File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for FTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FTP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 765 874 1003
Rank change year-on-year +109 +129 -297
Permanent jobs citing FTP 131 96 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.092% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.96% 0.60% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 73 34 139
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,225 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,563 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,750 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -6.91% -21.67%
75th Percentile £48,150 £59,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £59,500 £73,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £39,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -5.06% +2.60% -14.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

FTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

FTP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FTP in the UK

FTP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FTP.

Salary trend for FTP in the UK

FTP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FTP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for FTP in the UK

FTP
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FTP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +163 121 £40,000 -8.57% 18
UK excluding London +58 108 £37,500 -5.06% 9
Work from Home +113 41 £42,500 +17.24% 7
East of England +50 40 £44,000 -
South East +49 33 £34,500 -18.82% 2
London +126 23 £45,500 -35.00% 10
Midlands +13 13 £54,000 +36.71% 2
West Midlands +33 12 £54,000 +11.92% 1
North of England +57 11 £35,000 -22.22% 3
Yorkshire +101 9 £35,000 +11.11% 3
Northern Ireland +37 7 £35,000 +27.27% 2
Wales +9 3 - -
North West +10 2 £25,500 -43.33%
South West -9 1 £35,000 +40.00%
East Midlands -16 1 - - 1

FTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (15.27%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.34%) IIS
4 4 (3.05%) Apache
5 2 (1.53%) Drupal
5 2 (1.53%) GlassFish
5 2 (1.53%) JCAPS
5 2 (1.53%) Moodle
5 2 (1.53%) nginx
5 2 (1.53%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.53%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.53%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.53%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.53%) WordPress
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.76%) CMS
6 1 (0.76%) Confluence
6 1 (0.76%) Umbraco
Applications
1 59 (45.04%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (5.34%) InfoPath
3 7 (5.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.05%) FileZilla
5 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.76%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Magento
2 2 (1.53%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.53%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.30%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (22.14%) Azure
3 14 (10.69%) Entra ID
4 11 (8.40%) AWS
5 7 (5.34%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.05%) GCP
6 4 (3.05%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.05%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.53%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.53%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.53%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.76%) GitHub
8 1 (0.76%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.76%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 32 (24.43%) TCP/IP
2 26 (19.85%) DNS
2 26 (19.85%) HTTP
3 23 (17.56%) DHCP
3 23 (17.56%) LAN
4 21 (16.03%) WAN
5 17 (12.98%) SMTP
5 17 (12.98%) VPN
6 13 (9.92%) Firewall
7 12 (9.16%) SSL
8 11 (8.40%) SNMP
8 11 (8.40%) SSH
9 8 (6.11%) Telnet
10 7 (5.34%) VLAN
11 6 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (3.82%) Internet
13 4 (3.05%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (3.05%) WLAN
14 3 (2.29%) HTTPS
14 3 (2.29%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.34%) Crystal Reports
2 7 (5.34%) MySQL
3 6 (4.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.05%) Power BI
5 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.53%) MS Access
8 1 (0.76%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Git
2 2 (1.53%) Ant
2 2 (1.53%) JUnit
2 2 (1.53%) Maven
2 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.53%) Subversion
2 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.76%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) Log4Net
3 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.27%) Finance
3 13 (9.92%) Marketing
4 8 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Retail
6 5 (3.82%) Banking
6 5 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.05%) Electronics
7 4 (3.05%) Front Office
7 4 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.05%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.29%) Back Office
9 2 (1.53%) Billing
9 2 (1.53%) Games
9 2 (1.53%) Legal
9 2 (1.53%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (26.72%) Support Assistant
2 16 (12.21%) Analyst
3 12 (9.16%) 3rd Line Support
3 12 (9.16%) Senior
4 11 (8.40%) IT Technician
5 10 (7.63%) Developer
5 10 (7.63%) Support Engineer
5 10 (7.63%) Support Specialist
6 8 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.11%) IT Support
6 8 (6.11%) IT Support Technician
6 8 (6.11%) Support Technician
7 7 (5.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (5.34%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (5.34%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Programmer
9 5 (3.82%) Administrator
9 5 (3.82%) Analyst Programmer
9 5 (3.82%) RPG Analyst Programmer
9 5 (3.82%) RPG Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.45%) HTML
2 11 (8.40%) EDI
3 9 (6.87%) .NET
3 9 (6.87%) EDIFACT
4 8 (6.11%) HTML5
5 7 (5.34%) COM
5 7 (5.34%) XML
6 5 (3.82%) CSS
6 5 (3.82%) JSON
6 5 (3.82%) Kafka
6 5 (3.82%) LDAP
6 5 (3.82%) Spring
7 4 (3.05%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.05%) LAMP
8 3 (2.29%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (2.29%) NumPy
8 3 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.29%) React
8 3 (2.29%) REST
8 3 (2.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (26.72%) Replication
2 16 (12.21%) Onboarding
3 12 (9.16%) Client/Server
4 11 (8.40%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.11%) EFT
6 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.29%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.53%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) PKI
8 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.76%) BYOD
9 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (40.46%) Windows
2 29 (22.14%) Windows Server
3 11 (8.40%) Linux
4 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.48%) CRM
2 35 (26.72%) Case Management
2 35 (26.72%) Customer Service
3 28 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (15.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (10.69%) Project Management
7 13 (9.92%) ITIL
8 11 (8.40%) OO
9 9 (6.87%) Web Development
10 8 (6.11%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (6.11%) OOP
10 8 (6.11%) Server Patching
11 7 (5.34%) Compliance Audit
11 7 (5.34%) Computer Science
11 7 (5.34%) ERP
11 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Management
11 7 (5.34%) Marketing Automation
11 7 (5.34%) Requirements Analysis
11 7 (5.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (22.14%) SQL
2 22 (16.79%) PowerShell
3 13 (9.92%) JavaScript
4 8 (6.11%) Java
5 5 (3.82%) PHP
5 5 (3.82%) Python
5 5 (3.82%) RPG
5 5 (3.82%) RPG IV
5 5 (3.82%) RPG/400
6 4 (3.05%) ActionScript
6 4 (3.05%) ActionScript 2.0
6 4 (3.05%) R
6 4 (3.05%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.05%) VB
6 4 (3.05%) VBScript
7 3 (2.29%) Clojure
7 3 (2.29%) Groovy
7 3 (2.29%) Scala
7 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (7.63%) Degree
2 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.53%) CCNP
4 2 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) SLA
2 3 (2.29%) MiFID
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (30.53%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.11%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (5.34%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.05%) vSphere
5 1 (0.76%) Docker
5 1 (0.76%) NFS
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.76%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 9 (6.87%) SCCM
2 8 (6.11%) vCenter Server
3 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.82%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.53%) Ansible
5 2 (1.53%) Control-M
5 2 (1.53%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.76%) Grafana
6 1 (0.76%) Kibana
6 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.76%) logstash
6 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.76%) Puppet
6 1 (0.76%) Salt
6 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 98 (74.81%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.50%) VMware
3 13 (9.92%) Cisco
4 8 (6.11%) Citrix
4 8 (6.11%) Globalscape
5 7 (5.34%) Epicor
5 7 (5.34%) Meraki
6 6 (4.58%) Oracle
7 5 (3.82%) SAP
8 4 (3.05%) F5
8 4 (3.05%) Red Hat
8 4 (3.05%) Splunk
9 3 (2.29%) ArcSight
9 3 (2.29%) Bloomberg
9 3 (2.29%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.29%) IBM
9 3 (2.29%) Juniper
9 3 (2.29%) Reuters
9 3 (2.29%) TippingPoint
9 3 (2.29%) Trend Micro