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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 367 374
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 +111
Contract jobs citing Multicast 35 21 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.68% 1.36% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 35
10th Percentile £463 £569 £476
25th Percentile £500 £625 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £750
90th Percentile £823 £850 -
England median daily rate £650 £627 £663
% change year-on-year +3.67% -5.36% +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 1,308 1,539 2,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.10% 9.74% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 946 1,375
10th Percentile £308 £257 £214
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £620 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £735 £750
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 12 57
10th Percentile £20.24 £23.73 £18.93
25th Percentile - £29.69 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +40.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £45.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £61.78 £80.06 £77.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +25.53%

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 5 December 2025.

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 December 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 -4 4 £575 -19.30% 2
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 1 (2.86%) AWS
1 1 (2.86%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) BGP
2 11 (31.43%) OSPF
3 8 (22.86%) Ethernet VPN
3 8 (22.86%) Firewall
3 8 (22.86%) TCP/IP
3 8 (22.86%) VXLAN
4 5 (14.29%) tcpdump
4 5 (14.29%) Wireshark
5 3 (8.57%) IGMP
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (5.71%) IPv6
6 2 (5.71%) Unicast
7 1 (2.86%) FabricPath
7 1 (2.86%) HSRP
7 1 (2.86%) LAN
7 1 (2.86%) MPLS
7 1 (2.86%) Network Security
7 1 (2.86%) VPN
7 1 (2.86%) VRRP
7 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) KDB
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) GCC
1 8 (22.86%) GDB
2 4 (11.43%) Git
3 3 (8.57%) GitLab
4 2 (5.71%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.86%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.86%) Maven
General
1 22 (62.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (42.86%) Banking
2 15 (42.86%) Front Office
3 11 (31.43%) Finance
4 7 (20.00%) International Banking
5 6 (17.14%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Developer
1 9 (25.71%) Network Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) C++ Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) CCTV Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Java Quantitative Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (34.29%) Middleware
3 8 (22.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 8 (22.86%) STL
4 5 (14.29%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (22.86%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 5 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (11.43%) Derivative
5 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.71%) Fixed Income
5 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) CCTV
6 1 (2.86%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (48.57%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
3 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Low Latency
2 14 (40.00%) High Availability
3 12 (34.29%) Electronic Trading
4 9 (25.71%) DevOps
4 9 (25.71%) Test Automation
5 8 (22.86%) Risk Management
6 7 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading
6 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (17.14%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
8 5 (14.29%) Benchmarking
8 5 (14.29%) Migration
8 5 (14.29%) Observability
8 5 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
8 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 5 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (11.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) Python
2 8 (22.86%) C++
2 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
2 8 (22.86%) SQL
3 5 (14.29%) Bash
4 3 (8.57%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) CCIE
1 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.71%) CCNP
3 1 (2.86%) CCIE Data Center
3 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.86%) PMP
3 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) EMIR
1 3 (8.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.86%) KVM
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Ansible
2 7 (20.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (14.29%) Grafana
3 5 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.57%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (5.71%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Arista
1 12 (34.29%) Solace
2 6 (17.14%) Cisco
3 5 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 5 (14.29%) TIBCO
4 3 (8.57%) Bloomberg
4 3 (8.57%) NYFIX
4 3 (8.57%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.57%) Refinitiv
5 2 (5.71%) F5
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.86%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (2.86%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.86%) VMware