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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 338 346
Rank change year-on-year -59 +8 +109
Contract jobs citing FTP 11 13 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.064% 0.10% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.79% 1.00% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 31
10th Percentile £313 £310 £275
25th Percentile £331 £313 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £325 £385
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -15.58% -35.16%
75th Percentile £423 £350 £566
90th Percentile £438 £350 £925
England median daily rate £375 £425 £460
% change year-on-year -11.76% -7.61% +22.67%

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 1,386 1,298 1,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.10% 10.23% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 843 1,170
10th Percentile £300 £263 £205
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +2.56% -12.48%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £607
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 63
10th Percentile £20.38 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.02 £27.47 £18.36
Median hourly rate £25.79 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +98.86% -38.89%
75th Percentile £39.75 £54.31 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.13 £66.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.38 £35.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.53% +10.00% +71.37%

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 (45.45%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) OCI
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) SNMP
2 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (9.09%) SSH
2 1 (9.09%) TACACS
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) BigQuery
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) SAP BW
3 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Test Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Support
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) ADO
2 3 (27.27%) XML
3 2 (18.18%) ebXML
3 2 (18.18%) Kafka
3 2 (18.18%) LAMP
3 2 (18.18%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Manual Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Kanban
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) User Stories
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (18.18%) Line Management
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Perl
2 2 (18.18%) PHP
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISEB
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SAFe Agilist
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (9.09%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) SAP