The first table below looks at the demand for FTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FTP over the 3 months to 22 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 Canary Wharf 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Rank - 46 57
Contract jobs citing FTP 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf - 1.023% 0.200%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 12.50% 4.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Average daily rate - £475 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £320 £463
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -30.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -21.56%
All Communications & Networking
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
36 32 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 8.955% 8.184% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 27 12
Average daily rate £320 £500 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.00% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £203 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
FTP
London

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf FTP Daily Rate Trend

FTP
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) MBA

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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.

General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MBA