FTP Contract Job Trends in London

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring FTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 372 390
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 +127
Contract jobs citing FTP 13 14 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.093% 0.089% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.01% 0.93% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 20
10th Percentile - £225 £198
25th Percentile - £256 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £588
Median % change year-on-year +35.91% -40.51% -16.07%
75th Percentile - £350 £643
90th Percentile - £463 £753
England median daily rate £475 £475 £575
% change year-on-year - -17.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate - - £92.50
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £47.83
% change year-on-year +57.14% -26.82% -34.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,288 1,498 2,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.26% 9.54% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 923 1,470
10th Percentile £300 £258 £225
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £628 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 15 53
10th Percentile £18.88 £23.67 £18.93
25th Percentile - £27.50 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +8.16%
75th Percentile £39.56 £50.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.78 £75.92 £79.50
England median hourly rate £31.39 £53.75 £55.70
% change year-on-year -41.61% -3.50% +28.05%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

FTP job vacancy trend in London

FTP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing FTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing FTP

FTP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing FTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing FTP

FTP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the London region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
South London - 10 £475 -
West London -12 1 - -
FTP
England

FTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 12 (92.31%) Confluence
2 10 (76.92%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.69%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 11 (84.62%) AWS
3 10 (76.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (76.92%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (76.92%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (76.92%) Amazon ELB
3 10 (76.92%) Amazon S3
3 10 (76.92%) AWS KMS
3 10 (76.92%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (76.92%) Route 53
3 10 (76.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) HTTP
1 11 (84.62%) SSH
2 10 (76.92%) DNS
2 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 10 (76.92%) IMAP
2 10 (76.92%) OpenLDAP
2 10 (76.92%) SMTP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
3 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
3 1 (7.69%) NX-OS
3 1 (7.69%) RTP
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (76.92%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (76.92%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 1 (7.69%) SAP BW
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) JIRA
2 10 (76.92%) Git
2 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
2 10 (76.92%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (76.92%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (69.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Aviation
4 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (76.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (76.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (76.92%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) BYOD
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (76.92%) Ubuntu
2 10 (76.92%) VMS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Change Management
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
1 10 (76.92%) Cloud Security
1 10 (76.92%) Configuration Management
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
1 10 (76.92%) Patch Management
1 10 (76.92%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (76.92%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) AI
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Project Management
3 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
3 1 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) PowerShell
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 10 (76.92%) Groovy
2 10 (76.92%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) ActionScript
3 1 (7.69%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (7.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) AWS Certification
1 10 (76.92%) Azure Certification
1 10 (76.92%) Degree
1 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) ISEB
2 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) DFS Replication
1 10 (76.92%) Docker
1 10 (76.92%) Dovecot
1 10 (76.92%) Postfix
1 10 (76.92%) Squid
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Grafana
1 10 (76.92%) Nessus
1 10 (76.92%) Prometheus
1 10 (76.92%) Proxmox
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) HP ALM
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (76.92%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Globalscape
2 1 (7.69%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) VMware