Unicast Contracts in London

Unicast
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Unicast skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unicast over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 - 453
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Unicast 7 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.052% - 0.047%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.51% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £575 - £379
25th Percentile £600 - £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 - £600
75th Percentile £669 - £696
90th Percentile £715 - £750
England median daily rate £654 - £600

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,371 1,539 2,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.20% 9.49% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 1,020 1,716
10th Percentile £289 £250 £251
25th Percentile £400 £380 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £630 £623 £663
90th Percentile £713 £713 £750
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 32 38
10th Percentile £20.32 £16.24 £18.40
25th Percentile - £20.00 £22.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £33.65
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -29.26% +40.72%
75th Percentile £50.00 £49.50 £69.25
90th Percentile £62.05 £64.50 £80.90
England median hourly rate £43.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.73% -0.23% +57.14%

Unicast
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Unicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Unicast 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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unicast in London over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unicast in London

Unicast
DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 4 £659 -
Unicast
England

Unicast
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) Multicast
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Change Control
2 4 (57.14%) Business Case
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CCIE
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Icinga
2 2 (28.57%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) Observium
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Arista
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft