The first table below looks at the demand for FTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FTP over the 3 months to 24 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 South 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Rank 181 208 233
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +25
Contract jobs citing FTP 43 31 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.552% 0.306% 0.193%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.892% 1.447% 1.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 9
Average daily rate £220 £290 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.13% -31.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £123 £225 £161
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £350 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £320 £463
% change year-on-year
-1.17% -30.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
Average hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £23.60 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £28.50 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £23.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-34.78% -20.68%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1487 2143 1920
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.08% 21.12% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 627 668
Average daily rate £320 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £188 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 187 236
Average hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £13.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
FTP
England

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South 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 South East region.

South East FTP Daily Rate Trend

FTP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing FTP across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East FTP Daily Rate Histogram

FTP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing FTP across the South East region.

South East FTP Hourly Rate Trend

FTP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing FTP across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East FTP Hourly Rate Histogram

FTP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire +22 19 £188 +21.95%
Hampshire -2 12 £450 -
Surrey +21 11 £220 -20.00%
Buckinghamshire +8 3 £154 -63.82%
FTP
England

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 20 (38.46%) Windows
2 19 (36.54%) MS Office
2 19 (36.54%) TCP/IP
3 18 (34.62%) VPN
4 14 (26.92%) UNIX
5 13 (25.00%) SSL
6 12 (23.08%) HTTP
6 12 (23.08%) SMTP
6 12 (23.08%) Linux
7 10 (19.23%) ITIL
7 10 (19.23%) SQL
7 10 (19.23%) WAN
7 10 (19.23%) SSH
8 9 (17.31%) Telecoms
8 9 (17.31%) Citrix
8 9 (17.31%) Fault Management
9 8 (15.38%) Marketing
9 8 (15.38%) Change Control
9 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
9 8 (15.38%) SMS
9 8 (15.38%) Solaris
9 8 (15.38%) Firewall
9 8 (15.38%) Legal
9 8 (15.38%) Billing
10 7 (13.46%) Finance
10 7 (13.46%) Remedy
10 7 (13.46%) BMC
10 7 (13.46%) Control-M
10 7 (13.46%) AIX
10 7 (13.46%) Perl

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 Development
1 5 (9.615%) HTML
2 3 (5.769%) .NET
3 2 (3.846%) jQuery
3 2 (3.846%) Ajax
3 2 (3.846%) Apache Flex
3 2 (3.846%) J2EE
3 2 (3.846%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.846%) Web Services
3 2 (3.846%) XML
3 2 (3.846%) Flash
4 1 (1.923%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.923%) X-Windows
4 1 (1.923%) EJB
4 1 (1.923%) JDBC
4 1 (1.923%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.769%) MS Exchange
1 3 (5.769%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (5.769%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (5.769%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (3.846%) IIS
3 1 (1.923%) CMS
3 1 (1.923%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.923%) CICS
3 1 (1.923%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (36.54%) MS Office
2 3 (5.769%) MS Excel
3 2 (3.846%) Photoshop
3 2 (3.846%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (3.846%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 19 (36.54%) TCP/IP
2 18 (34.62%) VPN
3 13 (25.00%) SSL
4 12 (23.08%) HTTP
4 12 (23.08%) SMTP
5 10 (19.23%) WAN
5 10 (19.23%) SSH
6 8 (15.38%) SMS
6 8 (15.38%) Firewall
7 7 (13.46%) DNS
8 4 (7.692%) DHCP
8 4 (7.692%) ATM
8 4 (7.692%) Internet
9 1 (1.923%) Wireless
9 1 (1.923%) MPLS
9 1 (1.923%) LDAP
9 1 (1.923%) LAN
9 1 (1.923%) VPLS
9 1 (1.923%) Wireshark
9 1 (1.923%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.769%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.923%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (1.923%) Maven
1 1 (1.923%) Visual Studio
1 1 (1.923%) Ant
General
1 9 (17.31%) Telecoms
2 8 (15.38%) Marketing
2 8 (15.38%) Legal
2 8 (15.38%) Billing
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
4 3 (5.769%) Advertising
4 3 (5.769%) Publishing
5 2 (3.846%) Back Office
6 1 (1.923%) Law
6 1 (1.923%) French Language
6 1 (1.923%) German Language
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Project Manager
2 8 (15.38%) Developer
2 8 (15.38%) Analyst
2 8 (15.38%) Consultant
2 8 (15.38%) Administrator
3 7 (13.46%) Applications Support
4 6 (11.54%) Support Analyst
4 6 (11.54%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (7.692%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.846%) Coordinator
6 2 (3.846%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (3.846%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.846%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (3.846%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.846%) C# Developer
6 2 (3.846%) Help Desk Support
7 1 (1.923%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (1.923%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (1.923%) Implementation Consultant
7 1 (1.923%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.615%) Management Information System
1 5 (9.615%) Client/Server
2 4 (7.692%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 4 (7.692%) Computer Science
2 4 (7.692%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (7.692%) EFT
3 1 (1.923%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 20 (38.46%) Windows
2 14 (26.92%) UNIX
3 12 (23.08%) Linux
4 8 (15.38%) Solaris
5 7 (13.46%) AIX
6 5 (9.615%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (5.769%) Mac OS X
8 3 (5.769%) Windows XP
8 3 (5.769%) Windows Vista
8 3 (5.769%) Mac OS
8 3 (5.769%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.23%) ITIL
2 9 (17.31%) Fault Management
3 8 (15.38%) Change Control
4 7 (13.46%) OO
4 7 (13.46%) B2B
4 7 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (11.54%) Migration
6 4 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (5.769%) Project Management
8 2 (3.846%) Incident Management
8 2 (3.846%) UML
8 2 (3.846%) OOP
8 2 (3.846%) Change Management
9 1 (1.923%) Content Management
9 1 (1.923%) Workflow
9 1 (1.923%) Data Modelling
9 1 (1.923%) SOA
9 1 (1.923%) ETL
9 1 (1.923%) CRM
9 1 (1.923%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) SQL
2 7 (13.46%) Perl
2 7 (13.46%) Korn
3 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.615%) C
4 5 (9.615%) C#
5 4 (7.692%) C++
5 4 (7.692%) Python
6 3 (5.769%) Java
7 2 (3.846%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (3.846%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.846%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.923%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.923%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.615%) Degree
2 1 (1.923%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.923%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.923%) MCP
2 1 (1.923%) BC Cleared
2 1 (1.923%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) SLA
2 4 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.692%) NFS
3 1 (1.923%) Snort
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Control-M
2 3 (5.769%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Citrix
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.46%) Remedy
3 7 (13.46%) BMC
3 7 (13.46%) IBM
4 5 (9.615%) Adobe
4 5 (9.615%) Oracle
5 4 (7.692%) Symantec
6 3 (5.769%) Apple
7 1 (1.923%) Sourcefire
7 1 (1.923%) VMware
7 1 (1.923%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.923%) Cisco
7 1 (1.923%) Riverbed