The first table below looks at the demand for FTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 67 81 70
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -11
Contract jobs citing FTP 6 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.656% 0.231% 0.096%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.714% 1.304% 0.862%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Average daily rate £341 £381 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.63% -
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 - £14.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year
-25.00% -29.20%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
105 230 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.49% 17.68% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 86 34
Average daily rate £299 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.41% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £131 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £443 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £32.50 £17.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
FTP
North West

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester FTP Hourly Rate Trend

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 (55.56%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (33.33%) HTTP
2 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (33.33%) UNIX
2 3 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 2 (22.22%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) MS Office
3 2 (22.22%) SOAP
3 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) XML
3 2 (22.22%) Blackberry
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 (22.22%) SOAP
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
1 2 (22.22%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Office
1 2 (22.22%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) HTTP
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
1 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Czech Language
2 1 (11.11%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Support
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Validation
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Web Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) HP
1 2 (22.22%) VMware