Multicast Contracts

Multicast
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Multicast skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Multicast over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 559 740
Rank change year-on-year -4 +181 -145
Contract jobs citing Multicast 23 134 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.42% 1.87% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 92 77
10th Percentile £403 £463 £495
25th Percentile £432 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% +4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £734 £666 £700
90th Percentile £750 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £325 £550
% change year-on-year +87.69% -40.91% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £34.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Multicast is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,481 7,173 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.35% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,282 4,651 6,275
10th Percentile £205 £241 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 474 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%

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 8 May 2024.

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 7 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 8 May 2024. 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 -12 21 £593 -5.20% 17
London +13 15 £593 -5.20% 15
Work from Home +76 9 £700 +16.67% 4
UK excluding London +51 2 £610 +87.69% 3
South East +7 1 £420 -20.75% 2
East Midlands - 1 £800 -
Midlands - 1 £800 -

Multicast
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (4.35%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (69.57%) Firewall
2 15 (65.22%) BGP
3 12 (52.17%) MPLS
4 11 (47.83%) LAN
4 11 (47.83%) OSPF
4 11 (47.83%) WAN
5 10 (43.48%) Network Security
6 7 (30.43%) VPN
7 6 (26.09%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (26.09%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (26.09%) EIGRP
8 4 (17.39%) DNS
8 4 (17.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (17.39%) Unicast
8 4 (17.39%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (13.04%) BIG-IP
9 3 (13.04%) DMZ
9 3 (13.04%) Internet
9 3 (13.04%) IPsec
9 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Financial Institution
2 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Network Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) IP Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) IP Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Support
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Voice Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) C++ Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Derivative
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.35%) Equities
3 1 (4.35%) IVR
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Unix
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Windows
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) DevOps
1 6 (26.09%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
2 4 (17.39%) Configuration Management
2 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
3 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (13.04%) Network Architecture
3 3 (13.04%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (13.04%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
3 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
4 2 (8.70%) Design Patterns
4 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
4 2 (8.70%) Low Latency
4 2 (8.70%) Network Design
4 2 (8.70%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Perl
1 3 (13.04%) Python
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) CCNP
1 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (13.04%) CCIE
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (91.30%) Cisco
2 13 (56.52%) F5
3 7 (30.43%) Palo Alto
4 6 (26.09%) CheckPoint
5 3 (13.04%) Dell
5 3 (13.04%) Genesys
5 3 (13.04%) Google
5 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 3 (13.04%) Nokia
6 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
6 2 (8.70%) VMware
7 1 (4.35%) Arista
7 1 (4.35%) Bloomberg
7 1 (4.35%) Juniper