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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 458 558
Rank change year-on-year -93 +100 +86
Contract jobs citing Multicast 42 60 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.19% 0.100%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.05% 1.47% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 39
10th Percentile £420 £470 £452
25th Percentile £470 £500 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £627 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -7.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £750
90th Percentile £893 £750 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £617 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +17.52% - +5.00%

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 4,007 4,068 6,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.44% 13.00% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,631 2,361 3,669
10th Percentile £204 £213 £207
25th Percentile £356 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -3.88%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £467 £475
% change year-on-year -3.64% -1.68% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 139 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.76 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.97 £21.46 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.65
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -32.24% +149.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £31.79 £56.45
% change year-on-year +27.52% -43.68% +186.89%

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 28 January 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 11 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 28 January 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 -90 39 £634 -2.54% 29
London -36 25 £613 -5.77% 17
Work from Home -34 17 £575 +4.55% 16
UK excluding London -59 15 £617 +17.52% 17
North of England -57 9 £490 -6.67% 3
North West -30 8 £490 -6.67% 3
West Midlands -33 8 £617 +23.40% 1
Midlands -50 8 £617 +23.40% 1
South East -17 4 £650 +13.04% 8
Yorkshire -53 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £425 - 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 (2.38%) CICS
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (4.76%) Azure
2 2 (4.76%) IBM Watson
3 1 (2.38%) GCP
3 1 (2.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (50.00%) BGP
2 14 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 14 (33.33%) VPN
3 12 (28.57%) Firewall
3 12 (28.57%) OSPF
4 10 (23.81%) Wireshark
5 9 (21.43%) MPLS
6 8 (19.05%) DNS
6 8 (19.05%) WAN
7 7 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (16.67%) DMZ
7 7 (16.67%) LAN
8 5 (11.90%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (11.90%) VXLAN
9 4 (9.52%) tcpdump
9 4 (9.52%) VLAN
10 3 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (7.14%) NAS
10 3 (7.14%) SAN
11 2 (4.76%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) KDB
2 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
1 5 (11.90%) GitLab
2 3 (7.14%) GCC
2 3 (7.14%) GDB
2 3 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.95%) Banking
3 11 (26.19%) Finance
4 10 (23.81%) Front Office
5 9 (21.43%) Investment Banking
6 4 (9.52%) Telecoms
7 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 2 (4.76%) International Banking
9 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.38%) Aviation
9 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Data Network Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Senior
5 4 (9.52%) Developer
6 3 (7.14%) C++ Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Tester
7 2 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Tester
7 2 (4.76%) Validation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (16.67%) Middleware
3 4 (9.52%) Ultra Messaging
4 3 (7.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (7.14%) STL
5 2 (4.76%) Django
6 1 (2.38%) 802.1X
6 1 (2.38%) LDAP
6 1 (2.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (9.52%) Derivative
2 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.38%) CCTV
5 1 (2.38%) Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.38%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.38%) IPTV
5 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Replication
5 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) MVS
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Solaris
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) VMS
3 1 (2.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Low Latency
2 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
3 7 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
3 7 (16.67%) DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 7 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 6 (14.29%) High Availability
4 6 (14.29%) Observability
5 5 (11.90%) Benchmarking
5 5 (11.90%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.90%) Decision-Making
5 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
6 4 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (9.52%) Migration
6 4 (9.52%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) Bash
3 8 (19.05%) SQL
4 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.14%) C#
5 3 (7.14%) C++
5 3 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) CCIE
2 6 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (11.90%) CCNP
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) BC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) EMIR
1 3 (7.14%) MiFID
2 1 (2.38%) GRC
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (7.14%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.76%) KVM
3 1 (2.38%) NFS
3 1 (2.38%) SRDF
3 1 (2.38%) Terminal Services
3 1 (2.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Ansible
2 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 5 (11.90%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (9.52%) Grafana
4 4 (9.52%) Iperf
4 4 (9.52%) Nmap
5 3 (7.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (4.76%) Terraform
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (2.38%) Nessus
7 1 (2.38%) Puppet
7 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (52.38%) Cisco
2 14 (33.33%) F5
3 7 (16.67%) Arista
3 7 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 6 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 6 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 6 (14.29%) Solace
4 6 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 5 (11.90%) VMware
6 4 (9.52%) Dell
6 4 (9.52%) TIBCO
7 3 (7.14%) Bloomberg
7 3 (7.14%) IBM
7 3 (7.14%) NYFIX
7 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 3 (7.14%) Refinitiv
8 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.76%) NetScout
8 2 (4.76%) SevOne
8 2 (4.76%) Splunk