File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring FTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited FTP over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 728 663 943
Rank change year-on-year -65 +280 -75
Permanent jobs citing FTP 62 114 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.57% 1.26% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 45 61 129
10th Percentile £37,700 £31,500 £34,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,170 £52,035
Median % change year-on-year -18.54% +0.26% +15.63%
75th Percentile £53,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,000 £68,000 £68,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £49,565 £51,018
% change year-on-year +4.91% -2.85% +27.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,947 9,082 18,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.99% 15.00% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,304 6,742 10,993
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,505
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

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 11 October 2024.

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 11 October 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 -66 56 £42,500 -18.54% 21
UK excluding London -82 33 £52,000 +4.91% 18
London +9 27 £40,000 -30.43% 3
Work from Home +1 17 £40,000 -19.30% 27
East of England - 17 £61,500 - 10
Midlands -62 5 £52,000 +4.91% 2
West Midlands -48 4 £52,000 +4.91% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £40,000 -
Yorkshire +30 3 £43,250 -27.92%
North of England -13 3 £43,250 -21.36% 1
South West -18 3 £52,000 -13.33%
East Midlands -39 1 £45,000 -30.77% 1
South East -57 1 £38,500 +20.31% 6

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 18 (29.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (19.35%) SharePoint
3 5 (8.06%) Confluence
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.61%) Apache
5 1 (1.61%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) InfoPath
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (19.35%) Azure
2 12 (19.35%) OneDrive
3 10 (16.13%) Entra ID
4 7 (11.29%) Azure Stack
4 7 (11.29%) Cohesity
5 4 (6.45%) AWS
6 3 (4.84%) WhatsApp
7 2 (3.23%) OCI
7 2 (3.23%) PaaS
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.61%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.61%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.61%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (54.84%) DNS
2 30 (48.39%) SMTP
3 24 (38.71%) HTTP
3 24 (38.71%) TCP/IP
4 22 (35.48%) DHCP
5 16 (25.81%) Firewall
6 15 (24.19%) LAN
6 15 (24.19%) VPN
6 15 (24.19%) WAN
7 14 (22.58%) SNMP
8 9 (14.52%) HTTPS
8 9 (14.52%) Internet
8 9 (14.52%) Intrusion Detection
8 9 (14.52%) VLAN
9 5 (8.06%) IP Telephony
9 5 (8.06%) PABX
10 4 (6.45%) IMAP
10 4 (6.45%) POP3
11 3 (4.84%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (4.84%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 10 (16.13%) Relational Database
3 9 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.61%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.61%) MySQL
5 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
1 5 (8.06%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.61%) Metasploit
General
1 27 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Finance
3 10 (16.13%) Banking
4 7 (11.29%) Retail
5 6 (9.68%) Marketing
5 6 (9.68%) Telecoms
6 5 (8.06%) Electronics
6 5 (8.06%) Manufacturing
6 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.84%) Front Office
8 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Analyst
2 13 (20.97%) Desktop Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) Senior
3 9 (14.52%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Support Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Lead
6 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Developer
6 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Support Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Applications Support
7 4 (6.45%) Exchange Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) IT Support
7 4 (6.45%) Support Specialist
8 3 (4.84%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.03%) LDAP
2 10 (16.13%) HTML
3 5 (8.06%) COM
3 5 (8.06%) HTML5
3 5 (8.06%) REST
4 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.45%) CSS
5 3 (4.84%) FastAPI
5 3 (4.84%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (4.84%) Kafka
5 3 (4.84%) NumPy
5 3 (4.84%) Pandas
5 3 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.84%) React
5 3 (4.84%) Spring
5 3 (4.84%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.23%) .NET
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (3.23%) SOAP
7 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Onboarding
2 10 (16.13%) Client/Server
3 9 (14.52%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (9.68%) Replication
5 3 (4.84%) BYOD
5 3 (4.84%) Hedge funds
5 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.61%) Clustering
7 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (51.61%) Windows
2 23 (37.10%) Windows 10
3 15 (24.19%) Linux
4 5 (8.06%) CentOS
4 5 (8.06%) Debian
5 3 (4.84%) Android
6 1 (1.61%) Kali Linux
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (14.52%) Incident Response
3 9 (14.52%) Malware Analysis
3 9 (14.52%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 9 (14.52%) Reverse Engineering
3 9 (14.52%) Security Operations
3 9 (14.52%) SIEM
4 8 (12.90%) OO
5 7 (11.29%) Capacity Management
5 7 (11.29%) Storage Management
6 6 (9.68%) Agile
6 6 (9.68%) Customer Service
6 6 (9.68%) Project Delivery
7 5 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (8.06%) Configuration Management
7 5 (8.06%) Identity Management
7 5 (8.06%) ITIL
7 5 (8.06%) OOP
7 5 (8.06%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) SQL
2 9 (14.52%) PowerShell
3 8 (12.90%) Java
3 8 (12.90%) Python
4 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.68%) C#
6 5 (8.06%) Bash
7 3 (4.84%) Clojure
7 3 (4.84%) Groovy
7 3 (4.84%) Scala
8 1 (1.61%) Go
8 1 (1.61%) PHP
8 1 (1.61%) R
8 1 (1.61%) RPG
8 1 (1.61%) RPG IV
8 1 (1.61%) RPG/400
8 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Degree
2 10 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (14.52%) DV Cleared
3 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
4 7 (11.29%) MCSA
5 5 (8.06%) CCNA
5 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.84%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.61%) CCIE
7 1 (1.61%) CCNP
7 1 (1.61%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (1.61%) CHECK Team Member
7 1 (1.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (53.23%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.29%) VMware Workstation
3 3 (4.84%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) SCCM
2 9 (14.52%) QRadar
3 7 (11.29%) SCOM
4 4 (6.45%) WSUS
5 3 (4.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.61%) Nmap
6 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (46.77%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) Citrix
3 9 (14.52%) Splunk
4 7 (11.29%) IBM
4 7 (11.29%) VMware
5 5 (8.06%) Bloomberg
5 5 (8.06%) Reuters
5 5 (8.06%) SAP
6 4 (6.45%) Cisco
6 4 (6.45%) SolarWinds
6 4 (6.45%) Zscaler
7 3 (4.84%) Veeam
8 2 (3.23%) Oracle
9 1 (1.61%) Centreon
9 1 (1.61%) Epicor
9 1 (1.61%) Fortinet