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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 458 567
Rank change year-on-year -88 +109 0
Contract jobs citing Multicast 85 61 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.055%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.90% 1.63% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 40 16
10th Percentile £400 £425 £400
25th Percentile £409 £500 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £630
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -12.70% +0.80%
75th Percentile £600 £668 £750
90th Percentile £716 £750 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £420
% change year-on-year -5.71% +25.00% +20.00%

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 4,480 3,752 5,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.64% 12.70% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 2,321 3,438
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +0.36% -6.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 172 429
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.78
25th Percentile £20.79 £20.64 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.25 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -6.25% +110.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.31 £62.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £67.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £27.72 £46.39
% change year-on-year +89.39% -40.25% +150.76%

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 24 April 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 10 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 24 April 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 -75 78 £475 -17.39% 21
London -71 41 £473 -21.25% 14
UK excluding London -57 36 £495 -5.71% 10
Work from Home -22 30 £480 -4.00% 8
North West -12 29 £490 -7.55% 1
Midlands -29 29 £413 - 3
West Midlands -29 29 £413 - 2
North of England -42 29 £490 -7.55% 1
South East -51 5 £525 +23.53% 4
East of England -34 1 £500 +42.86% 2

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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (9.41%) AWS
2 6 (7.06%) Azure
3 5 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.35%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.18%) IaaS
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.18%) OCI
5 1 (1.18%) PaaS
5 1 (1.18%) SaaS
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 62 (72.94%) BGP
2 41 (48.24%) VPN
3 40 (47.06%) Firewall
4 32 (37.65%) DMZ
5 28 (32.94%) DNS
5 28 (32.94%) OSPF
6 27 (31.76%) WAN
7 16 (18.82%) LAN
7 16 (18.82%) MPLS
8 15 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (15.29%) Network Security
10 12 (14.12%) EIGRP
11 11 (12.94%) VXLAN
12 10 (11.76%) VLAN
13 9 (10.59%) IGMP
14 7 (8.24%) Ethernet VPN
14 7 (8.24%) HSRP
15 6 (7.06%) TCP/IP
15 6 (7.06%) VRRP
15 6 (7.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.53%) KDB
2 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.18%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Git
2 4 (4.71%) GitLab
2 4 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.53%) JIRA
4 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.18%) Maven
General
1 27 (31.76%) Finance
2 26 (30.59%) Banking
3 18 (21.18%) Investment Banking
4 9 (10.59%) Financial Institution
5 8 (9.41%) Social Skills
6 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Front Office
7 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.35%) Aviation
8 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (67.06%) Network Engineer
2 32 (37.65%) Cisco Engineer
2 32 (37.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 32 (37.65%) Data Network Engineer
3 29 (34.12%) Network Security Engineer
3 29 (34.12%) Security Engineer
4 28 (32.94%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 28 (32.94%) Data Engineer
5 24 (28.24%) Senior
6 13 (15.29%) Web Engineer
7 10 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Data Centre Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Developer
9 3 (3.53%) IP Network Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Juniper Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.35%) Infrastructure Manager
10 2 (2.35%) Network Architect
10 2 (2.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (3.53%) Ultra Messaging
3 2 (2.35%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.35%) Django
4 1 (1.18%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (1.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.35%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.71%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.53%) Equities
5 2 (2.35%) CCTV
5 2 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.35%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.18%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.24%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) VMS
3 2 (2.35%) Unix
3 2 (2.35%) Windows
4 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.06%) Load Balancing
2 23 (27.06%) Low Latency
3 11 (12.94%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (10.59%) Migration
6 8 (9.41%) Electronic Trading
6 8 (9.41%) High Availability
7 6 (7.06%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (7.06%) Test Automation
8 5 (5.88%) Network Management
9 4 (4.71%) Network Design
9 4 (4.71%) Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (4.71%) Project Delivery
9 4 (4.71%) Project Management
9 4 (4.71%) Roadmaps
10 3 (3.53%) Architectural Design
10 3 (3.53%) Network Optimisation
10 3 (3.53%) Observability
10 3 (3.53%) Operational Stability
10 3 (3.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.18%) Python
2 5 (5.88%) Java
3 4 (4.71%) Bash
4 3 (3.53%) SQL
5 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (18.82%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (14.12%) CCNP
3 9 (10.59%) CCIE
4 6 (7.06%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.53%) Degree
7 2 (2.35%) BC Cleared
7 2 (2.35%) CCIP
7 2 (2.35%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.18%) CCDA
8 1 (1.18%) CCDP
8 1 (1.18%) CCNA
8 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.18%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.18%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) NCSC
2 2 (2.35%) QA
3 1 (1.18%) GRC
3 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Firmware
1 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.35%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) GridGain
2 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (20.00%) Ansible
2 6 (7.06%) Terraform
3 5 (5.88%) Grafana
3 5 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.35%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (2.35%) Iperf
4 2 (2.35%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.35%) Nmap
4 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.18%) CASB
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.18%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (72.94%) Cisco
2 53 (62.35%) F5
3 28 (32.94%) Arista
4 25 (29.41%) Palo Alto
5 21 (24.71%) Fortinet
6 13 (15.29%) CheckPoint
7 8 (9.41%) Juniper
8 4 (4.71%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.71%) VMware
9 3 (3.53%) Dell
9 3 (3.53%) Meraki
9 3 (3.53%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.53%) SevOne
10 2 (2.35%) Aruba
10 2 (2.35%) IBM
10 2 (2.35%) NetScout
10 2 (2.35%) Solace
10 2 (2.35%) Splunk
10 2 (2.35%) Tufin
11 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace