Multicast Contract Job Trends

Multicast
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Multicast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 502 530
Rank change year-on-year -80 +28 +51
Contract jobs citing Multicast 104 55 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.17% 0.083%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.05% 1.45% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 41 14
10th Percentile £413 £423 £432
25th Percentile £454 £500 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile £676 £775 £550
90th Percentile £716 £800 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -22.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £36.63 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.10% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £39.69 -
90th Percentile - £39.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,079 3,805 4,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 11.55% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,940 2,363 2,666
10th Percentile £231 £225 £225
25th Percentile £392 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 199 252
10th Percentile £14.30 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -16.67% -9.72%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -30.59% -25.89% -0.26%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Multicast job vacancy trend in the UK

Multicast
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Multicast
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in the UK

Multicast
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Multicast
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 September 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
England -53 103 £600 +2.13% 121
London -56 59 £600 -7.69% 97
UK excluding London -80 41 £575 +4.55% 33
North of England -38 31 £575 +4.55% 5
North West -24 29 £575 +4.55% 2
Work from Home -49 27 £600 +22.14% 22
West Midlands -19 26 - - 3
Midlands -21 26 - - 3
South East -61 5 £600 +4.35% 15
East of England -28 2 £500 +42.86%
Yorkshire -36 2 - - 3
South West -37 2 £600 +9.09% 3

Multicast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.69%) AWS
2 7 (6.73%) Azure
2 7 (6.73%) GCP
3 2 (1.92%) IBM Watson
3 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.96%) OCI
4 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (57.69%) BGP
2 39 (37.50%) Firewall
3 38 (36.54%) VPN
4 30 (28.85%) VLAN
4 30 (28.85%) WAN
5 29 (27.88%) DMZ
5 29 (27.88%) DNS
6 21 (20.19%) OSPF
7 10 (9.62%) VXLAN
7 10 (9.62%) Wireless
8 9 (8.65%) MPLS
8 9 (8.65%) Network Security
8 9 (8.65%) Spanning Tree
8 9 (8.65%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (7.69%) Cisco Wireless
9 8 (7.69%) LAN
10 6 (5.77%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (5.77%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (5.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) KDB
2 2 (1.92%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Artifactory
1 2 (1.92%) Git
1 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (31.73%) Finance
2 31 (29.81%) Banking
3 24 (23.08%) Investment Banking
4 13 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 11 (10.58%) Front Office
6 9 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.81%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.81%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.92%) Billing
8 2 (1.92%) French Language
9 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 35 (33.65%) Cisco Engineer
2 35 (33.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 33 (31.73%) Senior
4 27 (25.96%) Data Network Engineer
5 26 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 26 (25.00%) Security Engineer
6 25 (24.04%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 25 (24.04%) Data Engineer
6 25 (24.04%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (11.54%) Web Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Developer
8 7 (6.73%) Implementation Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Core Network Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Middleware Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Firewall Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.62%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (6.73%) Ultra Messaging
3 5 (4.81%) Middleware
3 5 (4.81%) Terraform
4 4 (3.85%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.92%) .NET
5 2 (1.92%) eBPF
5 2 (1.92%) HTML
5 2 (1.92%) HTML5
5 2 (1.92%) NETCONF
5 2 (1.92%) REST
5 2 (1.92%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 28 (26.92%) Data Centre
2 19 (18.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (7.69%) Digital Signage
3 8 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.73%) Equities
5 6 (5.77%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.81%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.88%) Replication
9 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.92%) Derivative
9 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.92%) Social Media
10 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.96%) CCTV
10 1 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.96%) Eurex
10 1 (0.96%) MPEG
10 1 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.62%) Windows
2 8 (7.69%) Linux
3 4 (3.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.69%) Load Balancing
2 31 (29.81%) Low Latency
3 14 (13.46%) Electronic Trading
3 14 (13.46%) Migration
3 14 (13.46%) Project Delivery
4 11 (10.58%) Validation
5 9 (8.65%) Algorithmic Trading
5 9 (8.65%) High Availability
6 8 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (7.69%) Use Case
7 7 (6.73%) Multithreading
7 7 (6.73%) Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (5.77%) Change Management
8 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (5.77%) Network Optimisation
8 6 (5.77%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (4.81%) Agile
9 5 (4.81%) Data Protection
9 5 (4.81%) Network Design
9 5 (4.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.23%) Python
2 9 (8.65%) Java
3 7 (6.73%) SQL
4 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.92%) C#
6 2 (1.92%) C++
6 2 (1.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (11.54%) CCNP
3 6 (5.77%) CCIE
4 5 (4.81%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.85%) Degree
6 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.92%) CCNA
8 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.88%) vSphere
3 2 (1.92%) KVM
4 1 (0.96%) Firmware
4 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (9.62%) Ansible
2 8 (7.69%) Cisco Prime
3 6 (5.77%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.92%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.92%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (1.92%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.96%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (66.35%) Cisco
2 45 (43.27%) F5
3 33 (31.73%) Arista
4 18 (17.31%) Fortinet
5 15 (14.42%) Palo Alto
6 6 (5.77%) Aruba
6 6 (5.77%) Splunk
7 5 (4.81%) Solace
8 4 (3.85%) Bloomberg
8 4 (3.85%) VMware
9 3 (2.88%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.88%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.88%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.92%) IBM
10 2 (1.92%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.92%) McAfee
10 2 (1.92%) NetScout
10 2 (1.92%) NYFIX
10 2 (1.92%) Peplink
10 2 (1.92%) TIBCO