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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 342 365
Rank change year-on-year -47 +23 +108
Contract jobs citing FTP 11 8 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.071% 0.059% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.83% 0.59% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 23
10th Percentile £310 - £199
25th Percentile £325 £349 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £350 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% -36.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £419 £462 £729
90th Percentile £438 £530 £925
England median daily rate £350 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -36.36% +7.84% +27.50%
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 £35.00 £56.81
% change year-on-year +85.71% -38.39% -22.18%

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 1,322 1,359 1,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.48% 10.04% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 820 1,192
10th Percentile £250 £255 £206
25th Percentile £404 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 14 70
10th Percentile £20.18 £23.91 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +33.66% -1.79%
75th Percentile £28.07 £40.25 £56.06
90th Percentile £93.75 £57.40 £72.62
England median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.14% -31.58% +138.93%

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 19 February 2026. 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 - 4 - -
West London -22 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 9 (81.82%) Confluence
2 4 (36.36%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (9.09%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS KMS
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (36.36%) Route 53
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) SSH
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) HTTP
2 4 (36.36%) IMAP
2 4 (36.36%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (36.36%) SMTP
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (18.18%) Ethernet
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
4 1 (9.09%) NX-OS
4 1 (9.09%) RTP
4 1 (9.09%) SNMP
4 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (9.09%) TACACS
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) WAN
4 1 (9.09%) Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) BigQuery
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
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 8 (72.73%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) Vagrant
3 2 (18.18%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) LDAP
2 3 (27.27%) ADO
3 2 (18.18%) Kafka
3 2 (18.18%) XML
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) ebXML
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) BYOD
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
3 4 (36.36%) VMS
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Change Management
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
2 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
2 4 (36.36%) Manual Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Patch Management
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Test Management
4 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
4 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Groovy
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) ISEB
3 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
3 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) DFS Replication
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
1 4 (36.36%) Dovecot
1 4 (36.36%) Postfix
1 4 (36.36%) Squid
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Grafana
1 4 (36.36%) Nessus
1 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
1 4 (36.36%) Proxmox
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Jaspersoft
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) VMware