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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 456 481
Rank change year-on-year -146 +25 +100
Contract jobs citing FTP 31 54 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.068% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.73% 1.57% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 32
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £425 £325 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £368
Median % change year-on-year - +29.25% +5.76%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £415
90th Percentile £600 £628 £642
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £350
% change year-on-year - +35.71% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 3
10th Percentile - £45.00 £16.80
25th Percentile £46.25 £47.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £80.68 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.12% +303.38% -58.19%
75th Percentile £48.75 £81.91 £34.38
90th Percentile - £84.70 £43.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £80.68 £20.00
% change year-on-year -41.12% +303.38% -58.19%

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 4,250 3,433 4,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.38% 12.47% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 2,141 2,650
10th Percentile £263 £235 £231
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 163 305
10th Percentile £16.02 £14.99 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £18.27
Median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% -10.89% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.21 £87.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -46.68% +8.98% -8.24%

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 31 July 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
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 31 July 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 -57 13 £450 +38.46% 2
London -67 11 £525 +61.54% 1
Midlands -67 4 £575 +21.05%
West Midlands -76 4 £575 +21.05%
North of England - 3 £465 - 2
North West - 3 £465 - 2
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 2 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) NetWeaver
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
1 2 (6.45%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Primavera
1 2 (6.45%) Teamcenter
1 2 (6.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) Entra ID
3 5 (16.13%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (12.90%) AWS
5 3 (9.68%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) OCI
5 3 (9.68%) PaaS
5 3 (9.68%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Boomi
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) DNS
2 7 (22.58%) DHCP
2 7 (22.58%) SSL
3 2 (6.45%) Firewall
3 2 (6.45%) HTTP
3 2 (6.45%) HTTPS
3 2 (6.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (6.45%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.45%) MySQL
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Legal
5 3 (9.68%) Retail Banking
6 2 (6.45%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Consultant
2 3 (9.68%) Architect
2 3 (9.68%) Developer
2 3 (9.68%) Integration Consultant
2 3 (9.68%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Lead
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Project Planner
3 2 (6.45%) Support Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Test Leader
3 2 (6.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) webMethods Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) SOAP
2 8 (25.81%) REST
3 7 (22.58%) XML
4 3 (9.68%) JSON
4 3 (9.68%) Web Services
4 3 (9.68%) XSLT
5 2 (6.45%) ADO
5 2 (6.45%) ebXML
5 2 (6.45%) EDI
5 2 (6.45%) LAMP
6 1 (3.23%) IDoc
6 1 (3.23%) JDBC
6 1 (3.23%) JMS
6 1 (3.23%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Market Risk
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) Unix
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
3 5 (16.13%) Linux
4 3 (9.68%) AIX
4 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (25.81%) High Availability
3 7 (22.58%) Integration Patterns
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 6 (19.35%) Data Integration
4 6 (19.35%) DevOps
4 6 (19.35%) Patch Management
4 6 (19.35%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (16.13%) Operational Stability
5 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (12.90%) ERP
6 4 (12.90%) Server Management
6 4 (12.90%) SOA
6 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.68%) Change Management
7 3 (9.68%) Data Modelling
7 3 (9.68%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) ActionScript
1 3 (9.68%) ActionScript 2.0
1 3 (9.68%) Java
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Perl
2 2 (6.45%) PHP
3 1 (3.23%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) ISEB
4 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 7 (22.58%) Hyper-V
2 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (19.35%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (9.68%) NFS
4 3 (9.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) PowerBroker
1 3 (9.68%) Progress Chef
1 3 (9.68%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (9.68%) Tivoli
1 3 (9.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
1 7 (22.58%) Oracle
1 7 (22.58%) VMware
2 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
2 3 (9.68%) Veritas
2 3 (9.68%) webMethods
3 2 (6.45%) Adobe
3 2 (6.45%) Axway
3 2 (6.45%) Citrix
3 2 (6.45%) Software AG
3 2 (6.45%) Workday
4 1 (3.23%) Dell
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) SEEBURGER