The first table below looks at the demand for Postfix skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Postfix over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Postfix
Rank 528 562 589
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +27
Contract jobs citing Postfix 13 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.027% 0.014% 0.019%
As % of the System Software category 0.280% 0.169% 0.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
Average daily rate £275 £500 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% +35.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £300 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £540 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £251 £325 -
% change year-on-year
-22.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4648 4728 4557
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.660% 8.147% 7.321%
Number of daily rates quoted 2236 2243 2028
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £190 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 675 672
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%

Postfix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Postfix Daily Rate Trend

Postfix
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Postfix within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Postfix Daily Rate Histogram

Postfix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Postfix Hourly Rate Trend

Postfix
Top 21 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +18 13 £275 -45.00% 7
East of England - 6 £350 -
North West - 5 £226 -
Hertfordshire - 5 - -
London +21 1 £375 -26.82% 5
Manchester - 1 £285 -
Cambridge - 1 £350 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £350 -
South East - 1 £275 - 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
South West - - - -
Middlesex - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
Surrey - - - -
City of London - - - - 1
Gloucestershire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Gloucester - - - -
Oxford - - - -
Southampton - - - -
St Albans - - - -

Postfix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 30 (88.24%) Linux
2 25 (73.53%) Red Hat
3 24 (70.59%) Nagios
3 24 (70.59%) Apache
4 22 (64.71%) SMTP
5 20 (58.82%) Perl
5 20 (58.82%) MySQL
5 20 (58.82%) DNS
5 20 (58.82%) Puppet
6 18 (52.94%) NFS
7 17 (50.00%) SNMP
8 16 (47.06%) Windows
8 16 (47.06%) Debian
8 16 (47.06%) Bash shell
9 15 (44.12%) VMware
10 14 (41.18%) Git (software)
11 13 (38.24%) iSCSI
12 12 (35.29%) NAS
12 12 (35.29%) SAN
13 11 (32.35%) RHCE
13 11 (32.35%) Oracle
13 11 (32.35%) Subversion
14 10 (29.41%) Ubuntu
14 10 (29.41%) LAMP
14 10 (29.41%) Clustering
14 10 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
14 10 (29.41%) TCP/IP
14 10 (29.41%) DHCP
15 9 (26.47%) Tomcat
15 9 (26.47%) SQL

Postfix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 10 (29.41%) LAMP
2 5 (14.71%) Gearman
2 5 (14.71%) Memcached
2 5 (14.71%) JDBC
3 4 (11.76%) .NET
4 3 (8.824%) Ajax
5 2 (5.882%) CSS
5 2 (5.882%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 24 (70.59%) Apache
2 9 (26.47%) Tomcat
3 8 (23.53%) Liferay
4 5 (14.71%) MS Exchange
4 5 (14.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (14.71%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (11.76%) IIS
5 4 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 22 (64.71%) SMTP
2 20 (58.82%) DNS
3 17 (50.00%) SNMP
4 13 (38.24%) iSCSI
5 12 (35.29%) NAS
5 12 (35.29%) SAN
6 10 (29.41%) TCP/IP
6 10 (29.41%) DHCP
7 8 (23.53%) HTTP
7 8 (23.53%) LDAP
8 6 (17.65%) Kerberos
8 6 (17.65%) SSL
8 6 (17.65%) WAN
9 5 (14.71%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (14.71%) tcpdump
9 5 (14.71%) TELNET
10 4 (11.76%) FTP
11 1 (2.941%) VPN
11 1 (2.941%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (58.82%) MySQL
2 9 (26.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.941%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Git (software)
2 11 (32.35%) Subversion
3 8 (23.53%) Hudson
3 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (17.65%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Administrator
2 9 (26.47%) Linux Administrator
3 8 (23.53%) Systems Administrator
4 7 (20.59%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.824%) Developer
6 3 (8.824%) Messaging Engineer
6 3 (8.824%) PHP Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Exchange Engineer
8 1 (2.941%) IT Manager
8 1 (2.941%) Consultant
8 1 (2.941%) Messaging Consultant
8 1 (2.941%) LAMP Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.941%) Linux Specialist
8 1 (2.941%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 1 (2.941%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.941%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.941%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Clustering
2 5 (14.71%) Cryptography
3 4 (11.76%) Blackberry
3 4 (11.76%) Open Source
4 1 (2.941%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (88.24%) Linux
2 16 (47.06%) Windows
2 16 (47.06%) Debian
3 10 (29.41%) Ubuntu
3 10 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (26.47%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (17.65%) UNIX
7 5 (14.71%) FreeBSD
7 5 (14.71%) CentOS
7 5 (14.71%) Gentoo
8 2 (5.882%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Load Balancing
1 9 (26.47%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (17.65%) ITIL
3 5 (14.71%) Memory Management
4 4 (11.76%) Migration
4 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
5 3 (8.824%) Change Control
6 2 (5.882%) Incident Management
6 2 (5.882%) Capacity Management
7 1 (2.941%) Performance Management
7 1 (2.941%) Network Architecture
7 1 (2.941%) Asset Management
7 1 (2.941%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Perl
2 16 (47.06%) Bash shell
3 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 9 (26.47%) Shell Script
4 7 (20.59%) Python
4 7 (20.59%) PHP
5 5 (14.71%) sed
5 5 (14.71%) Java
5 5 (14.71%) AWK
6 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.76%) VB.NET
7 3 (8.824%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.941%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) RHCE
2 6 (17.65%) Degree
3 5 (14.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (11.76%) MCTS
4 4 (11.76%) MCITP
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (11.76%) MCSE
4 4 (11.76%) MCSA
5 3 (8.824%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (52.94%) NFS
2 8 (23.53%) Squid
3 6 (17.65%) VMware ESX
3 6 (17.65%) Hyper-V
3 6 (17.65%) Sendmail
3 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (14.71%) vSphere
4 5 (14.71%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (14.71%) Varnish
4 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
4 5 (14.71%) Samba
4 5 (14.71%) Nmap
5 1 (2.941%) Xen
5 1 (2.941%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (2.941%) VMware Server
5 1 (2.941%) XenApp
5 1 (2.941%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 24 (70.59%) Nagios
2 20 (58.82%) Puppet
3 6 (17.65%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (14.71%) Cacti
5 4 (11.76%) Norton AntiVirus
5 4 (11.76%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 25 (73.53%) Red Hat
2 15 (44.12%) VMware
3 11 (32.35%) Oracle
4 9 (26.47%) NetApp
5 8 (23.53%) EMC
5 8 (23.53%) SAP
6 5 (14.71%) JBoss
6 5 (14.71%) HP
7 4 (11.76%) IronPort
7 4 (11.76%) Symantec
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.941%) Sophos
8 1 (2.941%) Veritas
8 1 (2.941%) Citrix
8 1 (2.941%) Juniper
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