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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 459 567
Rank change year-on-year -99 +108 +40
Contract jobs citing Multicast 51 58 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.090%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.24% 1.44% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 34 34
10th Percentile £403 £474 £426
25th Percentile £463 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £614 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% -12.36% +14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £728 £750
90th Percentile £838 £750 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £617 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +17.52% - +16.67%

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 4,113 4,018 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.36% 13.05% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,711 2,366 3,598
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £356 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.16%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £683 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £471 £475
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.79% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 133 407
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.63 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.46 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.44 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% -31.58% +137.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £29.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year +39.79% -44.11% +161.00%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -71 46 £571 -12.15% 29
London -42 28 £523 -19.62% 18
Work from Home -24 21 £492 -7.17% 12
UK excluding London -68 19 £617 +17.52% 19
North West -26 11 £490 -6.67% 4
West Midlands -38 11 £617 - 3
Midlands -50 11 £617 - 3
North of England -57 11 £490 -6.67% 4
South East -34 6 £650 +13.04% 7
Scotland - 1 £425 - 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 3 (5.88%) AWS
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
2 2 (3.92%) IBM Watson
3 1 (1.96%) Azure
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.96%) GCP
3 1 (1.96%) IaaS
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.96%) PaaS
3 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (56.86%) BGP
2 19 (37.25%) Firewall
2 19 (37.25%) VPN
3 18 (35.29%) OSPF
4 14 (27.45%) TCP/IP
5 13 (25.49%) MPLS
6 12 (23.53%) Wireshark
7 11 (21.57%) DNS
8 10 (19.61%) DMZ
8 10 (19.61%) WAN
9 9 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (15.69%) LAN
11 7 (13.73%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (11.76%) VXLAN
13 5 (9.80%) Network Security
14 4 (7.84%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (7.84%) EIGRP
14 4 (7.84%) tcpdump
14 4 (7.84%) VLAN
15 3 (5.88%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) KDB
2 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Git
1 5 (9.80%) GitLab
2 3 (5.88%) GCC
2 3 (5.88%) GDB
2 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.96%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) Maven
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (31.37%) Banking
2 16 (31.37%) Finance
3 10 (19.61%) Front Office
3 10 (19.61%) Investment Banking
4 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.84%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.92%) Aviation
6 2 (3.92%) International Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) Network Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Cisco Engineer
3 11 (21.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Data Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Data Network Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Network Security Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Security Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Web Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) C++ Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Tester
6 3 (5.88%) Tester
6 3 (5.88%) Validation Tester
7 2 (3.92%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Core Network Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (11.76%) Middleware
3 4 (7.84%) Ultra Messaging
4 3 (5.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (5.88%) STL
5 2 (3.92%) 802.1X
5 2 (3.92%) Django
6 1 (1.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Data Centre
1 6 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (7.84%) Derivative
2 4 (7.84%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) CCTV
5 1 (1.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.96%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) IPTV
5 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.49%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Windows
3 2 (3.92%) VMS
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Low Latency
2 14 (27.45%) Load Balancing
3 9 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 7 (13.73%) Algorithmic Trading
4 7 (13.73%) DevOps
4 7 (13.73%) Electronic Trading
4 7 (13.73%) High Availability
4 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (13.73%) Roadmaps
5 6 (11.76%) Migration
5 6 (11.76%) Observability
6 5 (9.80%) Benchmarking
6 5 (9.80%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (9.80%) Decision-Making
6 5 (9.80%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (9.80%) Project Delivery
7 4 (7.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) Python
2 10 (19.61%) Bash
3 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
3 7 (13.73%) SQL
4 3 (5.88%) C#
4 3 (5.88%) C++
5 2 (3.92%) Java
6 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (19.61%) CCNP
3 9 (17.65%) CCIE
4 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) BC Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) CCIP
6 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.96%) CCDA
7 1 (1.96%) CCDP
7 1 (1.96%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.96%) CCNA
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) EMIR
1 3 (5.88%) MiFID
1 3 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (1.96%) GRC
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (5.88%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.96%) KVM
3 1 (1.96%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Ansible
2 6 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 5 (9.80%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (7.84%) Grafana
4 4 (7.84%) Iperf
4 4 (7.84%) Nmap
5 3 (5.88%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (3.92%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (3.92%) Terraform
7 1 (1.96%) CASB
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.96%) Nessus
7 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (58.82%) Cisco
2 21 (41.18%) F5
3 12 (23.53%) Arista
4 11 (21.57%) CheckPoint
4 11 (21.57%) Fortinet
4 11 (21.57%) Palo Alto
5 7 (13.73%) SolarWinds
6 6 (11.76%) Solace
7 5 (9.80%) VMware
8 4 (7.84%) Dell
8 4 (7.84%) TIBCO
9 3 (5.88%) Bloomberg
9 3 (5.88%) Juniper
9 3 (5.88%) NYFIX
9 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (5.88%) Refinitiv
9 3 (5.88%) SevOne
10 2 (3.92%) Meraki
10 2 (3.92%) Splunk
10 2 (3.92%) Tufin