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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 770 888 1004
Rank change year-on-year +118 +116 -287
Permanent jobs citing FTP 132 84 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.083% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.98% 0.53% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 74 29 132
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,563 £38,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £51,875 £60,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £59,250 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -5.56%

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 13,519 15,777 20,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.57% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,018 11,667
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +162 123 £40,000 -11.11% 22
UK excluding London +50 107 £37,500 -6.25% 13
Work from Home +94 40 £42,500 -19.05% 7
East of England +57 40 £44,000 - 1
South East +18 33 £34,500 -18.82% 1
London +110 25 £47,750 -31.79% 10
Midlands -5 13 £54,000 +36.71% 4
North of England +60 11 £35,000 -22.22% 3
West Midlands +18 11 £54,000 +11.92% 2
Yorkshire +98 9 £35,000 +11.11% 3
Northern Ireland - 7 £35,000 - 3
North West +12 2 £25,500 -43.33%
Wales -1 2 - -
East Midlands -17 2 £45,000 +13.92% 2
South West -26 1 £35,000 +40.00% 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 21 (15.91%) SharePoint
2 13 (9.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.30%) IIS
4 4 (3.03%) Apache
5 2 (1.52%) Drupal
5 2 (1.52%) GlassFish
5 2 (1.52%) JCAPS
5 2 (1.52%) Moodle
5 2 (1.52%) nginx
5 2 (1.52%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.52%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.52%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.52%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.52%) 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 (44.70%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (6.06%) InfoPath
3 8 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.03%) FileZilla
5 2 (1.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.76%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (5.30%) Magento
2 2 (1.52%) Adaptiv
2 2 (1.52%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (21.97%) Azure
3 14 (10.61%) Entra ID
4 12 (9.09%) AWS
5 8 (6.06%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.79%) WhatsApp
7 4 (3.03%) GCP
8 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.52%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.52%) Google Sheets
9 2 (1.52%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.76%) GitHub
10 1 (0.76%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.76%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 32 (24.24%) TCP/IP
2 27 (20.45%) DNS
3 26 (19.70%) HTTP
4 24 (18.18%) DHCP
5 22 (16.67%) LAN
6 20 (15.15%) WAN
7 17 (12.88%) SMTP
8 16 (12.12%) VPN
9 12 (9.09%) Firewall
9 12 (9.09%) SNMP
9 12 (9.09%) SSL
10 11 (8.33%) SSH
11 8 (6.06%) Telnet
12 7 (5.30%) VLAN
13 6 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (3.03%) Internet
14 4 (3.03%) Structured Cabling
14 4 (3.03%) WLAN
15 3 (2.27%) HTTPS
16 2 (1.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.30%) Crystal Reports
2 7 (5.30%) MySQL
3 6 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (3.03%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.27%) Power BI
6 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.52%) 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 (2.27%) Git
2 2 (1.52%) Ant
2 2 (1.52%) JUnit
2 2 (1.52%) Maven
2 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.52%) Subversion
2 2 (1.52%) 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 28 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.91%) Finance
3 14 (10.61%) Marketing
4 7 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Retail
5 6 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.79%) Banking
6 5 (3.79%) Electronics
6 5 (3.79%) Front Office
6 5 (3.79%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.27%) Back Office
8 2 (1.52%) Billing
8 2 (1.52%) Legal
8 2 (1.52%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 35 (26.52%) Support Assistant
2 15 (11.36%) Analyst
3 13 (9.85%) Senior
4 12 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
5 11 (8.33%) IT Technician
6 10 (7.58%) Developer
6 10 (7.58%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.58%) Support Specialist
7 8 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) IT Support
7 8 (6.06%) IT Support Technician
7 8 (6.06%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Support Technician
8 7 (5.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Programmer
10 5 (3.79%) Administrator
10 5 (3.79%) Analyst Programmer
10 5 (3.79%) RPG Analyst Programmer
10 5 (3.79%) RPG Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.88%) HTML
2 11 (8.33%) EDI
3 9 (6.82%) .NET
3 9 (6.82%) EDIFACT
3 9 (6.82%) HTML5
4 8 (6.06%) COM
5 7 (5.30%) XML
6 6 (4.55%) CSS
6 6 (4.55%) Kafka
6 6 (4.55%) Spring
7 5 (3.79%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.79%) JSON
8 4 (3.03%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (3.03%) LAMP
8 4 (3.03%) LDAP
8 4 (3.03%) NumPy
8 4 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.03%) React
8 4 (3.03%) REST
8 4 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (26.52%) Replication
2 16 (12.12%) Onboarding
3 12 (9.09%) Client/Server
4 11 (8.33%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.06%) EFT
6 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.03%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.52%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.76%) BYOD
8 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.76%) PKI
8 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (40.91%) Windows
2 29 (21.97%) Windows Server
3 12 (9.09%) Linux
4 3 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.52%) Unix
5 2 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
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 (27.27%) CRM
2 35 (26.52%) Case Management
2 35 (26.52%) Customer Service
3 29 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (10.61%) Project Management
7 13 (9.85%) ITIL
7 13 (9.85%) OO
8 9 (6.82%) OOP
8 9 (6.82%) Web Development
9 8 (6.06%) Agile
9 8 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (6.06%) Computer Science
9 8 (6.06%) Server Patching
10 7 (5.30%) Email Marketing
10 7 (5.30%) ERP
10 7 (5.30%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (5.30%) Marketing Automation
10 7 (5.30%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.97%) SQL
2 22 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 14 (10.61%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.82%) Java
5 6 (4.55%) Python
6 5 (3.79%) PHP
6 5 (3.79%) RPG
6 5 (3.79%) RPG IV
6 5 (3.79%) RPG/400
7 4 (3.03%) ActionScript
7 4 (3.03%) ActionScript 2.0
7 4 (3.03%) Clojure
7 4 (3.03%) Groovy
7 4 (3.03%) R
7 4 (3.03%) Scala
7 4 (3.03%) VB
7 4 (3.03%) VBScript
8 3 (2.27%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.27%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (9.09%) Degree
2 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.52%) CCNP
3 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.33%) SLA
2 4 (3.03%) MiFID
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (30.30%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (5.30%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.03%) 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 10 (7.58%) SCCM
2 8 (6.06%) vCenter Server
3 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.03%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.52%) Ansible
5 2 (1.52%) Control-M
5 2 (1.52%) 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 (74.24%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.64%) VMware
3 12 (9.09%) Cisco
4 8 (6.06%) Citrix
4 8 (6.06%) Globalscape
5 7 (5.30%) Epicor
5 7 (5.30%) Meraki
6 6 (4.55%) Oracle
6 6 (4.55%) SAP
7 5 (3.79%) Bloomberg
7 5 (3.79%) Reuters
8 4 (3.03%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.27%) F5
9 3 (2.27%) Splunk
10 2 (1.52%) ArcSight
10 2 (1.52%) LexisNexis
10 2 (1.52%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.52%) Sage
10 2 (1.52%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.52%) Trend Micro