FTP Contract Job Trends

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring FTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 656 492 504
Rank change year-on-year -164 +12 +98
Contract jobs citing FTP 27 56 66
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.050% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.53% 1.48% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 30 34
10th Percentile £425 £300 £281
25th Percentile £450 £331 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% +18.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £563 £551 £478
90th Percentile £638 £582 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -2.11% +11.76% +41.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile - £44.20 £24.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £45.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +85.71% -26.82%
75th Percentile £48.75 £81.35 £38.44
90th Percentile - £85.00 £44.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +85.71% -26.82%

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 5,054 3,781 4,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.42% 11.70% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,983 2,320 2,685
10th Percentile £235 £237 £231
25th Percentile £398 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £467 £500
% change year-on-year +2.73% -6.55% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 199 279
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.31
Median hourly rate £26.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.23% -13.86% -9.67%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.75 £73.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.84 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -39.20% -25.89% +1.52%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

FTP job vacancy trend in the UK

FTP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FTP

FTP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FTP over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FTP in the UK

FTP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FTP

FTP
Top 8 Contract Job 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 4 September 2026. 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 -144 24 £483 +1.68% 29
UK excluding London -125 15 £465 -2.11% 18
South East -65 11 £463 +102.19% 7
London -99 10 £588 +80.77% 15
Work from Home -68 6 £625 +31.58% 13
North West - 3 £465 - 1
North of England - 3 £465 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

FTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) nginx
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (14.81%) MS Visio
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (7.41%) Windchill
3 1 (3.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Workday HCM
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (7.41%) Primavera
2 2 (7.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) OCI
3 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (11.11%) PaaS
4 3 (11.11%) Serverless
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.41%) AWS KMS
5 2 (7.41%) Route 53
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.70%) GCP
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) DNS
2 5 (18.52%) DHCP
2 5 (18.52%) SSL
3 3 (11.11%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) HTTPS
4 2 (7.41%) HTTP
4 2 (7.41%) IMAP
4 2 (7.41%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (7.41%) SMTP
4 2 (7.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Aerospace
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Consultant
1 6 (22.22%) Integration Consultant
2 4 (14.81%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Workday Consultant
2 4 (14.81%) Workday Integration Consultant
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Project Planner
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) webMethods Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) XML
2 8 (29.63%) REST
2 8 (29.63%) SOAP
3 7 (25.93%) Web Services
3 7 (25.93%) XSLT
4 5 (18.52%) JSON
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (7.41%) EDI
6 2 (7.41%) OAuth
6 2 (7.41%) OAuth2
6 2 (7.41%) Terraform
6 2 (7.41%) XSD
7 1 (3.70%) LAMP
7 1 (3.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (7.41%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 4 (14.81%) Unix
4 3 (11.11%) AIX
4 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (7.41%) Ubuntu
5 2 (7.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Integration Patterns
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (22.22%) ERP
4 6 (22.22%) High Availability
4 6 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Change Management
5 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
5 5 (18.52%) SOA
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Observability
6 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (14.81%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (11.11%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) ActionScript
2 2 (7.41%) ActionScript 2.0
2 2 (7.41%) Groovy
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) Perl
3 1 (3.70%) PHP
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) Hyper-V
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (11.11%) NFS
4 3 (11.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (7.41%) DFS Replication
5 2 (7.41%) Docker
5 2 (7.41%) Dovecot
5 2 (7.41%) Postfix
5 2 (7.41%) Squid
6 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) PowerBroker
1 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (11.11%) Tivoli
1 3 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (7.41%) Grafana
2 2 (7.41%) Nessus
2 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
2 2 (7.41%) Proxmox
3 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Oracle
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (18.52%) VMware
4 4 (14.81%) Workday
5 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 3 (11.11%) Veritas
5 3 (11.11%) webMethods
6 2 (7.41%) Adobe
6 2 (7.41%) Axway
6 2 (7.41%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
6 2 (7.41%) Software AG
7 1 (3.70%) IBM