The first table below looks at the demand for FTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 96 105 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing FTP 14 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.753% 0.313% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.459% 2.491% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £316 £320 £463
% change year-on-year
-1.17% -30.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £23.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-34.78% -20.68%
All Communications & Networking
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
314 281 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 16.90% 12.58% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 141 81
Average daily rate £300 £280 £336
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -16.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £190 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 37 32
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.25 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.78% -54.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.90 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £35.00 £60.00
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire FTP Hourly Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire +5 6 £150 -
West Yorkshire +3 3 £250 -16.66%
FTP
England

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 29 (78.38%) Windows
2 27 (72.97%) IIS
3 23 (62.16%) .NET
4 22 (59.46%) SQL Server
5 15 (40.54%) SQL
5 15 (40.54%) XML
6 13 (35.14%) Firewall
7 11 (29.73%) Oracle
8 8 (21.62%) Finance
9 7 (18.92%) Linux
9 7 (18.92%) WebSphere
10 6 (16.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 5 (13.51%) ERP
11 5 (13.51%) HTTP
11 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
11 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
12 4 (10.81%) Middleware
12 4 (10.81%) AIX
12 4 (10.81%) Solaris
12 4 (10.81%) UNIX
12 4 (10.81%) IBM
12 4 (10.81%) Migration
12 4 (10.81%) Games
12 4 (10.81%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
12 4 (10.81%) E-business
12 4 (10.81%) SOA
12 4 (10.81%) Tomcat
12 4 (10.81%) MQSeries
12 4 (10.81%) MS Office

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 23 (62.16%) .NET
2 15 (40.54%) XML
3 7 (18.92%) WebSphere
4 4 (10.81%) Middleware
4 4 (10.81%) JDBC
4 4 (10.81%) Web Services
4 4 (10.81%) J2EE
5 1 (2.703%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 27 (72.97%) IIS
2 6 (16.22%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (10.81%) Tomcat
3 4 (10.81%) MQSeries
3 4 (10.81%) ESB
3 4 (10.81%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (8.108%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (2.703%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.703%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 13 (35.14%) Firewall
2 5 (13.51%) HTTP
2 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.703%) SSH
3 1 (2.703%) BIG-IP
3 1 (2.703%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.703%) LAN
3 1 (2.703%) WAN
3 1 (2.703%) SMTP
3 1 (2.703%) DHCP
3 1 (2.703%) DNS
3 1 (2.703%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (59.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.81%) DB2
3 1 (2.703%) Data Mining
General
1 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Games
2 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
2 4 (10.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Analyst
2 15 (40.54%) Support Analyst
3 12 (32.43%) Support Engineer
4 10 (27.03%) Applications Support
4 10 (27.03%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Operations Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Operations Support Analyst
6 3 (8.108%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.405%) Consultant
7 2 (5.405%) Oracle Architect
8 1 (2.703%) EDI Analyst
8 1 (2.703%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (2.703%) EDI Business Analyst
8 1 (2.703%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.703%) Technical Consultant
8 1 (2.703%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.703%) Business Architect
8 1 (2.703%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (2.703%) Oracle Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.703%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 29 (78.38%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Linux
3 4 (10.81%) AIX
3 4 (10.81%) Solaris
3 4 (10.81%) UNIX
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.703%) CentOS
4 1 (2.703%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.703%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.51%) ERP
2 4 (10.81%) Migration
2 4 (10.81%) E-business
2 4 (10.81%) SOA
2 4 (10.81%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (2.703%) Business Analysis
3 1 (2.703%) Software Deployment
3 1 (2.703%) ITIL
3 1 (2.703%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) SQL
2 4 (10.81%) Java
2 4 (10.81%) Perl
2 4 (10.81%) Bash shell
3 1 (2.703%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (2.703%) PHP
3 1 (2.703%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.703%) MCSE
1 1 (2.703%) MCP
1 1 (2.703%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.703%) vSphere
1 1 (2.703%) XenServer
1 1 (2.703%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.703%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) IBM
4 2 (5.405%) Cognos
5 1 (2.703%) Brocade
5 1 (2.703%) Syncsort
5 1 (2.703%) F5
5 1 (2.703%) Cisco
5 1 (2.703%) Citrix
5 1 (2.703%) Juniper
5 1 (2.703%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.703%) VMware