Multicast Contracts

Multicast
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Multicast skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Multicast over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 578 735
Rank change year-on-year +2 +157 -148
Contract jobs citing Multicast 22 141 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.39% 1.91% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 96 81
10th Percentile £400 £444 £500
25th Percentile £423 £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +4.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £749 £663 £700
90th Percentile £750 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £350 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -36.36% +42.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £34.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Multicast is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 7 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 27 April 2024. 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 +17 20 £630 +0.80% 18
London +13 15 £610 -2.40% 13
Work from Home +81 7 £730 +21.67% 4
UK excluding London +39 3 £420 +20.00% 6
South East +17 2 £413 -17.50% 2
Midlands +22 1 £800 +60.00%
East Midlands - 1 £800 -

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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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (4.55%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (81.82%) Firewall
2 13 (59.09%) BGP
3 12 (54.55%) LAN
3 12 (54.55%) MPLS
4 11 (50.00%) OSPF
4 11 (50.00%) WAN
5 8 (36.36%) Network Security
6 7 (31.82%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (31.82%) VPN
7 6 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (27.27%) EIGRP
8 4 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (18.18%) Unicast
8 4 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (13.64%) BIG-IP
9 3 (13.64%) Broadband
9 3 (13.64%) Internet
9 3 (13.64%) IPsec
9 3 (13.64%) L2TP
9 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
1 3 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Financial Institution
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) French Language
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) IP Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) IP Network Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Network Systems Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Systems Support
4 2 (9.09%) Systems Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Voice Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Linux Support
5 1 (4.55%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.55%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Unix
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Windows
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
3 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (13.64%) Network Architecture
4 3 (13.64%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (13.64%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
4 3 (13.64%) Project Management
4 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 2 (9.09%) Incident Management
5 2 (9.09%) Load Balancing
5 2 (9.09%) Network Design
5 2 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Python
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) CCNP
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (18.18%) CCIE
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Cisco
2 11 (50.00%) F5
3 7 (31.82%) Palo Alto
4 6 (27.27%) CheckPoint
5 3 (13.64%) Dell
5 3 (13.64%) Genesys
5 3 (13.64%) Google
5 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 3 (13.64%) Nokia
6 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 2 (9.09%) VMware
7 1 (4.55%) Arista
7 1 (4.55%) Azul
7 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg
7 1 (4.55%) Juniper
7 1 (4.55%) TIBCO