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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 420 447
Rank change year-on-year +57 +27 +189
Permanent jobs citing FTP 4 15 35
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.026% 0.090% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.68% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 30
10th Percentile - £32,300 £32,500
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 - £57,000
90th Percentile - - £61,385
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

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 1,362 2,204 2,842
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.99% 13.25% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 887 1,244 2,400
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,688 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,000 £86,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
1 3 (75.00%) SMTP
1 3 (75.00%) SNMP
1 3 (75.00%) SSH
1 3 (75.00%) SSL
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) Telnet
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Econometrics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Finance
2 1 (25.00%) RAD
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft