FTP Contracts in England

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 488 595 642
Rank change year-on-year +107 +47 -100
Contract jobs citing FTP 63 42 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.088% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.30% 0.71% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 27 84
10th Percentile £277 £202 £363
25th Percentile £290 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £325 £513
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -36.59% +4.59%
75th Percentile £515 £653 £606
90th Percentile £568 £707 £700
UK median daily rate £385 £335 £513
% change year-on-year +14.93% -34.63% +13.89%
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 median hourly rate £18.00 £55.17 -
% change year-on-year -67.37% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,829 5,953 7,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.09% 12.54% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,897 3,881 5,267
10th Percentile £213 £235 £226
25th Percentile £350 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £646 £615
90th Percentile £697 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 406 315
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +135.29% -28.90% +3.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £48.20
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £62.88
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +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

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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 1 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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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 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
London +111 38 £368 -37.45% 13
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
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 5 (7.94%) Apache
1 5 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (7.94%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.35%) CMS
3 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.17%) Drupal
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.17%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.59%) Appian
5 1 (1.59%) Confluence
5 1 (1.59%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) FileZilla
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Shopify
1 2 (3.17%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.16%) Azure
2 13 (20.63%) PaaS
3 10 (15.87%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (12.70%) AWS
6 7 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (11.11%) Serverless
7 5 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.94%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (7.94%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.94%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.17%) BigCommerce
8 2 (3.17%) SaaS
8 2 (3.17%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.59%) GCP
9 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (28.57%) Firewall
2 15 (23.81%) HTTP
3 11 (17.46%) SMTP
3 11 (17.46%) TCP/IP
4 9 (14.29%) DNS
5 8 (12.70%) SSL
6 6 (9.52%) SAN
6 6 (9.52%) SSH
7 5 (7.94%) DHCP
7 5 (7.94%) LAN
7 5 (7.94%) WAN
8 4 (6.35%) SNMP
9 3 (4.76%) HTTPS
9 3 (4.76%) ICMP
9 3 (4.76%) IPsec
9 3 (4.76%) Network Security
9 3 (4.76%) POP3
9 3 (4.76%) Telnet
9 3 (4.76%) VPN
9 3 (4.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 13 (20.63%) Hadoop
3 5 (7.94%) Big Data
4 4 (6.35%) Oracle Database
4 4 (6.35%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.17%) MS Access
6 2 (3.17%) MySQL
6 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.17%) Tableau
7 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.59%) GIS
7 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.59%) Power BI
7 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
1 7 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (20.63%) Finance
2 11 (17.46%) Manufacturing
2 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 10 (15.87%) Telecoms
4 9 (14.29%) Legal
5 8 (12.70%) Marketing
6 7 (11.11%) Back Office
7 6 (9.52%) Electronics
7 6 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (6.35%) Banking
9 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Multimedia
9 2 (3.17%) Retail
10 1 (1.59%) Front Office
10 1 (1.59%) Local Government
10 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (20.63%) Implementation Specialist
2 8 (12.70%) Lead
3 7 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Technical Leader
4 5 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Developer
4 5 (7.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Snowflake Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Support Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) Consultant
5 4 (6.35%) Junior
5 4 (6.35%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) ArcSight Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) 1st/2nd Line Technical Support
7 2 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (30.16%) LDAP
2 8 (12.70%) .NET
3 7 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 6 (9.52%) XML
5 5 (7.94%) JSON
6 3 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.17%) 802.1X
7 2 (3.17%) CSS
7 2 (3.17%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.17%) HTML
7 2 (3.17%) Node.js
7 2 (3.17%) OAuth
7 2 (3.17%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.17%) OpenID
7 2 (3.17%) VML
8 1 (1.59%) ebXML
8 1 (1.59%) JMS
8 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.59%) REST
8 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (30.16%) Replication
2 4 (6.35%) Cyberattack
2 4 (6.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Contactless
4 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.17%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 28 (44.44%) Windows
2 26 (41.27%) Linux
3 22 (34.92%) Unix
4 10 (15.87%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Migration
2 15 (23.81%) Agile
3 13 (20.63%) Capacity Management
3 13 (20.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (19.05%) OO
5 11 (17.46%) ITIL
6 9 (14.29%) DevOps
6 9 (14.29%) ETL
6 9 (14.29%) TDD
7 8 (12.70%) Change Management
8 7 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (11.11%) Clean Code
8 7 (11.11%) OOD
8 7 (11.11%) Programme Management
9 6 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (9.52%) Digital Marketing
9 6 (9.52%) Incident Response
9 6 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (9.52%) Scrum
9 6 (9.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.63%) SQL
2 12 (19.05%) C#
3 8 (12.70%) Python
4 7 (11.11%) Bicep
5 6 (9.52%) Java
6 2 (3.17%) Perl
6 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.59%) Clojure
7 1 (1.59%) Groovy
7 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.52%) Degree
3 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) CCNP
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.17%) GCIA
4 2 (3.17%) GCIH
4 2 (3.17%) GIAC
4 2 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.17%) SANS
5 1 (1.59%) CCFP
5 1 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.59%) EC-Council LPT
5 1 (1.59%) ECIH
5 1 (1.59%) ECSA
5 1 (1.59%) GAWN
5 1 (1.59%) GCFE
5 1 (1.59%) GPPA
5 1 (1.59%) GREM
5 1 (1.59%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.59%) MiFID
2 1 (1.59%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (26.98%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.63%) HDFS
2 13 (20.63%) NFS
3 6 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (9.52%) VMware NSX
4 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.17%) Samba
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.17%) XenApp
6 1 (1.59%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) vCenter Server
2 3 (4.76%) Kibana
2 3 (4.76%) logstash
2 3 (4.76%) QRadar
2 3 (4.76%) SCCM
3 2 (3.17%) CSIRT
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.59%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.59%) HP SIM
4 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.59%) SCDPM
4 1 (1.59%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.59%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (1.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (31.75%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.63%) Isilon
3 9 (14.29%) Informatica
4 8 (12.70%) CheckPoint
4 8 (12.70%) Cisco
4 8 (12.70%) SAP
4 8 (12.70%) VMware
5 7 (11.11%) Dell
5 7 (11.11%) Splunk
6 6 (9.52%) Oracle
6 6 (9.52%) Palo Alto
6 6 (9.52%) Veeam
7 5 (7.94%) Symantec
7 5 (7.94%) Talend
8 4 (6.35%) Darktrace
8 4 (6.35%) FireEye
8 4 (6.35%) IronPort
8 4 (6.35%) LogRhythm
9 3 (4.76%) ArcSight
9 3 (4.76%) Citrix