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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 285 381
Rank change year-on-year -85 +96 +9
Contract jobs citing Multicast 45 57 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.47% 0.069%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.09% 4.47% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 6
10th Percentile £400 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £500 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £543
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.69% -13.20%
75th Percentile £676 £750 £679
90th Percentile £714 £788 £723
England median daily rate £513 £550 £448
% change year-on-year -6.82% +22.77% -28.32%
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 1,454 1,274 1,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.87% 10.39% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 957 820 1,127
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £704 £716 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 51
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.56
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.87%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +131.45%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 6 £693 +5.48% 4
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 (2.22%) MTS
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) GCP
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.22%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 30 (66.67%) Firewall
2 25 (55.56%) BGP
3 21 (46.67%) WAN
4 20 (44.44%) OSPF
5 13 (28.89%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (24.44%) LAN
7 10 (22.22%) MPLS
7 10 (22.22%) Network Security
8 9 (20.00%) EIGRP
9 8 (17.78%) IGMP
9 8 (17.78%) VLAN
10 6 (13.33%) VPN
11 5 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (11.11%) HSRP
12 4 (8.89%) BIG-IP
12 4 (8.89%) DMZ
12 4 (8.89%) Spanning Tree
12 4 (8.89%) VRRP
12 4 (8.89%) VXLAN
13 2 (4.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) KDB
2 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.22%) Kdb+
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) GitLab
2 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.22%) Maven
3 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (51.11%) Finance
2 12 (26.67%) Banking
3 9 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 9 (20.00%) Front Office
4 6 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Senior
2 21 (46.67%) Network Engineer
3 11 (24.44%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Developer
5 7 (15.56%) Java Developer
6 6 (13.33%) Senior Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Data Network Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Juniper Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Firewall Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 1 (2.22%) CCTV Engineer
10 1 (2.22%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 1 (2.22%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 1 (2.22%) Python Engineer
10 1 (2.22%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (15.56%) Ultra Messaging
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) Django
2 1 (2.22%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (15.56%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (15.56%) Equities
4 6 (13.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (4.44%) Fixed Income
5 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.22%) CCTV
6 1 (2.22%) Digital Signage
6 1 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.22%) Eurex
6 1 (2.22%) MPEG
6 1 (2.22%) Replication
6 1 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) VMS
3 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) Low Latency
2 11 (24.44%) Electronic Trading
3 10 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (15.56%) Multithreading
5 6 (13.33%) Algorithmic Trading
5 6 (13.33%) Load Balancing
5 6 (13.33%) Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 4 (8.89%) Architectural Design
7 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.89%) Network Optimisation
7 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.89%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (6.67%) Concurrent Programming
8 3 (6.67%) Event-Driven
8 3 (6.67%) High Availability
8 3 (6.67%) Multithreaded Programming
8 3 (6.67%) Operational Stability
8 3 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (6.67%) SQL
4 2 (4.44%) Bash
4 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.22%) C++
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) CCIE
1 4 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
1 1 (2.22%) Firmware
1 1 (2.22%) GridGain
1 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Ansible
2 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.89%) Grafana
3 4 (8.89%) Terraform
4 2 (4.44%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (57.78%) Cisco
2 21 (46.67%) Arista
2 21 (46.67%) F5
3 17 (37.78%) Palo Alto
4 14 (31.11%) Fortinet
5 9 (20.00%) CheckPoint
6 5 (11.11%) Juniper
7 3 (6.67%) Dell
8 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.44%) SevOne
8 2 (4.44%) Solace
8 2 (4.44%) Splunk
9 1 (2.22%) Aruba
9 1 (2.22%) IBM
9 1 (2.22%) ION Trading
9 1 (2.22%) MarketAxess
9 1 (2.22%) Meraki
9 1 (2.22%) NetScout
9 1 (2.22%) Tradeweb