FTP Contracts in England

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for FTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FTP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 606 645
Rank change year-on-year +136 +39 -121
Contract jobs citing FTP 65 57 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.30% 0.92% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 34 77
10th Percentile £279 £201 £358
25th Percentile £295 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £325 £478
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -31.94% -2.55%
75th Percentile £515 £606 £600
90th Percentile £602 £716 £700
UK median daily rate £385 £325 £475
% change year-on-year +18.46% -31.58% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £16.40 - £37.99
25th Percentile £17.00 £61.25 £39.11
Median hourly rate £18.00 £62.50 £42.21
Median % change year-on-year -71.20% +48.08% -25.44%
75th Percentile £19.00 £63.75 £44.07
90th Percentile £19.60 - £44.44
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £62.50 £42.21
% change year-on-year -71.20% +48.08% -25.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

FTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing FTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for FTP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FTP in England.

Daily rate trend for FTP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FTP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FTP in England.

Hourly rate trend for FTP in England

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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 27 April 2024. 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
London +107 40 £385 -28.70% 10
South East +26 7 £369 +9.26% 2
South West +26 7 £500 -28.57%
North of England - 5 £510 - 3
North West - 5 £510 -
East of England +20 4 £290 -
Midlands +19 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
FTP
UK

FTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.69%) Apache
1 5 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.15%) MQSeries
3 3 (4.62%) CMS
4 2 (3.08%) Drupal
4 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.54%) Appian
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) FileZilla
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.08%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Shopify
1 2 (3.08%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Azure
2 13 (20.00%) PaaS
3 11 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (13.85%) Serverless
6 8 (12.31%) AWS
7 7 (10.77%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.69%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.08%) Azure App Service
9 2 (3.08%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (3.08%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.08%) BigCommerce
9 2 (3.08%) SaaS
9 2 (3.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 21 (32.31%) Firewall
2 16 (24.62%) HTTP
3 13 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 11 (16.92%) SMTP
5 7 (10.77%) DNS
5 7 (10.77%) SSH
5 7 (10.77%) SSL
6 6 (9.23%) SAN
7 5 (7.69%) HTTPS
7 5 (7.69%) IPsec
7 5 (7.69%) LAN
7 5 (7.69%) Network Security
7 5 (7.69%) tcpdump
7 5 (7.69%) VPN
7 5 (7.69%) WAN
7 5 (7.69%) Wireshark
8 4 (6.15%) DHCP
8 4 (6.15%) ICMP
8 4 (6.15%) POP3
8 4 (6.15%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 13 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 5 (7.69%) Big Data
4 4 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database
4 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.08%) MS Access
5 2 (3.08%) MySQL
5 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.54%) GIS
6 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.54%) Power BI
6 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Git
2 6 (9.23%) JIRA
3 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 16 (24.62%) Finance
2 13 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 12 (18.46%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.46%) Telecoms
4 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
5 10 (15.38%) Marketing
6 8 (12.31%) Electronics
6 8 (12.31%) Legal
7 7 (10.77%) Back Office
8 6 (9.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (7.69%) Banking
10 3 (4.62%) Multimedia
11 2 (3.08%) Retail
12 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (1.54%) Front Office
12 1 (1.54%) Local Government
12 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (20.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 7 (10.77%) Developer
2 7 (10.77%) Lead
2 7 (10.77%) Network Engineer
2 7 (10.77%) Technical Leader
3 6 (9.23%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) ArcSight Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Consultant
5 4 (6.15%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) SIEM Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Unix Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (30.77%) LDAP
2 9 (13.85%) .NET
3 7 (10.77%) .NET Core
4 5 (7.69%) JSON
4 5 (7.69%) XML
5 4 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (6.15%) GraphQL
6 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.08%) 802.1X
7 2 (3.08%) CSS
7 2 (3.08%) Entity Framework
7 2 (3.08%) HTML
7 2 (3.08%) Node.js
7 2 (3.08%) OAuth
7 2 (3.08%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.08%) OpenID
7 2 (3.08%) Swagger
7 2 (3.08%) VML
7 2 (3.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.23%) Replication
2 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.62%) Cyberattack
3 3 (4.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.62%) Smartphone
4 2 (3.08%) Contactless
4 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (41.54%) Linux
2 26 (40.00%) Windows
3 25 (38.46%) Unix
4 10 (15.38%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.38%) Migration
2 16 (24.62%) Agile
3 14 (21.54%) ITIL
4 13 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 13 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (18.46%) OO
6 11 (16.92%) DevOps
6 11 (16.92%) TDD
7 9 (13.85%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (13.85%) Clean Code
7 9 (13.85%) ETL
7 9 (13.85%) Programme Management
8 8 (12.31%) Change Management
8 8 (12.31%) Digital Marketing
9 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.77%) Customer Service
9 7 (10.77%) OOD
9 7 (10.77%) Scrum
9 7 (10.77%) Software Engineering
10 6 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.54%) C#
2 12 (18.46%) SQL
3 7 (10.77%) Bicep
3 7 (10.77%) Python
4 6 (9.23%) Java
5 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.54%) Clojure
6 1 (1.54%) Groovy
6 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.54%) Perl
6 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.08%) CCNP
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CCNA
5 1 (1.54%) CCSP
5 1 (1.54%) CEH
5 1 (1.54%) CHFI
5 1 (1.54%) CISSP
5 1 (1.54%) EnCE
5 1 (1.54%) GCED
5 1 (1.54%) GCFA
5 1 (1.54%) GCIA
5 1 (1.54%) GCIH
5 1 (1.54%) GIAC
5 1 (1.54%) GPEN
5 1 (1.54%) GSNA
5 1 (1.54%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) MiFID
2 1 (1.54%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (26.15%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.00%) HDFS
2 13 (20.00%) NFS
3 6 (9.23%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (9.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.23%) VMware NSX
4 4 (6.15%) Samba
5 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.08%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) vCenter Server
2 4 (6.15%) Kibana
2 4 (6.15%) logstash
2 4 (6.15%) QRadar
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
3 3 (4.62%) SCCM
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.54%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.00%) Isilon
3 10 (15.38%) CheckPoint
3 10 (15.38%) SAP
3 10 (15.38%) VMware
4 9 (13.85%) Informatica
5 8 (12.31%) Cisco
6 7 (10.77%) Dell
6 7 (10.77%) Splunk
7 6 (9.23%) Palo Alto
7 6 (9.23%) Veeam
8 5 (7.69%) Oracle
8 5 (7.69%) Talend
9 4 (6.15%) ArcSight
9 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
10 3 (4.62%) Darktrace
10 3 (4.62%) FireEye
10 3 (4.62%) IronPort
10 3 (4.62%) LogRhythm
10 3 (4.62%) Symantec