Unicast Contract Job Trends in London

Unicast
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Unicast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 380 387
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +177
Contract jobs citing Unicast 2 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.007% 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.066% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 14
10th Percentile £583 - £403
25th Percentile £595 £614 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £627 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +4.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £654 £641 £626
90th Percentile £660 - £720
England median daily rate £630 £604 £600
% change year-on-year +4.31% +0.58% -7.69%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

Unicast 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 1,288 1,521 2,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.03% 9.96% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 936 1,363
10th Percentile £312 £256 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £484 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 13 56
10th Percentile £20.76 £23.87 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.41 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +35.92% +3.00%
75th Percentile £33.19 £43.75 £60.44
90th Percentile £62.35 £76.91 £76.88
England median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -20.00% -24.65% +27.03%

Unicast
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unicast relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Unicast job vacancy trend in London

Unicast
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unicast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unicast

Unicast
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 Unicast within the London region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 +2 1 £659 +5.10% 1
Unicast
England

Unicast
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Case
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Arista
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft