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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 472 542
Rank change year-on-year +17 +70 +126
Contract jobs citing FTP 57 56 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.74% 1.41% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 25
10th Percentile £208 £242 £229
25th Percentile £322 £361 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £509 £574 £600
90th Percentile £582 £738 £683
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £44.20 - £26.69
25th Percentile £45.00 - £30.21
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £36.47
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -4.04% -50.04%
75th Percentile £81.35 £41.88 £42.34
90th Percentile £85.00 £46.00 £45.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £36.47
% change year-on-year +85.71% -4.04% -50.04%

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 3,282 3,967 5,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.81% 12.04% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,054 2,323 3,578
10th Percentile £227 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £618
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 217 280
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.44 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.75 £24.03
Median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.85% -10.60% +34.50%

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

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +18 29 £475 - 2
Midlands +11 29 £475 -36.67% 2
London +20 19 £325 +13.04% 8
East of England +11 12 £680 +57.23% 17
South East +19 7 £208 -74.06% 15
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 23 (40.35%) Confluence
2 10 (17.54%) nginx
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.75%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (1.75%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (40.35%) AWS
2 22 (38.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 22 (38.60%) Amazon EC2
2 22 (38.60%) Amazon ELB
2 22 (38.60%) Amazon S3
2 22 (38.60%) AWS KMS
2 22 (38.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 17 (29.82%) Azure
4 12 (21.05%) Amazon Glacier
5 11 (19.30%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (17.54%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (17.54%) Route 53
7 7 (12.28%) SaaS
8 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (5.26%) GitHub
9 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (78.95%) HTTP
2 41 (71.93%) DNS
2 41 (71.93%) SMTP
3 25 (43.86%) Firewall
4 23 (40.35%) SSH
5 19 (33.33%) SSL
6 11 (19.30%) Network Security
7 10 (17.54%) IMAP
7 10 (17.54%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (12.28%) TCP/IP
9 4 (7.02%) Wireshark
10 1 (1.75%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (1.75%) Cisco Wireless
10 1 (1.75%) DHCP
10 1 (1.75%) Ethernet
10 1 (1.75%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.75%) RTP
10 1 (1.75%) Telnet
10 1 (1.75%) VPN
10 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (38.60%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (17.54%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (38.60%) Git
1 22 (38.60%) Jenkins
1 22 (38.60%) JIRA
1 22 (38.60%) Vagrant
General
1 38 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (36.84%) Public Sector
3 15 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.54%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.51%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Aviation
7 1 (1.75%) Military
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (29.82%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (29.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 17 (29.82%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (26.32%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (26.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (21.05%) Analyst
4 12 (21.05%) SOC Analyst
5 10 (17.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 8 (14.04%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (12.28%) Architect
7 7 (12.28%) Support Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Technical Support
8 4 (7.02%) Technical Support Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Service Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Site Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (40.35%) LDAP
2 6 (10.53%) .NET
3 4 (7.02%) REST
3 4 (7.02%) SOAP
4 3 (5.26%) JSON
4 3 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (5.26%) YAML
5 1 (1.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (38.60%) Replication
2 12 (21.05%) Cyberattack
3 9 (15.79%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 9 (15.79%) Security Operations Centre
4 8 (14.04%) CSOC
4 8 (14.04%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (5.26%) SCADA
7 2 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.75%) BYOD
8 1 (1.75%) CMDB
8 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (52.63%) Windows
2 25 (43.86%) Linux
3 22 (38.60%) Amazon Linux
3 22 (38.60%) VMS
4 10 (17.54%) Ubuntu
5 5 (8.77%) Unix
6 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.75%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.75%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) DevOps
2 24 (42.11%) Configuration Management
3 23 (40.35%) Change Management
4 22 (38.60%) Cloud Security
4 22 (38.60%) Patch Management
4 22 (38.60%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (24.56%) CI/CD
6 13 (22.81%) Security Operations
7 12 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (19.30%) Incident Response
8 11 (19.30%) Network Packet Capture
8 11 (19.30%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (19.30%) SIEM
8 11 (19.30%) Threat Detection
9 10 (17.54%) Information Security
9 10 (17.54%) Threat Modelling
10 9 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (14.04%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (64.91%) PowerShell
2 31 (54.39%) Python
3 22 (38.60%) Groovy
4 16 (28.07%) Java
5 12 (21.05%) Perl
6 10 (17.54%) SQL
7 6 (10.53%) C#
8 3 (5.26%) Bicep
8 3 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.75%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.75%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (57.89%) SC Cleared
1 33 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) Degree
3 10 (17.54%) AWS Certification
3 10 (17.54%) Azure Certification
4 6 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.75%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.75%) HNC
6 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.75%) MCP
6 1 (1.75%) NVQ Level 5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (38.60%) DFS Replication
1 22 (38.60%) Docker
2 14 (24.56%) Active Directory
3 10 (17.54%) Dovecot
3 10 (17.54%) Postfix
3 10 (17.54%) Squid
4 8 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.51%) NFS
6 1 (1.75%) Samba
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.75%) vSphere
6 1 (1.75%) XenApp
6 1 (1.75%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (43.86%) Grafana
2 22 (38.60%) Prometheus
2 22 (38.60%) Terraform
3 10 (17.54%) Nessus
3 10 (17.54%) Proxmox
4 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.75%) yum
Vendors
1 22 (38.60%) ServiceNow
2 10 (17.54%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (14.04%) VMware
4 7 (12.28%) Broadcom
5 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.51%) Cisco
7 1 (1.75%) Citrix
7 1 (1.75%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.75%) FireEye
7 1 (1.75%) Globalscape
7 1 (1.75%) Informatica
7 1 (1.75%) IronPort
7 1 (1.75%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.75%) Splunk
7 1 (1.75%) Symantec