Multicast Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Multicast
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Multicast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 148 189
Rank change year-on-year -57 +41 +45
Contract jobs citing Multicast 9 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.18% 0.33% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.49% 1.95% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £630
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -16.67% +40.00%
75th Percentile £495 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £634 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -2.54% -3.70% +8.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 603 563 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.11% 16.88% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 325 505
10th Percentile £184 £163 £233
25th Percentile £319 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £680 £650 £671
England median daily rate £492 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -1.60% +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.19 £13.87
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.25 £17.59
Median hourly rate £27.25 £24.76 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% +2.10% +128.13%
75th Percentile £63.56 £41.50 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.30 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.65
% change year-on-year -14.29% -32.24% +140.24%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Multicast job vacancy trend in the North of England

Multicast
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Multicast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Multicast

Multicast
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Multicast.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Multicast

Multicast
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multicast within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 January 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
North West -30 8 £490 -6.67% 3
Yorkshire -53 1 - -
Multicast
England

Multicast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CICS
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) VPN
2 7 (77.78%) BGP
2 7 (77.78%) DMZ
2 7 (77.78%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (11.11%) DWDM
4 1 (11.11%) FCoE
4 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (11.11%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) NAS
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Network Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco Security Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Data Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Data Network Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Network Security Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Web Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Django
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) MVS
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Load Balancing
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (11.11%) Network Design
2 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (11.11%) Observability
2 1 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (11.11%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) KVM
1 1 (11.11%) NFS
1 1 (11.11%) SRDF
1 1 (11.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
1 1 (11.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (88.89%) F5
3 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Arista
4 1 (11.11%) EMC
4 1 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) NetApp
4 1 (11.11%) NetScout
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Pure Storage
4 1 (11.11%) SevOne
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk