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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 466 571
Rank change year-on-year -70 +105 +12
Contract jobs citing Multicast 82 62 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.81% 1.64% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 20
10th Percentile £400 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £500 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £563 £663
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -15.09% +6.00%
75th Percentile £676 £666 £750
90th Percentile £763 £750 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +50.00%

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 4,519 3,781 5,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 12.92% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 2,341 3,530
10th Percentile £225 £213 £205
25th Percentile £383 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £477
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.20% -8.27%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +1.60% -1.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 156 411
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.99 £13.85
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.46 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.25 £35.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% +71.05%
75th Percentile £70.29 £62.69 £61.75
90th Percentile £76.70 £75.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +78.57% -36.36% +137.84%

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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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -83 76 £513 -10.87% 35
London -64 42 £575 -4.17% 16
UK excluding London -84 33 £500 -4.76% 23
Work from Home -27 29 £480 -4.00% 22
North West -12 27 £490 -6.67% 1
West Midlands -34 27 £413 - 7
Midlands -43 27 £413 - 8
North of England -49 27 £490 -6.67% 3
South East -55 4 £600 +20.00% 5
East of England -36 1 £500 +42.86% 3

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 8 (9.76%) AWS
2 6 (7.32%) Azure
3 5 (6.10%) GCP
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.44%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.22%) IaaS
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.22%) OCI
5 1 (1.22%) PaaS
5 1 (1.22%) SaaS
5 1 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (73.17%) BGP
2 37 (45.12%) Firewall
2 37 (45.12%) VPN
3 30 (36.59%) DMZ
4 28 (34.15%) OSPF
5 26 (31.71%) DNS
5 26 (31.71%) WAN
6 16 (19.51%) MPLS
7 15 (18.29%) Cisco ASA
7 15 (18.29%) LAN
8 13 (15.85%) Network Security
9 11 (13.41%) EIGRP
10 10 (12.20%) IGMP
11 9 (10.98%) VLAN
11 9 (10.98%) VXLAN
12 7 (8.54%) HSRP
13 6 (7.32%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (7.32%) TCP/IP
13 6 (7.32%) VRRP
13 6 (7.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) KDB
2 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.22%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Git
2 4 (4.88%) GitLab
2 4 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.66%) JIRA
4 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.22%) GCC
5 1 (1.22%) GDB
5 1 (1.22%) Maven
General
1 30 (36.59%) Banking
2 29 (35.37%) Finance
3 20 (24.39%) Investment Banking
4 12 (14.63%) Social Skills
5 9 (10.98%) Financial Institution
6 8 (9.76%) Front Office
7 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.44%) Aviation
9 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.22%) International Banking
10 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (63.41%) Network Engineer
2 30 (36.59%) Cisco Engineer
2 30 (36.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 30 (36.59%) Data Network Engineer
3 26 (31.71%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 26 (31.71%) Data Engineer
3 26 (31.71%) Network Security Engineer
3 26 (31.71%) Security Engineer
4 22 (26.83%) Senior
5 12 (14.63%) Web Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Data Centre Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Juniper Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 2 (2.44%) IP Network Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (3.66%) Ultra Messaging
3 2 (2.44%) Django
4 1 (1.22%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.22%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (1.22%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (1.22%) Middleware
4 1 (1.22%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.66%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.66%) Derivative
4 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.66%) Equities
5 2 (2.44%) CCTV
5 2 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) IPTV
6 1 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) VMS
3 2 (2.44%) Windows
4 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.34%) Load Balancing
2 24 (29.27%) Low Latency
3 11 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (9.76%) Electronic Trading
5 8 (9.76%) High Availability
6 7 (8.54%) Test Automation
7 6 (7.32%) Algorithmic Trading
7 6 (7.32%) DevOps
7 6 (7.32%) Migration
7 6 (7.32%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (6.10%) Network Management
9 4 (4.88%) Multithreading
9 4 (4.88%) Network Design
9 4 (4.88%) Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (4.88%) Roadmaps
10 3 (3.66%) Agile
10 3 (3.66%) Computer Science
10 3 (3.66%) Investment Management
10 3 (3.66%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.39%) Python
2 6 (7.32%) SQL
3 5 (6.10%) Java
4 4 (4.88%) Bash
5 3 (3.66%) C#
5 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.22%) C++
6 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (18.29%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (12.20%) CCIE
2 10 (12.20%) CCNP
3 5 (6.10%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.66%) Degree
4 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.44%) BC Cleared
5 2 (2.44%) CCIP
5 2 (2.44%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.22%) CCDA
6 1 (1.22%) CCDP
6 1 (1.22%) CCNA
6 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.22%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) NCSC
2 3 (3.66%) EMIR
2 3 (3.66%) MiFID
3 2 (2.44%) QA
4 1 (1.22%) GRC
4 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.44%) Firmware
1 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) GridGain
2 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (20.73%) Ansible
2 6 (7.32%) Terraform
3 5 (6.10%) Grafana
3 5 (6.10%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.66%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (2.44%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.44%) Iperf
5 2 (2.44%) Nmap
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.22%) CASB
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (71.95%) Cisco
2 47 (57.32%) F5
3 26 (31.71%) Arista
4 22 (26.83%) Palo Alto
5 18 (21.95%) Fortinet
6 13 (15.85%) CheckPoint
7 8 (9.76%) Juniper
8 4 (4.88%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.88%) VMware
9 3 (3.66%) Bloomberg
9 3 (3.66%) Dell
9 3 (3.66%) Meraki
9 3 (3.66%) NYFIX
9 3 (3.66%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.66%) Refinitiv
9 3 (3.66%) SevOne
10 2 (2.44%) IBM
10 2 (2.44%) NetScout
10 2 (2.44%) Splunk
10 2 (2.44%) Tufin