FTP Contract Job Trends in the North of England

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 230 158 178
Rank change year-on-year -72 +20 -
Contract jobs citing FTP 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.034% 0.031% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.28% 0.18% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £448 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £375 £510
Median % change year-on-year +31.67% -26.47% -
75th Percentile £536 - £515
90th Percentile £559 - -
England median daily rate £375 £425 £460
% change year-on-year -11.76% -7.61% +22.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 714 543 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.10% 16.96% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 329 458
10th Percentile £206 £192 £193
25th Percentile £366 £258 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -7.89% -0.52%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £592
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 27
10th Percentile £16.01 £20.74 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.94 £24.76 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +69.39% -0.44% +133.96%
75th Percentile £74.26 £41.50 £45.88
90th Percentile - - £48.75
England median hourly rate £42.38 £35.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.53% +10.00% +71.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

FTP job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing FTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing FTP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FTP in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing FTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing FTP

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
Yorkshire - 2 £494 - 2
FTP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) IOS XR
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) TACACS
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Ciena
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki