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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 498 544
Rank change year-on-year -62 +46 +57
Contract jobs citing Multicast 104 60 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.18% 0.080%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.05% 1.55% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 41 16
10th Percentile £400 £423 £406
25th Percentile £434 £500 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £474
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +21.24% -24.12%
75th Percentile £666 £675 £550
90th Percentile £715 £800 £603
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% +57.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £36.63 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.10% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £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 5,067 3,869 4,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.46% 11.80% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,997 2,360 2,862
10th Percentile £250 £240 £225
25th Percentile £400 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.50% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 202 313
10th Percentile £15.18 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% -5.61% -12.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £45.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -41.91% -18.00% -4.28%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -72 103 £575 - 17
London -71 58 £600 - 10
UK excluding London -69 42 £500 -3.38% 8
North of England -48 34 £575 +4.55% 2
North West -15 32 £575 +4.55% 2
Midlands - 30 £413 - 2
West Midlands - 30 £413 - 2
Work from Home -51 28 £600 +24.35% 4
South East -65 3 £450 -10.00% 3
East of England -13 2 £500 +42.86%
Yorkshire -40 2 - -
South West -50 2 £600 +9.09% 1

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 1 (0.96%) Confluence
1 1 (0.96%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.65%) AWS
1 9 (8.65%) Azure
2 8 (7.69%) GCP
3 2 (1.92%) OCI
3 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.96%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (0.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (0.96%) IBM Watson
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.96%) SaaS
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 66 (63.46%) BGP
2 43 (41.35%) Firewall
2 43 (41.35%) VPN
3 35 (33.65%) DMZ
4 33 (31.73%) DNS
5 28 (26.92%) WAN
6 25 (24.04%) VLAN
7 23 (22.12%) OSPF
8 13 (12.50%) Network Security
8 13 (12.50%) VXLAN
9 10 (9.62%) LAN
10 9 (8.65%) EIGRP
10 9 (8.65%) MPLS
11 8 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (7.69%) Wireless
12 7 (6.73%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (5.77%) BIG-IP
13 6 (5.77%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (5.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (5.77%) IGMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) KDB
2 2 (1.92%) Kdb+
3 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.92%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.96%) Git
3 1 (0.96%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) Maven
General
1 33 (31.73%) Finance
2 31 (29.81%) Banking
3 24 (23.08%) Investment Banking
4 14 (13.46%) Social Skills
5 12 (11.54%) Front Office
6 8 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (6.73%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.92%) Billing
9 2 (1.92%) French Language
10 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 75 (72.12%) Network Engineer
2 39 (37.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 39 (37.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 33 (31.73%) Data Network Engineer
3 33 (31.73%) Senior
4 30 (28.85%) Network Security Engineer
4 30 (28.85%) Security Engineer
5 29 (27.88%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 29 (27.88%) Data Engineer
6 21 (20.19%) Senior Network Engineer
7 14 (13.46%) Web Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Developer
9 7 (6.73%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.77%) Implementation Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Network Implementation Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.81%) Middleware Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (3.85%) Data Centre Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.62%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (6.73%) Terraform
2 7 (6.73%) Ultra Messaging
3 5 (4.81%) Middleware
4 3 (2.88%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.92%) .NET
5 2 (1.92%) eBPF
5 2 (1.92%) HTML
5 2 (1.92%) HTML5
6 1 (0.96%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 17 (16.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.73%) Equities
5 6 (5.77%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.77%) Digital Signage
5 6 (5.77%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.88%) Replication
7 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.92%) Derivative
7 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.92%) Social Media
8 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.96%) CCTV
8 1 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Eurex
8 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.65%) Linux
2 8 (7.69%) Windows
3 5 (4.81%) Unix
4 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.46%) Load Balancing
2 34 (32.69%) Low Latency
3 15 (14.42%) Electronic Trading
4 13 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 10 (9.62%) Migration
6 9 (8.65%) Algorithmic Trading
6 9 (8.65%) High Availability
7 8 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (7.69%) Validation
8 7 (6.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (6.73%) Multithreading
8 7 (6.73%) Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (5.77%) Network Optimisation
9 6 (5.77%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (5.77%) Roadmaps
9 6 (5.77%) Use Case
10 5 (4.81%) Agile
10 5 (4.81%) Change Management
10 5 (4.81%) CI/CD
10 5 (4.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.23%) Python
2 10 (9.62%) Java
3 8 (7.69%) SQL
4 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.92%) C#
6 2 (1.92%) C++
6 2 (1.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (10.58%) CCNP
3 6 (5.77%) CCIE
3 6 (5.77%) Degree
4 5 (4.81%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.92%) CCNA
7 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (2.88%) vSphere
2 2 (1.92%) Firmware
2 2 (1.92%) KVM
3 1 (0.96%) Docker
3 1 (0.96%) GridGain
3 1 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (11.54%) Ansible
2 6 (5.77%) Cisco Prime
2 6 (5.77%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (3.85%) Grafana
4 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.92%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (1.92%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 73 (70.19%) Cisco
2 52 (50.00%) F5
3 32 (30.77%) Arista
4 20 (19.23%) Fortinet
5 19 (18.27%) Palo Alto
6 6 (5.77%) CheckPoint
6 6 (5.77%) Solace
7 5 (4.81%) Splunk
8 4 (3.85%) Aruba
8 4 (3.85%) Bloomberg
8 4 (3.85%) Juniper
9 3 (2.88%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.88%) VMware
10 2 (1.92%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.92%) McAfee
10 2 (1.92%) NYFIX
10 2 (1.92%) Oracle
10 2 (1.92%) Peplink
10 2 (1.92%) Refinitiv
10 2 (1.92%) Starlink