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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 455 471
Rank change year-on-year -144 +16 +87
Contract jobs citing FTP 24 55 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.053% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 1.68% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 30 31
10th Percentile £425 £300 £281
25th Percentile £450 £331 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% +18.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £563 £551 £488
90th Percentile £638 £582 £650
UK median daily rate £483 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +1.68% +18.75% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile - £44.20 £24.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £45.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +85.71% -26.82%
75th Percentile £48.75 £81.35 £38.44
90th Percentile - £85.00 £44.63
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +85.71% -26.82%

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 4,288 3,279 3,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.40% 12.05% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 2,042 2,363
10th Percentile £250 £238 £250
25th Percentile £400 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 166 244
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.19
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.04 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.75 £41.48 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -33.09% -27.68% +1.52%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.05 £77.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £43.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -40.23% -13.86% -9.67%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -65 11 £463 +102.19% 6
London -99 10 £588 +80.77% 15
North West - 3 £465 - 1
North of England - 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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 2 (8.33%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (8.33%) Windchill
3 1 (4.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Workday HCM
2 2 (8.33%) Primavera
2 2 (8.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (12.50%) OCI
4 3 (12.50%) PaaS
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
5 2 (8.33%) Route 53
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) DNS
2 5 (20.83%) DHCP
2 5 (20.83%) SSL
3 3 (12.50%) Firewall
3 3 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 2 (8.33%) HTTP
4 2 (8.33%) IMAP
4 2 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (8.33%) SMTP
4 2 (8.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Legal
5 2 (8.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Consultant
1 4 (16.67%) Integration Consultant
1 4 (16.67%) Workday Consultant
1 4 (16.67%) Workday Integration Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Project Planner
3 2 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) webMethods Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) XML
2 6 (25.00%) REST
2 6 (25.00%) SOAP
3 5 (20.83%) Web Services
3 5 (20.83%) XSLT
4 3 (12.50%) JSON
5 2 (8.33%) EDI
5 2 (8.33%) Terraform
6 1 (4.17%) LAMP
6 1 (4.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.67%) Unix
4 3 (12.50%) AIX
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
5 2 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
1 7 (29.17%) DevOps
1 7 (29.17%) Performance Tuning
1 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) High Availability
2 6 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 6 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 5 (20.83%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Change Management
4 4 (16.67%) ERP
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (16.67%) Observability
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 4 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (12.50%) Operational Stability
5 3 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) ActionScript
2 2 (8.33%) ActionScript 2.0
2 2 (8.33%) Groovy
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) Perl
3 1 (4.17%) PHP
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
2 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (12.50%) NFS
4 3 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (8.33%) DFS Replication
5 2 (8.33%) Docker
5 2 (8.33%) Dovecot
5 2 (8.33%) Postfix
5 2 (8.33%) Squid
6 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) PowerBroker
1 3 (12.50%) Progress Chef
1 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (12.50%) Tivoli
1 3 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Nessus
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.33%) Proxmox
3 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) VMware
4 4 (16.67%) Workday
5 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 3 (12.50%) Veritas
5 3 (12.50%) webMethods
6 2 (8.33%) Adobe
6 2 (8.33%) Axway
6 2 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (8.33%) Software AG
7 1 (4.17%) IBM