Hybrid/Remote FTP Job Trends

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring FTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 449 457
Rank change year-on-year +48 +8 +263
Permanent jobs citing FTP 4 16 42
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.025% 0.080% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.23% 0.67% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 38
10th Percentile - - £35,211
25th Percentile £57,800 - £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,600 £40,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year +51.50% -19.30% -0.87%
75th Percentile £63,400 - £57,500
90th Percentile - £57,500 £61,655
UK median annual salary £69,250 £45,000 £52,170
% change year-on-year +53.89% -13.74% +4.34%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,708 2,391 3,102
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.51% 12.00% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 993 1,380 2,594
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.25% +6.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FTP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

FTP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FTP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Front Office
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Econometrics
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) Quantitative Finance
1 3 (75.00%) RAD
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (75.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Clojure
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Reuters