FTP Contract Job Trends in the North West

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring FTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 123 128
Rank change year-on-year -38 +5 -
Contract jobs citing FTP 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.030% 0.051% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 0.31% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £375 £510
Median % change year-on-year +19.73% -26.47% -
75th Percentile £473 - £515
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 £356 £400
% change year-on-year +12.28% -10.94% +19.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 413 325 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.57% 16.58% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 189 220
10th Percentile £309 £192 £200
25th Percentile £393 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £483
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -6.74% +0.21%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £666
90th Percentile £638 £605 £828
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 12
10th Percentile £14.19 £20.00 £18.02
25th Percentile £17.21 £21.12 £22.06
Median hourly rate £35.82 £24.59 £34.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.70% -28.46% +24.96%
75th Percentile £58.10 £25.47 £45.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £25.90 £94.59
England median hourly rate £36.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.31% -18.75% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

FTP job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Cheshire - 1 £449 - 1
FTP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) PowerBroker
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas