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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 414 469
Rank change year-on-year -93 +55 +138
Contract jobs citing FTP 45 64 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.26% 1.89% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 32 59
10th Percentile £204 £349 £265
25th Percentile £306 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +7.84% +30.77%
75th Percentile £419 £616 £625
90th Percentile £494 £636 £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 4
10th Percentile £52.15 £33.13 £21.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £23.46
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £56.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -5.38% -16.15%
75th Percentile £75.00 £79.20 £91.13
90th Percentile £80.25 £81.56 £92.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £56.81
% change year-on-year +20.93% -5.38% -16.15%

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 3,559 3,385 5,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.17% 13.34% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 2,018 3,162
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £357 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £486
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.88% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 101 367
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £28.38 £35.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -18.91% -23.71% +130.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.38 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -12.68% -29.16% +130.78%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -35 19 £350 -36.36% 4
West Midlands -46 11 £475 +11.76% 2
Midlands -48 11 £475 +11.76% 2
London -43 10 £394 +12.66% 3
East of England -37 5 - - 5
Yorkshire -56 2 £494 +16.18% 1
North of England -70 2 £494 +16.18% 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 9 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.67%) nginx
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.22%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) Entra ID
3 5 (11.11%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) GCP
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
4 4 (8.89%) AWS KMS
4 4 (8.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.67%) Route 53
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (2.22%) Boomi
7 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 23 (51.11%) DNS
2 16 (35.56%) HTTP
3 14 (31.11%) DHCP
4 13 (28.89%) SMTP
5 9 (20.00%) SSH
5 9 (20.00%) SSL
6 8 (17.78%) Wireshark
7 5 (11.11%) Network Security
7 5 (11.11%) SNMP
8 4 (8.89%) Firewall
8 4 (8.89%) Telnet
9 3 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (6.67%) IMAP
9 3 (6.67%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (6.67%) SD-WAN
9 3 (6.67%) Spanning Tree
9 3 (6.67%) TACACS
10 2 (4.44%) Ethernet
10 2 (4.44%) IOS XR
10 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.89%) BigQuery
1 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (2.22%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.22%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) JIRA
2 5 (11.11%) Git
3 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.89%) Vagrant
4 2 (4.44%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Banking
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.89%) Retail Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) Analyst
2 10 (22.22%) Wintel Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Consultant
4 5 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Support
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Integration Consultant
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) LDAP
2 6 (13.33%) SOAP
3 5 (11.11%) REST
3 5 (11.11%) XML
4 4 (8.89%) ADO
5 3 (6.67%) Kafka
5 3 (6.67%) Web Services
6 2 (4.44%) ebXML
6 2 (4.44%) XSLT
7 1 (2.22%) CSS
7 1 (2.22%) HTML
7 1 (2.22%) IDoc
7 1 (2.22%) JDBC
7 1 (2.22%) JMS
7 1 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.22%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (2.22%) SAP XI
7 1 (2.22%) Spring
7 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (11.11%) CSOC
2 5 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (11.11%) Cyberattack
2 5 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (8.89%) Market Risk
3 4 (8.89%) Replication
4 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (57.78%) Windows
2 14 (31.11%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.11%) Unix
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (8.89%) Linux
4 4 (8.89%) VMS
5 3 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (17.78%) DevOps
3 7 (15.56%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (15.56%) Test Automation
4 6 (13.33%) Agile
4 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (13.33%) OO
4 6 (13.33%) Patch Management
5 5 (11.11%) Behavioural Analytics
5 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.11%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.11%) Escalation Management
5 5 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 5 (11.11%) Network Packet Capture
5 5 (11.11%) Runbook
5 5 (11.11%) Security Operations
5 5 (11.11%) SIEM
5 5 (11.11%) SOAR
5 5 (11.11%) Threat Detection
5 5 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) Java
2 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.89%) Groovy
3 4 (8.89%) SQL
4 3 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (2.22%) ABAP
5 1 (2.22%) ActionScript
5 1 (2.22%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (37.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.67%) Degree
5 2 (4.44%) ISEB
5 2 (4.44%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (2.22%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (2.22%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 15 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 12 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.11%) Docker
4 4 (8.89%) DFS Replication
5 3 (6.67%) Dovecot
5 3 (6.67%) Postfix
5 3 (6.67%) Squid
6 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.44%) NFS
6 2 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (11.11%) Terraform
3 4 (8.89%) Grafana
3 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.67%) Nessus
4 3 (6.67%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.22%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Citrix
1 12 (26.67%) ServiceNow
1 12 (26.67%) VMware
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Cisco
3 3 (6.67%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (6.67%) Meraki
4 2 (4.44%) Ciena
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) Workday
5 1 (2.22%) Dell
5 1 (2.22%) HP
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) SEEBURGER