Percentile £39.75 £54.31 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.13 £66.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.38 £35.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year +18.53% -5.92% +100.37%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -17 1 £610 -2.79% 7
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 6 (13.95%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) GCP
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.33%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 26 (60.47%) Firewall
2 25 (58.14%) BGP
3 21 (48.84%) OSPF
4 20 (46.51%) WAN
5 13 (30.23%) Cisco ASA
6 12 (27.91%) LAN
7 10 (23.26%) MPLS
7 10 (23.26%) Network Security
8 9 (20.93%) EIGRP
8 9 (20.93%) IGMP
9 6 (13.95%) HSRP
9 6 (13.95%) VPN
9 6 (13.95%) VXLAN
10 5 (11.63%) TCP/IP
10 5 (11.63%) VLAN
10 5 (11.63%) VRRP
11 4 (9.30%) DMZ
12 2 (4.65%) Internet
12 2 (4.65%) IPv6
12 2 (4.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) KDB
2 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.33%) Kdb+
3 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Git
1 5 (11.63%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Maven
3 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.33%) GCC
3 1 (2.33%) GDB
3 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (55.81%) Finance
2 15 (34.88%) Banking
3 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
4 9 (20.93%) Financial Institution
4 9 (20.93%) Front Office
5 6 (13.95%) Investment Banking
6 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) International Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Senior
2 17 (39.53%) Network Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Data Network Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.33%) CCTV Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) CCTV Project Manager
7 1 (2.33%) IP Network Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (6.98%) Ultra Messaging
3 1 (2.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (2.33%) Django
3 1 (2.33%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (2.33%) Middleware
3 1 (2.33%) React
3 1 (2.33%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (9.30%) Derivative
3 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.98%) Equities
5 2 (4.65%) CCTV
5 2 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) VMS
3 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Low Latency
2 10 (23.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (18.60%) Electronic Trading
4 7 (16.28%) DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) Algorithmic Trading
6 5 (11.63%) Load Balancing
6 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
7 4 (9.30%) High Availability
7 4 (9.30%) Migration
7 4 (9.30%) Multithreading
7 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.30%) Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (6.98%) Architectural Design
8 3 (6.98%) Computer Science
8 3 (6.98%) Data Protection
8 3 (6.98%) Investment Management
8 3 (6.98%) Operational Stability
8 3 (6.98%) Roadmaps
8 3 (6.98%) Technical Debt
8 3 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Python
2 6 (13.95%) Java
2 6 (13.95%) SQL
3 3 (6.98%) C#
3 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.65%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) C++
5 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) CCIE
1 5 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.98%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.33%) PMP
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) EMIR
1 3 (6.98%) MiFID
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
1 1 (2.33%) Firmware
1 1 (2.33%) GridGain
1 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Ansible
2 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.30%) Grafana
3 4 (9.30%) Terraform
4 3 (6.98%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.33%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (55.81%) Cisco
2 19 (44.19%) Arista
3 17 (39.53%) F5
4 14 (32.56%) Palo Alto
5 10 (23.26%) Fortinet
6 9 (20.93%) CheckPoint
7 5 (11.63%) Juniper
8 3 (6.98%) Bloomberg
8 3 (6.98%) Dell
8 3 (6.98%) NYFIX
8 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
8 3 (6.98%) Refinitiv
9 2 (4.65%) SevOne
9 2 (4.65%) Solace
10 1 (2.33%) Aruba
10 1 (2.33%) McAfee
10 1 (2.33%) Meraki
10 1 (2.33%) NetScout
10 1 (2.33%) Splunk
10 1 (2.33%) VMware