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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 450 564
Rank change year-on-year -95 +114 +2
Contract jobs citing Multicast 96 73 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.25% 0.049%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.02% 2.01% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 48 12
10th Percentile £400 £419 £401
25th Percentile £416 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £543 £462
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +17.49% -26.12%
75th Percentile £611 £634 £711
90th Percentile £708 £758 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £420
% change year-on-year -4.76% +25.00% +29.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
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 4,756 3,624 5,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.72% 12.60% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,917 2,243 3,264
10th Percentile £263 £213 £206
25th Percentile £400 £362 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £481
% change year-on-year +2.70% -3.90% +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 158 418
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.42 £16.30
Median hourly rate £28.88 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% -0.85% +118.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.86 £30.32 £45.88
% change year-on-year +11.68% -33.91% +162.17%

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast over the 6 months to 29 May 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 29 May 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 -102 89 £513 -6.82% 13
London -84 45 £600 +6.67% 10
UK excluding London -69 43 £500 -4.76% 6
North West -5 34 £533 -0.47% 1
North of England -45 34 £533 -0.47% 1
Midlands - 33 £413 -
West Midlands - 33 £413 -
Work from Home -28 31 £480 -4.00% 3
South East -48 5 £525 +13.51% 3
East of England -28 2 £500 +42.86% 1
South West -34 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 (1.04%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.33%) AWS
2 6 (6.25%) Azure
3 5 (5.21%) GCP
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.08%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.04%) IaaS
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.04%) OCI
5 1 (1.04%) PaaS
5 1 (1.04%) SaaS
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 69 (71.88%) BGP
2 46 (47.92%) Firewall
3 45 (46.88%) VPN
4 37 (38.54%) DMZ
5 33 (34.38%) DNS
6 30 (31.25%) WAN
7 29 (30.21%) OSPF
8 18 (18.75%) MPLS
9 15 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (15.63%) LAN
9 15 (15.63%) Network Security
10 13 (13.54%) VLAN
11 12 (12.50%) EIGRP
12 10 (10.42%) VXLAN
13 9 (9.38%) IGMP
14 7 (7.29%) HSRP
15 6 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 6 (6.25%) VRRP
15 6 (6.25%) Wireshark
16 5 (5.21%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) KDB
2 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.04%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Git
1 4 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.13%) JIRA
3 2 (2.08%) GitLab
3 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.04%) Maven
General
1 30 (31.25%) Banking
2 29 (30.21%) Finance
3 23 (23.96%) Investment Banking
4 9 (9.38%) Financial Institution
4 9 (9.38%) Front Office
5 7 (7.29%) Social Skills
6 5 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.08%) Aviation
8 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (69.79%) Network Engineer
2 37 (38.54%) Cisco Engineer
2 37 (38.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 36 (37.50%) Data Network Engineer
4 33 (34.38%) Network Security Engineer
4 33 (34.38%) Security Engineer
5 32 (33.33%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 32 (33.33%) Data Engineer
5 32 (33.33%) Senior
6 15 (15.63%) Senior Network Engineer
6 15 (15.63%) Web Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Developer
8 7 (7.29%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.21%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Data Centre Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) Firewall Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) IP Network Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) Juniper Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (7.29%) Ultra Messaging
2 3 (3.13%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.08%) Django
4 1 (1.04%) .NET
4 1 (1.04%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (1.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.83%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.29%) Equities
4 6 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.04%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.04%) MPEG
6 1 (1.04%) Replication
6 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Unix
2 2 (2.08%) VMS
2 2 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (46.88%) Load Balancing
2 28 (29.17%) Low Latency
3 11 (11.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (11.46%) Electronic Trading
4 10 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (7.29%) High Availability
5 7 (7.29%) Multithreading
6 6 (6.25%) Algorithmic Trading
6 6 (6.25%) Migration
6 6 (6.25%) Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 6 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (5.21%) CI/CD
7 5 (5.21%) Network Management
7 5 (5.21%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (5.21%) Test Automation
8 4 (4.17%) Architectural Design
8 4 (4.17%) Network Optimisation
8 4 (4.17%) Roadmaps
8 4 (4.17%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.71%) Python
2 9 (9.38%) Java
3 4 (4.17%) Bash
4 3 (3.13%) SQL
5 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.04%) C++
6 1 (1.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (14.58%) CCNP
3 10 (10.42%) CCIE
4 6 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) Degree
5 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.08%) BC Cleared
7 2 (2.08%) CCIP
7 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.08%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.04%) CCDA
8 1 (1.04%) CCDP
8 1 (1.04%) CCNA
8 1 (1.04%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.04%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) NCSC
2 2 (2.08%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) GRC
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.08%) Firmware
2 2 (2.08%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.04%) Docker
3 1 (1.04%) GridGain
3 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (16.67%) Ansible
2 6 (6.25%) Terraform
3 5 (5.21%) Grafana
3 5 (5.21%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.13%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.08%) Iperf
5 2 (2.08%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (2.08%) Nmap
5 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.04%) CASB
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 72 (75.00%) Cisco
2 59 (61.46%) F5
3 30 (31.25%) Arista
4 27 (28.13%) Palo Alto
5 25 (26.04%) Fortinet
6 13 (13.54%) CheckPoint
7 8 (8.33%) Juniper
8 5 (5.21%) VMware
9 4 (4.17%) SolarWinds
9 4 (4.17%) Splunk
10 3 (3.13%) Dell
10 3 (3.13%) Meraki
10 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
10 3 (3.13%) SevOne
11 2 (2.08%) Aruba
11 2 (2.08%) IBM
11 2 (2.08%) McAfee
11 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.08%) Solace
11 2 (2.08%) Tufin