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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 383 419
Rank change year-on-year +83 +36 +88
Contract jobs citing Multicast 55 10 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.057% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.10% 0.59% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 4 50
10th Percentile £424 - £461
25th Percentile £500 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £694 £775 £697
90th Percentile £800 £910 £713
England median daily rate £550 £444 £625
% change year-on-year +23.94% -29.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £34.25
75th Percentile £39.69 - £37.38
90th Percentile £39.88 - £38.95
England median hourly rate £38.75 - £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 1,341 1,681 2,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.32% 9.54% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 1,119 1,864
10th Percentile £263 £227 £250
25th Percentile £398 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £621 £670
90th Percentile £718 £738 £775
England median daily rate £493 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 49 48
10th Percentile £19.07 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.86 £22.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £23.80 £38.27
Median % change year-on-year +57.56% -37.81% +39.16%
75th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £69.63
90th Percentile £62.45 £60.00 £76.50
England median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +14 11 £615 -38.55% 28
East London - 3 £535 -
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 2 (3.64%) nginx
2 1 (1.82%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.36%) AWS
2 4 (7.27%) Azure
3 3 (5.45%) GCP
3 3 (5.45%) GitHub
4 2 (3.64%) SaaS
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (63.64%) BGP
2 33 (60.00%) OSPF
3 27 (49.09%) Firewall
4 16 (29.09%) VPN
5 14 (25.45%) MPLS
6 13 (23.64%) IGMP
7 12 (21.82%) WAN
8 11 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (20.00%) VXLAN
9 10 (18.18%) LAN
10 8 (14.55%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (14.55%) HSRP
10 8 (14.55%) VRRP
11 6 (10.91%) IPsec
12 5 (9.09%) Broadband
12 5 (9.09%) GPON
12 5 (9.09%) IPv6
12 5 (9.09%) Unicast
12 5 (9.09%) VLAN
13 4 (7.27%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) KDB
1 1 (1.82%) MySQL
1 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (9.09%) GCC
2 5 (9.09%) GDB
3 4 (7.27%) Git
3 4 (7.27%) GitLab
4 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.82%) JMeter
General
1 18 (32.73%) Finance
2 16 (29.09%) Banking
3 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Front Office
5 4 (7.27%) International Banking
6 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (56.36%) Network Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) Cisco Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) Implementation Engineer
3 12 (21.82%) Senior
4 9 (16.36%) Developer
4 9 (16.36%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) C++ Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Consultant
6 5 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Principal Network Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) WAN Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (5.45%) LAN Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Network Consultant
9 2 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Juniper Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) LAN/WAN Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (9.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 5 (9.09%) STL
3 4 (7.27%) Middleware
4 2 (3.64%) 802.1X
4 2 (3.64%) JSON
5 1 (1.82%) LDAP
5 1 (1.82%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.82%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Data Centre
2 9 (16.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (7.27%) Hedge funds
5 3 (5.45%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.64%) Derivative
6 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) TWAP
6 2 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.64%) VWAP
7 1 (1.82%) Clustering
7 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.82%) Equities
7 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) Low Latency
2 10 (18.18%) Migration
2 10 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 9 (16.36%) High Availability
3 9 (16.36%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (12.73%) Configuration Management
4 7 (12.73%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (10.91%) Algorithmic Trading
5 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
6 5 (9.09%) Change Control
6 5 (9.09%) Market Making
6 5 (9.09%) Network Design
6 5 (9.09%) Risk Management
7 4 (7.27%) Change Management
7 4 (7.27%) High-Frequency Trading
7 4 (7.27%) ITIL
7 4 (7.27%) Validation
8 3 (5.45%) CI/CD
8 3 (5.45%) Decision-Making
8 3 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Python
2 7 (12.73%) C++
3 5 (9.09%) Java
4 4 (7.27%) Perl
5 3 (5.45%) Bash
6 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.64%) SQL
7 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (23.64%) CCIE
3 6 (10.91%) CCNP
4 5 (9.09%) CCIE Service Provider
5 3 (5.45%) Degree
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.64%) JNCIA
6 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (7.27%) Firmware
2 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (43.64%) Ansible
2 7 (12.73%) ZABBIX
3 5 (9.09%) Puppet
4 3 (5.45%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.64%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.64%) Icinga
5 2 (3.64%) Nagios
5 2 (3.64%) Observium
6 1 (1.82%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (54.55%) Cisco
2 26 (47.27%) Arista
3 12 (21.82%) Fortinet
4 10 (18.18%) Palo Alto
5 8 (14.55%) F5
6 7 (12.73%) SolarWinds
7 5 (9.09%) Nokia
7 5 (9.09%) Solace
8 4 (7.27%) CheckPoint
9 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
10 2 (3.64%) Juniper
10 2 (3.64%) McAfee
10 2 (3.64%) Splunk
10 2 (3.64%) VMware
11 1 (1.82%) Bloomberg
11 1 (1.82%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (1.82%) Refinitiv