The first table below looks at the demand for FTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FTP over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing FTP 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.264% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.130% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £320 £475
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -32.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -29.20%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
177 121 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.38% 13.60% 9.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 57 20
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £350 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.75 £13.75 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+152.72% -30.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
FTP
West Yorkshire

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds FTP Hourly Rate Trend

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 5 (83.33%) SQL
1 5 (83.33%) IIS
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) HTTP
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 4 (66.67%) MQSeries
2 4 (66.67%) AIX
2 4 (66.67%) Solaris
2 4 (66.67%) MS Office
2 4 (66.67%) JDBC
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Perl
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (66.67%) Middleware
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Games
2 4 (66.67%) IBM HTTP Server
2 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) Bash shell
3 1 (16.67%) PureDisk
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (66.67%) JDBC
1 4 (66.67%) J2EE
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
1 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) IIS
2 4 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 4 (66.67%) MQSeries
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (66.67%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (16.67%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (16.67%) SSH
2 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) SMTP
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Games
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Support Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Operations Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Operations Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) AIX
2 4 (66.67%) Solaris
2 4 (66.67%) UNIX
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Debian
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Perl
2 4 (66.67%) Bash shell
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
1 1 (16.67%) XenServer
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Syncsort
3 1 (16.67%) Brocade
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat