Multicast Contracts

Multicast
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 576 585
Rank change year-on-year +108 +9 +167
Contract jobs citing Multicast 68 15 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.035% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.77% 0.28% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 7 63
10th Percentile £424 £400 £350
25th Percentile £500 £405 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £440 £625
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -29.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £661 £457 £681
90th Percentile £800 £555 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £420 £325
% change year-on-year +25.00% +29.23% -40.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £34.25
75th Percentile £39.69 - £37.38
90th Percentile £39.88 - £38.95
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 3,837 5,390 7,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.45% 12.49% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,310 3,177 4,614
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.62% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 431 433
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.89 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +114.29% -27.59%
75th Percentile £60.97 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.93 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -32.79% +115.91% -2.22%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Multicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Multicast in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Multicast.

Daily rate trend for Multicast in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Multicast.

Hourly rate trend for Multicast in the UK

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Top 9 Contract 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 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
England +113 66 £550 +25.00% 191
London +92 55 £575 +43.75% 155
Work from Home +57 21 £500 +11.61% 44
UK excluding London +49 11 £525 +25.00% 39
North of England - 7 £543 - 2
North West - 7 £543 -
South West - 6 £535 - 1
South East +54 2 £463 +10.12% 28
East of England - 2 £350 - 6

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.94%) nginx
2 1 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.71%) AWS
2 5 (7.35%) Azure
3 3 (4.41%) GCP
3 3 (4.41%) GitHub
4 2 (2.94%) SaaS
4 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Akamai
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (67.65%) BGP
2 39 (57.35%) OSPF
3 29 (42.65%) Firewall
4 22 (32.35%) VPN
5 20 (29.41%) MPLS
6 15 (22.06%) Ethernet VPN
6 15 (22.06%) WAN
7 14 (20.59%) IGMP
8 13 (19.12%) LAN
9 12 (17.65%) VXLAN
10 11 (16.18%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (11.76%) HSRP
11 8 (11.76%) IPsec
11 8 (11.76%) VRRP
12 7 (10.29%) Broadband
12 7 (10.29%) DNS
12 7 (10.29%) IPv6
13 6 (8.82%) Network Security
13 6 (8.82%) VLAN
14 5 (7.35%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) KDB
1 1 (1.47%) MySQL
1 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (7.35%) GCC
2 5 (7.35%) GDB
3 4 (5.88%) Git
3 4 (5.88%) GitLab
4 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.47%) JMeter
General
1 22 (32.35%) Finance
2 17 (25.00%) Banking
3 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Front Office
6 4 (5.88%) International Banking
7 3 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (61.76%) Network Engineer
2 15 (22.06%) Implementation Engineer
3 14 (20.59%) Cisco Engineer
3 14 (20.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 13 (19.12%) Senior
5 10 (14.71%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 9 (13.24%) Developer
7 7 (10.29%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) Principal Network Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) C++ Developer
8 6 (8.82%) Senior Network Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) WAN Engineer
9 5 (7.35%) Consultant
10 4 (5.88%) LAN Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
11 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Network Consultant
11 3 (4.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Network Security Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.18%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (7.35%) 802.1X
2 5 (7.35%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 5 (7.35%) STL
3 4 (5.88%) Middleware
4 2 (2.94%) JSON
5 1 (1.47%) HTML
5 1 (1.47%) LDAP
5 1 (1.47%) REST
5 1 (1.47%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.47%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.94%) Data Centre
2 9 (13.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (7.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (5.88%) Hedge funds
5 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.94%) Derivative
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) TWAP
6 2 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.94%) VWAP
7 1 (1.47%) Clustering
7 1 (1.47%) Equities
7 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.76%) Low Latency
2 13 (19.12%) Migration
3 11 (16.18%) Network Monitoring
3 11 (16.18%) Project Delivery
4 9 (13.24%) High Availability
5 7 (10.29%) Configuration Management
5 7 (10.29%) Electronic Trading
6 6 (8.82%) Algorithmic Trading
6 6 (8.82%) Change Management
6 6 (8.82%) Test Automation
7 5 (7.35%) Change Control
7 5 (7.35%) Market Making
7 5 (7.35%) Network Design
7 5 (7.35%) Risk Management
7 5 (7.35%) Roadmaps
7 5 (7.35%) Validation
8 4 (5.88%) Decision-Making
8 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (5.88%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) Python
2 7 (10.29%) C++
3 5 (7.35%) Java
3 5 (7.35%) Perl
4 3 (4.41%) Bash
4 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.94%) SQL
6 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (30.88%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (23.53%) CCIE
3 9 (13.24%) CCNP
4 5 (7.35%) CCIE Service Provider
5 4 (5.88%) Degree
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.94%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.47%) CCDP
7 1 (1.47%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Firmware
2 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.94%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (41.18%) Ansible
2 7 (10.29%) ZABBIX
3 5 (7.35%) Puppet
4 4 (5.88%) Nagios
5 3 (4.41%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.94%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.94%) Icinga
6 2 (2.94%) Observium
6 2 (2.94%) Terraform
7 1 (1.47%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (61.76%) Cisco
2 31 (45.59%) Arista
3 13 (19.12%) Fortinet
4 11 (16.18%) F5
4 11 (16.18%) Palo Alto
5 9 (13.24%) SolarWinds
6 5 (7.35%) CheckPoint
6 5 (7.35%) Nokia
6 5 (7.35%) Solace
7 3 (4.41%) Juniper
7 3 (4.41%) McAfee
7 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
7 3 (4.41%) Splunk
7 3 (4.41%) VMware
8 1 (1.47%) AirMagnet
8 1 (1.47%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.47%) Blue Coat
8 1 (1.47%) Citrix
8 1 (1.47%) Riverbed
8 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow