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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 502 581
Rank change year-on-year -4 +79 +158
Contract jobs citing Multicast 57 49 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.47% 1.10% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 26 41
10th Percentile £425 £435 £375
25th Percentile £472 £500 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £573 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -11.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £763 £675 £750
90th Percentile £800 £719 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £630
% change year-on-year - -12.70% +29.23%

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 3,887 4,439 6,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.36% 12.15% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,512 2,556 4,091
10th Percentile £207 £223 £213
25th Percentile £358 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 162 337
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.67 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £26.25 £22.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £48.03 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.13% -12.67% +35.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £51.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year -17.07% -9.28% +25.53%

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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 2 November 2025.

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 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 2 November 2025. 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 -6 53 £650 +13.54% 25
London +34 44 £659 +1.38% 19
Work from Home -3 17 £496 -22.32% 16
UK excluding London -42 10 £550 - 19
South East +6 4 £575 +4.55% 13
North of England -44 4 £550 +4.76% 2
North West -35 3 £550 +4.76% 1
South West - 3 £550 -
West Midlands -29 1 £617 +23.40% 2
Midlands -33 1 £617 +23.40% 2
Yorkshire -37 1 - - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.51%) nginx
2 1 (1.75%) CICS
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.75%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (7.02%) Azure
2 4 (7.02%) GCP
2 4 (7.02%) GitHub
3 2 (3.51%) SaaS
4 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (42.11%) BGP
2 21 (36.84%) Firewall
3 19 (33.33%) OSPF
4 16 (28.07%) Ethernet VPN
5 14 (24.56%) VXLAN
6 13 (22.81%) TCP/IP
7 8 (14.04%) Wireshark
8 7 (12.28%) VLAN
9 6 (10.53%) VPN
9 6 (10.53%) WAN
10 5 (8.77%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (8.77%) IGMP
10 5 (8.77%) LAN
10 5 (8.77%) MPLS
10 5 (8.77%) tcpdump
10 5 (8.77%) Unicast
11 4 (7.02%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (3.51%) IPsec
12 2 (3.51%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (1.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) KDB
2 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) GCC
1 9 (15.79%) GDB
2 4 (7.02%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (5.26%) GitLab
3 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.75%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.75%) JIRA
5 1 (1.75%) Maven
General
1 27 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 19 (33.33%) Banking
3 16 (28.07%) Finance
3 16 (28.07%) Front Office
4 9 (15.79%) Investment Banking
5 8 (14.04%) International Banking
6 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) Network Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Senior
3 11 (19.30%) Developer
4 8 (14.04%) C++ Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Tester
9 2 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Juniper Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Network Specialist
9 2 (3.51%) Quantitative Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Tester
9 2 (3.51%) Validation Tester
10 1 (1.75%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.82%) FIX Protocol
2 14 (24.56%) Middleware
3 9 (15.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 9 (15.79%) STL
4 5 (8.77%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.75%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.75%) LDAP
5 1 (1.75%) React
5 1 (1.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (21.05%) Data Centre
3 9 (15.79%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (7.02%) Derivative
6 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.51%) Clustering
7 2 (3.51%) Fixed Income
7 2 (3.51%) Private Cloud
7 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.51%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (1.75%) CCTV
8 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.75%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.75%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (35.09%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Windows
3 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.75%) MVS
4 1 (1.75%) Solaris
4 1 (1.75%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) VMS
4 1 (1.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (47.37%) Low Latency
2 17 (29.82%) High Availability
3 14 (24.56%) Electronic Trading
4 12 (21.05%) Test Automation
5 10 (17.54%) DevOps
6 9 (15.79%) Risk Management
7 8 (14.04%) Change Control
7 8 (14.04%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.28%) Algorithmic Trading
8 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (8.77%) Benchmarking
10 5 (8.77%) Decision-Making
10 5 (8.77%) Observability
10 5 (8.77%) Performance Analysis
10 5 (8.77%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (8.77%) Project Management
10 5 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (7.02%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) Python
2 9 (15.79%) C++
2 9 (15.79%) SQL
3 8 (14.04%) Bash
3 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.26%) C#
4 3 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) CCIE
1 9 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) CCNP
4 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.75%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) EMIR
1 3 (5.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.26%) Firmware
2 3 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.51%) KVM
4 1 (1.75%) NFS
4 1 (1.75%) SRDF
4 1 (1.75%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (33.33%) Ansible
2 8 (14.04%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 5 (8.77%) Grafana
5 3 (5.26%) Iperf
5 3 (5.26%) Nmap
5 3 (5.26%) Terraform
5 3 (5.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (3.51%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.51%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.75%) Icinga
7 1 (1.75%) Nagios
7 1 (1.75%) Nessus
7 1 (1.75%) Observium
7 1 (1.75%) Puppet
7 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (40.35%) Arista
2 21 (36.84%) Cisco
3 14 (24.56%) Solace
4 9 (15.79%) Palo Alto
5 8 (14.04%) Fortinet
6 6 (10.53%) F5
6 6 (10.53%) SolarWinds
6 6 (10.53%) VMware
7 5 (8.77%) TIBCO
8 4 (7.02%) Bloomberg
8 4 (7.02%) CheckPoint
8 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
8 4 (7.02%) Refinitiv
9 3 (5.26%) NYFIX
10 2 (3.51%) Juniper
10 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.75%) Dell
11 1 (1.75%) EMC
11 1 (1.75%) NetApp
11 1 (1.75%) Oracle