North West FTP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for File Transfer Protocol (FTP) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited FTP over the last 3 months to 22 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 22 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	129	125
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	12	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.905 %	0.415 %
Daily rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum daily rate	£329	-
Average daily rate	£329	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£329	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£418	£338
% change on same period last year	+23.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.33	£35.64
% change on same period last year	-14.88 %
Communications & Networking North West
Matching contract IT job ads	630	482
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.817 %	0.542 %
Daily rates quoted	144	68
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£291
Average daily rate	£371	£309
% change on same period last year	+20.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£335
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	53
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.53	£19.63
Average hourly rate	£26.66	£21.19
% change on same period last year	+25.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.79	£22.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.62	£27.57
% change on same period last year	-3.44 %
FTP England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

FTP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing FTP across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

FTP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing FTP across the North West region.

FTP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing FTP across the North West region over the past 3 months.

FTP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing FTP across the North West region.

FTP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	-12	11	£329	-
Manchester	-	1	-	-

FTP England

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing FTP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing FTP.

1 8 (38.10 %) C 1 8 (38.10 %) C++ 1 8 (38.10 %) Perl 1 8 (38.10 %) WebLogic 1 8 (38.10 %) Unix 1 8 (38.10 %) Apache 1 8 (38.10 %) Tomcat 2 7 (33.33 %) Java 2 7 (33.33 %) Bioinformatics 2 7 (33.33 %) yacc 3 6 (28.57 %) Pharmaceutical 4 5 (23.81 %) ISDN 4 5 (23.81 %) SC Cleared 4 5 (23.81 %) Security Cleared 5 4 (19.05 %) SAP

5 4 (19.05 %) XML 5 4 (19.05 %) SQL 5 4 (19.05 %) EDI 6 3 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 6 3 (14.29 %) BC Cleared 7 2 (9.524 %) SEEBURGER 7 2 (9.524 %) Business Analysis 7 2 (9.524 %) EDIFACT 7 2 (9.524 %) Government 8 1 (4.762 %) CMS 8 1 (4.762 %) Windows XP 8 1 (4.762 %) ADSL 8 1 (4.762 %) Flash 8 1 (4.762 %) Windows 8 1 (4.762 %) MySQL

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing FTP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing FTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (19.05 %) XML 1 4 (19.05 %) EDI 2 2 (9.524 %) EDIFACT	Application Platforms 1 8 (38.10 %) WebLogic 1 8 (38.10 %) Apache 1 8 (38.10 %) Tomcat 2 1 (4.762 %) CMS
Communications & Networking 1 5 (23.81 %) ISDN 2 1 (4.762 %) ADSL 2 1 (4.762 %) OSPF 2 1 (4.762 %) SHDSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.762 %) MySQL 1 1 (4.762 %) FileMaker
Development Applications 1 7 (33.33 %) yacc 2 1 (4.762 %) Flash	General 1 6 (28.57 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (9.524 %) Government
Job Titles 1 6 (28.57 %) Technical Specialist 2 5 (23.81 %) Analyst 3 4 (19.05 %) EDI Analyst 4 3 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (9.524 %) UNIX Specialist 6 1 (4.762 %) Technical Analyst 6 1 (4.762 %) Web Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Consultant 6 1 (4.762 %) Programmer 6 1 (4.762 %) Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Technical Consultant 6 1 (4.762 %) Administrator 6 1 (4.762 %) NOC Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) Web Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (33.33 %) Bioinformatics 2 1 (4.762 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 8 (38.10 %) Unix 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows XP 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (23.81 %) SC Cleared 1 5 (23.81 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 2 3 (14.29 %) BC Cleared 3 2 (9.524 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 8 (38.10 %) C 1 8 (38.10 %) C++ 1 8 (38.10 %) Perl 2 7 (33.33 %) Java 3 4 (19.05 %) SQL 4 1 (4.762 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 1 (4.762 %) CCNA 1 1 (4.762 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 1 (4.762 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 4 (19.05 %) SAP 2 2 (9.524 %) SEEBURGER 3 1 (4.762 %) Cisco 3 1 (4.762 %) Altiris