Hybrid/Remote Multicast Job Trends

Multicast
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Multicast skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 432 474
Rank change year-on-year +73 +42 +211
Permanent jobs citing Multicast 5 8 19
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.033% 0.049% 0.088%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 0.36% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 18
10th Percentile £107,500 £60,750 £58,875
25th Percentile £118,750 £70,313 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £150,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - - £93,625
UK median annual salary £110,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +41.94% +3.33% +11.11%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,362 2,194 2,910
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.05% 13.32% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 877 1,232 2,465
10th Percentile £27,740 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Multicast and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Multicast job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Multicast.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Multicast

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Multicast over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Multicast salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) BGP
1 3 (60.00%) IGMP
1 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GCC
1 1 (20.00%) GDB
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Exchange Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 1 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (20.00%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) Automated Trading
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Arista
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds