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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 638 718
Rank change year-on-year +127 +80 -149
Contract jobs citing FTP 68 56 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.098% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.26% 0.79% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 35 84
10th Percentile £281 £200 £363
25th Percentile £300 £306 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £345 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.59% -30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £515 £653 £606
90th Percentile £578 £721 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +53.85% -27.78% +35.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £16.40 - £37.99
25th Percentile £17.00 £61.25 £39.11
Median hourly rate £18.00 £62.50 £42.21
Median % change year-on-year -71.20% +48.08% -19.60%
75th Percentile £19.00 £63.75 £44.07
90th Percentile £19.60 - £44.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £62.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -71.20% +57.33% -23.03%

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 5,406 7,129 9,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.45% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,227 4,606 6,336
10th Percentile £205 £235 £233
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 460 376
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -30.84% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.09 £50.83
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.55 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -5.49%

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 20 May 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 20 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 +134 64 £400 +19.40% 23
London +113 40 £385 -34.47% 13
UK excluding London +57 25 £500 +53.85% 15
Work from Home +99 12 £317 -35.96% 6
South East +24 7 £369 +5.36% 4
South West +14 7 £500 -28.57% 2
North West - 5 £510 -
North of England - 5 £510 - 1
East of England +14 4 £290 - 2
Midlands +13 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 3

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 (7.35%) Apache
1 5 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (7.35%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.88%) MQSeries
3 3 (4.41%) CMS
3 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.94%) Drupal
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.47%) Appian
5 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) FileZilla
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.94%) Windchill
3 1 (1.47%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Shopify
1 2 (2.94%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.47%) Azure
2 16 (23.53%) PaaS
3 11 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (11.76%) AWS
6 7 (10.29%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.29%) Serverless
7 5 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.35%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.35%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.94%) BigCommerce
8 2 (2.94%) SaaS
8 2 (2.94%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.47%) GCP
9 1 (1.47%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.88%) Firewall
2 17 (25.00%) HTTP
3 13 (19.12%) TCP/IP
4 11 (16.18%) SMTP
5 7 (10.29%) DNS
5 7 (10.29%) SSH
5 7 (10.29%) SSL
6 6 (8.82%) SAN
7 5 (7.35%) HTTPS
7 5 (7.35%) IPsec
7 5 (7.35%) LAN
7 5 (7.35%) Network Security
7 5 (7.35%) tcpdump
7 5 (7.35%) VPN
7 5 (7.35%) WAN
7 5 (7.35%) Wireshark
8 4 (5.88%) DHCP
8 4 (5.88%) ICMP
8 4 (5.88%) POP3
8 4 (5.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) Hadoop
2 14 (20.59%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.35%) Big Data
4 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.94%) MS Access
5 2 (2.94%) MySQL
5 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.94%) Tableau
6 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.47%) GIS
6 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.47%) Power BI
6 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Git
1 7 (10.29%) JIRA
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (22.06%) Finance
2 12 (17.65%) Manufacturing
2 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 11 (16.18%) Telecoms
4 9 (13.24%) Marketing
5 8 (11.76%) Legal
6 7 (10.29%) Back Office
6 7 (10.29%) Electronics
7 6 (8.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (7.35%) Banking
9 3 (4.41%) Multimedia
9 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.94%) Retail
11 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (1.47%) Front Office
11 1 (1.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Implementation Specialist
2 8 (11.76%) Lead
3 7 (10.29%) Network Engineer
3 7 (10.29%) Technical Leader
4 6 (8.82%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Snowflake Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) ArcSight Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Consultant
6 4 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Unix Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Junior
7 3 (4.41%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (33.82%) LDAP
2 8 (11.76%) .NET
3 7 (10.29%) .NET Core
4 6 (8.82%) XML
5 5 (7.35%) JSON
6 4 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.41%) HTML
8 2 (2.94%) 802.1X
8 2 (2.94%) CSS
8 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.94%) Node.js
8 2 (2.94%) OAuth
8 2 (2.94%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.94%) OpenID
8 2 (2.94%) VML
9 1 (1.47%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.47%) HTML5
9 1 (1.47%) Pandas
9 1 (1.47%) React
9 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.35%) Replication
2 3 (4.41%) Cyberattack
2 3 (4.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.41%) Smartphone
3 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.94%) Contactless
3 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.47%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) PDA
4 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (45.59%) Windows
2 30 (44.12%) Linux
3 28 (41.18%) Unix
4 10 (14.71%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.24%) Migration
2 16 (23.53%) Capacity Management
2 16 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (22.06%) Agile
4 14 (20.59%) ITIL
5 13 (19.12%) OO
6 9 (13.24%) DevOps
6 9 (13.24%) ETL
6 9 (13.24%) TDD
7 8 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (11.76%) Change Management
7 8 (11.76%) Programme Management
8 7 (10.29%) Clean Code
8 7 (10.29%) Customer Service
8 7 (10.29%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (10.29%) OOD
8 7 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (8.82%) Configuration Management
9 6 (8.82%) OOP
9 6 (8.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.12%) SQL
2 12 (17.65%) C#
3 7 (10.29%) Bicep
3 7 (10.29%) Python
4 6 (8.82%) Java
5 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) Clojure
7 1 (1.47%) Groovy
7 1 (1.47%) Perl
7 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.82%) Degree
3 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.94%) CCNP
4 2 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) CCFP
5 1 (1.47%) CCNA
5 1 (1.47%) CCSP
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) EC-Council LPT
5 1 (1.47%) ECIH
5 1 (1.47%) ECSA
5 1 (1.47%) GAWN
5 1 (1.47%) GCFE
5 1 (1.47%) GPPA
5 1 (1.47%) GREM
5 1 (1.47%) GXPN
5 1 (1.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) MiFID
2 1 (1.47%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 16 (23.53%) HDFS
2 16 (23.53%) NFS
3 6 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.82%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.88%) Samba
5 2 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.94%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) vCenter Server
2 4 (5.88%) Kibana
2 4 (5.88%) logstash
2 4 (5.88%) QRadar
3 3 (4.41%) SCCM
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.94%) Terraform
5 1 (1.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.47%) CSIRT
5 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (30.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (23.53%) Isilon
3 10 (14.71%) CheckPoint
3 10 (14.71%) Dell
3 10 (14.71%) VMware
4 9 (13.24%) Informatica
4 9 (13.24%) SAP
5 8 (11.76%) Cisco
6 7 (10.29%) Splunk
7 6 (8.82%) Palo Alto
7 6 (8.82%) Veeam
8 5 (7.35%) Oracle
8 5 (7.35%) Talend
9 4 (5.88%) ArcSight
9 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
10 3 (4.41%) Darktrace
10 3 (4.41%) FireEye
10 3 (4.41%) IronPort
10 3 (4.41%) LogRhythm
10 3 (4.41%) Symantec