FTP Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring FTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 56 78
Rank change year-on-year -24 +22 -
Contract jobs citing FTP 1 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% 1.30% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.02% 11.49% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 8
10th Percentile - £384 -
25th Percentile - £401 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £408 £538
Median % change year-on-year +41.10% -24.19% -
75th Percentile - £435 £588
90th Percentile - £438 £591
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £408 £538
% change year-on-year +41.10% -24.19% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 87 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.16% 11.28% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 51 106
10th Percentile £227 £213 £269
25th Percentile £341 £401 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £503 £544 £575
90th Percentile £550 £638 £663
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +14.12% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £12.59 £14.30
25th Percentile £47.50 £13.03 £15.99
Median hourly rate £50.00 £14.25 £17.35
Median % change year-on-year +251.00% -17.88% -65.31%
75th Percentile £52.50 £15.95 £20.24
90th Percentile - £16.67 £24.17
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -38.64% +4.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

FTP job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing FTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing FTP

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Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing FTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing FTP

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Leeds - 1 £575 - 2
FTP
Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform