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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 339 348
Rank change year-on-year -66 +9 +119
Contract jobs citing FTP 14 12 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.080% 0.095% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.99% 0.90% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 30
10th Percentile £318 £310 £268
25th Percentile £344 £313 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £325 £385
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.58% -28.70%
75th Percentile £475 £350 £558
90th Percentile £576 £350 £925
England median daily rate £400 £356 £400
% change year-on-year +12.28% -10.94% +23.08%

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 1,411 1,332 1,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.02% 10.51% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 860 1,146
10th Percentile £300 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -10.31%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £618
90th Percentile £700 £725 £740
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.41% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 60
10th Percentile £19.78 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.60 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.47 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.78% +98.86% -48.84%
75th Percentile £28.92 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £89.75 £62.65 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.60 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -8.39% +111.30%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

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 27 April 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
Central London -16 3 £563 +73.08% 2
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 5 (35.71%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) OCI
2 3 (21.43%) PaaS
2 3 (21.43%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (7.14%) Ethernet
2 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) SNMP
2 1 (7.14%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (7.14%) SSH
2 1 (7.14%) TACACS
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) BigQuery
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (7.14%) SAP BW
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Legal
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Test Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) REST
1 5 (35.71%) SOAP
1 5 (35.71%) XML
2 4 (28.57%) ADO
3 2 (14.29%) ebXML
3 2 (14.29%) JSON
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) LAMP
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) EDI
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
1 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Integration Patterns
2 5 (35.71%) Manual Testing
2 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) ERP
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 3 (21.43%) Change Management
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Runbook
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) Sequence Diagram
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
2 2 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
3 1 (7.14%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ISEB
1 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SAFe Agilist
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.14%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) Axway
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Meraki
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Software AG
3 1 (7.14%) webMethods