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 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 632 887 865
Rank change year-on-year +255 -22 -220
Permanent jobs citing FTP 109 189 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.35% 1.23% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 66 119 158
10th Percentile £31,500 £26,250 -
25th Percentile £40,750 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,035 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% +35.16% -24.51%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £59,719
90th Percentile £71,875 £70,600 £74,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,565 £50,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year -0.87% +29.87% -3.75%

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 8,066 15,350 16,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.15% 12.38% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,330 10,317 11,453
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -

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 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for FTP in the UK

FTP
Top 13 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 4 December 2023. 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
UK excluding London +225 91 £49,565 -0.87% 28
England +239 76 £50,000 -3.91% 35
Work from Home +208 43 £49,565 -2.85% 19
Wales - 33 £35,000 -
Midlands +114 31 £49,565 -4.99% 9
West Midlands +130 27 £49,565 -5.59% 4
London +219 19 £57,500 -8.00% 9
North of England +150 15 £55,000 - 7
North West +101 10 £46,250 -15.91% 3
South East +159 8 £32,000 -39.05% 5
Yorkshire +96 5 £60,000 +9.09% 3
South West +61 4 £60,000 +126.42% 2
East Midlands +35 4 £65,000 +30.00% 5

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 24 (22.02%) MS Exchange
2 5 (4.59%) Confluence
3 3 (2.75%) IIS
3 3 (2.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.92%) Apache TomEE
4 1 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.92%) CMS
4 1 (0.92%) Luigi
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
4 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.75%) FileZilla
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Magento
2 1 (0.92%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.78%) Azure
2 32 (29.36%) AWS
2 32 (29.36%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (10.09%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.83%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.83%) GCP
7 2 (1.83%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.92%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.92%) IaaS
8 1 (0.92%) PaaS
8 1 (0.92%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 70 (64.22%) SMTP
2 67 (61.47%) HTTP
3 66 (60.55%) TCP/IP
4 43 (39.45%) DNS
5 38 (34.86%) Internet
6 37 (33.94%) Network Security
7 36 (33.03%) Firewall
8 35 (32.11%) LAN
9 33 (30.28%) VPN
9 33 (30.28%) WAN
10 32 (29.36%) Sourcefire
11 31 (28.44%) SSH
12 30 (27.52%) DHCP
12 30 (27.52%) SSL
13 26 (23.85%) SNMP
14 24 (22.02%) Intrusion Detection
14 24 (22.02%) Telnet
15 4 (3.67%) VoIP
16 3 (2.75%) MPLS
16 3 (2.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) Oracle Database
2 9 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.42%) MySQL
3 7 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.67%) Power BI
6 3 (2.75%) Firebird
6 3 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.83%) Big Data
7 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.83%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.92%) DB2
8 1 (0.92%) Looker
8 1 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Git
1 6 (5.50%) JIRA
2 5 (4.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.75%) Subversion
4 2 (1.83%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.92%) GitLab
5 1 (0.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.92%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 39 (35.78%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (29.36%) Games
3 13 (11.93%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.50%) Finance
4 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.75%) Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Electronics
6 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.75%) Military
6 3 (2.75%) Retail
6 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.83%) Aeronautics
7 2 (1.83%) Aviation
7 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Legal
8 1 (0.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (37.61%) Analyst
2 35 (32.11%) SOC Analyst
3 24 (22.02%) Senior
4 22 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (11.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Developer
6 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (5.50%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (4.59%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) DBA
8 4 (3.67%) Lead
8 4 (3.67%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (2.75%) Data Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (2.75%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
9 3 (2.75%) IT Technician
9 3 (2.75%) Support Analyst
9 3 (2.75%) Technical Support
9 3 (2.75%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (32.11%) LDAP
2 9 (8.26%) REST
3 8 (7.34%) SOAP
4 6 (5.50%) HTML
5 5 (4.59%) CSS
6 4 (3.67%) XML
6 4 (3.67%) YAML
7 3 (2.75%) LAMP
7 3 (2.75%) Laravel
7 3 (2.75%) Svelte
7 3 (2.75%) Symfony
7 3 (2.75%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (2.75%) Vue
7 3 (2.75%) Web Services
8 2 (1.83%) JSON
8 2 (1.83%) Velocity
9 1 (0.92%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.92%) Java EE
9 1 (0.92%) RESTful
9 1 (0.92%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 35 (32.11%) Cyber Threat
2 33 (30.28%) Analytical Mindset
2 33 (30.28%) Security Operations Centre
3 32 (29.36%) PKI
4 24 (22.02%) Data Centre
4 24 (22.02%) EFT
5 3 (2.75%) IoT
5 3 (2.75%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.75%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.75%) SCADA
6 2 (1.83%) CCTV
6 2 (1.83%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.83%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.92%) Derivative
7 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (47.71%) Windows
2 28 (25.69%) Windows Server
3 21 (19.27%) Linux
4 6 (5.50%) Unix
5 5 (4.59%) Debian
6 3 (2.75%) Android
6 3 (2.75%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.75%) VMS
7 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.92%) CentOS
8 1 (0.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (46.79%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (35.78%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (32.11%) SIEM
4 33 (30.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (30.28%) Security Operations
4 33 (30.28%) Time Management
5 32 (29.36%) Actionable Insight
5 32 (29.36%) Blue Team
5 32 (29.36%) Compliance Audit
5 32 (29.36%) Data Loss Prevention
5 32 (29.36%) Kalman Filter
5 32 (29.36%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 32 (29.36%) Two-Factor Authentication
6 29 (26.61%) ITIL
7 24 (22.02%) Server Patching
8 10 (9.17%) DevOps
9 7 (6.42%) ERP
9 7 (6.42%) Integration Patterns
9 7 (6.42%) Mentoring
9 7 (6.42%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 34 (31.19%) PowerShell
2 17 (15.60%) SQL
3 9 (8.26%) Java
4 8 (7.34%) Python
5 7 (6.42%) Bash
5 7 (6.42%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.59%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.67%) C#
7 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.67%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.75%) Perl
8 3 (2.75%) PHP
8 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.83%) Groovy
9 2 (1.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.59%) Degree
4 4 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.83%) CCNP
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.92%) MCP
7 1 (0.92%) MCSA
7 1 (0.92%) MCSE
7 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (36.70%) Active Directory
2 24 (22.02%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.67%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (2.75%) Docker
5 3 (2.75%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.83%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (29.36%) FortiGate
2 25 (22.94%) SCCM
3 24 (22.02%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.50%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.59%) Terraform
6 4 (3.67%) Data Guard
6 4 (3.67%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.75%) Ansible
7 3 (2.75%) Puppet
8 2 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.83%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.83%) Nagios
9 1 (0.92%) Demisto
9 1 (0.92%) Grafana
9 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (31.19%) Cisco
1 34 (31.19%) F5
1 34 (31.19%) Splunk
2 33 (30.28%) IBM
2 33 (30.28%) Microsoft
3 32 (29.36%) ArcSight
3 32 (29.36%) CheckPoint
3 32 (29.36%) Juniper
3 32 (29.36%) TippingPoint
3 32 (29.36%) Trend Micro
3 32 (29.36%) VMware
4 24 (22.02%) Citrix
4 24 (22.02%) Globalscape
5 13 (11.93%) Oracle
6 3 (2.75%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.83%) Aruba
7 2 (1.83%) Google
7 2 (1.83%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.92%) SolarWinds