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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 492 536
Rank change year-on-year -66 +44 +60
Contract jobs citing Multicast 110 68 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.21% 0.067%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.21% 1.71% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 45 14
10th Percentile £400 £424 £404
25th Percentile £428 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £448
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.77% -28.32%
75th Percentile £613 £664 £550
90th Percentile £711 £800 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +69.23%
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 4,970 3,978 4,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.35% 12.01% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,954 2,428 2,892
10th Percentile £250 £235 £220
25th Percentile £400 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £591 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 195 327
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £18.27
Median hourly rate £26.44 £50.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.12% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.60 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £45.00 £53.69
% change year-on-year -40.76% -16.18% -6.63%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -78 104 £550 - 24
London -61 57 £600 +4.35% 19
UK excluding London -62 44 £500 -5.66% 8
North of England -43 35 £575 +4.55% 4
North West -25 33 £575 +4.55% 3
Work from Home -37 32 £480 -4.00% 8
West Midlands - 31 £413 -
Midlands - 31 £413 -
South East -68 4 £450 -2.70% 1
East of England -14 2 £500 +42.86% 1
South West -41 2 £600 +10.60%
Yorkshire -45 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 (0.91%) Confluence
1 1 (0.91%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.09%) AWS
1 10 (9.09%) Azure
2 9 (8.18%) GCP
3 2 (1.82%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.91%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (0.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (0.91%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.91%) IaaS
4 1 (0.91%) IBM Watson
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.91%) OCI
4 1 (0.91%) PaaS
4 1 (0.91%) SaaS
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 74 (67.27%) BGP
2 55 (50.00%) Firewall
3 46 (41.82%) VPN
4 37 (33.64%) DMZ
5 34 (30.91%) DNS
6 31 (28.18%) OSPF
7 29 (26.36%) WAN
8 19 (17.27%) VLAN
9 16 (14.55%) Network Security
10 15 (13.64%) VXLAN
11 13 (11.82%) LAN
11 13 (11.82%) MPLS
12 12 (10.91%) EIGRP
13 11 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (9.09%) IGMP
15 8 (7.27%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (7.27%) Wireless
16 7 (6.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 7 (6.36%) HSRP
17 6 (5.45%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) KDB
2 1 (0.91%) Kdb+
2 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.82%) Git
3 2 (1.82%) JIRA
4 1 (0.91%) Maven
General
1 35 (31.82%) Finance
2 32 (29.09%) Banking
3 23 (20.91%) Investment Banking
4 12 (10.91%) Social Skills
5 11 (10.00%) Front Office
6 9 (8.18%) Financial Institution
7 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Billing
8 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (70.91%) Network Engineer
2 39 (35.45%) Cisco Engineer
2 39 (35.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 34 (30.91%) Data Network Engineer
4 33 (30.00%) Senior
5 31 (28.18%) Network Security Engineer
5 31 (28.18%) Security Engineer
6 30 (27.27%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 30 (27.27%) Data Engineer
7 19 (17.27%) Senior Network Engineer
8 15 (13.64%) Web Engineer
9 8 (7.27%) Developer
10 7 (6.36%) Java Developer
11 6 (5.45%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.55%) Implementation Engineer
12 5 (4.55%) Middleware Engineer
12 5 (4.55%) Network Implementation Engineer
12 5 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (3.64%) Data Centre Engineer
13 4 (3.64%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.18%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (6.36%) Ultra Messaging
3 5 (4.55%) Middleware
4 4 (3.64%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.82%) .NET
5 2 (1.82%) eBPF
6 1 (0.91%) HTML
6 1 (0.91%) HTML5
6 1 (0.91%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.55%) Data Centre
2 13 (11.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.36%) Equities
5 6 (5.45%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.45%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.55%) Digital Signage
7 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.73%) Replication
8 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.91%) CCTV
9 1 (0.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.91%) Derivative
9 1 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.09%) Linux
2 5 (4.55%) Unix
3 4 (3.64%) Windows
4 2 (1.82%) VMS
5 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (43.64%) Load Balancing
2 38 (34.55%) Low Latency
3 15 (13.64%) Electronic Trading
4 12 (10.91%) High Availability
4 12 (10.91%) Project Delivery
5 11 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (8.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (7.27%) Algorithmic Trading
8 7 (6.36%) Migration
8 7 (6.36%) Multithreading
8 7 (6.36%) Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (5.45%) Network Optimisation
9 6 (5.45%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (5.45%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (4.55%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (4.55%) CI/CD
10 5 (4.55%) Network Management
10 5 (4.55%) Roadmaps
10 5 (4.55%) Ultra-Low Latency
10 5 (4.55%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.18%) Python
2 10 (9.09%) Java
3 7 (6.36%) SQL
4 5 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.64%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.82%) C++
6 2 (1.82%) Perl
7 1 (0.91%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (13.64%) CCNP
3 10 (9.09%) CCIE
4 6 (5.45%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.55%) Degree
6 4 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.73%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.82%) CCIP
8 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.91%) CCDA
9 1 (0.91%) CCDP
9 1 (0.91%) CCNA
9 1 (0.91%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.91%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.82%) NCSC
1 2 (1.82%) QA
2 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.73%) vSphere
3 2 (1.82%) Firmware
4 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.91%) Docker
4 1 (0.91%) GridGain
4 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.91%) KVM
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (11.82%) Ansible
2 9 (8.18%) Terraform
3 6 (5.45%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (4.55%) Cisco Prime
4 5 (4.55%) Grafana
5 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.82%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.82%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.91%) CASB
7 1 (0.91%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.91%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 76 (69.09%) Cisco
2 60 (54.55%) F5
3 37 (33.64%) Arista
4 28 (25.45%) Fortinet
5 27 (24.55%) Palo Alto
6 10 (9.09%) CheckPoint
7 9 (8.18%) Juniper
8 6 (5.45%) Solace
9 5 (4.55%) Splunk
10 4 (3.64%) VMware
11 3 (2.73%) McAfee
11 3 (2.73%) Meraki
11 3 (2.73%) Microsoft
12 2 (1.82%) Aruba
12 2 (1.82%) Bloomberg
12 2 (1.82%) ION Trading
12 2 (1.82%) SevOne
12 2 (1.82%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.82%) Starlink
12 2 (1.82%) TIBCO