The first table below looks at the demand for FTP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Rank 118 126 115
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Permanent jobs citing FTP 5 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.278% 0.100% 0.242%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.285% 0.794% 1.347%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 3
Average salary £24,000 - £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 - £33,200
10% offered a salary of more than £45,400 - £42,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.89% -4.66%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
389 252 297
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 21.62% 12.55% 17.99%
Number of salaries quoted 298 228 249
Average salary £30,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £25,400
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
FTP
North West

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire FTP Jobs Demand Trend

FTP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing FTP across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire FTP Salary Trend

FTP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing FTP across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire FTP Salary Histogram

FTP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the Cheshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Crewe - 2 £22,000 -
Warrington - 2 £27,500 -
FTP
North West

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited FTP.

1 10 (62.50%) Middleware
2 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (43.75%) WebSphere Application Server
2 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) MQSeries
2 7 (43.75%) LDAP
2 7 (43.75%) WebSphere
2 7 (43.75%) Tivoli
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) UNIX
4 5 (31.25%) Banking
5 4 (25.00%) Oracle
5 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (18.75%) Perl
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) C
6 3 (18.75%) Windows
6 3 (18.75%) AIX
6 3 (18.75%) Gentran
6 3 (18.75%) Axway
7 2 (12.50%) JIRA
7 2 (12.50%) QA
7 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
7 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
7 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited FTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (62.50%) Middleware
2 7 (43.75%) WebSphere
3 2 (12.50%) HTML
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 2 (12.50%) XML
3 2 (12.50%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) WebSphere Application Server
1 7 (43.75%) MQSeries
2 3 (18.75%) Gentran
3 2 (12.50%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) LDAP
2 2 (12.50%) HTTP
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.250%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
1 7 (43.75%) Solutions Designer
1 7 (43.75%) Designer
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Middleware Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) QA Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Junior
3 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.250%) DBA
4 1 (6.250%) Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Junior Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Senior QA Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Junior DBA
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) UNIX
3 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
3 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
2 3 (18.75%) C
3 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 2 (12.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Axway