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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 498 530
Rank change year-on-year -87 +32 +62
Contract jobs citing Multicast 94 59 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.100%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.85% 1.55% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 44 20
10th Percentile £409 £431 £435
25th Percentile £453 £491 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -12.70%
75th Percentile £675 £780 £675
90th Percentile £722 £800 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -22.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £61.58 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £63.19 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £66.75 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.26% - -
75th Percentile £70.69 £39.69 -
90th Percentile £72.53 £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 5,078 3,800 4,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.25% 11.47% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,925 2,382 2,627
10th Percentile £235 £220 £222
25th Percentile £389 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £606
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% +5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 207 205
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.94 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.51% -16.95% -10.60%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £73.80 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.72 £42.22 £57.35
% change year-on-year -36.71% -26.38% -0.26%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -81 93 £550 -4.35% 127
London -74 54 £550 -12.00% 107
UK excluding London -76 37 £575 +4.55% 28
North of England -50 27 £575 +4.55% 5
North West -29 25 £575 +4.55% 2
Work from Home -64 23 £500 +0.81% 23
West Midlands -19 22 - - 4
Midlands -32 22 - - 4
South East -62 5 £600 +4.35% 11
East of England -24 2 £500 +42.86%
Yorkshire -32 2 - - 3
South West -37 2 £600 +9.09% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.45%) AWS
2 6 (6.38%) Azure
2 6 (6.38%) GCP
3 2 (2.13%) IBM Watson
3 2 (2.13%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.06%) OCI
4 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (54.26%) BGP
2 36 (38.30%) Firewall
3 33 (35.11%) VPN
4 25 (26.60%) DNS
4 25 (26.60%) VLAN
4 25 (26.60%) WAN
5 24 (25.53%) DMZ
6 17 (18.09%) OSPF
7 10 (10.64%) Wireless
8 9 (9.57%) MPLS
8 9 (9.57%) Network Security
8 9 (9.57%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (8.51%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (8.51%) Cisco Wireless
9 8 (8.51%) LAN
9 8 (8.51%) VXLAN
10 7 (7.45%) Spanning Tree
11 6 (6.38%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (6.38%) EIGRP
11 6 (6.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.26%) KDB
2 1 (1.06%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Artifactory
1 2 (2.13%) Git
1 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (36.17%) Finance
2 27 (28.72%) Banking
3 20 (21.28%) Investment Banking
4 11 (11.70%) Social Skills
5 8 (8.51%) Front Office
6 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.32%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.32%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.13%) Billing
8 2 (2.13%) French Language
9 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 72 (76.60%) Network Engineer
2 30 (31.91%) Cisco Engineer
2 30 (31.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 29 (30.85%) Senior
4 23 (24.47%) Senior Network Engineer
5 22 (23.40%) Network Security Engineer
5 22 (23.40%) Security Engineer
6 21 (22.34%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 21 (22.34%) Data Engineer
6 21 (22.34%) Data Network Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Web Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Implementation Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Core Network Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Middleware Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Firewall Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Firewall Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.45%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (5.32%) Middleware
3 4 (4.26%) 802.1X
3 4 (4.26%) Terraform
3 4 (4.26%) Ultra Messaging
4 2 (2.13%) .NET
4 2 (2.13%) eBPF
4 2 (2.13%) HTML
4 2 (2.13%) HTML5
4 2 (2.13%) NETCONF
4 2 (2.13%) REST
4 2 (2.13%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.40%) Data Centre
2 16 (17.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (8.51%) Digital Signage
4 5 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.32%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.26%) Equities
6 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.19%) Replication
7 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.13%) Derivative
7 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.13%) Social Media
8 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.06%) Eurex
8 1 (1.06%) IoT
8 1 (1.06%) MPEG
8 1 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.77%) Windows
2 8 (8.51%) Linux
3 4 (4.26%) Unix
4 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.85%) Load Balancing
2 24 (25.53%) Low Latency
3 14 (14.89%) Migration
3 14 (14.89%) Project Delivery
4 11 (11.70%) Electronic Trading
4 11 (11.70%) Validation
5 9 (9.57%) High Availability
6 8 (8.51%) Use Case
7 7 (7.45%) Algorithmic Trading
8 6 (6.38%) Change Control
8 6 (6.38%) Change Management
8 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (6.38%) Network Design
8 6 (6.38%) Network Optimisation
8 6 (6.38%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (5.32%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.32%) Project Management
9 5 (5.32%) Roadmaps
9 5 (5.32%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.09%) Python
2 7 (7.45%) SQL
3 6 (6.38%) Java
3 6 (6.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.13%) C#
5 2 (2.13%) C++
5 2 (2.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (13.83%) CCNP
3 7 (7.45%) CCIE
4 5 (5.32%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) Degree
5 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.13%) CCNA
7 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.19%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (3.19%) vSphere
3 2 (2.13%) KVM
4 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (8.51%) Cisco Prime
2 7 (7.45%) Ansible
3 6 (6.38%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.13%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.06%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.06%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 61 (64.89%) Cisco
2 42 (44.68%) F5
3 31 (32.98%) Arista
4 16 (17.02%) Fortinet
5 14 (14.89%) Palo Alto
6 6 (6.38%) Aruba
6 6 (6.38%) Splunk
7 5 (5.32%) Solace
8 4 (4.26%) Bloomberg
8 4 (4.26%) VMware
9 3 (3.19%) CheckPoint
9 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
9 3 (3.19%) Sitecore
10 2 (2.13%) IBM
10 2 (2.13%) McAfee
10 2 (2.13%) NetScout
10 2 (2.13%) NYFIX
10 2 (2.13%) Peplink
10 2 (2.13%) SevOne
10 2 (2.13%) TIBCO