FTP Contracts in Birmingham

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring FTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FTP over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 65 72
Rank change year-on-year +23 +7 -
Contract jobs citing FTP 14 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.49% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.56% 1.28% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -39.39%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

FTP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 78 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.01% 11.42% 21.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 44 92
10th Percentile £243 £183 £254
25th Percentile £319 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £350 £386
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -9.39% -6.70%
75th Percentile £497 £500 £681
90th Percentile £575 £657 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £44.35 £13.40 £13.08
25th Percentile £44.88 £13.63 £13.94
Median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +235.71% -11.11% -21.25%
75th Percentile £50.38 £18.88 £17.44
90th Percentile £51.65 £21.80 £18.23
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +54.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing FTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for FTP in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FTP in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for FTP in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FTP in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for FTP in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (100.00%) Confluence
2 4 (28.57%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 14 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (28.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) DNS
1 14 (100.00%) Firewall
1 14 (100.00%) HTTP
1 14 (100.00%) SMTP
1 14 (100.00%) SSH
2 4 (28.57%) IMAP
2 4 (28.57%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Git
1 14 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 14 (100.00%) JIRA
1 14 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (64.29%) AWS DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 9 (64.29%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (64.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 9 (64.29%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
1 14 (100.00%) VMS
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Change Management
1 14 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 14 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
1 14 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Groovy
1 14 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) Java
2 10 (71.43%) Perl
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 4 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 14 (100.00%) Docker
2 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (28.57%) Dovecot
3 4 (28.57%) Postfix
3 4 (28.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Grafana
1 14 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 14 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Nessus
2 4 (28.57%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (28.57%) Jaspersoft