FTP Contracts in England

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring FTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FTP over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 490 601
Rank change year-on-year +24 +111 +53
Contract jobs citing FTP 32 66 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.18% 0.080%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.96% 1.37% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 43 23
10th Percentile £310 £276 £201
25th Percentile £325 £290 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £385 £325
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +18.46% -39.81%
75th Percentile £488 £508 £553
90th Percentile £573 £634 £700
UK median daily rate £429 £368 £325
% change year-on-year +16.60% +13.08% -39.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £64.60 £16.80 -
25th Percentile £80.34 £18.00 -
Median hourly rate £81.35 £20.00 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +306.75% -58.19% -
75th Percentile £81.73 £34.38 -
90th Percentile £82.86 £43.00 -
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £20.00 £47.83
% change year-on-year +306.75% -58.19% -

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 3,319 4,832 6,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.71% 12.93% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,046 2,882 3,916
10th Percentile £235 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 391 392
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.79 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £62.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FTP in England.

Daily rate trend for FTP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FTP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FTP in England.

Hourly rate trend for FTP in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FTP in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for FTP in England

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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 3 July 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
London +23 10 £325 +8.33% 56
East of England +26 9 £613 +111.21% 22
South East +39 7 £325 -45.83% 20
Midlands +18 6 £475 -36.67% 12
West Midlands +13 6 £475 - 8
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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) Drupal
2 1 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) FileZilla
2 1 (3.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Teamcenter
1 1 (3.13%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (21.88%) Azure Monitor
2 7 (21.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon Glacier
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 6 (18.75%) AWS KMS
3 6 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (12.50%) GitHub
5 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (81.25%) DNS
1 26 (81.25%) SMTP
2 24 (75.00%) HTTP
3 17 (53.13%) SSL
4 10 (31.25%) Firewall
5 8 (25.00%) Network Security
5 8 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (18.75%) SSH
7 4 (12.50%) DHCP
7 4 (12.50%) Telnet
8 1 (3.13%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.38%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
3 1 (3.13%) MS Access
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Git
1 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 6 (18.75%) JIRA
1 6 (18.75%) Vagrant
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Law
5 2 (6.25%) Aviation
5 2 (6.25%) Finance
6 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Site Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Informatica Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (3.13%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) LDAP
2 8 (25.00%) .NET
3 4 (12.50%) JSON
4 3 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (9.38%) YAML
5 1 (3.13%) EDI
5 1 (3.13%) Middleware
5 1 (3.13%) MSMQ
5 1 (3.13%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) SOAP
5 1 (3.13%) WCF
5 1 (3.13%) XML
5 1 (3.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Cyberattack
2 7 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (21.88%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (18.75%) Replication
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (15.63%) CSOC
4 5 (15.63%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
6 2 (6.25%) YARA
7 1 (3.13%) CMDB
7 1 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (3.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Linux
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (18.75%) VMS
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.13%) Unix
5 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.13%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.13%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) DevOps
2 10 (31.25%) Security Operations
2 10 (31.25%) Threat Detection
3 8 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 8 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (21.88%) Change Management
4 7 (21.88%) Incident Response
4 7 (21.88%) Microservices
5 6 (18.75%) Agile
5 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
5 6 (18.75%) Network Packet Capture
5 6 (18.75%) Patch Management
5 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.75%) SIEM
5 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.63%) Information Management
6 5 (15.63%) Information Security
7 4 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) C#
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) Groovy
3 6 (18.75%) Java
3 6 (18.75%) Perl
4 3 (9.38%) Bicep
4 3 (9.38%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (6.25%) ActionScript
5 2 (6.25%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (6.25%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 20 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) A+ Certification
3 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) HNC
3 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.13%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.75%) DFS Replication
2 6 (18.75%) Docker
3 5 (15.63%) NFS
4 1 (3.13%) Samba
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.13%) XenApp
4 1 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Grafana
2 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
2 6 (18.75%) Terraform
3 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.13%) SCOM
4 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.13%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) ServiceNow
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) Citrix
3 1 (3.13%) Darktrace
3 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.13%) FireEye
3 1 (3.13%) Globalscape
3 1 (3.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) Informatica
3 1 (3.13%) IronPort
3 1 (3.13%) LexisNexis
3 1 (3.13%) LogRhythm
3 1 (3.13%) Sage
3 1 (3.13%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk
3 1 (3.13%) Symantec
3 1 (3.13%) Twitter