Postfix Contract Job Trends

Postfix
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Postfix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 516 589
Rank change year-on-year -89 +73 +128
Contract jobs citing Postfix 17 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.010% 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.35% 0.080% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £513 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.37%
75th Percentile £538 - £588
90th Percentile £542 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +26.37%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,905 3,752 4,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 12.81% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 2,567 3,210
10th Percentile £213 £213 £194
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £460
% change year-on-year -0.63% +3.91% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 96 228
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.20 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.75 £29.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year +78.45% +29.46% -55.20%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.35 £87.13 £70.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +74.42% -44.16%

Postfix
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Postfix job vacancy trend in the UK

Postfix
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Postfix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Postfix
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 April 2026. 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
England -91 17 £525 - 3
West Midlands -52 12 £537 -
Midlands -57 12 £537 -
UK excluding London -86 12 £537 -
Work from Home - 7 £525 - 1
London - 6 £525 - 3

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (23.53%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon S3
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) AWS KMS
2 8 (47.06%) Route 53
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (23.53%) IaaS
3 4 (23.53%) PaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) DKIM
2 4 (23.53%) DMARC
2 4 (23.53%) SMTP
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (47.06%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (47.06%) DynamoDB
1 8 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Git
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 8 (47.06%) DbUnit
2 8 (47.06%) jMock
2 8 (47.06%) JUnit
2 8 (47.06%) Maven
2 8 (47.06%) Mockito
2 8 (47.06%) SonarQube
3 6 (35.29%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
1 8 (47.06%) Java Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Architect
4 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Web Services
2 8 (47.06%) ActiveMQ
2 8 (47.06%) AngularJS
2 8 (47.06%) Hibernate
2 8 (47.06%) JPA
2 8 (47.06%) PowerMock
2 8 (47.06%) REST
2 8 (47.06%) SOAP
2 8 (47.06%) Spring
2 8 (47.06%) Spring Batch
2 8 (47.06%) Spring Boot
2 8 (47.06%) Spring Cloud
2 8 (47.06%) Spring Integration
3 6 (35.29%) Bootstrap
3 6 (35.29%) RESTful
4 5 (29.41%) Node.js
5 4 (23.53%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (23.53%) Public Cloud
3 3 (17.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) CentOS
2 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
3 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
2 8 (47.06%) Microservices
2 8 (47.06%) Scrum
2 8 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (47.06%) TDD
3 6 (35.29%) BDD
3 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (35.29%) Kanban
3 6 (35.29%) Load Balancing
3 6 (35.29%) Open Source
4 5 (29.41%) BPMN
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Migration
4 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
5 4 (23.53%) High Availability
5 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (23.53%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) Bash
2 6 (35.29%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 13 (76.47%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) RHCA
4 1 (5.88%) RHCE
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
2 5 (29.41%) Varnish
3 4 (23.53%) NFS
4 3 (17.65%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Grafana
2 5 (29.41%) HAProxy
3 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Atlassian
1 8 (47.06%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (5.88%) Foundry