FTP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring FTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 112 118
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +49
Contract jobs citing FTP 3 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.12% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.27% 1.25% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £491 £313 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £325 £385
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -15.58% -45.00%
75th Percentile £616 £338 £925
90th Percentile £629 - -
Central London median daily rate £563 £325 £385
% change year-on-year +73.08% -15.58% -45.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 132 160 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 5.67% 9.54% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 107 141
10th Percentile £244 £242 £206
25th Percentile £425 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £438
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +24.00% -20.45%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £619
90th Percentile £738 £731 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £450
% change year-on-year +2.33% +19.44% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £19.49 - -
25th Percentile £19.71 £23.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.80 £24.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +81.48% -35.71%
75th Percentile £22.62 £25.25 £14.25
90th Percentile £23.27 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.19 £24.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year -1.28% +81.48% -35.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

FTP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FTP

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing FTP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) EDI
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) ActionScript
1 1 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Axway
2 1 (33.33%) Software AG
2 1 (33.33%) webMethods