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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 311 370
Rank change year-on-year -84 +59 +49
Contract jobs citing Multicast 55 54 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.39% 0.056%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.42% 3.86% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 5
10th Percentile £400 £436 -
25th Percentile £439 £503 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £570
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +3.07% -12.31%
75th Percentile £684 £794 £625
90th Percentile £715 £800 £850
England median daily rate £550 £563 £474
% change year-on-year -2.22% +18.61% -24.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £36.63 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.10% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £39.69 -
90th Percentile - £39.88 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £38.75 -
% change year-on-year +87.10% - -

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 1,609 1,400 1,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.99% 10.24% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 914 1,017
10th Percentile £305 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £725 £723 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 30
10th Percentile £19.34 £19.89 £16.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.58 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% +20.41% -35.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.15 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £54.94
% change year-on-year -36.36% -19.91% +5.25%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -16 18 £647 -1.41% 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) Confluence
1 1 (1.82%) MTS
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.91%) AWS
1 6 (10.91%) Azure
1 6 (10.91%) GCP
2 2 (3.64%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.82%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 35 (63.64%) Firewall
2 30 (54.55%) BGP
3 19 (34.55%) OSPF
4 18 (32.73%) WAN
5 14 (25.45%) VLAN
6 11 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (18.18%) VPN
8 8 (14.55%) EIGRP
8 8 (14.55%) LAN
8 8 (14.55%) Network Security
9 7 (12.73%) IGMP
9 7 (12.73%) MPLS
10 6 (10.91%) VXLAN
11 5 (9.09%) BIG-IP
11 5 (9.09%) Cisco Wireless
11 5 (9.09%) DMZ
11 5 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (9.09%) Wireless
12 4 (7.27%) Spanning Tree
12 4 (7.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) KDB
2 1 (1.82%) Kdb+
2 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.64%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.82%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) JIRA
3 1 (1.82%) Maven
General
1 26 (47.27%) Finance
2 14 (25.45%) Banking
3 11 (20.00%) Front Office
4 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
5 8 (14.55%) Investment Banking
6 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (12.73%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (56.36%) Network Engineer
2 26 (47.27%) Senior
3 13 (23.64%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Java Developer
6 6 (10.91%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Senior Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Middleware Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Firewall Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Firewall Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Data Centre Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Data Network Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Juniper Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 2 (3.64%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (12.73%) Ultra Messaging
3 5 (9.09%) Middleware
4 2 (3.64%) .NET
4 2 (3.64%) eBPF
5 1 (1.82%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Data Centre
2 13 (23.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (12.73%) Equities
5 6 (10.91%) Algorithms
5 6 (10.91%) Fixed Income
6 5 (9.09%) Digital Signage
7 3 (5.45%) Replication
8 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.82%) CCTV
9 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.82%) Derivative
9 1 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.82%) Eurex
9 1 (1.82%) MPEG
9 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Linux
2 5 (9.09%) Unix
3 2 (3.64%) Windows
4 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (58.18%) Low Latency
2 15 (27.27%) Electronic Trading
3 10 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 10 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 9 (16.36%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (14.55%) Algorithmic Trading
6 7 (12.73%) High Availability
6 7 (12.73%) Multithreading
6 7 (12.73%) Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (10.91%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.09%) Agile
8 5 (9.09%) Network Optimisation
8 5 (9.09%) Ultra-Low Latency
8 5 (9.09%) Use Case
8 5 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
9 4 (7.27%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (7.27%) CI/CD
9 4 (7.27%) Project Management
10 3 (5.45%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) Python
2 10 (18.18%) Java
3 7 (12.73%) SQL
4 4 (7.27%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.64%) C++
7 1 (1.82%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (9.09%) CCIE
3 4 (7.27%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) CCNP
6 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Docker
1 1 (1.82%) Firmware
1 1 (1.82%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Ansible
2 6 (10.91%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
3 5 (9.09%) Terraform
4 4 (7.27%) Grafana
5 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.64%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.82%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 29 (52.73%) Cisco
2 25 (45.45%) Arista
3 23 (41.82%) F5
4 19 (34.55%) Palo Alto
5 17 (30.91%) Fortinet
6 8 (14.55%) CheckPoint
7 6 (10.91%) Solace
8 5 (9.09%) Juniper
9 3 (5.45%) Splunk
10 2 (3.64%) Bloomberg
10 2 (3.64%) ION Trading
10 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
10 2 (3.64%) TIBCO
11 1 (1.82%) Aruba
11 1 (1.82%) Dell
11 1 (1.82%) IBM
11 1 (1.82%) MarketAxess
11 1 (1.82%) NetScout
11 1 (1.82%) NYFIX
11 1 (1.82%) Tradeweb