FTP Contracts with Work from Home Options

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring FTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FTP over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 425 559
Rank change year-on-year +97 +134 -118
Contract jobs citing FTP 15 20 70
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.084% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.98% 0.72% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 46
10th Percentile - £200 £363
25th Percentile £300 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £317 £498 £516
Median % change year-on-year -36.28% -3.63% +5.36%
75th Percentile £351 £630 £600
90th Percentile £442 £700 £613
UK median daily rate £385 £325 £525
% change year-on-year +18.46% -38.10% +16.67%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,537 2,786 4,431
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.41% 11.67% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 1,856 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 98 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.16 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.61% +19.26% +23.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.19 £63.06
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +4.00%

FTP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing FTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FTP trend for jobs with a WFH option

FTP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing FTP.

FTP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

FTP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing FTP over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

FTP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

FTP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing FTP.

FTP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Appian
1 1 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (6.67%) Jetty
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) PaaS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) BigCommerce
4 1 (6.67%) Boomi
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
1 2 (13.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) SSH
2 1 (6.67%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Hadoop
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.67%) GIS
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Back Office
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Implementation Specialist
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Appian Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) RAN Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) RAN Performance Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) LDAP
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) EDI
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) J2EE
3 1 (6.67%) JMS
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.67%) OpenID
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) Sass
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) VML
3 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Contactless
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Unix
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Migration
2 7 (46.67%) Capacity Management
2 7 (46.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (13.33%) B2B
3 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) TDD
3 2 (13.33%) Time Management
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement Process
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Acquisition
4 1 (6.67%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (6.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (6.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (6.67%) Monorepo
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) ActionScript
2 1 (6.67%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (46.67%) HDFS
2 7 (46.67%) NFS
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Backup Exec
1 1 (6.67%) HP SIM
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
1 1 (6.67%) SCDPM
1 1 (6.67%) SCVMM
1 1 (6.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
1 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Isilon
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle
3 3 (20.00%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (13.33%) SAP
5 1 (6.67%) Adobe
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) Commvault
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) Informatica
5 1 (6.67%) Okta
5 1 (6.67%) Remedy
5 1 (6.67%) Sitecore
5 1 (6.67%) Symantec
5 1 (6.67%) Veritas