Postfix Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Postfix
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Postfix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Postfix 21 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.72% - 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 4.56% - 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £575
75th Percentile £569 - £588
90th Percentile £581 - -
England median daily rate £500 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +26.37%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

Postfix falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 461 312 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.79% 11.72% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 209 292
10th Percentile £200 £174 £163
25th Percentile £331 £315 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £530
90th Percentile £655 £666 £674
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 19
10th Percentile £22.55 £19.15 £15.65
25th Percentile - £20.63 £17.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.20 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% +30.81% +16.54%
75th Percentile £26.00 £29.53 £25.61
90th Percentile £45.35 £32.06 £28.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.29% +84.21%

Postfix
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Postfix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Postfix job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Postfix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Postfix

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Postfix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Postfix

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postfix within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 21 £500 - 3
Postfix
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (57.14%) Confluence
1 12 (57.14%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 16 (76.19%) Amazon EC2
1 16 (76.19%) Amazon S3
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
1 16 (76.19%) AWS KMS
1 16 (76.19%) Route 53
2 12 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (57.14%) Amazon ELB
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 10 (47.62%) Azure
4 5 (23.81%) SaaS
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (80.95%) SMTP
2 15 (71.43%) DNS
3 12 (57.14%) IMAP
3 12 (57.14%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (47.62%) Firewall
4 10 (47.62%) FTP
4 10 (47.62%) HTTP
4 10 (47.62%) SSH
5 5 (23.81%) DKIM
5 5 (23.81%) DMARC
5 5 (23.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (76.19%) Amazon Aurora
1 16 (76.19%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (76.19%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (19.05%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (76.19%) Git
1 16 (76.19%) Jenkins
2 12 (57.14%) JIRA
2 12 (57.14%) Vagrant
3 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (19.05%) DbUnit
3 4 (19.05%) jMock
3 4 (19.05%) JUnit
3 4 (19.05%) Maven
3 4 (19.05%) Mockito
3 4 (19.05%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (61.90%) Public Sector
3 10 (47.62%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
1 12 (57.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 12 (57.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 12 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) AWS DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) LDAP
2 4 (19.05%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
2 4 (19.05%) Bootstrap
2 4 (19.05%) Hibernate
2 4 (19.05%) JPA
2 4 (19.05%) PowerMock
2 4 (19.05%) REST
2 4 (19.05%) RESTful
2 4 (19.05%) SOAP
2 4 (19.05%) Spring
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Batch
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Integration
2 4 (19.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Replication
2 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (57.14%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (57.14%) VMS
3 10 (47.62%) Ubuntu
3 10 (47.62%) Windows
4 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) DevOps
2 12 (57.14%) Change Management
2 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 12 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 12 (57.14%) Configuration Management
2 12 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (47.62%) Patch Management
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Validation
5 4 (19.05%) BDD
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (19.05%) Kanban
5 4 (19.05%) Microservices
5 4 (19.05%) Open Source
5 4 (19.05%) Scrum
5 4 (19.05%) TDD
6 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
6 1 (4.76%) Servant Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) SQL
2 12 (57.14%) Groovy
2 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 12 (57.14%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) AWS Certification
2 10 (47.62%) Azure Certification
2 10 (47.62%) Degree
System Software
1 17 (80.95%) Dovecot
2 16 (76.19%) Docker
3 12 (57.14%) Squid
4 10 (47.62%) DFS Replication
5 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (76.19%) Grafana
1 16 (76.19%) Prometheus
2 12 (57.14%) Nessus
2 12 (57.14%) Terraform
3 10 (47.62%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (57.14%) ServiceNow
3 5 (23.81%) Broadcom
3 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
3 5 (23.81%) VMware
4 4 (19.05%) Atlassian