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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 470 483
Rank change year-on-year +52 +13 +276
Permanent jobs citing FTP 3 25 39
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.018% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.17% 0.67% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 0 17 35
10th Percentile - - £32,965
25th Percentile - - £36,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £40,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year - -19.30% -4.75%
75th Percentile - - £59,877
90th Percentile - £59,950 £62,560
UK median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £51,085
% change year-on-year +18.75% -21.70% -1.95%

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 1,807 3,729 3,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.09% 15.91% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 1,618 2,743
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

FTP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing FTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FTP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

FTP
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing FTP

FTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Front Office
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Econometrics
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Quantitative Finance
1 3 (100.00%) RAD
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Clojure
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (33.33%) Reuters