The first table below looks at the demand for FTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FTP over the 3 months to 23 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 Milton Keynes 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Rank 54 60 55
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -5
Contract jobs citing FTP 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.189% 0.141% 0.163%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.923% 0.862% 0.952%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £120 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £315 £463
% change year-on-year
-0.79% -31.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £23.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-34.78% -20.68%
All Communications & Networking
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
52 116 105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 9.811% 16.41% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 49
Average daily rate £425 £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 13
Average hourly rate £14.96 £13.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.81% -35.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
FTP
Buckinghamshire

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes FTP Daily Rate Trend

FTP
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL