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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 307 367
Rank change year-on-year -45 +60 +39
Contract jobs citing Multicast 42 44 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.35% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.07% 3.42% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 17
10th Percentile - £489 £438
25th Percentile £400 £508 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £718 £750 £750
90th Percentile £879 - -
England median daily rate £506 £580 £700
% change year-on-year -12.76% -17.14% +12.00%

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 1,370 1,287 1,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.22% 10.18% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 828 1,164
10th Percentile £283 £263 £205
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 15 64
10th Percentile £20.18 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £26.54 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.47 £39.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.52% +79.55% -34.81%
75th Percentile £40.75 £49.38 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £36.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.22% -8.75% +110.53%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 1 £610 +3.57% 7
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 6 (14.29%) AWS
2 4 (9.52%) Azure
2 4 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.38%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 23 (54.76%) BGP
1 23 (54.76%) Firewall
2 19 (45.24%) OSPF
3 17 (40.48%) WAN
4 13 (30.95%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (26.19%) LAN
6 10 (23.81%) MPLS
6 10 (23.81%) Network Security
7 9 (21.43%) EIGRP
7 9 (21.43%) IGMP
7 9 (21.43%) TCP/IP
8 6 (14.29%) HSRP
8 6 (14.29%) VXLAN
8 6 (14.29%) Wireshark
9 5 (11.90%) VPN
9 5 (11.90%) VRRP
10 4 (9.52%) DMZ
10 4 (9.52%) tcpdump
11 2 (4.76%) NAS
11 2 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) KDB
2 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.38%) Kdb+
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
1 5 (11.90%) GitLab
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) Maven
3 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.38%) GCC
3 1 (2.38%) GDB
3 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (54.76%) Finance
2 15 (35.71%) Banking
3 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 13 (30.95%) Front Office
5 9 (21.43%) Financial Institution
6 6 (14.29%) Investment Banking
7 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.38%) International Banking
8 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Senior
2 14 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Data Network Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (2.38%) Network Administrator
7 1 (2.38%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (16.67%) Ultra Messaging
3 5 (11.90%) Middleware
4 1 (2.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (2.38%) Django
4 1 (2.38%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (2.38%) React
4 1 (2.38%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 7 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (9.52%) Derivative
3 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.14%) Equities
5 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (4.76%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.38%) CCTV
6 1 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.38%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) VMS
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Low Latency
2 10 (23.81%) Electronic Trading
3 9 (21.43%) Algorithmic Trading
3 9 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (16.67%) DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.90%) Load Balancing
6 5 (11.90%) Observability
6 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
6 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
7 4 (9.52%) Benchmarking
7 4 (9.52%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (9.52%) Migration
7 4 (9.52%) Multithreading
7 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.52%) Service-Level Objective
7 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) Python
2 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (14.29%) Bash
3 6 (14.29%) Java
3 6 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (7.14%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) C++
5 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) CCIE
1 5 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.38%) PMP
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) EMIR
1 3 (7.14%) MiFID
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
1 1 (2.38%) GridGain
1 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Ansible
2 9 (21.43%) Prometheus
3 8 (19.05%) Grafana
4 5 (11.90%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (9.52%) Terraform
6 3 (7.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
8 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (52.38%) Cisco
2 16 (38.10%) F5
3 15 (35.71%) Arista
4 13 (30.95%) Palo Alto
5 9 (21.43%) CheckPoint
6 7 (16.67%) Fortinet
7 6 (14.29%) Solace
8 5 (11.90%) Juniper
9 4 (9.52%) TIBCO
10 3 (7.14%) Bloomberg
10 3 (7.14%) Dell
10 3 (7.14%) NYFIX
10 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
10 3 (7.14%) Refinitiv
11 2 (4.76%) SevOne
12 1 (2.38%) Citrix
12 1 (2.38%) IBM
12 1 (2.38%) Meraki
12 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
12 1 (2.38%) Splunk