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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 477 604
Rank change year-on-year +41 +127 +46
Contract jobs citing FTP 39 65 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.18% 0.096%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.23% 1.34% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 47 31
10th Percentile £310 £279 £203
25th Percentile £325 £295 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +23.08% -34.34%
75th Percentile £622 £515 £700
90th Percentile £625 £602 £723
UK median daily rate £375 £385 £335
% change year-on-year -2.60% +14.93% -32.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £80.34 £16.40 -
25th Percentile £80.59 £17.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £81.35 £18.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +351.94% -71.20% +48.08%
75th Percentile £81.91 £19.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.05 £19.60 -
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £18.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +351.94% -71.20% +48.08%

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 3,177 4,860 6,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.16% 13.22% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,960 2,932 3,933
10th Percentile £220 £208 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £517
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.16% +3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 392 432
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.72 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +116.22% -22.63%
75th Percentile £63.25 £63.75 £59.41
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.98% +116.22% -32.73%

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

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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 13 May 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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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 13 May 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
East of England +34 15 £600 +106.90% 12
South East +52 12 £325 -11.86% 12
London +6 10 £325 -15.58% 19
Midlands +18 1 - - 2
West Midlands +17 1 - - 2
North of England +17 1 £375 -26.47% 5
North West +15 1 £375 -26.47% 3
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 (15.38%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) CMS
3 1 (2.56%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.56%) Drupal
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) FileZilla
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (17.95%) Azure Monitor
2 7 (17.95%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (10.26%) GitHub
4 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (79.49%) DNS
1 31 (79.49%) SMTP
2 24 (61.54%) HTTP
3 22 (56.41%) SSL
4 13 (33.33%) Network Security
5 9 (23.08%) DHCP
5 9 (23.08%) Telnet
6 8 (20.51%) TCP/IP
7 4 (10.26%) Firewall
8 2 (5.13%) tcpdump
9 1 (2.56%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Metadata
2 1 (2.56%) MS Access
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Banking
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Law
4 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.56%) Aviation
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Analyst
2 13 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Site Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 1 (2.56%) Informatica Administrator
7 1 (2.56%) Integration Developer
7 1 (2.56%) IT Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior
7 1 (2.56%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (46.15%) LDAP
2 8 (20.51%) .NET
3 4 (10.26%) JSON
4 3 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (7.69%) YAML
5 2 (5.13%) EDI
5 2 (5.13%) XML
5 2 (5.13%) XSLT
6 1 (2.56%) MSMQ
6 1 (2.56%) REST
6 1 (2.56%) SOAP
6 1 (2.56%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (33.33%) Cyberattack
2 11 (28.21%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (25.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (25.64%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (20.51%) CSOC
5 7 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (17.95%) Management Information System
6 2 (5.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (5.13%) YARA
7 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.56%) Reference Data
7 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Windows
2 8 (20.51%) Linux
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.56%) Unix
5 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.56%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.56%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Threat Detection
2 14 (35.90%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (35.90%) Security Operations
3 11 (28.21%) Network Packet Capture
4 10 (25.64%) Incident Response
4 10 (25.64%) Information Management
4 10 (25.64%) Information Security
4 10 (25.64%) SIEM
5 7 (17.95%) Analytics
5 7 (17.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (17.95%) Behavioural Analytics
5 7 (17.95%) DevOps
5 7 (17.95%) Machine Learning
5 7 (17.95%) Microservices
5 7 (17.95%) Workflow
6 6 (15.38%) Agile
6 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (12.82%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (12.82%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.95%) C#
3 3 (7.69%) Bicep
3 3 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (5.13%) ActionScript
4 2 (5.13%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (5.13%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (56.41%) Security Cleared
2 20 (51.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (25.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) NFS
2 6 (15.38%) Samba
3 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.56%) XenApp
4 1 (2.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) yum
2 3 (7.69%) Grafana
2 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.56%) SCOM
4 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Darktrace
2 2 (5.13%) FireEye
2 2 (5.13%) HP
2 2 (5.13%) IronPort
2 2 (5.13%) LogRhythm
2 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.13%) Splunk
2 2 (5.13%) Symantec
2 2 (5.13%) VMware
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.56%) Citrix
3 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) LexisNexis
3 1 (2.56%) Sage
3 1 (2.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) SEEBURGER
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) Twitter