Multicast Contract Job Trends in the North West

Multicast
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 141 111 138
Rank change year-on-year -30 +27 +32
Contract jobs citing Multicast 8 11 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.31% 0.53% 0.036%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.22% 3.15% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 360 349 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.79% 16.82% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 190 316
10th Percentile £183 £200 £275
25th Percentile £356 £350 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +0.76%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £615
90th Percentile £668 £600 £672
England median daily rate £492 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -1.60% +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.74 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.94 £24.76 £41.23
Median % change year-on-year +69.39% -39.95% +99.13%
75th Percentile £67.25 £51.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.90 £49.38
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 West

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

Multicast job vacancy trend in the North West

Multicast
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Multicast
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Multicast
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Merseyside -11 7 - -
Cheshire - 1 £490 - 2
Multicast
England

Multicast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) VPN
2 7 (87.50%) BGP
2 7 (87.50%) DMZ
2 7 (87.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) DWDM
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
General
1 5 (62.50%) Banking
1 5 (62.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Data Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Data Network Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Network Security Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Web Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Django
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Load Balancing
2 1 (12.50%) Network Design
2 1 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (87.50%) F5
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) NetScout
3 1 (12.50%) SevOne
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) VMware