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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 349 361
Rank change year-on-year -49 +12 +109
Contract jobs citing FTP 9 7 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.055% 0.054% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.52% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 33
10th Percentile £313 - £275
25th Percentile £331 £349 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £350 £385
Median % change year-on-year +12.66% -9.22% -37.78%
75th Percentile £423 £462 £588
90th Percentile £438 £530 £925
England median daily rate £375 £563 £494
% change year-on-year -33.33% +13.92% +16.18%
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 £65.00 £80.68 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.43% +262.18% -64.36%

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 1,355 1,345 1,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.30% 10.37% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 854 1,193
10th Percentile £263 £258 £201
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +1.52% -10.45%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £619
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 15 71
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.54 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% +70.45% -14.43%
75th Percentile £40.75 £48.13 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £57.95 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.02 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +14.34% +7.69% +71.05%

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
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 5 (55.56%) Confluence
2 2 (22.22%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) SNMP
2 1 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
2 1 (11.11%) TACACS
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) BigQuery
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) SAP BW
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) ADO
2 3 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (22.22%) ebXML
3 2 (22.22%) Kafka
3 2 (22.22%) LAMP
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Manual Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Kanban
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 2 (22.22%) Fintech
4 2 (22.22%) Line Management
4 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
4 2 (22.22%) Test Management
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Value Proposition
4 2 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ISEB
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SAFe Agilist
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Citrix
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) SAP