The first table below looks at the demand for Postfix skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Postfix over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Postfix
Rank 376 407 436
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +29
Contract jobs citing Postfix 1 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.030% 0.019%
As % of the System Software category 0.061% 0.382% 0.321%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
Average daily rate £375 £500 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £325 -
% change year-on-year
-12.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1648 2095 1868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.610% 7.777% 6.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1198 968
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 180 204
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £36.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Postfix
England

Postfix
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Postfix across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

London Postfix Jobs Demand Trend

Postfix
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Postfix across the London region.

London Postfix Daily Rate Trend

Postfix
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Postfix across the London region.

London Postfix Hourly Rate Trend

Postfix
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postfix within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Postfix
England

Postfix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Postfix also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Postfix.

1 11 (100.00%) MySQL
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Apache
1 11 (100.00%) SMTP
1 11 (100.00%) NFS
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
1 11 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (90.91%) Nagios
2 10 (90.91%) iSCSI
2 10 (90.91%) SNMP
3 7 (63.64%) Degree
3 7 (63.64%) Debian
4 6 (54.55%) VMware ESX
4 6 (54.55%) Gentoo
4 6 (54.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (54.55%) Ubuntu
4 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (54.55%) CentOS
4 6 (54.55%) Cacti
4 6 (54.55%) vSphere
4 6 (54.55%) HP
4 6 (54.55%) RHCE
4 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (54.55%) FreeBSD
4 6 (54.55%) UNIX
4 6 (54.55%) Windows
4 6 (54.55%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (54.55%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (45.45%) Puppet

Postfix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Postfix also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Postfix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) LAMP
1 1 (9.091%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 11 (100.00%) Apache
2 4 (36.36%) Liferay
2 4 (36.36%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) SMTP
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
2 10 (90.91%) iSCSI
2 10 (90.91%) SNMP
3 6 (54.55%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (36.36%) NAS
4 4 (36.36%) LDAP
4 4 (36.36%) DHCP
4 4 (36.36%) HTTP
4 4 (36.36%) SAN
5 1 (9.091%) tcpdump
5 1 (9.091%) TELNET
5 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.091%) SSL
5 1 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (36.36%) Hudson
1 4 (36.36%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (9.091%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (36.36%) Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Open Source
2 1 (9.091%) Cryptography
2 1 (9.091%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Debian
3 6 (54.55%) Gentoo
3 6 (54.55%) Ubuntu
3 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (54.55%) CentOS
3 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (54.55%) FreeBSD
3 6 (54.55%) UNIX
3 6 (54.55%) Windows
4 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (9.091%) Load Balancing
2 1 (9.091%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Perl
1 5 (45.45%) Bash shell
2 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.091%) AWK
3 1 (9.091%) Java
3 1 (9.091%) Python
3 1 (9.091%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) sed
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
2 6 (54.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (54.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) NFS
2 6 (54.55%) VMware ESX
2 6 (54.55%) vSphere
2 6 (54.55%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (36.36%) Squid
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (9.091%) VMware Server
5 1 (9.091%) Nmap
5 1 (9.091%) Samba
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Nagios
2 6 (54.55%) Cacti
3 5 (45.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) HP
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 4 (36.36%) SAP
3 4 (36.36%) NetApp
3 4 (36.36%) EMC
4 1 (9.091%) JBoss