FTP Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring FTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FTP 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.83% - 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - £510
75th Percentile £473 - £515
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £449 £375 £510
% change year-on-year +19.73% -26.47% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 121 63 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.21% 14.96% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 48 53
10th Percentile £355 £202 £65
25th Percentile £401 £322 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £435 £495
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -12.12% +10.00%
75th Percentile £617 £494 £533
90th Percentile £648 £589 £582
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £18.68
25th Percentile £34.49 - £20.11
Median hourly rate £35.82 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.55%
75th Percentile £37.16 - £24.25
90th Percentile - - £25.30
North West median hourly rate £58.10 £24.59 £33.62
% change year-on-year +136.32% -26.86% +22.24%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

FTP job vacancy trend in Cheshire

FTP
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing FTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing FTP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing FTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing FTP

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 1 £449 -
FTP
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) PowerBroker
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas