The first table below looks at the demand for Postfix skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Postfix 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.107% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.333% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £285 - -
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
75 116 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 8.039% 8.978% 5.662%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 14
Average daily rate £263 £313 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +42.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £175 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £387 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 21
Average hourly rate £15.50 £17.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% +54.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £9.00 £9.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.70 £20.80 £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Postfix
North West

Postfix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Postfix Daily Rate Trend

Postfix
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) LAMP
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) CSS

Postfix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (100.00%) LAMP
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat