Multicast Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Multicast
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Multicast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 333 408
Rank change year-on-year -47 +75 +72
Contract jobs citing Multicast 7 25 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.17% 0.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 1.05% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile £448 £500 £428
25th Percentile £500 £506 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £550 £630
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% -12.70% +29.23%
75th Percentile £650 - £728
90th Percentile £650 £565 £786
UK median daily rate £575 £627 £700
% change year-on-year -8.29% -10.43% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,232 2,379 3,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.30% 16.02% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 1,343 2,083
10th Percentile £200 £196 £205
25th Percentile £300 £319 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £596
90th Percentile £643 £650 £683
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 120 271
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.22 £17.72
25th Percentile £17.83 £21.41 £24.67
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -38.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £67.96 £64.06 £66.25
90th Percentile £83.53 £72.63 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -8.57% -37.99% +37.57%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Multicast job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Multicast
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Multicast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Multicast

Multicast
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in the UK excluding London

Multicast
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Multicast.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Multicast

Multicast
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multicast within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South East -17 3 £650 +18.18% 3
West Midlands -31 2 £617 +23.40% 1
Midlands -45 2 £617 +23.40% 1
North of England -49 2 - - 1
North West -41 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -51 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £425 -
Multicast
UK

Multicast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CICS
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) BGP
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (57.14%) MPLS
3 4 (57.14%) OSPF
3 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 3 (42.86%) VLAN
4 3 (42.86%) Wireshark
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (28.57%) DNS
5 2 (28.57%) WAN
6 1 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (14.29%) FCoE
6 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
6 1 (14.29%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Validation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) MVS
2 1 (14.29%) Solaris
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
3 1 (14.29%) Server Patching
3 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) KVM
2 1 (14.29%) NFS
2 1 (14.29%) SRDF
2 1 (14.29%) Terminal Services
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (14.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Iperf
2 3 (42.86%) Nmap
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Nessus
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
3 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
4 3 (42.86%) F5
4 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
4 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
5 2 (28.57%) VMware
6 1 (14.29%) Dell
6 1 (14.29%) EMC
6 1 (14.29%) Google
6 1 (14.29%) IBM
6 1 (14.29%) Meraki
6 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 1 (14.29%) NetApp
6 1 (14.29%) Oracle
6 1 (14.29%) Pure Storage
6 1 (14.29%) Veeam