FTP Contracts in the UK excluding London

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for FTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FTP over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 435 480
Rank change year-on-year +60 +45 -114
Contract jobs citing FTP 30 17 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.070% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.85% 0.46% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 31
10th Percentile £290 £223 £350
25th Percentile £341 £313 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -27.78% +40.63%
75th Percentile £515 £375 £519
90th Percentile - £646 £588
UK median daily rate £393 £363 £475
% change year-on-year +8.28% -23.68% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £16.80 - -
25th Percentile £18.00 £61.25 £37.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £62.50 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -68.00% +57.33% -21.68%
75th Percentile £21.86 £63.75 £42.20
90th Percentile £22.98 - -
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £62.50 £42.21
% change year-on-year -68.00% +48.08% -25.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

FTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,518 3,674 4,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.90% 15.07% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,015 2,337 2,692
10th Percentile £202 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year - +10.59% +7.38%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £540
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £488 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% +3.60% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 345 242
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £9.80 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £18.50 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +156.76% -13.65% -14.30%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.66 £72.72 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.88
% change year-on-year +110.53% -31.84% +1.36%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing FTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FTP in the UK excluding London

FTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FTP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for FTP in the UK excluding London

FTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FTP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FTP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for FTP in the UK excluding London

FTP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
South East +26 9 £338 - 2
South West +23 8 £500 -28.57%
North West - 5 £510 -
North of England - 5 £510 - 3
East of England +17 4 £290 - 2
Midlands +34 3 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
East Midlands +9 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5
FTP
UK

FTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (16.67%) Apache
1 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.00%) CMS
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.33%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) FileZilla
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.67%) Windchill
2 1 (3.33%) InfoPath
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (23.33%) Serverless
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 2 (6.67%) Azure App Service
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) Firewall
2 6 (20.00%) HTTP
2 6 (20.00%) SAN
3 4 (13.33%) DNS
3 4 (13.33%) LAN
3 4 (13.33%) SMTP
3 4 (13.33%) SSL
3 4 (13.33%) WAN
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.33%) DHCP
5 1 (3.33%) HTTPS
5 1 (3.33%) IPsec
5 1 (3.33%) Network Security
5 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (3.33%) SNMP
5 1 (3.33%) SSH
5 1 (3.33%) Telnet
5 1 (3.33%) VPN
5 1 (3.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) Big Data
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (6.67%) GIS
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) Ingres
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (30.00%) Manufacturing
2 8 (26.67%) Telecoms
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (13.33%) Electronics
4 4 (13.33%) Legal
4 4 (13.33%) Marketing
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Junior
3 3 (10.00%) Junior Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) ETL Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Project Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) RAN Performance Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) JSON
1 5 (16.67%) LDAP
1 5 (16.67%) XML
2 2 (6.67%) 802.1X
2 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) Swagger
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.33%) COM
3 1 (3.33%) CSS
3 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.33%) HTML5
3 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Replication
2 3 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (6.67%) Clustering
3 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Linux
3 7 (23.33%) Unix
3 7 (23.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) ITIL
2 9 (30.00%) Change Management
2 9 (30.00%) ETL
3 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
4 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.00%) OO
4 6 (20.00%) OOP
4 6 (20.00%) Scrum
4 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) Data Management
5 5 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (16.67%) Migration
5 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 5 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) C#
3 6 (20.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.33%) HDFS
4 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.33%) NFS
4 1 (3.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Informatica
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) CheckPoint
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 6 (20.00%) Cisco
3 6 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (20.00%) Veeam
4 5 (16.67%) Talend
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle
5 4 (13.33%) SAP
6 3 (10.00%) Darktrace
6 3 (10.00%) FireEye
6 3 (10.00%) IronPort
6 3 (10.00%) LogRhythm
6 3 (10.00%) Splunk
6 3 (10.00%) Symantec
7 2 (6.67%) Dell
7 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.33%) Citrix
8 1 (3.33%) Remedy