FTP Contracts

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FTP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 629 695
Rank change year-on-year +121 +66 -103
Contract jobs citing FTP 67 53 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.095% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.23% 0.74% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 32 87
10th Percentile £279 £200 £363
25th Percentile £295 £303 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £335 £513
Median % change year-on-year +14.93% -34.63% +13.89%
75th Percentile £515 £606 £631
90th Percentile £566 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +53.85% -27.78% +24.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £16.40 £49.17 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £51.19 -
Median hourly rate £18.00 £55.17 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.37% - -
75th Percentile £19.00 £59.77 -
90th Percentile £19.60 £62.16 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £55.17 -
% change year-on-year -67.37% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

FTP 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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FTP in the UK

FTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FTP in the UK

FTP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FTP in the UK

FTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for FTP in the UK

FTP
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +107 63 £385 +18.46% 25
London +111 38 £368 -37.45% 13
UK excluding London +40 26 £500 +53.85% 12
Work from Home +104 13 £317 -36.28% 11
South East +14 7 £369 +5.36% 2
South West +11 7 £500 -28.57% 2
North of England +27 5 £510 - 3
North West +25 5 £510 - 3
East of England +9 5 £290 - 1
Midlands +15 1 - - 3
West Midlands +12 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

FTP
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.46%) Apache
1 5 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (7.46%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.97%) CMS
2 4 (5.97%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.99%) Drupal
4 2 (2.99%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.49%) Appian
5 1 (1.49%) Confluence
5 1 (1.49%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) FileZilla
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.99%) Windchill
4 1 (1.49%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Shopify
1 2 (2.99%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.36%) Azure
2 16 (23.88%) PaaS
3 11 (16.42%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (11.94%) AWS
6 7 (10.45%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.45%) Serverless
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.99%) BigCommerce
8 2 (2.99%) SaaS
8 2 (2.99%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.49%) GCP
9 1 (1.49%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.87%) Firewall
2 16 (23.88%) HTTP
3 11 (16.42%) SMTP
3 11 (16.42%) TCP/IP
4 9 (13.43%) DNS
5 8 (11.94%) SSL
6 6 (8.96%) SAN
6 6 (8.96%) SSH
7 5 (7.46%) DHCP
7 5 (7.46%) LAN
7 5 (7.46%) WAN
8 4 (5.97%) SNMP
9 3 (4.48%) HTTPS
9 3 (4.48%) ICMP
9 3 (4.48%) IPsec
9 3 (4.48%) Network Security
9 3 (4.48%) POP3
9 3 (4.48%) Telnet
9 3 (4.48%) VPN
9 3 (4.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) Hadoop
2 15 (22.39%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.46%) Big Data
4 4 (5.97%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.97%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.99%) MS Access
6 2 (2.99%) MySQL
6 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.99%) Tableau
7 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.49%) GIS
7 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.49%) Power BI
7 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Git
1 7 (10.45%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (20.90%) Finance
2 12 (17.91%) Manufacturing
2 12 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.42%) Public Sector
3 11 (16.42%) Telecoms
4 9 (13.43%) Legal
4 9 (13.43%) Marketing
5 7 (10.45%) Back Office
5 7 (10.45%) Electronics
6 6 (8.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (5.97%) Banking
8 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.99%) Multimedia
9 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.99%) Retail
10 1 (1.49%) Front Office
10 1 (1.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Implementation Specialist
2 8 (11.94%) Lead
3 7 (10.45%) Network Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Technical Leader
4 5 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Developer
4 5 (7.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Snowflake Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Analyst
5 4 (5.97%) Consultant
5 4 (5.97%) Junior
5 4 (5.97%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) ArcSight Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 2 (2.99%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.84%) LDAP
2 8 (11.94%) .NET
3 7 (10.45%) .NET Core
4 6 (8.96%) XML
5 5 (7.46%) JSON
6 3 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.48%) HTML
7 2 (2.99%) 802.1X
7 2 (2.99%) CSS
7 2 (2.99%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.99%) Node.js
7 2 (2.99%) OAuth
7 2 (2.99%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.99%) OpenID
7 2 (2.99%) VML
8 1 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (1.49%) HTML5
8 1 (1.49%) NumPy
8 1 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.84%) Replication
2 4 (5.97%) Cyberattack
2 4 (5.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.48%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Contactless
4 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.99%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 32 (47.76%) Windows
2 29 (43.28%) Linux
3 25 (37.31%) Unix
4 10 (14.93%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.99%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.81%) Migration
2 16 (23.88%) Capacity Management
2 16 (23.88%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (22.39%) Agile
4 13 (19.40%) OO
5 11 (16.42%) ITIL
6 9 (13.43%) DevOps
6 9 (13.43%) ETL
6 9 (13.43%) TDD
7 8 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (11.94%) Change Management
7 8 (11.94%) Programme Management
8 7 (10.45%) Clean Code
8 7 (10.45%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (10.45%) OOD
9 6 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (8.96%) Incident Response
9 6 (8.96%) OOP
9 6 (8.96%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (8.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) SQL
2 12 (17.91%) C#
3 8 (11.94%) Python
4 7 (10.45%) Bicep
5 6 (8.96%) Java
6 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.99%) Perl
7 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.49%) Clojure
8 1 (1.49%) Groovy
8 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) Degree
3 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.99%) CCNP
4 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.99%) GCIA
4 2 (2.99%) GCIH
4 2 (2.99%) GIAC
4 2 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.99%) SANS
5 1 (1.49%) CCFP
5 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.49%) EC-Council LPT
5 1 (1.49%) ECIH
5 1 (1.49%) ECSA
5 1 (1.49%) GAWN
5 1 (1.49%) GCFE
5 1 (1.49%) GPPA
5 1 (1.49%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.49%) MiFID
2 1 (1.49%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (29.85%) Active Directory
2 16 (23.88%) HDFS
2 16 (23.88%) NFS
3 6 (8.96%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (8.96%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.99%) Samba
5 2 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.99%) XenApp
6 1 (1.49%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) vCenter Server
2 3 (4.48%) Kibana
2 3 (4.48%) logstash
2 3 (4.48%) QRadar
2 3 (4.48%) SCCM
3 2 (2.99%) CSIRT
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.99%) Terraform
4 1 (1.49%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.49%) HP SIM
4 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.49%) SCDPM
4 1 (1.49%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.49%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (31.34%) Microsoft
2 16 (23.88%) Isilon
3 10 (14.93%) Dell
4 9 (13.43%) Informatica
4 9 (13.43%) SAP
5 8 (11.94%) CheckPoint
5 8 (11.94%) Cisco
5 8 (11.94%) VMware
6 7 (10.45%) Splunk
7 6 (8.96%) Oracle
7 6 (8.96%) Palo Alto
7 6 (8.96%) Veeam
8 5 (7.46%) Symantec
8 5 (7.46%) Talend
9 4 (5.97%) Darktrace
9 4 (5.97%) FireEye
9 4 (5.97%) IronPort
9 4 (5.97%) LogRhythm
10 3 (4.48%) ArcSight
10 3 (4.48%) Citrix