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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 363 415
Rank change year-on-year +20 +52 +120
Contract jobs citing FTP 19 21 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.44% 1.37% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 15
10th Percentile £309 £214 £198
25th Percentile £313 £225 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £288 £588
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -51.06% -16.07%
75th Percentile £347 £460 £621
90th Percentile £413 £602 £737
England median daily rate £475 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -9.09%

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 1,323 1,529 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.84% 9.39% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 973 1,583
10th Percentile £289 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £390 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £721 £750
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 43
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.50
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing FTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for FTP 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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP in London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FTP in London

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 18 September 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 -
Central London +3 1 £325 - 3
West London -4 1 - -
FTP
England

FTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (57.89%) Confluence
2 10 (52.63%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.26%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 11 (57.89%) AWS
3 10 (52.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (52.63%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (52.63%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (52.63%) Amazon ELB
3 10 (52.63%) Amazon S3
3 10 (52.63%) AWS KMS
3 10 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (52.63%) Route 53
3 10 (52.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (31.58%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (89.47%) HTTP
2 16 (84.21%) DNS
2 16 (84.21%) SMTP
3 13 (68.42%) Firewall
4 11 (57.89%) SSH
5 10 (52.63%) IMAP
5 10 (52.63%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (36.84%) SSL
7 6 (31.58%) TCP/IP
8 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (5.26%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (5.26%) Ethernet
8 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
8 1 (5.26%) NX-OS
8 1 (5.26%) RTP
8 1 (5.26%) VPN
8 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (52.63%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (52.63%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.79%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Git
1 10 (52.63%) Jenkins
1 10 (52.63%) JIRA
1 10 (52.63%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (84.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (52.63%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (47.37%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Aviation
6 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (52.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (52.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (52.63%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Site Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Informatica Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) LDAP
2 6 (31.58%) .NET
3 3 (15.79%) JSON
3 3 (15.79%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (15.79%) YAML
4 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Replication
2 6 (31.58%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.26%) BYOD
4 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Linux
1 11 (57.89%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (52.63%) Ubuntu
2 10 (52.63%) VMS
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) DevOps
2 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
3 11 (57.89%) Configuration Management
4 10 (52.63%) Change Management
4 10 (52.63%) Cloud Security
4 10 (52.63%) Patch Management
4 10 (52.63%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (52.63%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) Microservices
6 5 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (21.05%) Security Operations
8 3 (15.79%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Dynamic Code Analysis
8 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (15.79%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.79%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (15.79%) Static Application Security Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) PowerShell
2 11 (57.89%) Python
3 10 (52.63%) Groovy
3 10 (52.63%) SQL
4 6 (31.58%) C#
5 3 (15.79%) Bicep
5 3 (15.79%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (5.26%) ActionScript
6 1 (5.26%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (5.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) AWS Certification
1 10 (52.63%) Azure Certification
1 10 (52.63%) Degree
1 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) DFS Replication
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
1 10 (52.63%) Dovecot
1 10 (52.63%) Postfix
1 10 (52.63%) Squid
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) NFS
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Grafana
2 10 (52.63%) Nessus
2 10 (52.63%) Prometheus
2 10 (52.63%) Proxmox
2 10 (52.63%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (52.63%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Globalscape
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) VMware