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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 738 887
Rank change year-on-year +114 +149 +88
Permanent jobs citing FTP 54 126 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.14% 0.098%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.77% 1.02% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 21 69 47
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -5.88% -6.73%
75th Percentile £63,500 £57,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £37,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year +36.67% -5.06% +2.60%

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 6,993 12,378 16,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 13.41% 14.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,009 9,380 8,747
10th Percentile £23,746 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -5.83% -1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -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 1 April 2025.

Salary histogram for FTP in the UK

FTP
Top 11 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 1 April 2025. 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 +91 50 £58,500 +40.96% 36
London +98 29 £95,000 +80.09% 20
UK excluding London +131 25 £51,250 +36.67% 19
East of England +35 14 £54,750 +24.43% 11
Work from Home +128 4 £35,000 -17.65% 23
North of England +90 4 £41,500 +27.69% 2
Scotland - 4 £35,000 - 2
North West +46 3 £55,000 +115.69% 1
South East +79 2 £75,000 +138.10% 5
South West +100 1 £35,000 -
North East - 1 £28,000 -

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 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.56%) IIS
3 2 (3.70%) Apache
3 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.85%) CMS
4 1 (1.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (14.81%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (31.48%) Entra ID
3 13 (24.07%) Azure
4 10 (18.52%) AWS
5 8 (14.81%) IaaS
5 8 (14.81%) PaaS
5 8 (14.81%) SaaS
6 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.70%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.85%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 25 (46.30%) SMTP
2 21 (38.89%) DNS
3 17 (31.48%) Cisco IOS
3 17 (31.48%) DHCP
3 17 (31.48%) IPv4
3 17 (31.48%) PBX
3 17 (31.48%) SAN
3 17 (31.48%) Structured Cabling
3 17 (31.48%) VLAN
4 12 (22.22%) HTTP
5 8 (14.81%) Firewall
5 8 (14.81%) LAN
5 8 (14.81%) TCP/IP
5 8 (14.81%) WAN
6 7 (12.96%) Internet
6 7 (12.96%) VPN
7 6 (11.11%) Network Security
8 4 (7.41%) NAS
9 3 (5.56%) SSL
10 2 (3.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 7 (12.96%) MySQL
4 4 (7.41%) DB2
5 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.85%) Log4Net
3 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (42.59%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.19%) Finance
3 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Advertising
4 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.70%) Front Office
5 2 (3.70%) Local Government
5 2 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Senior
1 12 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) IT Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) IT Support
2 10 (18.52%) IT Support Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) Lead
3 9 (16.67%) Analyst
3 9 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 9 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Consultant
4 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 8 (14.81%) Senior Consultant
4 8 (14.81%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
5 6 (11.11%) Applications Support
6 5 (9.26%) Software Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Support Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Print Operator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.37%) HTML
2 8 (14.81%) XML
3 7 (12.96%) LDAP
3 7 (12.96%) REST
4 6 (11.11%) JSON
5 5 (9.26%) SOAP
5 5 (9.26%) Web Services
6 4 (7.41%) EDI
6 4 (7.41%) React
7 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.56%) Flash
8 2 (3.70%) CSS
8 2 (3.70%) FastAPI
8 2 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (3.70%) Kafka
8 2 (3.70%) LAMP
8 2 (3.70%) Loki
8 2 (3.70%) NumPy
8 2 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Private Cloud
1 8 (14.81%) Public Cloud
2 7 (12.96%) Client/Server
2 7 (12.96%) iSeries
2 7 (12.96%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (9.26%) BYOD
4 4 (7.41%) AS400
5 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.70%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.70%) Life Science
6 2 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (3.70%) Replication
7 1 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.85%) FMCG
7 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (44.44%) Windows
2 19 (35.19%) Windows 10
3 17 (31.48%) Android
4 10 (18.52%) Windows Server
5 8 (14.81%) Linux
6 5 (9.26%) Unix
7 3 (5.56%) zOS
8 2 (3.70%) AIX
8 2 (3.70%) CentOS
8 2 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (22.22%) Agile
3 11 (20.37%) ITIL
4 9 (16.67%) Change Control
4 9 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 8 (14.81%) Commercial Awareness
5 8 (14.81%) Customer Service
6 7 (12.96%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (12.96%) Malware Analysis
6 7 (12.96%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 7 (12.96%) Reverse Engineering
6 7 (12.96%) Security Operations
6 7 (12.96%) SIEM
7 6 (11.11%) High Availability
7 6 (11.11%) People Management
7 6 (11.11%) Software Delivery
7 6 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 6 (11.11%) TDD
7 6 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 6 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) Python
2 21 (38.89%) PowerShell
3 14 (25.93%) SQL
4 8 (14.81%) C++
4 8 (14.81%) Perl
5 6 (11.11%) Bash
6 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.41%) RPG
6 4 (7.41%) RPG IV
7 3 (5.56%) Java
8 2 (3.70%) AWK
8 2 (3.70%) C
8 2 (3.70%) Clojure
8 2 (3.70%) Groovy
8 2 (3.70%) Korn
8 2 (3.70%) PHP
8 2 (3.70%) Scala
8 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Degree
2 17 (31.48%) CCNA
2 17 (31.48%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (31.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (31.48%) Network+ Certification
3 7 (12.96%) DV Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) MAPM
4 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) QA
1 3 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.70%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Active Directory
1 17 (31.48%) Hyper-V
1 17 (31.48%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.70%) KVM
3 2 (3.70%) Postfix
3 2 (3.70%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) SCCM
1 17 (31.48%) WSUS
2 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (12.96%) QRadar
4 2 (3.70%) Grafana
4 2 (3.70%) Nagios
4 2 (3.70%) Nessus
Vendors
1 36 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 17 (31.48%) Cisco
2 17 (31.48%) Citrix
2 17 (31.48%) Veeam
3 9 (16.67%) VMware
4 7 (12.96%) Splunk
5 6 (11.11%) IBM
6 4 (7.41%) Oracle
6 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
7 3 (5.56%) Facebook
7 3 (5.56%) Google
8 2 (3.70%) Bloomberg
8 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.70%) Reuters
8 2 (3.70%) SAP
8 2 (3.70%) Tenable
9 1 (1.85%) PayPal