FTP Contracts in Scotland

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - 161
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing FTP 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% - 0.070%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.71% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £198
25th Percentile - - £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £208
75th Percentile - - £224
90th Percentile - - £229
UK median daily rate £402 £385 £335
% change year-on-year +4.35% +14.93% -29.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 141 250 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 8.68% 11.28% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 150 227
10th Percentile £200 £187 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £525 £626 £538
90th Percentile £550 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 21
10th Percentile - £15.43 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.69 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for FTP in Scotland

FTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FTP in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for FTP in Scotland

FTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FTP in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for FTP in Scotland

FTP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 1 £600 -
FTP
UK

FTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) Toad
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) Okta
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Talend