The first table below looks at the demand for FTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FTP over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Rank 42 52 44
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -8
Contract jobs citing FTP 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% 0.163% 0.200%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.381% 1.695% 1.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £150
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £463
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -29.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year
-25.00% -29.20%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
42 59 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 9.589% 9.625% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 35
Average daily rate £400 £325 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +27.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £430 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
Average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
FTP
West Midlands

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing FTP across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Birmingham FTP Jobs Demand Trend

FTP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing FTP across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham FTP Daily Rate Trend

FTP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing FTP across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham FTP Hourly Rate Trend

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing FTP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited FTP.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Process Server
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) ESB
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) JMS
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) JDBC
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Windows

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing FTP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited FTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) JDBC
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) Java RMI
2 1 (33.33%) WSDL
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) JMX
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (66.67%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Process Server
1 2 (66.67%) ESB
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (33.33%) IIOP
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) IPv6
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) NetScreen
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) LDAP
3 1 (33.33%) SMTP
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) BPEL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Jython
2 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) XenServer
2 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco