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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 377 396
Rank change year-on-year +56 +19 +114
Contract jobs citing Multicast 41 7 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.043% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.10% 0.46% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 3 35
10th Percentile £419 £563 £385
25th Percentile £525 £568 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £645
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -6.98% +3.20%
75th Percentile £800 £813 £738
90th Percentile £810 £925 £750
England median daily rate £588 £500 £638
% change year-on-year +17.50% -21.57% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - -
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
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 1,323 1,529 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.84% 9.39% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 973 1,583
10th Percentile £289 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £390 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £721 £750
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 43
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.50
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

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

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +12 11 £657 -34.35% 2
East London - 4 £535 -
South London - 1 £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 (4.88%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Azure
3 3 (7.32%) GCP
3 3 (7.32%) GitHub
4 2 (4.88%) SaaS
4 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (51.22%) BGP
2 19 (46.34%) OSPF
3 13 (31.71%) Ethernet VPN
3 13 (31.71%) VXLAN
4 12 (29.27%) Firewall
5 7 (17.07%) WAN
6 6 (14.63%) LAN
7 5 (12.20%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (12.20%) IGMP
7 5 (12.20%) MPLS
7 5 (12.20%) Unicast
7 5 (12.20%) VPN
8 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
8 4 (9.76%) VLAN
9 3 (7.32%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (7.32%) IPsec
10 2 (4.88%) Junos
10 2 (4.88%) Network Security
10 2 (4.88%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (4.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) KDB
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) GCC
1 7 (17.07%) GDB
2 5 (12.20%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (9.76%) Git
4 3 (7.32%) GitLab
5 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 13 (31.71%) Banking
3 11 (26.83%) Finance
4 7 (17.07%) Front Office
5 6 (14.63%) International Banking
6 5 (12.20%) Investment Banking
7 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Network Engineer
2 11 (26.83%) Developer
2 11 (26.83%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) C++ Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Consultant
5 4 (9.76%) Senior Consultant
5 4 (9.76%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Implementation Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Juniper Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) LAN Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) LAN/WAN Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Network Specialist
7 2 (4.88%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Network Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (17.07%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 7 (17.07%) Middleware
2 7 (17.07%) STL
3 2 (4.88%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (2.44%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Data Centre
2 11 (26.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (17.07%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (7.32%) Algorithms
5 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.88%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.88%) TWAP
6 2 (4.88%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (4.88%) VWAP
7 1 (2.44%) Clustering
7 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.44%) Equities
7 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
7 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.83%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Low Latency
2 13 (31.71%) High Availability
3 9 (21.95%) Electronic Trading
4 7 (17.07%) Change Control
4 7 (17.07%) Risk Management
4 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
5 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (12.20%) DevOps
7 4 (9.76%) Algorithmic Trading
7 4 (9.76%) Change Management
8 3 (7.32%) Business Case
8 3 (7.32%) CI/CD
8 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (7.32%) Market Making
8 3 (7.32%) Multithreading
8 3 (7.32%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (7.32%) Project Management
9 2 (4.88%) Project Delivery
9 2 (4.88%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) C++
3 2 (4.88%) Java
3 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.44%) Bash
4 1 (2.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) CCIE
1 7 (17.07%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.32%) CCNP
3 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) JNCIA
3 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Firmware
2 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.32%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.44%) KVM
Systems Management
1 16 (39.02%) Ansible
2 3 (7.32%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (4.88%) HAProxy
3 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.44%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) Icinga
4 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.44%) Nagios
4 1 (2.44%) Observium
4 1 (2.44%) Terraform
4 1 (2.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (53.66%) Arista
2 15 (36.59%) Cisco
3 8 (19.51%) Solace
4 7 (17.07%) Palo Alto
5 5 (12.20%) F5
5 5 (12.20%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.32%) VMware
7 2 (4.88%) Juniper
8 1 (2.44%) Bloomberg
8 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.44%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.44%) McAfee
8 1 (2.44%) NVIDIA
8 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.44%) Refinitiv
8 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.44%) Splunk
8 1 (2.44%) TIBCO