FTP Contracts

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 531 647
Rank change year-on-year +58 +116 +60
Contract jobs citing FTP 46 69 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.23% 1.22% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 50 40
10th Percentile £314 £281 £200
25th Percentile £325 £300 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £385 £335
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +14.93% -29.84%
75th Percentile £609 £515 £606
90th Percentile £625 £578 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £500 £325
% change year-on-year +12.50% +53.85% -27.78%
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% +48.08%
75th Percentile £81.91 £19.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.05 £19.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.35 £18.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +351.94% -71.20% +57.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

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 30 April 2025.

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 11 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 30 April 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
England +40 42 £363 -9.38% 28
UK excluding London +60 32 £563 +12.50% 17
East of England +45 16 £600 +106.90% 10
Work from Home +51 15 £338 +6.47% 10
South East +49 13 £344 -6.78% 6
London +6 11 £325 -15.58% 12
North of England +24 1 £375 -26.47% 1
Midlands +23 1 - - 1
West Midlands +15 1 - - 1
North West +7 1 £375 -26.47% 1
Scotland - 1 £600 - 1

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 8 (17.39%) Apache
2 3 (6.52%) CMS
3 1 (2.17%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.17%) Drupal
3 1 (2.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (15.22%) Azure Monitor
2 7 (15.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (8.70%) GitHub
4 3 (6.52%) Azure AKS
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.17%) AWS
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.17%) IaaS
5 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (76.09%) DNS
2 34 (73.91%) SMTP
3 25 (54.35%) HTTP
4 24 (52.17%) SSL
5 13 (28.26%) Network Security
6 12 (26.09%) DHCP
7 11 (23.91%) Telnet
8 8 (17.39%) TCP/IP
9 4 (8.70%) Firewall
9 4 (8.70%) tcpdump
10 2 (4.35%) VSAN
11 1 (2.17%) BGP
11 1 (2.17%) MPLS
11 1 (2.17%) OSPF
11 1 (2.17%) RSVP
11 1 (2.17%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Metadata
2 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.17%) MS Access
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Mockito
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (2.17%) Toad
General
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
4 4 (8.70%) Law
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.17%) Aviation
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Analyst
2 14 (30.43%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) Administrator
4 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Security Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Site Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Informatica Administrator
7 1 (2.17%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (45.65%) LDAP
2 8 (17.39%) .NET
3 4 (8.70%) JSON
4 3 (6.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (6.52%) YAML
5 2 (4.35%) EDI
5 2 (4.35%) REST
5 2 (4.35%) XML
5 2 (4.35%) XSLT
6 1 (2.17%) Apache Camel
6 1 (2.17%) JWT
6 1 (2.17%) MSMQ
6 1 (2.17%) OAuth
6 1 (2.17%) OpenID
6 1 (2.17%) SAML
6 1 (2.17%) SOAP
6 1 (2.17%) Spring
6 1 (2.17%) Spring Batch
6 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.17%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Cyberattack
2 12 (26.09%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (21.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (21.74%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (17.39%) CSOC
5 7 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (15.22%) Management Information System
6 3 (6.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
7 2 (4.35%) YARA
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (2.17%) Reference Data
8 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Linux
2 12 (26.09%) Windows
3 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Cybersecurity
1 15 (32.61%) Security Operations
1 15 (32.61%) Threat Detection
2 12 (26.09%) SIEM
3 11 (23.91%) Incident Response
3 11 (23.91%) Network Packet Capture
4 10 (21.74%) Information Management
4 10 (21.74%) Information Security
5 8 (17.39%) DevOps
5 8 (17.39%) Microservices
6 7 (15.22%) Agile
6 7 (15.22%) Analytics
6 7 (15.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (15.22%) Behavioural Analytics
6 7 (15.22%) Machine Learning
6 7 (15.22%) Workflow
7 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
7 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 7 (15.22%) C#
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) Bicep
4 3 (6.52%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (4.35%) ActionScript
5 2 (4.35%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Python
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (54.35%) Security Cleared
2 21 (45.65%) SC Cleared
3 10 (21.74%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.35%) CCNA
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.35%) CISSP
4 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.35%) RHCE
4 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) NFS
2 8 (17.39%) Samba
3 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) yum
2 4 (8.70%) Ansible
3 3 (6.52%) Grafana
3 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.17%) SCOM
5 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 6 (13.04%) Red Hat
1 6 (13.04%) VMware
2 3 (6.52%) Darktrace
2 3 (6.52%) FireEye
2 3 (6.52%) HP
2 3 (6.52%) IronPort
2 3 (6.52%) LogRhythm
2 3 (6.52%) Splunk
2 3 (6.52%) Symantec
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco
3 2 (4.35%) Dell
3 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
3 2 (4.35%) Veeam
4 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.17%) IBM
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Sage
4 1 (2.17%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) SEEBURGER