The first table below looks at the demand for FTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 56 74 81
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +7
Contract jobs citing FTP 9 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.073% 0.448% 0.094%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.523% 1.073% 0.467%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £125 £83 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+51.51% -83.50%
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
199 466 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.72% 41.79% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 110 73
Average daily rate £280 £285 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.75% -24.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 7
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
FTP
Berkshire

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading FTP Hourly Rate Trend

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 9 (81.82%) MS Office
1 9 (81.82%) TCP/IP
1 9 (81.82%) VPN
2 8 (72.73%) HTTP
2 8 (72.73%) WAN
2 8 (72.73%) SMTP
2 8 (72.73%) Citrix
2 8 (72.73%) Fault Management
3 7 (63.64%) SLA
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 3 (27.27%) HTML
4 3 (27.27%) SSL
5 2 (18.18%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (18.18%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (18.18%) InDesign
5 2 (18.18%) SSH
5 2 (18.18%) Internet
5 2 (18.18%) Apache Flex
5 2 (18.18%) ActionScript
5 2 (18.18%) Photoshop
5 2 (18.18%) XML
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) Flash
5 2 (18.18%) Adobe
6 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
6 1 (9.091%) Cisco
6 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (9.091%) CheckPoint
6 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Flex
2 2 (18.18%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) Flash
Applications
1 9 (81.82%) MS Office
2 2 (18.18%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (18.18%) InDesign
2 2 (18.18%) Photoshop
3 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) TCP/IP
1 9 (81.82%) VPN
2 8 (72.73%) HTTP
2 8 (72.73%) WAN
2 8 (72.73%) SMTP
3 3 (27.27%) SSL
4 2 (18.18%) SSH
4 2 (18.18%) Internet
5 1 (9.091%) Firewall
5 1 (9.091%) Wireless
5 1 (9.091%) DHCP
5 1 (9.091%) DNS
5 1 (9.091%) MPLS
5 1 (9.091%) VPLS
General
1 1 (9.091%) Back Office
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) French Language
1 1 (9.091%) German Language
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Coordinator
2 2 (18.18%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (9.091%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (9.091%) Flash Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Help Desk Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Fault Management
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 1 (9.091%) Change Management
3 1 (9.091%) Workflow
3 1 (9.091%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.091%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) ActionScript 2.0
1 2 (18.18%) ActionScript
2 1 (9.091%) C#
2 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (9.091%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Adobe
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco
4 1 (9.091%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.091%) VMware
4 1 (9.091%) Riverbed