Multicast Contracts

Multicast
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Multicast skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Multicast over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 548 572
Rank change year-on-year +94 +24 +147
Contract jobs citing Multicast 68 21 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.049% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.84% 0.39% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 12 82
10th Percentile £425 £401 £380
25th Percentile £500 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £616 £711 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £420 £325
% change year-on-year +25.00% +29.23% -40.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £34.25
75th Percentile £39.69 - £37.38
90th Percentile £39.88 - £38.95
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 3,691 5,398 7,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.67% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,256 3,233 4,567
10th Percentile £213 £206 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -4.39% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 414 453
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.30 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +116.22% -33.63%
75th Percentile £58.73 £63.75 £59.28
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £46.14 £18.00
% change year-on-year -39.44% +156.31% -16.28%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Multicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Multicast in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Multicast.

Daily rate trend for Multicast in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Multicast over the 6 months to 25 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Multicast in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Multicast.

Hourly rate trend for Multicast in the UK

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Top 9 Contract 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 25 May 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 +115 61 £550 +4.76% 130
London +83 51 £550 -4.35% 88
Work from Home +56 25 £500 -30.07% 35
UK excluding London +54 9 £525 +25.00% 68
North of England - 6 £535 - 5
North West - 6 £535 - 4
South West - 5 £530 - 1
East of England - 2 £350 - 9
South East +48 1 £425 +1.19% 50

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.35%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) AWS
2 5 (7.35%) OpenShift
3 3 (4.41%) Azure
4 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Akamai
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) GCP
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 48 (70.59%) BGP
2 42 (61.76%) OSPF
3 24 (35.29%) Firewall
3 24 (35.29%) MPLS
4 23 (33.82%) VPN
5 17 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 17 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 15 (22.06%) IGMP
7 13 (19.12%) WAN
8 12 (17.65%) VXLAN
9 10 (14.71%) HSRP
9 10 (14.71%) LAN
9 10 (14.71%) VRRP
10 8 (11.76%) Broadband
10 8 (11.76%) IPv6
11 7 (10.29%) DNS
11 7 (10.29%) IPsec
12 6 (8.82%) Internet
12 6 (8.82%) Network Security
12 6 (8.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) KDB
1 1 (1.47%) MySQL
1 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (5.88%) GCC
2 4 (5.88%) GDB
3 2 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (1.47%) Git
4 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.47%) JMeter
General
1 17 (25.00%) Finance
2 13 (19.12%) Banking
2 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Front Office
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (55.88%) Network Engineer
2 15 (22.06%) Implementation Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Cisco Engineer
3 13 (19.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) Senior
5 10 (14.71%) Consultant
5 10 (14.71%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Developer
6 8 (11.76%) Network Consultant
6 8 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Principal Network Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) WAN Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) C++ Developer
9 4 (5.88%) LAN Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Project Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (7.35%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 4 (5.88%) STL
4 2 (2.94%) JSON
5 1 (1.47%) HTML
5 1 (1.47%) LDAP
5 1 (1.47%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.47%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.94%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (7.35%) Hedge funds
3 5 (7.35%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.94%) Derivative
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.94%) TWAP
6 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.94%) VWAP
7 1 (1.47%) Clustering
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.47%) Equities
7 1 (1.47%) FMCG
7 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.47%) Low Latency
2 14 (20.59%) Migration
3 13 (19.12%) Project Delivery
4 11 (16.18%) Network Monitoring
5 8 (11.76%) Network Design
6 7 (10.29%) Algorithmic Trading
6 7 (10.29%) High Availability
7 6 (8.82%) Configuration Management
7 6 (8.82%) Test Automation
8 5 (7.35%) Change Management
8 5 (7.35%) Market Making
8 5 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.35%) Roadmaps
8 5 (7.35%) Validation
9 4 (5.88%) Decision-Making
9 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (5.88%) ITIL
9 4 (5.88%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (5.88%) Risk Management
9 4 (5.88%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.94%) Python
2 6 (8.82%) C++
3 5 (7.35%) Java
3 5 (7.35%) Perl
3 5 (7.35%) SQL
4 3 (4.41%) Bash
4 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (29.41%) CCIE
3 16 (23.53%) CCNP
4 5 (7.35%) CCIE Service Provider
5 4 (5.88%) CCIE Data Center
5 4 (5.88%) CCNA
5 4 (5.88%) Degree
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.47%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (7.35%) vSphere
2 3 (4.41%) Firmware
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (38.24%) Ansible
2 7 (10.29%) ZABBIX
3 6 (8.82%) Puppet
4 5 (7.35%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 4 (5.88%) Nagios
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.47%) Icinga
6 1 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.47%) Observium
6 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (66.18%) Cisco
2 25 (36.76%) Arista
3 11 (16.18%) Fortinet
4 9 (13.24%) SolarWinds
5 8 (11.76%) F5
6 5 (7.35%) CheckPoint
6 5 (7.35%) Nokia
6 5 (7.35%) Palo Alto
6 5 (7.35%) Red Hat
6 5 (7.35%) VMware
7 3 (4.41%) McAfee
7 3 (4.41%) Splunk
8 1 (1.47%) AirMagnet
8 1 (1.47%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.47%) Ekahau
8 1 (1.47%) Juniper
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.47%) Riverbed
8 1 (1.47%) Solace
8 1 (1.47%) Zscaler