Multicast Contract Job Trends

Multicast
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Multicast skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 525 593
Rank change year-on-year +18 +68 +151
Contract jobs citing Multicast 55 32 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.083% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.45% 0.70% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 14 40
10th Percentile £423 £432 £375
25th Percentile £500 £436 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -21.57% +6.25%
75th Percentile £775 £550 £750
90th Percentile £800 £612 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £709
% change year-on-year - -22.37% +45.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - -
75th Percentile £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 3,795 4,582 6,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.53% 11.89% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,356 2,663 4,222
10th Percentile £225 £225 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.89% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 250 309
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £16.77
25th Percentile £24.75 £21.37 £22.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £50.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% -10.60% +37.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £73.20 £75.00 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.89% -0.26% +27.78%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Multicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Multicast 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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

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 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 20 September 2025. 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 +35 52 £588 +17.50% 23
London +49 41 £650 +8.33% 15
Work from Home +27 13 £491 +10.39% 15
UK excluding London -2 11 £550 - 10
North of England -33 5 £550 -
South East +14 4 £575 +4.55% 5
North West -17 4 £550 -
South West - 4 £550 - 1
East of England +2 1 £350 - 4
West Midlands -9 1 £617 +23.40%
Yorkshire -19 1 - -
Midlands -27 1 £617 +23.40%

Multicast
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.64%) nginx
2 1 (1.82%) CICS
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.82%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) AWS
2 6 (10.91%) Azure
3 4 (7.27%) GCP
3 4 (7.27%) GitHub
4 2 (3.64%) SaaS
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (50.91%) BGP
2 23 (41.82%) OSPF
3 19 (34.55%) Ethernet VPN
4 18 (32.73%) Firewall
5 17 (30.91%) VXLAN
6 9 (16.36%) LAN
7 8 (14.55%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (14.55%) MPLS
7 8 (14.55%) TCP/IP
7 8 (14.55%) VLAN
7 8 (14.55%) VPN
7 8 (14.55%) WAN
8 6 (10.91%) IGMP
9 5 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (9.09%) Unicast
10 4 (7.27%) Wireshark
11 3 (5.45%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (5.45%) IPsec
11 3 (5.45%) Network Security
11 3 (5.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) KDB
1 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) GCC
1 7 (12.73%) GDB
1 7 (12.73%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (7.27%) Git
3 3 (5.45%) GitLab
4 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.27%) Finance
3 13 (23.64%) Banking
4 7 (12.73%) Front Office
5 6 (10.91%) International Banking
6 5 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Network Engineer
2 14 (25.45%) Senior
3 11 (20.00%) Developer
4 8 (14.55%) C++ Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Implementation Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) LAN Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Tester
8 2 (3.64%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Juniper Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) LAN/WAN Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Network Specialist
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Network Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) Validation Tester
8 2 (3.64%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (14.55%) Middleware
3 7 (12.73%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 7 (12.73%) STL
4 2 (3.64%) 802.1X
4 2 (3.64%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.82%) JSON
5 1 (1.82%) LDAP
5 1 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.73%) Data Centre
2 11 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (12.73%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.45%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.64%) Clustering
6 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) TWAP
6 2 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (3.64%) VWAP
7 1 (1.82%) Equities
7 1 (1.82%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.82%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.82%) Replication
7 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.64%) Linux
2 3 (5.45%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) MVS
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Solaris
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Low Latency
2 14 (25.45%) High Availability
3 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 9 (16.36%) Electronic Trading
5 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.73%) Change Control
6 7 (12.73%) Risk Management
7 5 (9.09%) DevOps
8 4 (7.27%) Algorithmic Trading
8 4 (7.27%) Change Management
8 4 (7.27%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.27%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (7.27%) Project Management
8 4 (7.27%) Validation
9 3 (5.45%) Business Case
9 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (5.45%) Market Making
9 3 (5.45%) Network Segmentation
9 3 (5.45%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.18%) Python
2 9 (16.36%) C++
3 4 (7.27%) Bash
4 3 (5.45%) Java
4 3 (5.45%) SQL
5 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (16.36%) CCIE
3 6 (10.91%) CCNP
3 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) JNCIA
5 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.82%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (1.82%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Firmware
2 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.45%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.64%) KVM
5 1 (1.82%) NFS
5 1 (1.82%) SRDF
5 1 (1.82%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.82%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (40.00%) Ansible
2 3 (5.45%) Iperf
2 3 (5.45%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (5.45%) Nmap
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) HAProxy
3 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.82%) Grafana
4 1 (1.82%) Icinga
4 1 (1.82%) Nagios
4 1 (1.82%) Nessus
4 1 (1.82%) Observium
4 1 (1.82%) Puppet
4 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (50.91%) Arista
2 27 (49.09%) Cisco
3 11 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 8 (14.55%) Fortinet
4 8 (14.55%) Solace
5 7 (12.73%) F5
6 6 (10.91%) VMware
7 5 (9.09%) CheckPoint
7 5 (9.09%) SolarWinds
8 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
9 2 (3.64%) Juniper
10 1 (1.82%) Bloomberg
10 1 (1.82%) Dell
10 1 (1.82%) EMC
10 1 (1.82%) IBM
10 1 (1.82%) McAfee
10 1 (1.82%) NetApp
10 1 (1.82%) Oracle
10 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.82%) TIBCO