Hybrid/Remote FTP Contract Job Trends

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring FTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 298 362
Rank change year-on-year -6 +64 +166
Contract jobs citing FTP 11 26 35
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.01% 2.02% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £204 £404 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -17.39% +6.48%
75th Percentile £582 £656 £650
90th Percentile £582 £815 £728
UK median daily rate £475 £465 £575
% change year-on-year +2.26% -19.22% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.01
25th Percentile - - £53.79
Median hourly rate - - £88.50
75th Percentile - - £92.00
90th Percentile - - £93.05
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £47.83
% change year-on-year +57.14% -26.82% -34.48%

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 1,086 1,286 2,429
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.77% 10.63% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 778 1,591
10th Percentile £293 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +4.45% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £679 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 29 85
10th Percentile £25.90 £34.25 £19.09
25th Percentile £44.19 £37.50 £20.82
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.43% -10.00% -9.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.06 £75.00 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.37% -13.64% +30.95%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FTP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

FTP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

FTP
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FTP

FTP
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FTP over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

FTP daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

FTP
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FTP

FTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Route 53
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) HTTP
2 4 (36.36%) Wireshark
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) IMAP
3 1 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (9.09%) SMTP
3 1 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Support
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Service Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) REST
1 4 (36.36%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) SCADA
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 4 (36.36%) Escalation Management
1 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
1 4 (36.36%) OO
1 4 (36.36%) OOP
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Change Management
2 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
2 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
2 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Groovy
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) DFS Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Dovecot
2 1 (9.09%) Postfix
2 1 (9.09%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Nessus
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Broadcom
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow