Multicast Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Multicast
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Multicast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 109 134
Rank change year-on-year -51 +25 +62
Contract jobs citing Multicast 2 13 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.064% 0.57% 0.038%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.50% 4.02% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £584 - £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £500 £800
Median % change year-on-year +23.40% -37.50% +60.00%
75th Percentile £651 - £825
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £639 £700
% change year-on-year +1.80% -8.79% +12.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 399 323 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.67% 14.06% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 176 288
10th Percentile £163 £168 £211
25th Percentile £295 £255 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -3.95%
75th Percentile £513 £588 £554
90th Percentile £582 £701 £675
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 28
10th Percentile £16.20 £13.40 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.28 £20.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +5.13% -5.15%
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £34.20 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -17.07% -26.39% +23.78%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Multicast job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Multicast
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Multicast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Multicast

Multicast
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Multicast.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Multicast

Multicast
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multicast within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Midlands -35 2 £617 +23.40% 2
Multicast
England

Multicast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware