FTP Contracts in England

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring FTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FTP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 599 651
Rank change year-on-year +114 +52 -104
Contract jobs citing FTP 65 37 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.079% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.35% 0.62% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 24 84
10th Percentile £276 £201 £363
25th Percentile £290 £275 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £325 £520
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -37.50% +7.77%
75th Percentile £515 £527 £606
90th Percentile £569 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £385 £325 £523
% change year-on-year +18.46% -37.80% +16.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £16.80 - -
25th Percentile £18.00 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £47.83 -
Median % change year-on-year -58.19% - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £43.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £47.83 -
% change year-on-year -58.19% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

FTP 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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for FTP in England

FTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for FTP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FTP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for FTP in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FTP in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for FTP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +100 37 £350 -40.43% 8
North of England +23 7 £510 - 1
North West +21 7 £510 - 1
South East +18 7 £369 +5.36% 5
South West - 7 £500 - 2
East of England - 6 £290 - 4
West Midlands +15 1 - - 2
Midlands +8 1 - - 2
FTP
UK

FTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (9.23%) Apache
2 5 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.69%) CMS
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.08%) Drupal
5 1 (1.54%) Appian
5 1 (1.54%) Confluence
5 1 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (1.54%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) FileZilla
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.08%) Windchill
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Shopify
1 2 (3.08%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Azure
2 13 (20.00%) PaaS
3 9 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (12.31%) AWS
5 7 (10.77%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (10.77%) Serverless
6 5 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.69%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.08%) BigCommerce
7 2 (3.08%) SaaS
7 2 (3.08%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.54%) Boomi
8 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (27.69%) Firewall
2 17 (26.15%) HTTP
3 12 (18.46%) DNS
3 12 (18.46%) SMTP
3 12 (18.46%) TCP/IP
4 10 (15.38%) SSL
5 7 (10.77%) DHCP
6 6 (9.23%) SAN
6 6 (9.23%) SSH
7 5 (7.69%) LAN
7 5 (7.69%) WAN
8 4 (6.15%) SNMP
9 3 (4.62%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (4.62%) HTTPS
9 3 (4.62%) ICMP
9 3 (4.62%) POP3
9 3 (4.62%) Telnet
9 3 (4.62%) VPN
9 3 (4.62%) Wireshark
10 2 (3.08%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.62%) SQL Server
2 13 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 5 (7.69%) Big Data
4 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database
4 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.62%) MySQL
6 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.08%) MS Access
6 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.08%) Tableau
7 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.54%) GIS
7 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.54%) Power BI
7 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Git
1 7 (10.77%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.54%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (20.00%) Finance
2 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.92%) Manufacturing
4 10 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 10 (15.38%) Telecoms
5 9 (13.85%) Legal
6 8 (12.31%) Marketing
7 7 (10.77%) Back Office
8 6 (9.23%) Electronics
8 6 (9.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (6.15%) Banking
10 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (3.08%) Retail
12 1 (1.54%) Front Office
12 1 (1.54%) Local Government
12 1 (1.54%) Multimedia
12 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (20.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 8 (12.31%) Lead
3 7 (10.77%) Network Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Technical Leader
4 6 (9.23%) Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Analyst
5 5 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Junior
5 5 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Administrator
7 3 (4.62%) ArcSight Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Incident Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Junior Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.23%) LDAP
2 8 (12.31%) .NET
3 7 (10.77%) .NET Core
4 6 (9.23%) XML
5 5 (7.69%) JSON
6 3 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.08%) 802.1X
7 2 (3.08%) CSS
7 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.08%) HTML
7 2 (3.08%) Node.js
7 2 (3.08%) OAuth
7 2 (3.08%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.08%) OpenID
7 2 (3.08%) VML
8 1 (1.54%) ebXML
8 1 (1.54%) Middleware
8 1 (1.54%) NumPy
8 1 (1.54%) Spring
8 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.23%) Replication
2 5 (7.69%) Cyberattack
2 5 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.08%) Contactless
4 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) PDA
5 1 (1.54%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 28 (43.08%) Windows
2 26 (40.00%) Linux
3 21 (32.31%) Unix
4 9 (13.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.38%) Migration
2 15 (23.08%) Agile
3 13 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 13 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (18.46%) OO
5 9 (13.85%) DevOps
5 9 (13.85%) ETL
5 9 (13.85%) ITIL
5 9 (13.85%) TDD
6 8 (12.31%) Change Management
6 8 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (12.31%) Incident Response
7 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (10.77%) Clean Code
7 7 (10.77%) OOD
7 7 (10.77%) Programme Management
8 6 (9.23%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.23%) Digital Marketing
8 6 (9.23%) Scrum
8 6 (9.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.00%) SQL
2 12 (18.46%) C#
3 9 (13.85%) Python
4 7 (10.77%) Bicep
5 6 (9.23%) Java
6 3 (4.62%) Perl
7 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.54%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.54%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.54%) Clojure
8 1 (1.54%) Groovy
8 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) Degree
3 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) GCIA
3 3 (4.62%) GCIH
3 3 (4.62%) GIAC
3 3 (4.62%) SANS
4 2 (3.08%) CCNP
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.54%) CCNA
5 1 (1.54%) CCSP
5 1 (1.54%) CISSP
5 1 (1.54%) GCED
5 1 (1.54%) GPEN
5 1 (1.54%) GWAPT
5 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.54%) OSCE
5 1 (1.54%) OSCP
5 1 (1.54%) OSWP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) MiFID
2 1 (1.54%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (24.62%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.00%) HDFS
2 13 (20.00%) NFS
3 6 (9.23%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (9.23%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.08%) XenApp
6 1 (1.54%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.54%) Samba
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) vCenter Server
2 3 (4.62%) CSIRT
2 3 (4.62%) Kibana
2 3 (4.62%) logstash
2 3 (4.62%) QRadar
2 3 (4.62%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.08%) SCCM
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.54%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.54%) HP SIM
4 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.54%) OpenVAS
4 1 (1.54%) SCDPM
4 1 (1.54%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.54%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.00%) Isilon
3 9 (13.85%) Informatica
3 9 (13.85%) SAP
3 9 (13.85%) Splunk
4 8 (12.31%) Cisco
5 7 (10.77%) CheckPoint
5 7 (10.77%) Dell
5 7 (10.77%) VMware
6 6 (9.23%) Oracle
6 6 (9.23%) Palo Alto
6 6 (9.23%) Symantec
6 6 (9.23%) Veeam
7 5 (7.69%) Darktrace
7 5 (7.69%) FireEye
7 5 (7.69%) IronPort
7 5 (7.69%) LogRhythm
7 5 (7.69%) Talend
8 3 (4.62%) ArcSight
8 3 (4.62%) Salesforce