FTP Contracts with Work from Home Options

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 448 554
Rank change year-on-year +103 +106 -146
Contract jobs citing FTP 14 32 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.85% 1.08% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 47
10th Percentile - £201 £350
25th Percentile £300 £290 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £317 £495 £463
Median % change year-on-year -35.96% +7.03% -9.31%
75th Percentile £351 £653 £563
90th Percentile £442 £714 £635
UK median daily rate £385 £325 £475
% change year-on-year +18.46% -31.58% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £62.50 £42.21
% change year-on-year -71.20% +48.08% -25.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,639 2,964 4,351
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.66% 11.39% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 1,975 2,965
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.72% +3.95% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 105 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.13 £57.50 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -58.04% +16.66% +18.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.70 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +1.85%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing FTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FTP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing FTP.

FTP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing FTP over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

FTP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing FTP.

FTP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (7.14%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) PaaS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Azure App Service
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) BigCommerce
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (7.14%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.14%) GIS
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Marketing
1 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 2 (14.29%) Electronics
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 2 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Appian Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) RAN Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) RAN Performance Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) LDAP
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) Entity Framework
3 2 (14.29%) Swagger
3 2 (14.29%) YAML
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) JMS
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.14%) OpenID
4 1 (7.14%) Sass
4 1 (7.14%) VML
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Replication
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Contactless
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Unix
2 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Migration
2 7 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 7 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) TDD
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 2 (14.29%) Data Development
5 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 2 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (50.00%) HDFS
1 7 (50.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Isilon
2 3 (21.43%) Dell
2 3 (21.43%) SAP
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Adobe
4 1 (7.14%) Informatica
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Remedy
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 1 (7.14%) Sitecore