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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 472 553
Rank change year-on-year -68 +81 +94
Contract jobs citing Multicast 38 62 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.100%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.97% 1.50% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 35 38
10th Percentile £450 £435 £499
25th Percentile £466 £500 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £688
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -12.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £750
90th Percentile £823 £750 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £617 £550 £630
% change year-on-year +12.18% -12.70% +26.00%

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 3,918 4,140 5,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.65% 12.78% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,564 2,422 3,616
10th Percentile £205 £220 £209
25th Percentile £356 £369 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 138 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.86 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.75 £20.81 £23.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +76.53%
75th Percentile £66.31 £53.44 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.38 £75.29
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £31.79 £59.00
% change year-on-year +33.69% -46.12% +66.20%

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast over the 6 months to 4 January 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 11 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 4 January 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 -74 33 £634 -0.78% 85
London -13 25 £613 -5.77% 18
Work from Home -17 17 £492 -18.48% 79
UK excluding London -66 9 £617 +12.18% 75
West Midlands -43 4 £617 +23.40% 8
Midlands -51 4 £617 +23.40% 15
North of England -58 4 - - 13
South East -21 3 £650 +18.18% 20
North West -31 3 - - 5
Yorkshire -52 1 - - 7
Scotland - 1 £425 - 4

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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 (2.63%) CICS
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.26%) AWS
1 2 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (2.63%) GCP
2 1 (2.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (39.47%) BGP
2 11 (28.95%) TCP/IP
3 10 (26.32%) Ethernet VPN
3 10 (26.32%) Firewall
3 10 (26.32%) OSPF
3 10 (26.32%) VXLAN
4 7 (18.42%) VPN
4 7 (18.42%) Wireshark
5 4 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (10.53%) DNS
5 4 (10.53%) MPLS
5 4 (10.53%) tcpdump
5 4 (10.53%) WAN
6 3 (7.89%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (7.89%) DMZ
6 3 (7.89%) LAN
6 3 (7.89%) VLAN
7 2 (5.26%) IGMP
7 2 (5.26%) IPv6
8 1 (2.63%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) KDB
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) GCC
1 4 (10.53%) GDB
2 3 (7.89%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.63%) JIRA
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
General
1 18 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 12 (31.58%) Banking
3 11 (28.95%) Front Office
4 9 (23.68%) Finance
5 7 (18.42%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.89%) International Banking
6 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Developer
5 4 (10.53%) C++ Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Tester
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Tester
7 2 (5.26%) Validation Tester
8 1 (2.63%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (21.05%) Middleware
3 4 (10.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 4 (10.53%) STL
3 4 (10.53%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.63%) LDAP
4 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.53%) Derivative
3 4 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) CCTV
5 1 (2.63%) Clustering
5 1 (2.63%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.63%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.63%) IPTV
5 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) MVS
4 1 (2.63%) Solaris
4 1 (2.63%) Unix
4 1 (2.63%) VMS
4 1 (2.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Low Latency
2 9 (23.68%) High Availability
3 8 (21.05%) DevOps
3 8 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 7 (18.42%) Algorithmic Trading
4 7 (18.42%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (15.79%) Migration
5 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (13.16%) Benchmarking
6 5 (13.16%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
6 5 (13.16%) Project Management
6 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.53%) Observability
7 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
7 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 7 (18.42%) Bash
3 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.53%) C++
5 3 (7.89%) C#
5 3 (7.89%) Java
6 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) CCIE
2 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.53%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) EMIR
1 3 (7.89%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.26%) KVM
3 1 (2.63%) NFS
3 1 (2.63%) SRDF
3 1 (2.63%) Terminal Services
3 1 (2.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Ansible
2 6 (15.79%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (10.53%) Grafana
3 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.89%) Iperf
4 3 (7.89%) Nmap
4 3 (7.89%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.26%) Terraform
5 2 (5.26%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.63%) Nessus
6 1 (2.63%) Puppet
6 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Cisco
2 10 (26.32%) Arista
3 7 (18.42%) Solace
4 6 (15.79%) F5
5 5 (13.16%) Fortinet
5 5 (13.16%) SolarWinds
6 4 (10.53%) CheckPoint
6 4 (10.53%) TIBCO
7 3 (7.89%) Bloomberg
7 3 (7.89%) NYFIX
7 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
7 3 (7.89%) Refinitiv
7 3 (7.89%) VMware
8 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
8 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.63%) Dell
9 1 (2.63%) EMC
9 1 (2.63%) IBM
9 1 (2.63%) NetApp
9 1 (2.63%) Oracle