Postfix Contracts in the UK excluding London

Postfix
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Postfix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Postfix over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 - 422
Rank change year-on-year - - +95
Contract jobs citing Postfix 18 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% - 0.018%
As % of the System Software category 0.94% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.38%
75th Percentile £552 - -
90th Percentile £581 - -
UK median daily rate £500 - £471
% change year-on-year - - -2.84%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,909 2,326 3,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.53% 12.59% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 1,594 2,247
10th Percentile £200 £200 £175
25th Percentile £313 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £497 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% +4.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £580
90th Percentile £649 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 126 176
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.48 £16.28
Median hourly rate £59.50 £23.29 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +155.47% -13.74% +35.00%
75th Percentile £86.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £72.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £23.80 £50.00
% change year-on-year +31.87% -52.40% +132.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Postfix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Postfix in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postfix in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Postfix in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Postfix in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Postfix in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postfix within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Midlands - 17 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 17 £500 - 2
South East - 1 £500 -
Postfix
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) Confluence
1 5 (27.78%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 13 (72.22%) Amazon EC2
1 13 (72.22%) Amazon S3
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
1 13 (72.22%) AWS KMS
1 13 (72.22%) Route 53
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon ELB
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (27.78%) SaaS
3 5 (27.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) SMTP
2 8 (44.44%) DNS
3 5 (27.78%) DKIM
3 5 (27.78%) DMARC
3 5 (27.78%) IMAP
3 5 (27.78%) Internet
3 5 (27.78%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (16.67%) Firewall
4 3 (16.67%) FTP
4 3 (16.67%) HTTP
4 3 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (72.22%) Amazon Aurora
1 13 (72.22%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (72.22%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (44.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Git
1 13 (72.22%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Bitbucket Server
2 8 (44.44%) DbUnit
2 8 (44.44%) jMock
2 8 (44.44%) JUnit
2 8 (44.44%) Maven
2 8 (44.44%) Mockito
2 8 (44.44%) SonarQube
3 5 (27.78%) JIRA
3 5 (27.78%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (61.11%) Public Sector
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
1 8 (44.44%) Java Developer
2 5 (27.78%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) ActiveMQ
1 8 (44.44%) AngularJS
1 8 (44.44%) Bootstrap
1 8 (44.44%) Hibernate
1 8 (44.44%) JPA
1 8 (44.44%) PowerMock
1 8 (44.44%) REST
1 8 (44.44%) RESTful
1 8 (44.44%) SOAP
1 8 (44.44%) Spring
1 8 (44.44%) Spring Batch
1 8 (44.44%) Spring Boot
1 8 (44.44%) Spring Cloud
1 8 (44.44%) Spring Integration
1 8 (44.44%) Web Services
2 5 (27.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (27.78%) VMS
3 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) BDD
2 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 8 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (44.44%) Kanban
2 8 (44.44%) Microservices
2 8 (44.44%) Open Source
2 8 (44.44%) Scrum
2 8 (44.44%) TDD
3 5 (27.78%) Change Management
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
3 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
3 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
3 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
3 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (27.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) Groovy
3 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 5 (27.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (77.78%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Docker
2 10 (55.56%) Dovecot
3 5 (27.78%) Squid
3 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (16.67%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Grafana
1 13 (72.22%) Prometheus
2 5 (27.78%) Nessus
2 5 (27.78%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (44.44%) Atlassian
3 5 (27.78%) Broadcom
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
3 5 (27.78%) ServiceNow
3 5 (27.78%) VMware