FTP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 331 445
Rank change year-on-year +42 +114 +115
Contract jobs citing FTP 15 14 32
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.44% 0.87% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 15
10th Percentile £319 - £201
25th Percentile £325 £300 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £317 £495
Median % change year-on-year +6.47% -35.96% +7.03%
75th Percentile £419 £351 £653
90th Percentile £565 £442 £714
UK median daily rate £402 £385 £335
% change year-on-year +4.35% +14.93% -29.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £18.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +351.94% -71.20% +48.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

FTP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing FTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FTP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

FTP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing FTP.

FTP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

FTP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing FTP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

FTP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

FTP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing FTP.

FTP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

FTP
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 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
2 9 (60.00%) SMTP
3 6 (40.00%) DHCP
3 6 (40.00%) HTTP
4 5 (33.33%) SSL
4 5 (33.33%) Telnet
5 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
6 2 (13.33%) Firewall
6 2 (13.33%) tcpdump
7 1 (6.67%) BGP
7 1 (6.67%) MPLS
7 1 (6.67%) OSPF
7 1 (6.67%) RSVP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Mockito
1 1 (6.67%) Toad
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) BizTalk Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Integration Developer
3 1 (6.67%) IP Network Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Network Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior IP Network Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) EDI
3 2 (13.33%) LDAP
3 2 (13.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) XML
3 2 (13.33%) XSLT
3 2 (13.33%) YAML
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Camel
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.67%) JWT
4 1 (6.67%) MSMQ
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) OpenID
4 1 (6.67%) SAML
4 1 (6.67%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Batch
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps
1 5 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) Workflow
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) Workflow Management
4 2 (13.33%) Dynamic Code Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) OWASP
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) SIEM
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Threat Detection
4 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) ActionScript
3 2 (13.33%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (13.33%) Bicep
3 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) NFS
2 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (13.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) yum
3 1 (6.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) HP
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (13.33%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.67%) Nokia
2 1 (6.67%) Okta
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) SEEBURGER
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Talend