Unicast Contracts

Unicast
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Unicast skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unicast over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 - 645
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unicast 7 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% - 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £575 - £379
25th Percentile £600 - £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 - £600
75th Percentile £669 - £696
90th Percentile £715 - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Unicast 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 3,941 4,759 6,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 12.25% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,365 2,897 4,334
10th Percentile £247 £220 £228
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £622
90th Percentile £675 £688 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 321 250
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £16.09
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £21.43
Median hourly rate £45.63 £48.56 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% -10.07% +54.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.73 £73.75 £75.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £56.91
% change year-on-year -22.55% -3.58% +100.32%

Unicast
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Unicast in the UK

Unicast
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Unicast in the UK

Unicast
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unicast over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unicast in the UK

Unicast
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Unicast in the UK

Unicast
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unicast within the UK over the 6 months to 15 August 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
London - 7 £654 - 4
England - 7 £654 - 4
Work from Home - 1 £600 - 1

Unicast
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) Multicast
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Change Control
2 4 (57.14%) Business Case
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CCIE
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Icinga
2 2 (28.57%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) Observium
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Arista
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft