FTP Contract Job Trends in England

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring FTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 424 473
Rank change year-on-year -64 +49 +142
Contract jobs citing FTP 58 72 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.73% 2.05% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 34 52
10th Percentile £204 £352 £206
25th Percentile £350 £404 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £688
90th Percentile £582 £625 £752
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £575
% change year-on-year - -17.39% +10.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 4
10th Percentile £45.00 £33.13 £21.88
25th Percentile £48.94 - £23.46
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £56.81
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -38.39% -22.18%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £91.13
90th Percentile £84.88 £54.38 £92.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £56.81
% change year-on-year +85.71% -38.39% -22.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,349 3,515 5,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.65% 12.79% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 2,052 3,151
10th Percentile £204 £220 £206
25th Percentile £356 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 103 314
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.68
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +71.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.25 £75.97
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +76.53%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

FTP job vacancy trend in England

FTP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FTP

FTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP in England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FTP in England

FTP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FTP

FTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FTP in England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for FTP in England

FTP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the England region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
West Midlands -21 24 £475 +11.76% 1
Midlands -21 24 £475 +11.76% 1
London -5 16 £400 +14.37% 1
East of England -18 15 £680 +13.33% 8
South East -31 10 £300 -50.52% 6
Yorkshire -53 2 £494 +21.17% 1
North of England -59 2 £494 +21.17% 1
FTP
UK

FTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 20 (34.48%) Confluence
2 10 (17.24%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.72%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.76%) Azure
2 17 (29.31%) AWS
3 16 (27.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 16 (27.59%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (27.59%) Amazon ELB
3 16 (27.59%) Amazon S3
3 16 (27.59%) AWS KMS
3 16 (27.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (17.24%) Route 53
5 7 (12.07%) SaaS
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon Glacier
6 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.17%) GCP
8 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.72%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 37 (63.79%) DNS
2 35 (60.34%) HTTP
3 32 (55.17%) SMTP
4 20 (34.48%) SSH
5 16 (27.59%) Firewall
6 15 (25.86%) Network Security
6 15 (25.86%) SSL
7 10 (17.24%) IMAP
7 10 (17.24%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (12.07%) Wireshark
9 6 (10.34%) DHCP
10 4 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (5.17%) Ethernet
11 3 (5.17%) SD-WAN
11 3 (5.17%) SNMP
11 3 (5.17%) Spanning Tree
11 3 (5.17%) TACACS
12 2 (3.45%) IOS XR
13 1 (1.72%) Cisco Wireless
13 1 (1.72%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (17.24%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (1.72%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (32.76%) JIRA
2 17 (29.31%) Git
3 16 (27.59%) Jenkins
3 16 (27.59%) Vagrant
4 2 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 18 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (25.86%) Public Sector
4 10 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.72%) Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Finance
7 1 (1.72%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (39.66%) Analyst
2 16 (27.59%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (27.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (27.59%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) SOC Analyst
4 14 (24.14%) AWS DevOps
4 14 (24.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 14 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 8 (13.79%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) Architect
8 6 (10.34%) Wintel Analyst
9 5 (8.62%) Support Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Technical Support
10 4 (6.90%) Technical Support Engineer
11 3 (5.17%) Test Engineer
12 2 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
12 2 (3.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (43.10%) LDAP
2 4 (6.90%) REST
2 4 (6.90%) SOAP
3 3 (5.17%) Kafka
4 2 (3.45%) ADO
5 1 (1.72%) CSS
5 1 (1.72%) HTML
5 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.72%) Spring
5 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.72%) Web Services
5 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) Replication
2 15 (25.86%) Cyberattack
3 14 (24.14%) Management Information System
4 13 (22.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (22.41%) CSOC
4 13 (22.41%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (22.41%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (5.17%) SCADA
6 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.72%) BYOD
7 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.72%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 29 (50.00%) Windows
2 17 (29.31%) Linux
3 16 (27.59%) Amazon Linux
3 16 (27.59%) VMS
4 10 (17.24%) Ubuntu
5 7 (12.07%) Windows Server
6 4 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) DevOps
2 16 (27.59%) Change Management
2 16 (27.59%) Cloud Security
2 16 (27.59%) Configuration Management
2 16 (27.59%) Patch Management
2 16 (27.59%) Platform Engineering
3 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (25.86%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (25.86%) Information Security
3 15 (25.86%) Network Packet Capture
4 14 (24.14%) AI
4 14 (24.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (24.14%) SIEM
5 13 (22.41%) Analytics
5 13 (22.41%) Behavioural Analytics
5 13 (22.41%) Information Management
5 13 (22.41%) Machine Learning
5 13 (22.41%) Runbook
5 13 (22.41%) Security Operations
5 13 (22.41%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 32 (55.17%) Python
2 29 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 16 (27.59%) Groovy
4 13 (22.41%) Java
5 10 (17.24%) SQL
6 6 (10.34%) Perl
7 3 (5.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 33 (56.90%) SC Cleared
1 33 (56.90%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.24%) AWS Certification
2 10 (17.24%) Azure Certification
2 10 (17.24%) Degree
2 10 (17.24%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) ISEB
4 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.72%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (1.72%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 17 (29.31%) Docker
2 16 (27.59%) DFS Replication
3 14 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (20.69%) Active Directory
5 10 (17.24%) Dovecot
5 10 (17.24%) Postfix
5 10 (17.24%) Squid
6 1 (1.72%) NFS
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (29.31%) Terraform
2 16 (27.59%) Grafana
2 16 (27.59%) Prometheus
3 10 (17.24%) Nessus
3 10 (17.24%) Proxmox
4 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.72%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) ServiceNow
2 14 (24.14%) VMware
3 10 (17.24%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (12.07%) Broadcom
5 6 (10.34%) Citrix
6 4 (6.90%) Cisco
7 3 (5.17%) Meraki
8 2 (3.45%) Ciena
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.45%) Oracle
9 1 (1.72%) HP
9 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (1.72%) SAP