FTP Contracts in the UK excluding London

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 305 373 442
Rank change year-on-year +68 +69 +18
Contract jobs citing FTP 31 26 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.13% 0.083%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.58% 0.75% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 15
10th Percentile £325 £290 £199
25th Percentile £361 £350 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +53.85% -27.78%
75th Percentile £625 £515 £356
90th Percentile - - £593
UK median daily rate £402 £385 £335
% change year-on-year +4.35% +14.93% -29.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £80.34 £16.40 -
25th Percentile £80.59 £17.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £81.35 £18.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +351.94% -71.20% +57.33%
75th Percentile £81.91 £19.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.05 £19.60 -
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £18.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +351.94% -71.20% +48.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,965 3,454 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.39% 16.63% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,982 2,287
10th Percentile £200 £204 £207
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 358 328
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.48 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £70.66 £74.50
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
East of England +41 15 £600 +106.90% 15
South East +52 13 £344 -6.78% 10
Midlands +21 1 - - 1
North of England +15 1 £375 -26.47% 1
North West +13 1 £375 -26.47% 1
West Midlands +13 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £600 - 1
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 8 (25.81%) Apache
2 2 (6.45%) CMS
3 1 (3.23%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (3.23%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) Azure
1 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.23%) IaaS
2 1 (3.23%) PaaS
2 1 (3.23%) SaaS
2 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (83.87%) DNS
1 26 (83.87%) SMTP
2 17 (54.84%) HTTP
3 16 (51.61%) SSL
4 13 (41.94%) Network Security
5 11 (35.48%) DHCP
5 11 (35.48%) Telnet
6 4 (12.90%) tcpdump
7 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Mockito
1 1 (3.23%) Toad
General
1 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Law
3 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.23%) Aviation
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.23%) Legal
3 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Analyst
2 13 (41.94%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Administrator
3 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (12.90%) Support Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Junior
6 1 (3.23%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Security Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (61.29%) LDAP
2 2 (6.45%) EDI
2 2 (6.45%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) XML
2 2 (6.45%) XSLT
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Camel
3 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) JWT
3 1 (3.23%) MSMQ
3 1 (3.23%) OAuth
3 1 (3.23%) OpenID
3 1 (3.23%) SAML
3 1 (3.23%) SOAP
3 1 (3.23%) Spring
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Batch
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.23%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Cyberattack
2 11 (35.48%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (32.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (32.26%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (25.81%) CSOC
5 7 (22.58%) Management Information System
6 2 (6.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (6.45%) YARA
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
7 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) Windows
3 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (38.71%) Threat Detection
3 11 (35.48%) Network Packet Capture
4 10 (32.26%) Information Management
4 10 (32.26%) Information Security
4 10 (32.26%) Security Operations
5 8 (25.81%) Incident Response
6 7 (22.58%) Analytics
6 7 (22.58%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (22.58%) Behavioural Analytics
6 7 (22.58%) Machine Learning
6 7 (22.58%) SIEM
7 6 (19.35%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (19.35%) Workflow
8 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (16.13%) Workflow Management
9 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (12.90%) Server Migrations
10 3 (9.68%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) ActionScript
1 2 (6.45%) ActionScript 2.0
1 2 (6.45%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) Java
2 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (77.42%) Security Cleared
2 21 (67.74%) SC Cleared
3 10 (32.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) NFS
2 8 (25.81%) Samba
3 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) yum
2 3 (9.68%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Red Hat
1 4 (12.90%) VMware
2 3 (9.68%) HP
3 2 (6.45%) Darktrace
3 2 (6.45%) FireEye
3 2 (6.45%) IronPort
3 2 (6.45%) LogRhythm
3 2 (6.45%) Splunk
3 2 (6.45%) Symantec
4 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.23%) Okta
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) SEEBURGER
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Talend
4 1 (3.23%) Twitter