FTP Contracts in the West Midlands

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 110 124
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +54
Contract jobs citing FTP 17 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.03% 0.052% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.66% 0.30% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.39%
75th Percentile £581 - £325
90th Percentile £582 - -
England median daily rate £475 £385 £345
% change year-on-year +23.38% +11.59% -37.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 222 333 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.51% 17.35% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 210 257
10th Percentile £242 £229 £220
25th Percentile £325 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -
75th Percentile £575 £628 £575
90th Percentile £653 £725 £718
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 9
10th Percentile £14.32 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £27.00 £11.88 £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +44.00%
75th Percentile £39.74 £18.88 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.70 £23.75 £29.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £49.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% - +90.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing FTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for FTP in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for FTP in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for FTP in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Birmingham +15 10 £475 - 3
Warwickshire - 7 £581 - 3
FTP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (58.82%) Confluence
2 2 (11.76%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 10 (58.82%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (58.82%) Amazon ELB
1 10 (58.82%) Amazon S3
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
1 10 (58.82%) AWS KMS
1 10 (58.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon Glacier
3 7 (41.18%) SaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) DNS
1 10 (58.82%) Firewall
1 10 (58.82%) HTTP
1 10 (58.82%) SMTP
1 10 (58.82%) SSH
2 2 (11.76%) IMAP
2 2 (11.76%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Git
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
1 10 (58.82%) JIRA
1 10 (58.82%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (58.82%) Public Sector
2 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Architect
3 5 (29.41%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Replication
2 3 (17.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
1 10 (58.82%) VMS
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Change Management
1 10 (58.82%) Cloud Security
1 10 (58.82%) Configuration Management
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
1 10 (58.82%) Patch Management
1 10 (58.82%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
2 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Groovy
1 10 (58.82%) PowerShell
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) Java
2 8 (47.06%) Perl
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) DFS Replication
1 10 (58.82%) Docker
2 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (11.76%) Dovecot
4 2 (11.76%) Postfix
4 2 (11.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Grafana
1 10 (58.82%) Prometheus
1 10 (58.82%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Nessus
2 2 (11.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) ServiceNow
2 7 (41.18%) Broadcom
2 7 (41.18%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft