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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 436 481
Rank change year-on-year -52 +45 +169
Contract jobs citing FTP 55 70 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.63% 1.87% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 34 48
10th Percentile £223 £349 £212
25th Percentile £350 £399 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% -
75th Percentile £572 £597 £680
90th Percentile £582 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £465 £575
% change year-on-year +2.26% -19.22% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.50 £21.88
25th Percentile £45.00 - £23.46
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £56.81
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -38.39% -22.18%
75th Percentile £80.00 £41.88 £91.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £58.75 £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 3,368 3,735 5,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 12.31% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 2,163 3,390
10th Percentile £205 £225 £210
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £609
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 130 327
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.49 £18.34
25th Percentile £20.26 £23.03 £23.00
Median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.07% -25.45% +27.91%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -3 28 £475 +11.76% 1
Midlands -4 28 £475 -19.15% 2
London +13 16 £406 +16.24% 3
East of England -20 10 £680 +20.89% 7
South East -11 8 £208 -67.45% 11
Yorkshire -42 2 £494 +21.17%
North of England -61 2 £494 +21.17% 6
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 24 (43.64%) Confluence
2 10 (18.18%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.82%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) AWS
2 21 (38.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 21 (38.18%) Amazon EC2
2 21 (38.18%) Amazon ELB
2 21 (38.18%) Amazon S3
2 21 (38.18%) AWS KMS
2 21 (38.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 17 (30.91%) Azure
4 11 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 10 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (18.18%) Route 53
6 7 (12.73%) SaaS
7 4 (7.27%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.64%) GCP
9 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.82%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 36 (65.45%) HTTP
2 35 (63.64%) DNS
3 32 (58.18%) SMTP
4 25 (45.45%) SSH
5 21 (38.18%) Firewall
6 11 (20.00%) SSL
7 10 (18.18%) IMAP
7 10 (18.18%) Network Security
7 10 (18.18%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (12.73%) Wireshark
9 4 (7.27%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (7.27%) DHCP
10 3 (5.45%) Ethernet
10 3 (5.45%) SD-WAN
10 3 (5.45%) SNMP
10 3 (5.45%) Spanning Tree
10 3 (5.45%) TACACS
11 2 (3.64%) IOS XR
12 1 (1.82%) Cisco Wireless
12 1 (1.82%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.18%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (1.82%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (41.82%) JIRA
2 22 (40.00%) Git
3 21 (38.18%) Jenkins
3 21 (38.18%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.82%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (61.82%) Social Skills
2 20 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 13 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.64%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.82%) Aviation
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (34.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (30.91%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (30.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 17 (30.91%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (27.27%) Analyst
3 15 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) SOC Analyst
5 8 (14.55%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Architect
7 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Technical Support
8 4 (7.27%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Wintel Analyst
9 3 (5.45%) Test Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Network Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (36.36%) LDAP
2 4 (7.27%) REST
2 4 (7.27%) SOAP
3 2 (3.64%) Kafka
4 1 (1.82%) ADO
4 1 (1.82%) CSS
4 1 (1.82%) HTML
4 1 (1.82%) Middleware
4 1 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.82%) Spring
4 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.82%) Web Services
4 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.18%) Replication
2 10 (18.18%) Cyberattack
3 9 (16.36%) Management Information System
4 8 (14.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (14.55%) CSOC
4 8 (14.55%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (14.55%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (5.45%) SCADA
6 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.82%) BYOD
7 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (56.36%) Windows
2 22 (40.00%) Linux
3 21 (38.18%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (38.18%) VMS
4 10 (18.18%) Ubuntu
5 5 (9.09%) Windows Server
6 4 (7.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) DevOps
2 21 (38.18%) Change Management
2 21 (38.18%) Cloud Security
2 21 (38.18%) Configuration Management
2 21 (38.18%) Patch Management
2 21 (38.18%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (18.18%) Information Security
4 10 (18.18%) Network Packet Capture
4 10 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (16.36%) AI
5 9 (16.36%) SIEM
6 8 (14.55%) Analytics
6 8 (14.55%) Information Management
6 8 (14.55%) Machine Learning
6 8 (14.55%) Security Operations
6 8 (14.55%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 33 (60.00%) Python
2 30 (54.55%) PowerShell
3 21 (38.18%) Groovy
4 17 (30.91%) Java
5 11 (20.00%) Perl
6 10 (18.18%) SQL
7 3 (5.45%) Bash
8 1 (1.82%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.82%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (58.18%) SC Cleared
1 32 (58.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 10 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 10 (18.18%) Degree
3 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.82%) ISEB
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.82%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (1.82%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 22 (40.00%) Docker
2 21 (38.18%) DFS Replication
3 15 (27.27%) Active Directory
4 12 (21.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (18.18%) Dovecot
5 10 (18.18%) Postfix
5 10 (18.18%) Squid
6 1 (1.82%) NFS
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (40.00%) Terraform
2 21 (38.18%) Grafana
2 21 (38.18%) Prometheus
3 10 (18.18%) Nessus
3 10 (18.18%) Proxmox
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.82%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) ServiceNow
2 12 (21.82%) VMware
3 10 (18.18%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (12.73%) Broadcom
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco
5 4 (7.27%) Citrix
6 3 (5.45%) Meraki
7 2 (3.64%) Ciena
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.82%) Globalscape
8 1 (1.82%) HP
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle
8 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.82%) SAP