FTP Contracts in the Midlands

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring FTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FTP over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 125 143
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 +65
DemandTrendContract jobs citing FTP 25 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.99% 0.075% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.76% 0.53% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £725 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £300
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +150.00% -39.39%
75th Percentile £579 £775 £325
90th Percentile £582 - -
England median daily rate £475 £385 £538
% change year-on-year +23.38% -28.37% -2.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 322 375 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.69% 13.98% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 230 316
10th Percentile £241 £205 £206
25th Percentile £334 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £564 £628 £575
90th Percentile £643 £750 £720
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +0.90% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 23
10th Percentile - - £13.55
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.27 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.24% -48.11% +52.78%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.15 £54.00
90th Percentile £39.80 - £67.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -22.73% -2.64% +43.01%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for FTP in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FTP

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FTP

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +20 25 £475 - 3
FTP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 18 (72.00%) Confluence
2 7 (28.00%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 18 (72.00%) Amazon EC2
1 18 (72.00%) Amazon ELB
1 18 (72.00%) Amazon S3
1 18 (72.00%) AWS
1 18 (72.00%) AWS KMS
1 18 (72.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 11 (44.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 7 (28.00%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 7 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (28.00%) Route 53
3 7 (28.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (72.00%) DNS
1 18 (72.00%) Firewall
1 18 (72.00%) HTTP
1 18 (72.00%) SMTP
1 18 (72.00%) SSH
2 7 (28.00%) IMAP
2 7 (28.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (72.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (28.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (72.00%) Git
1 18 (72.00%) Jenkins
1 18 (72.00%) JIRA
1 18 (72.00%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (72.00%) Public Sector
2 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (52.00%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (52.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 13 (52.00%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (48.00%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (48.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 7 (28.00%) Architect
4 7 (28.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 6 (24.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (72.00%) Replication
2 3 (12.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Amazon Linux
1 18 (72.00%) Linux
1 18 (72.00%) VMS
1 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Change Management
1 18 (72.00%) Cloud Security
1 18 (72.00%) Configuration Management
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
1 18 (72.00%) Patch Management
1 18 (72.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (28.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) Groovy
1 18 (72.00%) PowerShell
1 18 (72.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) Java
2 11 (44.00%) Perl
3 7 (28.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (76.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (76.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) AWS Certification
2 7 (28.00%) Azure Certification
2 7 (28.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 18 (72.00%) DFS Replication
1 18 (72.00%) Docker
2 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (28.00%) Dovecot
3 7 (28.00%) Postfix
3 7 (28.00%) Squid
3 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (72.00%) Grafana
1 18 (72.00%) Prometheus
1 18 (72.00%) Terraform
2 7 (28.00%) Nessus
2 7 (28.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) ServiceNow
2 7 (28.00%) Broadcom
2 7 (28.00%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (28.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft