The first table below looks at the demand for FTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East 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 North East 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 - 48 42
Contract jobs citing FTP 0 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East - 0.404% 0.452%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 1.802% 3.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £323 -
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
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
43 111 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 15.47% 22.42% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 51 23
Average daily rate £300 £350 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +8.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £230 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £456 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 6
Average hourly rate £22.25 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.10% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.85 £13.50 £14.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.65 £27.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
FTP
England

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East FTP Daily Rate Trend

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) McAfee
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) SRDF
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) RightFax
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Novell
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
2 2 (66.67%) SNMP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) CESG

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
1 2 (66.67%) SNMP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Server Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (33.33%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) SRDF
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) McAfee
2 2 (66.67%) RightFax
2 2 (66.67%) Novell
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) VMware