FTP Job Trends in the Thames Valley

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring FTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 - 238
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Permanent jobs citing FTP 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.053% - 0.031%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.70% - 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £31,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £32,250
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £62,750 - £34,500
% change year-on-year - - -18.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 431 530 916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.61% 15.62% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 273 220 676
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,625 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,125 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% +5.56%

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

FTP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

FTP
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing FTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing FTP

FTP
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Berkshire - 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £72,500 - 1
FTP
South East

FTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) ICMP
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) SSH
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) SOAR
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Swim Lanes
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) QRadar
2 1 (33.33%) CASB
2 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ArcSight
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto