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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 466 576
Rank change year-on-year -83 +110 +8
Contract jobs citing Multicast 106 68 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.16% 1.80% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 45 7
10th Percentile £400 £424 £400
25th Percentile £428 £500 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.00% -29.60%
75th Percentile £613 £661 £457
90th Percentile £712 £800 £555
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £420
% change year-on-year -2.38% +25.00% +29.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
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 4,897 3,788 5,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 12.32% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,987 2,310 3,177
10th Percentile £250 £230 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.19%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +1.91% -3.62% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 180 431
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.34 £23.56 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.66 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.76% - +114.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.31 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £80.10 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.22 £36.57 £47.50
% change year-on-year -28.31% -23.01% +115.91%

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

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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 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in the UK

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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

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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 1 July 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 -85 100 £538 -2.27% 25
London -75 50 £575 - 17
UK excluding London -61 48 £513 -2.38% 13
North of England -44 38 £575 +5.99% 3
North West -10 36 £575 +5.99% 2
Work from Home -35 35 £480 -4.00% 15
West Midlands - 34 £413 -
Midlands - 34 £413 - 1
South East -61 5 £525 +13.51% 5
East of England -21 2 £500 +42.86% 1
South West -34 2 £600 +12.15% 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1

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 1 (0.94%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.43%) AWS
2 8 (7.55%) Azure
3 7 (6.60%) GCP
4 2 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (1.89%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.89%) IBM Watson
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.94%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.94%) IaaS
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.94%) OCI
5 1 (0.94%) PaaS
5 1 (0.94%) SaaS
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (66.98%) BGP
2 51 (48.11%) Firewall
3 49 (46.23%) VPN
4 39 (36.79%) DMZ
5 35 (33.02%) DNS
6 32 (30.19%) WAN
7 30 (28.30%) OSPF
8 19 (17.92%) MPLS
9 16 (15.09%) LAN
9 16 (15.09%) Network Security
10 15 (14.15%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (12.26%) EIGRP
11 13 (12.26%) VLAN
12 12 (11.32%) VXLAN
13 9 (8.49%) IGMP
14 7 (6.60%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (6.60%) HSRP
15 6 (5.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 6 (5.66%) VRRP
15 6 (5.66%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.72%) KDB
2 2 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.94%) Kdb+
3 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Git
1 4 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.83%) JIRA
3 2 (1.89%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.89%) GitLab
4 1 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 33 (31.13%) Banking
2 32 (30.19%) Finance
3 25 (23.58%) Investment Banking
4 11 (10.38%) Financial Institution
4 11 (10.38%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.43%) Front Office
6 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.89%) Aviation
8 2 (1.89%) Billing
8 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 71 (66.98%) Network Engineer
2 38 (35.85%) Cisco Engineer
2 38 (35.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 37 (34.91%) Data Network Engineer
4 34 (32.08%) Network Security Engineer
4 34 (32.08%) Security Engineer
5 33 (31.13%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 33 (31.13%) Data Engineer
5 33 (31.13%) Senior
6 16 (15.09%) Senior Network Engineer
6 16 (15.09%) Web Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Developer
8 7 (6.60%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Architect
11 4 (3.77%) Data Centre Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Middleware Engineer
12 3 (2.83%) Juniper Engineer
12 3 (2.83%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (6.60%) Ultra Messaging
3 4 (3.77%) 802.1X
3 4 (3.77%) Middleware
4 2 (1.89%) .NET
4 2 (1.89%) Django
5 1 (0.94%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.81%) Data Centre
2 11 (10.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.60%) Equities
5 6 (5.66%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.72%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.83%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Replication
9 1 (0.94%) CCTV
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) MPEG
9 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.38%) Linux
2 4 (3.77%) Unix
3 3 (2.83%) Windows
4 2 (1.89%) VMS
5 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (43.40%) Load Balancing
2 33 (31.13%) Low Latency
3 15 (14.15%) Electronic Trading
4 12 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (9.43%) High Availability
5 10 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (6.60%) Algorithmic Trading
6 7 (6.60%) Multithreading
6 7 (6.60%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (6.60%) Project Delivery
6 7 (6.60%) Roadmaps
7 6 (5.66%) Data Protection
7 6 (5.66%) Migration
7 6 (5.66%) Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (5.66%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (5.66%) Validation
8 5 (4.72%) CI/CD
8 5 (4.72%) Network Management
8 5 (4.72%) Network Optimisation
8 5 (4.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.75%) Python
2 10 (9.43%) Java
3 5 (4.72%) SQL
4 4 (3.77%) Bash
4 4 (3.77%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.83%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.89%) C++
6 2 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (15.09%) CCNP
3 10 (9.43%) CCIE
4 8 (7.55%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.72%) Degree
6 4 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.89%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.89%) CCIP
8 2 (1.89%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.94%) CCDA
9 1 (0.94%) CCDP
9 1 (0.94%) CCNA
9 1 (0.94%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.94%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.77%) NCSC
2 2 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) GRC
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.83%) vSphere
3 2 (1.89%) Firmware
3 2 (1.89%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.94%) Docker
4 1 (0.94%) GridGain
4 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (16.98%) Ansible
2 8 (7.55%) Terraform
3 5 (4.72%) Grafana
3 5 (4.72%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (4.72%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.83%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.89%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.89%) Iperf
5 2 (1.89%) Nmap
5 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.89%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.94%) CASB
6 1 (0.94%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 75 (70.75%) Cisco
2 60 (56.60%) F5
3 32 (30.19%) Arista
4 27 (25.47%) Palo Alto
5 26 (24.53%) Fortinet
6 13 (12.26%) CheckPoint
7 8 (7.55%) Juniper
8 6 (5.66%) Splunk
8 6 (5.66%) VMware
9 5 (4.72%) Solace
10 4 (3.77%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.83%) Dell
11 3 (2.83%) McAfee
11 3 (2.83%) Meraki
11 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
11 3 (2.83%) SevOne
12 2 (1.89%) IBM
12 2 (1.89%) ION Trading
12 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.89%) TIBCO