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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 440 493
Rank change year-on-year -55 +53 +168
Contract jobs citing FTP 49 69 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.42% 1.84% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 47
10th Percentile £204 £308 £243
25th Percentile £463 £399 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £578 £597 £665
90th Percentile £583 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £465 £575
% change year-on-year +2.26% -19.22% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 5
10th Percentile £43.80 £33.50 £22.23
25th Percentile £45.00 - £24.34
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -26.82% -34.48%
75th Percentile £77.50 £41.88 £90.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £58.75 £92.35
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £47.83
% change year-on-year +57.14% -26.82% -34.48%

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 3,445 3,742 5,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.44% 12.20% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,214 2,179 3,550
10th Percentile £213 £235 £212
25th Percentile £361 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 131 326
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £18.54
25th Percentile £20.63 £26.25 £23.32
Median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +26.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.18
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.32% -13.64% +31.74%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -1 29 £475 +11.76%
Midlands -7 29 £475 -19.15%
London +10 13 £475 +35.91% 10
East of England -24 10 £680 +20.89% 4
South East -11 6 £208 -67.45% 10
Yorkshire -46 1 £575 +41.10% 4
North of England -48 1 £575 +39.82% 7
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 (48.98%) Confluence
2 10 (20.41%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.04%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (2.04%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.04%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.98%) AWS
2 22 (44.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 22 (44.90%) Amazon EC2
2 22 (44.90%) Amazon ELB
2 22 (44.90%) Amazon S3
2 22 (44.90%) AWS KMS
2 22 (44.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 13 (26.53%) Azure
4 12 (24.49%) Amazon Glacier
5 10 (20.41%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (20.41%) Route 53
6 7 (14.29%) SaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.04%) GCP
7 1 (2.04%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 37 (75.51%) HTTP
2 33 (67.35%) DNS
3 32 (65.31%) SMTP
4 23 (46.94%) SSH
5 22 (44.90%) Firewall
6 11 (22.45%) SSL
7 10 (20.41%) IMAP
7 10 (20.41%) Network Security
7 10 (20.41%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (8.16%) Wireshark
9 1 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (2.04%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (2.04%) DHCP
9 1 (2.04%) Ethernet
9 1 (2.04%) HTTPS
9 1 (2.04%) NX-OS
9 1 (2.04%) RTP
9 1 (2.04%) VPN
9 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (44.90%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (20.41%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (20.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (2.04%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (46.94%) Git
1 23 (46.94%) JIRA
2 22 (44.90%) Jenkins
2 22 (44.90%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (65.31%) Social Skills
2 21 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 13 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (20.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.04%) Aviation
6 1 (2.04%) Law
6 1 (2.04%) Military
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (34.69%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (34.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 17 (34.69%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (30.61%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (30.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 11 (22.45%) Analyst
5 10 (20.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (20.41%) SOC Analyst
6 8 (16.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (14.29%) Architect
8 5 (10.20%) Support Engineer
9 4 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (8.16%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (8.16%) Technical Support
9 4 (8.16%) Technical Support Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Service Architect
11 1 (2.04%) Lead
11 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 1 (2.04%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (40.82%) LDAP
2 4 (8.16%) REST
2 4 (8.16%) SOAP
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) Middleware
3 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.04%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.04%) Spring
3 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.04%) Web Services
3 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (44.90%) Replication
2 10 (20.41%) Cyberattack
3 9 (18.37%) Management Information System
4 8 (16.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (16.33%) CSOC
4 8 (16.33%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (16.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (6.12%) SCADA
6 1 (2.04%) BYOD
6 1 (2.04%) CMDB
6 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 28 (57.14%) Windows
2 23 (46.94%) Linux
3 22 (44.90%) Amazon Linux
3 22 (44.90%) VMS
4 10 (20.41%) Ubuntu
5 4 (8.16%) Unix
6 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) Change Management
1 23 (46.94%) Configuration Management
1 23 (46.94%) DevOps
2 22 (44.90%) Cloud Security
2 22 (44.90%) Patch Management
2 22 (44.90%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
4 10 (20.41%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (20.41%) Information Security
4 10 (20.41%) Network Packet Capture
4 10 (20.41%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (20.41%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (18.37%) AI
5 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (18.37%) SIEM
6 8 (16.33%) Analytics
6 8 (16.33%) Information Management
6 8 (16.33%) Machine Learning
6 8 (16.33%) Security Operations
6 8 (16.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 31 (63.27%) PowerShell
1 31 (63.27%) Python
2 22 (44.90%) Groovy
3 17 (34.69%) Java
4 12 (24.49%) Perl
5 10 (20.41%) SQL
6 1 (2.04%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.04%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (63.27%) SC Cleared
1 31 (63.27%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.45%) Degree
3 10 (20.41%) AWS Certification
3 10 (20.41%) Azure Certification
4 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.04%) HNC
6 1 (2.04%) ISEB
6 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (2.04%) NVQ Level 5
6 1 (2.04%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 23 (46.94%) Docker
2 22 (44.90%) DFS Replication
3 13 (26.53%) Active Directory
4 10 (20.41%) Dovecot
4 10 (20.41%) Postfix
4 10 (20.41%) Squid
5 9 (18.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (46.94%) Terraform
2 22 (44.90%) Grafana
2 22 (44.90%) Prometheus
3 10 (20.41%) Nessus
3 10 (20.41%) Proxmox
4 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.04%) HP ALM
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (46.94%) ServiceNow
2 10 (20.41%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (18.37%) VMware
4 7 (14.29%) Broadcom
5 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.04%) Cisco
6 1 (2.04%) Citrix
6 1 (2.04%) Globalscape
6 1 (2.04%) HP
6 1 (2.04%) SAP