Multicast Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Multicast
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 338 420
Rank change year-on-year +56 +82 +187
Contract jobs citing Multicast 22 7 57
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.046% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.11% 0.43% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 40
10th Percentile £425 £670 £469
25th Percentile - £700 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £730 £600
Median % change year-on-year -31.51% +21.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £538 £750 £691
90th Percentile £576 - £713
UK median daily rate £550 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -12.70% +0.80% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Multicast
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Multicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Multicast trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Multicast.

Multicast daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Multicast
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Multicast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Multicast daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.55%) Akamai
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 21 (95.45%) BGP
2 17 (77.27%) OSPF
3 15 (68.18%) MPLS
3 15 (68.18%) VPN
4 9 (40.91%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (40.91%) Firewall
5 8 (36.36%) Broadband
5 8 (36.36%) Ethernet VPN
5 8 (36.36%) IPv6
6 5 (22.73%) GPON
6 5 (22.73%) VXLAN
7 4 (18.18%) LAN
7 4 (18.18%) WAN
8 3 (13.64%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (9.09%) DNS
9 2 (9.09%) IPsec
9 2 (9.09%) Network Security
9 2 (9.09%) NX-OS
9 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
9 2 (9.09%) Unicast
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Network Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Implementation Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Principal Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Principal Network Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Project Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Consultant
5 3 (13.64%) Network Consultant
5 3 (13.64%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Principal Security Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) WAN Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Core Network Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Lead
7 1 (4.55%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) FMCG
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Migration
2 10 (45.45%) Network Monitoring
3 7 (31.82%) Project Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) ITIL
5 3 (13.64%) Load Balancing
6 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.09%) Network Design
6 2 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 2 (9.09%) Runbook
6 2 (9.09%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (4.55%) Coaching
7 1 (4.55%) High Availability
7 1 (4.55%) Low Latency
7 1 (4.55%) Network Architecture
7 1 (4.55%) Network Management
7 1 (4.55%) Performance Testing
7 1 (4.55%) Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (4.55%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (45.45%) CCIE
3 6 (27.27%) CCNP
4 5 (22.73%) CCIE Service Provider
5 4 (18.18%) CCNA
6 2 (9.09%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (4.55%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Ansible
1 5 (22.73%) ZABBIX
2 4 (18.18%) Nagios
3 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.55%) Icinga
4 1 (4.55%) Observium
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Cisco
2 8 (36.36%) SolarWinds
3 5 (22.73%) Nokia
4 3 (13.64%) F5
5 2 (9.09%) Arista
5 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) VMware
6 1 (4.55%) Blue Coat
6 1 (4.55%) Citrix
6 1 (4.55%) Juniper
6 1 (4.55%) Riverbed
6 1 (4.55%) Zscaler