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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 414 468
Rank change year-on-year -109 +54 +148
Contract jobs citing FTP 44 61 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.23% 1.82% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 59
10th Percentile £204 £349 £265
25th Percentile £325 £413 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +7.84% +30.77%
75th Percentile £419 £619 £625
90th Percentile £495 £638 £758
UK median daily rate £375 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -31.82% +7.84% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £52.15 £33.13 £17.93
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £20.82
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £25.12
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% +114.02% -59.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 £79.20 £90.25
90th Percentile £80.25 £81.56 £92.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £25.12
% change year-on-year +20.93% +114.02% -59.82%

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 3,564 3,359 5,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.09% 13.27% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,301 2,016 3,210
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 101 369
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +107.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +105.13%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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
South East -38 18 £350 -36.36% 7
West Midlands -43 10 £475 +11.76% 3
Midlands -49 10 £475 +11.76% 3
London -44 9 £394 +12.66% 2
East of England -44 5 - - 6
Yorkshire -61 2 £494 +16.18% 3
North of England -62 2 £494 +16.18% 3
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 7 (15.91%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.27%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) NetWeaver
3 1 (2.27%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) Azure
2 12 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 5 (11.36%) GCP
4 3 (6.82%) AWS
4 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.55%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (2.27%) Boomi
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) Route 53
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 21 (47.73%) DNS
2 14 (31.82%) DHCP
3 13 (29.55%) HTTP
4 11 (25.00%) SMTP
5 9 (20.45%) SSL
6 7 (15.91%) SSH
6 7 (15.91%) Wireshark
7 5 (11.36%) Network Security
7 5 (11.36%) SNMP
8 4 (9.09%) Telnet
9 3 (6.82%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (6.82%) Firewall
9 3 (6.82%) SD-WAN
9 3 (6.82%) Spanning Tree
9 3 (6.82%) TACACS
10 2 (4.55%) Ethernet
10 2 (4.55%) IOS XR
10 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
11 1 (2.27%) HTTPS
11 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.27%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.27%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.27%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) JIRA
2 3 (6.82%) Git
3 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.55%) Vagrant
3 2 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Finance
4 5 (11.36%) Banking
4 5 (11.36%) Retail Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Analyst
2 10 (22.73%) Wintel Analyst
3 9 (20.45%) Consultant
4 5 (11.36%) SOC Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Technical Support
5 4 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Integration Consultant
6 3 (6.82%) Lead
6 3 (6.82%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Test Leader
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Workday Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) LDAP
2 5 (11.36%) SOAP
2 5 (11.36%) XML
3 4 (9.09%) ADO
3 4 (9.09%) REST
4 3 (6.82%) Kafka
4 3 (6.82%) Web Services
5 2 (4.55%) ebXML
5 2 (4.55%) XSLT
6 1 (2.27%) CSS
6 1 (2.27%) HTML
6 1 (2.27%) IDoc
6 1 (2.27%) JDBC
6 1 (2.27%) JMS
6 1 (2.27%) LAMP
6 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.27%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (2.27%) SAP XI
6 1 (2.27%) Spring
6 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (11.36%) CSOC
2 5 (11.36%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (11.36%) Cyberattack
2 5 (11.36%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.36%) Market Risk
2 5 (11.36%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (4.55%) Replication
3 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (52.27%) Windows
2 14 (31.82%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.36%) Unix
4 3 (6.82%) Linux
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (4.55%) VMS
6 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (15.91%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (15.91%) Test Automation
3 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (13.64%) DevOps
4 5 (11.36%) Agile
4 5 (11.36%) Analytics
4 5 (11.36%) Behavioural Analytics
4 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (11.36%) Information Security
4 5 (11.36%) Machine Learning
4 5 (11.36%) Network Packet Capture
4 5 (11.36%) Process Improvement
4 5 (11.36%) Quantitative Risk Management
4 5 (11.36%) Runbook
4 5 (11.36%) Security Operations
4 5 (11.36%) SIEM
4 5 (11.36%) Test Strategy
4 5 (11.36%) Threat Detection
4 5 (11.36%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.73%) Python
2 8 (18.18%) Java
3 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.82%) Bash
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) Groovy
5 2 (4.55%) Perl
6 1 (2.27%) ABAP
6 1 (2.27%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.27%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) ISEB
4 2 (4.55%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Degree
5 1 (2.27%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (2.27%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 15 (34.09%) Active Directory
2 12 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.82%) Docker
4 2 (4.55%) DFS Replication
4 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.55%) NFS
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.27%) Dovecot
5 1 (2.27%) Postfix
5 1 (2.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.82%) Terraform
4 2 (4.55%) Grafana
4 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) HP ALM
5 1 (2.27%) Nessus
5 1 (2.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Citrix
1 12 (27.27%) VMware
2 10 (22.73%) ServiceNow
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.82%) Cisco
4 3 (6.82%) Meraki
5 2 (4.55%) Ciena
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
5 2 (4.55%) SAP
5 2 (4.55%) Workday
6 1 (2.27%) Dell
6 1 (2.27%) HP
6 1 (2.27%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) SEEBURGER