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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Rank 233 207 216
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +9
Permanent jobs citing FTP 16 29 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.224% 0.408% 0.301%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.401% 2.805% 2.031%
Number of salaries quoted 15 27 19
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £18,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +94.44%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Communications & Networking
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1142 1034 1034
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 15.98% 14.53% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 920 903 879
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £75,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
FTP
England

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West FTP Salary Trend

FTP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing FTP across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Manchester -33 8 £45,000 +28.57%
Cheshire +11 5 £24,000 -
Lancashire - 2 £43,250 -
FTP
England

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 17 (38.64%) SQL Server
1 17 (38.64%) Linux
2 14 (31.82%) Windows
3 11 (25.00%) Oracle
3 11 (25.00%) SQL
3 11 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 10 (22.73%) Apache
4 10 (22.73%) Internet
4 10 (22.73%) Middleware
5 9 (20.45%) HTML
5 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
6 8 (18.18%) IIS
6 8 (18.18%) UNIX
7 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (15.91%) Tivoli
7 7 (15.91%) ISTQB
7 7 (15.91%) WebSphere Application Server
7 7 (15.91%) ISEB
7 7 (15.91%) MQSeries
7 7 (15.91%) LDAP
7 7 (15.91%) E-Commerce
7 7 (15.91%) ADSL
7 7 (15.91%) WebSphere
7 7 (15.91%) Integration Testing
7 7 (15.91%) Network Security
8 6 (13.64%) Broadband
8 6 (13.64%) ISDN
8 6 (13.64%) HP
8 6 (13.64%) VPN
8 6 (13.64%) .NET

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 (22.73%) Middleware
2 9 (20.45%) HTML
3 7 (15.91%) WebSphere
4 6 (13.64%) .NET
5 4 (9.091%) ASP.NET
6 3 (6.818%) XML
6 3 (6.818%) EDI
7 2 (4.545%) XSLT
8 1 (2.273%) Flash
8 1 (2.273%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 10 (22.73%) Apache
2 8 (18.18%) IIS
3 7 (15.91%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (15.91%) MQSeries
4 6 (13.64%) Tomcat
5 5 (11.36%) WebLogic Integration
5 5 (11.36%) WebLogic
5 5 (11.36%) SharePoint
6 3 (6.818%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (6.818%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (6.818%) Gentran
7 1 (2.273%) CMS
7 1 (2.273%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (2.273%) MS Exchange
7 1 (2.273%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.818%) MS Office
3 1 (2.273%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.273%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 10 (22.73%) Internet
3 7 (15.91%) LDAP
3 7 (15.91%) ADSL
3 7 (15.91%) Network Security
4 6 (13.64%) Broadband
4 6 (13.64%) ISDN
4 6 (13.64%) VPN
4 6 (13.64%) DSL
5 5 (11.36%) DNS
5 5 (11.36%) HTTP
6 4 (9.091%) SMTP
6 4 (9.091%) LAN
6 4 (9.091%) WAN
6 4 (9.091%) SAN
7 2 (4.545%) NAS
7 2 (4.545%) SSL
8 1 (2.273%) SSH
8 1 (2.273%) OSPF
8 1 (2.273%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (38.64%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) MySQL
2 5 (11.36%) MS Access
3 2 (4.545%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (4.545%) DB2
3 2 (4.545%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (4.545%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.273%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.545%) JIRA
2 1 (2.273%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.273%) Dreamweaver
General
1 5 (11.36%) Banking
2 1 (2.273%) Local Government
2 1 (2.273%) Marketing
2 1 (2.273%) Finance
2 1 (2.273%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Designer
2 8 (18.18%) Solutions Designer
3 7 (15.91%) Analyst
4 6 (13.64%) Consultant
4 6 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (13.64%) Support Consultant
4 6 (13.64%) 1st Line Support
5 4 (9.091%) Test Leader
5 4 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.091%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.818%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (6.818%) Architect
6 3 (6.818%) Developer
6 3 (6.818%) Administrator
6 3 (6.818%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (6.818%) Middleware Analyst
7 2 (4.545%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.545%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.545%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (4.545%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) N-Tier
2 3 (6.818%) iPhone
3 2 (4.545%) EqualLogic
4 1 (2.273%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 17 (38.64%) Linux
2 14 (31.82%) Windows
3 8 (18.18%) UNIX
4 5 (11.36%) SUSE
4 5 (11.36%) HPUX
5 3 (6.818%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.818%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (6.818%) Debian
5 3 (6.818%) AIX
5 3 (6.818%) Android
5 3 (6.818%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (6.818%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (15.91%) E-Commerce
1 7 (15.91%) Integration Testing
2 5 (11.36%) SOA
2 5 (11.36%) Test Scripting
2 5 (11.36%) Release Management
2 5 (11.36%) Performance Testing
2 5 (11.36%) Security Testing
2 5 (11.36%) Statistical Analysis
3 3 (6.818%) Change Management
3 3 (6.818%) ITIL
4 2 (4.545%) Waterfall
4 2 (4.545%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (4.545%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (4.545%) Regression Testing
4 2 (4.545%) Software Testing
4 2 (4.545%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (2.273%) Business Analysis
5 1 (2.273%) OOP
5 1 (2.273%) OO
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) VB
2 5 (11.36%) FoxPro (VFP)
3 4 (9.091%) C
3 4 (9.091%) Perl
3 4 (9.091%) PHP
4 3 (6.818%) ActionScript
4 3 (6.818%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (4.545%) Java
6 1 (2.273%) Python
6 1 (2.273%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) ISTQB
1 7 (15.91%) ISEB
2 5 (11.36%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (4.545%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.273%) RHCE
4 1 (2.273%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.273%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.545%) QA
1 2 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (9.091%) Hyper-V
1 4 (9.091%) Xen
2 1 (2.273%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.273%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Tivoli
2 5 (11.36%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (6.818%) Plesk
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Oracle
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) HP
4 5 (11.36%) TIBCO
5 4 (9.091%) Cisco
6 3 (6.818%) VMware
6 3 (6.818%) Axway
7 2 (4.545%) Dell
8 1 (2.273%) EMC
8 1 (2.273%) Intel
8 1 (2.273%) NetApp
8 1 (2.273%) Juniper
8 1 (2.273%) 3PAR
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