Multicast Contracts in the UK excluding London

Multicast
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Multicast skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Multicast over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 397 407
Rank change year-on-year +66 +10 +89
Contract jobs citing Multicast 11 1 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.005% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.53% 0.030% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 11
10th Percentile £405 - £263
25th Percentile £488 £410 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £325
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +29.23% -43.48%
75th Percentile £550 £430 £466
90th Percentile £560 - £626
UK median daily rate £550 £444 £625
% change year-on-year +23.94% -29.00% -

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 2,085 3,294 3,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.55% 15.43% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,251 1,853 2,204
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £313 £350 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +2.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £689
UK median daily rate £485 £495 £513
% change year-on-year -2.02% -3.41% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 358 299
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.43 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +150.00% -11.63%
75th Percentile £64.06 £65.00 £61.35
90th Percentile £81.35 £73.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.32 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.70% +110.53% -26.92%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Multicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Multicast in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Multicast in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Multicast in the UK excluding London

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 14 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Multicast in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Multicast in the UK excluding London

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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 14 June 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
North West - 7 £543 -
North of England - 7 £543 - 1
South West - 6 £535 -
South East +52 2 £463 +10.12% 55
East of England - 2 £350 - 4
Multicast
UK

Multicast
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Akamai
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) BGP
2 5 (45.45%) OSPF
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
3 4 (36.36%) MPLS
4 3 (27.27%) DNS
4 3 (27.27%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (27.27%) LAN
4 3 (27.27%) Network Security
5 2 (18.18%) Broadband
5 2 (18.18%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (18.18%) DMZ
5 2 (18.18%) DWDM
5 2 (18.18%) Firewall
5 2 (18.18%) Internet
5 2 (18.18%) IPv6
5 2 (18.18%) SSL
5 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (18.18%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) LAN Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) 802.1X
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Change Management
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
1 2 (18.18%) Migration
1 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
2 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
2 1 (9.09%) Coaching
2 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
2 1 (9.09%) Due Diligence
2 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
2 1 (9.09%) Network Management
2 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
2 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
2 1 (9.09%) Product Management
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (9.09%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Perl
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) CCIE
3 2 (18.18%) CCNP
4 1 (9.09%) CCDP
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Nagios
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) Arista
3 3 (27.27%) F5
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
5 1 (9.09%) AirMagnet
5 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
5 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
5 1 (9.09%) Citrix
5 1 (9.09%) Ekahau
5 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 1 (9.09%) Juniper
5 1 (9.09%) McAfee
5 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 1 (9.09%) Riverbed
5 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (9.09%) Splunk
5 1 (9.09%) VMware
5 1 (9.09%) Zscaler