FTP Job Trends in the Midlands

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring FTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 242 188
Rank change year-on-year +37 -54 +119
Permanent jobs citing FTP 14 4 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.18% 0.060% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.87% 0.41% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 26
10th Percentile £50,680 - £36,388
25th Percentile £57,800 £51,000 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £52,000 £50,868
Median % change year-on-year +39.42% +2.23% -2.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,000 £57,385
90th Percentile - - £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £51,085
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.79% -1.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

FTP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,605 987 958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.58% 14.77% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 435 407 836
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,900 £36,125 £29,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £51,875 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FTP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

FTP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

FTP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FTP

FTP
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing FTP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for FTP in the Midlands

FTP
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +40 14 £72,500 +39.42% 2
FTP
England

FTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (64.29%) Confluence
2 4 (28.57%) nginx
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 11 (78.57%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (78.57%) Amazon ELB
1 11 (78.57%) Amazon S3
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
1 11 (78.57%) AWS KMS
1 11 (78.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (28.57%) Route 53
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) DNS
1 13 (92.86%) HTTP
1 13 (92.86%) SMTP
1 13 (92.86%) SSH
2 9 (64.29%) Firewall
3 4 (28.57%) IMAP
3 4 (28.57%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (14.29%) DHCP
4 2 (14.29%) SNMP
4 2 (14.29%) SSL
4 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (14.29%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Jenkins
1 11 (78.57%) Vagrant
2 9 (64.29%) Git
2 9 (64.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) Subversion
4 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 7 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Development Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) EDI Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) EDI
2 1 (7.14%) EDIFACT
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Replication
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
1 11 (78.57%) VMS
2 9 (64.29%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (64.29%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Cloud Security
1 11 (78.57%) Configuration Management
1 11 (78.57%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) Change Management
2 9 (64.29%) Patch Management
3 7 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) OO
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
6 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) ERP
6 1 (7.14%) Logistics
6 1 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 11 (78.57%) Groovy
3 9 (64.29%) PowerShell
4 7 (50.00%) Java
4 7 (50.00%) Perl
5 5 (35.71%) SQL
6 2 (14.29%) C#
6 2 (14.29%) Ruby
7 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
7 1 (7.14%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
3 5 (35.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
2 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (35.71%) DFS Replication
4 4 (28.57%) Dovecot
4 4 (28.57%) Postfix
4 4 (28.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 9 (64.29%) Grafana
2 9 (64.29%) Prometheus
3 4 (28.57%) Nessus
3 4 (28.57%) Proxmox
4 2 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) ServiceNow
2 4 (28.57%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle