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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 341 415
Rank change year-on-year +48 +74 +166
Contract jobs citing Multicast 21 6 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.041% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.88% 0.39% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 29
10th Percentile £414 £433 £375
25th Percentile £463 £437 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £448 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% -25.33% -
75th Percentile £538 £518 £700
90th Percentile £600 £627 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £444 £625
% change year-on-year +23.94% -29.00% +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 1,116 1,543 2,853
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.97% 10.59% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 992 1,879
10th Percentile £313 £300 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 70 105
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £18.90
25th Percentile £40.50 £14.27 £30.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £87.46 £79.83
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -22.41%

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

Multicast
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 6 July 2025.

Multicast daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Multicast
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Akamai
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (76.19%) BGP
2 12 (57.14%) OSPF
2 12 (57.14%) VPN
3 11 (52.38%) MPLS
4 10 (47.62%) Firewall
5 7 (33.33%) Broadband
5 7 (33.33%) IPv6
6 5 (23.81%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (23.81%) GPON
7 4 (19.05%) LAN
7 4 (19.05%) VXLAN
7 4 (19.05%) WAN
8 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (9.52%) DNS
10 1 (4.76%) DHCP
10 1 (4.76%) Ethernet
10 1 (4.76%) HTTP
10 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
10 1 (4.76%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Network Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Implementation Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Principal Network Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Principal Security Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) WAN Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Core Network Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Data Network Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (4.76%) HTML
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) FMCG
3 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Migration
2 8 (38.10%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Low Latency
5 3 (14.29%) Load Balancing
6 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) High Availability
6 2 (9.52%) High-Frequency Trading
6 2 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.52%) Network Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) Network Management
6 2 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (9.52%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (9.52%) Runbook
6 2 (9.52%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.52%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (33.33%) CCIE
3 5 (23.81%) CCIE Service Provider
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CCDP
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Ansible
1 5 (23.81%) ZABBIX
2 3 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (4.76%) Icinga
3 1 (4.76%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (4.76%) Observium
3 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Cisco
2 7 (33.33%) Arista
2 7 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 5 (23.81%) Nokia
4 3 (14.29%) F5
4 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.76%) Bloomberg
5 1 (4.76%) Blue Coat
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) Refinitiv
5 1 (4.76%) Riverbed
5 1 (4.76%) Solace
5 1 (4.76%) Zscaler