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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 331 363
Rank change year-on-year -35 +32 +70
Contract jobs citing Multicast 23 30 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.81% 2.21% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 33
10th Percentile £463 £469 £525
25th Percentile £480 £616 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £806 £750 £750
90th Percentile £906 - -
England median daily rate £617 £639 £675
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.41% +8.00%

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 1,269 1,360 1,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.68% 9.75% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 816 1,268
10th Percentile £283 £261 £213
25th Percentile £409 £400 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -0.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £628 £625
90th Percentile £694 £725 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 66
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.02 £18.93
25th Percentile - £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +25.00% +1.13%
75th Percentile £35.82 £39.75 £59.69
90th Percentile £87.25 £43.75 £74.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -36.36% +150.00%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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
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 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) TCP/IP
2 6 (26.09%) BGP
3 5 (21.74%) OSPF
3 5 (21.74%) Wireshark
4 4 (17.39%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (17.39%) tcpdump
4 4 (17.39%) VXLAN
5 3 (13.04%) Firewall
6 2 (8.70%) IPv6
6 2 (8.70%) LAN
6 2 (8.70%) VPN
6 2 (8.70%) WAN
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (4.35%) DWDM
7 1 (4.35%) HSRP
7 1 (4.35%) IGMP
7 1 (4.35%) MPLS
7 1 (4.35%) NAS
7 1 (4.35%) SAN
7 1 (4.35%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) KDB
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
1 4 (17.39%) GitLab
2 3 (13.04%) GCC
2 3 (13.04%) GDB
3 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Maven
3 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Front Office
3 8 (34.78%) Banking
4 6 (26.09%) Finance
5 4 (17.39%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.70%) International Banking
7 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.35%) Retail
7 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Network Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) C++ Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) C++ Quantitative Developer
5 1 (4.35%) CCTV Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Core Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Java Quantitative Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (26.09%) Middleware
3 4 (17.39%) Ultra Messaging
4 3 (13.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (13.04%) STL
5 1 (4.35%) Django
5 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (17.39%) Derivative
2 4 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (13.04%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.35%) CCTV
5 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (4.35%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (4.35%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) VMS
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Low Latency
2 7 (30.43%) Algorithmic Trading
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Electronic Trading
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (26.09%) Roadmaps
4 5 (21.74%) Benchmarking
4 5 (21.74%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (21.74%) High Availability
4 5 (21.74%) Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Observability
4 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
5 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Service-Level Objective
5 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) C++
5 2 (8.70%) Java
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) CCIE
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CCIE Data Center
2 1 (4.35%) CCNP
2 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.35%) PMP
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) EMIR
1 3 (13.04%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) KVM
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
3 4 (17.39%) Grafana
4 3 (13.04%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (4.35%) Terraform
5 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Arista
1 6 (26.09%) Solace
2 5 (21.74%) Cisco
3 4 (17.39%) TIBCO
4 3 (13.04%) Bloomberg
4 3 (13.04%) NYFIX
4 3 (13.04%) Refinitiv
5 2 (8.70%) F5
5 2 (8.70%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.70%) VMware
6 1 (4.35%) Dell
6 1 (4.35%) IBM
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.35%) NetScout
6 1 (4.35%) NVIDIA
6 1 (4.35%) SevOne
6 1 (4.35%) Splunk