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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 491 530
Rank change year-on-year -90 +39 +54
Contract jobs citing Multicast 99 60 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.96% 1.59% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 45 23
10th Percentile £413 £434 £435
25th Percentile £466 £492 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -13.73%
75th Percentile £711 £725 £675
90th Percentile £850 £800 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - -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 5,047 3,770 4,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.25% 11.38% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,920 2,391 2,612
10th Percentile £236 £214 £223
25th Percentile £391 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £602
90th Percentile £680 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.21% +6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 192 190
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £20.13 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.25 £48.78
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -25.69% -13.65%
75th Percentile £68.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £41.72 £54.88
% change year-on-year -37.34% -23.97% -4.57%

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 10 October 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 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 10 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 -82 98 £600 +4.35% 121
London -70 61 £613 -5.77% 99
UK excluding London -65 34 £588 +6.82% 24
North of England -53 26 £575 +4.55% 3
North West -30 24 £575 +4.55% 1
Work from Home -55 24 £900 +82.93% 25
Midlands -22 21 - - 4
West Midlands -25 21 - - 4
South East -68 4 £600 +4.35% 11
Yorkshire -28 2 - - 2
South West -30 2 £600 +9.09% 1
East of England - 1 £500 -

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 3 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.01%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.12%) AWS
2 11 (11.11%) GCP
3 10 (10.10%) Azure
4 6 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.06%) OCI
4 6 (6.06%) SaaS
5 3 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (3.03%) IBM Watson
6 2 (2.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 55 (55.56%) BGP
2 34 (34.34%) Firewall
3 30 (30.30%) VPN
4 27 (27.27%) DNS
5 26 (26.26%) DMZ
6 25 (25.25%) VLAN
7 23 (23.23%) OSPF
7 23 (23.23%) WAN
8 10 (10.10%) Internet
8 10 (10.10%) Wireless
9 9 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (9.09%) MPLS
9 9 (9.09%) Network Security
10 8 (8.08%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (8.08%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (7.07%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (7.07%) VXLAN
12 6 (6.06%) DWDM
12 6 (6.06%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (6.06%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) KDB
2 1 (1.01%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Git
1 3 (3.03%) JIRA
2 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.02%) GCC
2 2 (2.02%) GDB
2 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (39.39%) Finance
2 33 (33.33%) Banking
3 22 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 13 (13.13%) Social Skills
5 10 (10.10%) Front Office
6 6 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.05%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.02%) Billing
9 2 (2.02%) French Language
10 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 70 (70.71%) Network Engineer
2 29 (29.29%) Senior
3 28 (28.28%) Cisco Engineer
3 28 (28.28%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 22 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
5 20 (20.20%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 20 (20.20%) Data Engineer
5 20 (20.20%) Data Network Engineer
5 20 (20.20%) Network Security Engineer
5 20 (20.20%) Security Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Web Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Implementation Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Core Network Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Developer
8 6 (6.06%) Lead
9 5 (5.05%) Middleware Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Firewall Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.04%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.07%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (5.05%) Middleware
3 4 (4.04%) Terraform
3 4 (4.04%) Ultra Messaging
4 3 (3.03%) 802.1X
4 3 (3.03%) NETCONF
4 3 (3.03%) REST
4 3 (3.03%) YANG
5 2 (2.02%) .NET
5 2 (2.02%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (2.02%) eBPF
5 2 (2.02%) HTML
5 2 (2.02%) HTML5
5 2 (2.02%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.24%) Data Centre
2 18 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (8.08%) Digital Signage
4 5 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.05%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.04%) Equities
6 3 (3.03%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.03%) Replication
7 2 (2.02%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.02%) Derivative
7 2 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.02%) Social Media
8 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.01%) Eurex
8 1 (1.01%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.12%) Windows
2 10 (10.10%) Linux
3 4 (4.04%) Unix
4 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.32%) Low Latency
2 31 (31.31%) Load Balancing
3 17 (17.17%) Project Delivery
4 16 (16.16%) High Availability
5 14 (14.14%) Electronic Trading
5 14 (14.14%) Migration
6 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (12.12%) Validation
8 9 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (8.08%) Network Design
9 8 (8.08%) Use Case
10 7 (7.07%) Algorithmic Trading
10 7 (7.07%) Change Control
10 7 (7.07%) Change Management
10 7 (7.07%) Network Architecture
10 7 (7.07%) Runbook
10 7 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (7.07%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (6.06%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (6.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.23%) Python
2 9 (9.09%) SQL
3 6 (6.06%) Java
3 6 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.04%) C++
5 3 (3.03%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.02%) C#
6 2 (2.02%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (14.14%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (12.12%) CCNP
3 7 (7.07%) CCIE
4 4 (4.04%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.03%) Degree
5 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.02%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (2.02%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (3.03%) vSphere
2 2 (2.02%) KVM
3 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (12.12%) Ansible
2 8 (8.08%) Cisco Prime
3 6 (6.06%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.02%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.02%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 59 (59.60%) Cisco
2 40 (40.40%) F5
3 32 (32.32%) Arista
4 15 (15.15%) Fortinet
5 12 (12.12%) Palo Alto
6 9 (9.09%) Bloomberg
7 8 (8.08%) Microsoft
8 7 (7.07%) Splunk
9 6 (6.06%) Aruba
9 6 (6.06%) Oracle
9 6 (6.06%) Reuters
10 5 (5.05%) Solace
11 3 (3.03%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.03%) IBM
11 3 (3.03%) NetScout
11 3 (3.03%) SevOne
11 3 (3.03%) Sitecore
11 3 (3.03%) VMware
12 2 (2.02%) ION Trading
12 2 (2.02%) TIBCO