FTP Job Trends in the North West

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring FTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 203 196
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 +94
Permanent jobs citing FTP 2 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.031% 0.040% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.10% 0.37% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £47,405 - £43,125
25th Percentile £49,138 £52,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,050 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -2.22% +1.35%
75th Percentile £59,738 £57,500 £64,063
90th Percentile £61,935 - £64,625
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,170
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.33% +2.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,921 536 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.15% 10.61% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 362 317 457
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,300 £28,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £77,715
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 North West

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

FTP job vacancy trend in the North West

FTP
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FTP

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing FTP in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for FTP in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Manchester - 1 £60,600 - 1
Merseyside - 1 £47,500 -
FTP
England

FTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft