The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Postfix skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Postfix over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category.

Postfix
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank827815691
Rank change year-on-year
Down-12Down-124
Matching permanent IT job ads485061
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.040 %0.041 %0.064 %
As % of the System Software category0.460 %0.541 %0.927 %
Number of salaries quoted364532
Average salary£40,000£42,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88 %+21.42 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,250£68,000£50,450
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£40,000£27,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25 %+45.45 %
IT Job Market, System Software CategoryAll System Software
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1042592356578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK8.645 %7.532 %6.890 %
Number of salaries quoted898675895345
Average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,500£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66 %-

Postfix
Demand Trend

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

Postfix Demand Trend

Postfix
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Postfix within the UK.

Postfix Salary Trend

Postfix
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Postfix over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Postfix Salary Histogram

Postfix
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postfix within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-1648£40,000-5.88 %
LondonUp+439£40,000-15.78 %
South EastDown-445£37,500-11.76 %
BerkshireDown-303£37,500+4.16 %
ReadingNew entry-3£37,500-
City of LondonUp+92£41,500-22.79 %
South WestDown-92£33,750+22.72 %
WiltshireNew entry-2£33,750-
SwindonNew entry-2£33,750-
HertfordshireUp+151--
East of EnglandUp+11--
North WestDown-111£37,500+7.14 %
HampshireDown-141£30,000-40.59 %
HammersmithNew entry-1£46,000-
MerseysideNew entry-1£37,500-
OxfordshireNew entry-1--
OxfordNew entry-1--
LiverpoolNew entry-1£37,500-

Postfix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Postfix.

1150 (91.46 %)Linux
2125 (76.22 %)Apache
3104 (63.41 %)MySQL
489 (54.27 %)Red Hat
582 (50.00 %)DNS
670 (42.68 %)Perl
670 (42.68 %)Sendmail
766 (40.24 %)PHP
862 (37.80 %)Nagios
961 (37.20 %)Bash shell
1060 (36.59 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1158 (35.37 %)Firewall
1257 (34.76 %)Subversion
1352 (31.71 %)CentOS
1450 (30.49 %)Puppet
1544 (26.83 %)Windows
1643 (26.22 %)Shell Script
1741 (25.00 %)Cisco
1840 (24.39 %)UNIX
1939 (23.78 %)Debian
2038 (23.17 %)DHCP
2137 (22.56 %)VMware
2137 (22.56 %)Open Source
2236 (21.95 %)Samba
2335 (21.34 %)SMTP
2434 (20.73 %)Ubuntu
2434 (20.73 %)Load Balancing
2533 (20.12 %)Degree
2533 (20.12 %)OpenVPN
2632 (19.51 %)LAMP

Postfix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Postfix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
132 (19.51 %)LAMP
213 (7.927 %)Web Services
312 (7.317 %)HTML
312 (7.317 %)CSS
312 (7.317 %)XHTML
312 (7.317 %)Zend Framework
312 (7.317 %)jQuery
410 (6.098 %)Memcached
55 (3.049 %)Middleware
55 (3.049 %)XMPP
63 (1.829 %)J2SE
71 (0.610 %)XML Schema
71 (0.610 %)CPAN
71 (0.610 %)X-Windows
71 (0.610 %)Ruby on Rails
71 (0.610 %)Spring
71 (0.610 %)JSP
71 (0.610 %)Servlets
71 (0.610 %)SOAP
71 (0.610 %).NET
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1125 (76.22 %)Apache
231 (18.90 %)Tomcat
330 (18.29 %)MS Exchange
422 (13.41 %)IIS
521 (12.80 %)nginx
612 (7.317 %)Amazon EC2
612 (7.317 %)Amazon S3
710 (6.098 %)Amazon AWS
89 (5.488 %)Drupal
89 (5.488 %)Apache Solr
98 (4.878 %)SharePoint
107 (4.268 %)Exchange Server 2007
116 (3.659 %)Exchange Server 2003
116 (3.659 %)WebLogic
116 (3.659 %)Exchange Server 2010
123 (1.829 %)Jetty
131 (0.610 %)lighttpd
131 (0.610 %)Lync
131 (0.610 %)CMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
114 (8.537 %)MS Visio
22 (1.220 %)MS Office
22 (1.220 %)MS Excel
31 (0.610 %)Google Apps
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
182 (50.00 %)DNS
258 (35.37 %)Firewall
338 (23.17 %)DHCP
435 (21.34 %)SMTP
533 (20.12 %)OpenVPN
628 (17.07 %)OpenLDAP
725 (15.24 %)Asterisk PBX
824 (14.63 %)IPsec
824 (14.63 %)VPN
824 (14.63 %)SAN
923 (14.02 %)LDAP
1020 (12.20 %)Ethernet
1020 (12.20 %)HTTP
1118 (10.98 %)Internet
1217 (10.37 %)TCP/IP
1217 (10.37 %)IMAP
1316 (9.756 %)BIG-IP
1316 (9.756 %)FTP
1415 (9.146 %)VLAN
1415 (9.146 %)BGP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1104 (63.41 %)MySQL
229 (17.68 %)SQL Server
229 (17.68 %)PostgreSQL
310 (6.098 %)Apache Cassandra
49 (5.488 %)NoSQL
49 (5.488 %)Redis
55 (3.049 %)SQL Server 2008
55 (3.049 %)SQL Server 2005
62 (1.220 %)RDBMS
71 (0.610 %)Oracle 11g
71 (0.610 %)Oracle 8/8i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
157 (34.76 %)Subversion
230 (18.29 %)Git (software)
39 (5.488 %)Mercurial
39 (5.488 %)Hudson
41 (0.610 %)Maven
41 (0.610 %)Eclipse
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
121 (12.80 %)Finance
28 (4.878 %)Back Office
36 (3.659 %)Telecoms
42 (1.220 %)Banking
42 (1.220 %)Front Office
51 (0.610 %)Multimedia
51 (0.610 %)French Language
51 (0.610 %)Law
51 (0.610 %)Advertising
51 (0.610 %)Games
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
164 (39.02 %)Administrator
261 (37.20 %)Systems Administrator
351 (31.10 %)Linux Administrator
448 (29.27 %)Linux Systems Administrator
531 (18.90 %)Linux Engineer
618 (10.98 %)Developer
716 (9.756 %)Network Engineer
811 (6.707 %)Operations Manager
910 (6.098 %)Installations Engineer
109 (5.488 %)Infrastructure Manager
109 (5.488 %)Development Manager
109 (5.488 %)LAMP Developer
117 (4.268 %)Support Engineer
117 (4.268 %)Systems Engineer
126 (3.659 %)Java Developer
135 (3.049 %)Team Leader
135 (3.049 %)Analyst
144 (2.439 %)Infrastructure Analyst
144 (2.439 %)UNIX Administrator
144 (2.439 %)Infrastructure Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
137 (22.56 %)Open Source
224 (14.63 %)Hedge funds
320 (12.20 %)Replication
415 (9.146 %)Computer Science
512 (7.317 %)Clustering
610 (6.098 %)Enterprise Storage
79 (5.488 %)Social Network
88 (4.878 %)Social Media
94 (2.439 %)Client/Server
94 (2.439 %)N-Tier
103 (1.829 %)Management Information System
112 (1.220 %)Device Driver
112 (1.220 %)Tandem
112 (1.220 %)SaaS
121 (0.610 %)Digital Media
121 (0.610 %)Streaming Video
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1150 (91.46 %)Linux
260 (36.59 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
352 (31.71 %)CentOS
444 (26.83 %)Windows
540 (24.39 %)UNIX
639 (23.78 %)Debian
734 (20.73 %)Ubuntu
828 (17.07 %)Windows Server 2008
925 (15.24 %)Windows Server 2003
1014 (8.537 %)Mac OS X
1111 (6.707 %)Solaris
126 (3.659 %)OpenBSD
135 (3.049 %)FreeBSD
135 (3.049 %)SUSE
142 (1.220 %)Fedora
151 (0.610 %)Android
151 (0.610 %)Apple iOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
134 (20.73 %)Load Balancing
212 (7.317 %)Configuration Management
39 (5.488 %)Web Development
39 (5.488 %)Load Testing
39 (5.488 %)Continuous Integration
48 (4.878 %)Security Management
48 (4.878 %)ITIL
56 (3.659 %)OO
65 (3.049 %)Migration
65 (3.049 %)Fault Management
65 (3.049 %)Time Management
74 (2.439 %)Release Management
74 (2.439 %)Automated Testing
74 (2.439 %)Identity Management
74 (2.439 %)E-Commerce
83 (1.829 %)ITSM
83 (1.829 %)Change Control
92 (1.220 %)Capacity Management
92 (1.220 %)High Availability
92 (1.220 %)Business Continuity
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
170 (42.68 %)Perl
266 (40.24 %)PHP
361 (37.20 %)Bash shell
443 (26.22 %)Shell Script
531 (18.90 %)Python
627 (16.46 %)SQL
627 (16.46 %)Java
713 (7.927 %)JavaScript
812 (7.317 %)PHP5
910 (6.098 %)Ruby
104 (2.439 %)PowerShell
113 (1.829 %)Bourne shell
122 (1.220 %)PL/SQL
131 (0.610 %)C#
131 (0.610 %)C++
131 (0.610 %)Korn
131 (0.610 %)AWK
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
133 (20.12 %)Degree
224 (14.63 %)RHCE
315 (9.146 %)CCNA
315 (9.146 %)Cisco Certification
413 (7.927 %)Microsoft Certification
413 (7.927 %)MCSE
413 (7.927 %)MCSA
413 (7.927 %)CCNP
413 (7.927 %)CCIP
413 (7.927 %)JNCIA
413 (7.927 %)JNCIS
59 (5.488 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
65 (3.049 %)SC Cleared
65 (3.049 %)Security Cleared
72 (1.220 %)GSEC
72 (1.220 %)CISSP
81 (0.610 %)Network+ Certification
81 (0.610 %)DV Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (3.659 %)SLA
22 (1.220 %)ISO/IEC 27001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
170 (42.68 %)Sendmail
236 (21.95 %)Samba
330 (18.29 %)NFS
424 (14.63 %)VMware ESXi
523 (14.02 %)vSphere
620 (12.20 %)qmail
719 (11.59 %)Active Directory
818 (10.98 %)VMware Infrastructure
915 (9.146 %)Squid
915 (9.146 %)Xen
1010 (6.098 %)VirtualBox
119 (5.488 %)Varnish
128 (4.878 %)VMware ESX
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
162 (37.80 %)Nagios
250 (30.49 %)Puppet
330 (18.29 %)Cacti
414 (8.537 %)Nessus
513 (7.927 %)vCenter
513 (7.927 %)Red Hat Satellite
612 (7.317 %)HP SIM
711 (6.707 %)Munin
85 (3.049 %)SCOM
94 (2.439 %)MOM
94 (2.439 %)SCCM
94 (2.439 %)BladeLogic
103 (1.829 %)CFEngine
112 (1.220 %)WSUS
121 (0.610 %)Backup Exec
121 (0.610 %)ZABBIX
121 (0.610 %)Zenoss
121 (0.610 %)Plesk
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
189 (54.27 %)Red Hat
241 (25.00 %)Cisco
337 (22.56 %)VMware
425 (15.24 %)Juniper
523 (14.02 %)HP
619 (11.59 %)Microsoft
716 (9.756 %)F5
815 (9.146 %)Oracle
914 (8.537 %)Citrix
1013 (7.927 %)Foundry
1112 (7.317 %)Zend
1112 (7.317 %)Dell
129 (5.488 %)Rackspace
135 (3.049 %)JBoss
135 (3.049 %)Remedy
144 (2.439 %)CA
144 (2.439 %)Wall Street Systems
153 (1.829 %)Veritas
153 (1.829 %)Sun
162 (1.220 %)Sybase