File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 654 702
Rank change year-on-year +125 +48 -168
Contract jobs citing FTP 69 65 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.23% 0.88% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 39 83
10th Percentile £281 £200 £353
25th Percentile £300 £306 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £325 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -31.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £591 £600
90th Percentile £578 £705 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +53.85% -27.78% +40.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £16.40 - £37.99
25th Percentile £17.00 £61.25 £39.11
Median hourly rate £18.00 £62.50 £42.21
Median % change year-on-year -71.20% +48.08% -25.44%
75th Percentile £19.00 £63.75 £44.07
90th Percentile £19.60 - £44.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £62.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -71.20% +57.33% -21.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FTP in the UK

FTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FTP in the UK

FTP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FTP in the UK

FTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for FTP in the UK

FTP
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +136 65 £400 +23.08% 18
London +107 40 £385 -28.70% 10
UK excluding London +71 26 £500 +53.85% 9
Work from Home +113 14 £317 -35.96% 7
South East +26 7 £369 +9.26% 2
South West +26 7 £500 -28.57%
North of England - 5 £510 - 3
North West - 5 £510 -
East of England +20 4 £290 -
Midlands +19 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

FTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.25%) Apache
1 5 (7.25%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (7.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.80%) MQSeries
3 3 (4.35%) CMS
3 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.90%) Drupal
4 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.45%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) FileZilla
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.90%) Windchill
3 1 (1.45%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Shopify
1 2 (2.90%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.54%) Azure
2 16 (23.19%) PaaS
3 11 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.94%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (13.04%) Serverless
5 8 (11.59%) AWS
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.25%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.25%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (7.25%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.25%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.90%) Azure App Service
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.90%) BigCommerce
8 2 (2.90%) SaaS
8 2 (2.90%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.43%) Firewall
2 17 (24.64%) HTTP
3 13 (18.84%) TCP/IP
4 11 (15.94%) SMTP
5 7 (10.14%) DNS
5 7 (10.14%) SSH
5 7 (10.14%) SSL
6 6 (8.70%) SAN
7 5 (7.25%) HTTPS
7 5 (7.25%) IPsec
7 5 (7.25%) LAN
7 5 (7.25%) Network Security
7 5 (7.25%) tcpdump
7 5 (7.25%) VPN
7 5 (7.25%) WAN
7 5 (7.25%) Wireshark
8 4 (5.80%) DHCP
8 4 (5.80%) ICMP
8 4 (5.80%) POP3
8 4 (5.80%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.19%) Hadoop
2 15 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.25%) Big Data
4 4 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.80%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.80%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.90%) MS Access
5 2 (2.90%) MySQL
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.45%) GIS
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.45%) Power BI
6 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Git
2 6 (8.70%) JIRA
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (24.64%) Finance
2 14 (20.29%) Manufacturing
3 13 (18.84%) Public Sector
3 13 (18.84%) Telecoms
4 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
5 11 (15.94%) Marketing
6 9 (13.04%) Electronics
7 8 (11.59%) Legal
8 7 (10.14%) Back Office
9 6 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (7.25%) Banking
11 3 (4.35%) Multimedia
11 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (2.90%) Retail
13 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (1.45%) Front Office
13 1 (1.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (23.19%) Implementation Specialist
2 7 (10.14%) Developer
2 7 (10.14%) Lead
2 7 (10.14%) Network Engineer
2 7 (10.14%) Technical Leader
3 6 (8.70%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) ArcSight Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Consultant
5 4 (5.80%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) SIEM Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Unix Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (33.33%) LDAP
2 9 (13.04%) .NET
3 7 (10.14%) .NET Core
4 5 (7.25%) JSON
4 5 (7.25%) XML
5 4 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (5.80%) GraphQL
6 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.35%) HTML
7 2 (2.90%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.90%) 802.1X
7 2 (2.90%) CSS
7 2 (2.90%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.90%) Node.js
7 2 (2.90%) OAuth
7 2 (2.90%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.90%) OpenID
7 2 (2.90%) Swagger
7 2 (2.90%) VML
7 2 (2.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (31.88%) Replication
2 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.35%) Cyberattack
3 3 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.35%) Smartphone
4 2 (2.90%) Contactless
4 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.45%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (43.48%) Linux
1 30 (43.48%) Windows
2 28 (40.58%) Unix
3 10 (14.49%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.68%) Migration
2 16 (23.19%) Agile
2 16 (23.19%) Capacity Management
2 16 (23.19%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (20.29%) ITIL
4 13 (18.84%) OO
5 11 (15.94%) DevOps
5 11 (15.94%) TDD
6 10 (14.49%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (14.49%) Programme Management
7 9 (13.04%) Clean Code
7 9 (13.04%) Digital Marketing
7 9 (13.04%) ETL
8 8 (11.59%) Change Management
9 7 (10.14%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.14%) Customer Service
9 7 (10.14%) OOD
9 7 (10.14%) Scrum
9 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering
10 6 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.29%) C#
2 12 (17.39%) SQL
3 7 (10.14%) Bicep
3 7 (10.14%) Python
4 6 (8.70%) Java
5 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.45%) Clojure
7 1 (1.45%) Groovy
7 1 (1.45%) Perl
7 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) Degree
3 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.90%) CCNP
4 2 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.45%) CCFP
5 1 (1.45%) CCNA
5 1 (1.45%) CCSP
5 1 (1.45%) CISSP
5 1 (1.45%) EC-Council LPT
5 1 (1.45%) ECIH
5 1 (1.45%) ECSA
5 1 (1.45%) GAWN
5 1 (1.45%) GCFE
5 1 (1.45%) GPPA
5 1 (1.45%) GREM
5 1 (1.45%) GXPN
5 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.45%) MiFID
2 1 (1.45%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (28.99%) Active Directory
2 16 (23.19%) HDFS
2 16 (23.19%) NFS
3 6 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.70%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.80%) Samba
5 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.90%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) vCenter Server
2 4 (5.80%) Kibana
2 4 (5.80%) logstash
2 4 (5.80%) QRadar
2 4 (5.80%) Terraform
3 3 (4.35%) SCCM
4 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.45%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 21 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (23.19%) Isilon
3 11 (15.94%) SAP
4 10 (14.49%) CheckPoint
4 10 (14.49%) Dell
4 10 (14.49%) VMware
5 9 (13.04%) Informatica
6 8 (11.59%) Cisco
7 7 (10.14%) Splunk
8 6 (8.70%) Palo Alto
8 6 (8.70%) Veeam
9 5 (7.25%) Oracle
9 5 (7.25%) Talend
10 4 (5.80%) ArcSight
10 4 (5.80%) Red Hat
11 3 (4.35%) Darktrace
11 3 (4.35%) FireEye
11 3 (4.35%) IronPort
11 3 (4.35%) LogRhythm
11 3 (4.35%) Symantec