FTP Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring FTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FTP 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.51% - 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.26% - 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £400 £375 £385
% change year-on-year +6.67% -2.60% +14.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 19 25 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.64% 14.88% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 3
10th Percentile £224 £134 £516
25th Percentile £305 £135 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £148 £563
Median % change year-on-year +153.38% -73.69% +161.63%
75th Percentile £391 £165 £569
90th Percentile £471 £375 -
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -4.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.97% - -
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.51% -13.75% +116.22%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

FTP job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

FTP
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing FTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing FTP

FTP
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 13 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
County Antrim - 1 - -
FTP
UK

FTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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%) OCI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle