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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 416 466
Rank change year-on-year -66 +50 +153
Contract jobs citing FTP 53 69 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.59% 2.00% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 34 55
10th Percentile £213 £352 £211
25th Percentile £350 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -17.39% +10.31%
75th Percentile £509 £600 £680
90th Percentile £582 £625 £768
UK median daily rate £413 £475 £575
% change year-on-year -13.16% -17.39% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £47.63 £33.13 £21.88
25th Percentile £51.44 - £23.46
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £56.81
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -38.39% -22.18%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £91.13
90th Percentile £79.38 £54.38 £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 3,324 3,456 5,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.47% 12.82% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 2,015 3,116
10th Percentile £204 £220 £207
25th Percentile £356 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 103 313
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.30 £24.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +125.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.26 £71.00 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +4.62% -42.47% +125.96%

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 15 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FTP in England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

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 15 January 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
West Midlands -11 24 £475 +11.76% 2
Midlands -14 24 £475 +11.76% 3
London -16 15 £400 +14.37% 1
South East -26 13 £350 -42.27% 9
East of England -33 7 £680 +13.33% 12
North of England -51 2 £494 +21.17% 4
Yorkshire -54 2 £494 +21.17% 1
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 19 (35.85%) Confluence
2 9 (16.98%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.89%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (39.62%) Azure
2 16 (30.19%) AWS
3 15 (28.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (28.30%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (28.30%) Amazon ELB
3 15 (28.30%) Amazon S3
3 15 (28.30%) AWS KMS
3 15 (28.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (16.98%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (16.98%) Entra ID
4 9 (16.98%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (16.98%) Route 53
5 7 (13.21%) SaaS
6 6 (11.32%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (5.66%) GCP
8 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.89%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 31 (58.49%) DNS
2 26 (49.06%) HTTP
3 24 (45.28%) SMTP
4 19 (35.85%) SSH
5 15 (28.30%) Firewall
6 9 (16.98%) DHCP
6 9 (16.98%) IMAP
6 9 (16.98%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (13.21%) Network Security
7 7 (13.21%) SSL
7 7 (13.21%) Wireshark
8 4 (7.55%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (5.66%) Ethernet
9 3 (5.66%) SD-WAN
9 3 (5.66%) SNMP
9 3 (5.66%) Spanning Tree
9 3 (5.66%) TACACS
10 2 (3.77%) IOS XR
10 2 (3.77%) Telnet
11 1 (1.89%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.30%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (16.98%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (1.89%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (33.96%) JIRA
2 16 (30.19%) Git
3 15 (28.30%) Jenkins
3 15 (28.30%) Vagrant
4 2 (3.77%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (60.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.42%) Public Sector
3 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.98%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Finance
6 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Analyst
2 15 (28.30%) AWS Engineer
2 15 (28.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 15 (28.30%) Platform Engineer
3 13 (24.53%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (24.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 13 (24.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) Wintel Analyst
5 7 (13.21%) Architect
5 7 (13.21%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 7 (13.21%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (9.43%) Support Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Technical Support
7 4 (7.55%) Technical Support Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Consultant
8 3 (5.66%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.19%) LDAP
2 4 (7.55%) REST
2 4 (7.55%) SOAP
3 3 (5.66%) Kafka
4 2 (3.77%) ADO
5 1 (1.89%) CSS
5 1 (1.89%) HTML
5 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.89%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.89%) Spring
5 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.89%) Web Services
5 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.30%) Replication
2 8 (15.09%) Management Information System
3 7 (13.21%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (13.21%) CSOC
3 7 (13.21%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (13.21%) Cyberattack
3 7 (13.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (5.66%) SCADA
5 2 (3.77%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) BYOD
6 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (58.49%) Windows
2 16 (30.19%) Linux
3 15 (28.30%) Amazon Linux
3 15 (28.30%) VMS
4 10 (18.87%) Windows Server
5 9 (16.98%) Ubuntu
6 4 (7.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) DevOps
2 15 (28.30%) Change Management
2 15 (28.30%) Cloud Security
2 15 (28.30%) Configuration Management
2 15 (28.30%) Patch Management
2 15 (28.30%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.98%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (15.09%) AI
5 8 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (15.09%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (13.21%) Behavioural Analytics
6 7 (13.21%) Incident Response
6 7 (13.21%) Information Management
6 7 (13.21%) Information Security
6 7 (13.21%) Network Packet Capture
6 7 (13.21%) SOAR
6 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
6 7 (13.21%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) Python
2 22 (41.51%) PowerShell
3 15 (28.30%) Groovy
4 13 (24.53%) Java
5 9 (16.98%) SQL
6 6 (11.32%) Perl
7 3 (5.66%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (54.72%) SC Cleared
1 29 (54.72%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.98%) AWS Certification
2 9 (16.98%) Azure Certification
2 9 (16.98%) Degree
3 6 (11.32%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.89%) ISEB
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.89%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (1.89%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 17 (32.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (30.19%) Docker
3 15 (28.30%) Active Directory
3 15 (28.30%) DFS Replication
4 9 (16.98%) Dovecot
4 9 (16.98%) Postfix
4 9 (16.98%) Squid
5 2 (3.77%) NFS
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Terraform
2 15 (28.30%) Grafana
2 15 (28.30%) Prometheus
3 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (16.98%) Nessus
3 9 (16.98%) Proxmox
4 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.89%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 22 (41.51%) ServiceNow
2 17 (32.08%) VMware
3 9 (16.98%) Citrix
3 9 (16.98%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (13.21%) Broadcom
5 4 (7.55%) Cisco
6 3 (5.66%) Meraki
7 2 (3.77%) Ciena
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.77%) Oracle
8 1 (1.89%) HP
8 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.89%) SAP