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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 523 594
Rank change year-on-year -80 +71 +126
Contract jobs citing Postfix 13 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.010% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.27% 0.079% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £488 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.37%
75th Percentile £539 - £588
90th Percentile £544 - -
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 4,776 3,790 4,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.45% 12.69% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,284 2,505 3,374
10th Percentile £205 £205 £190
25th Percentile £400 £388 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +8.96% -8.57%
75th Percentile £596 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 88 241
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.41 £16.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £33.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.14% -16.88% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.40 £83.63 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.84% -6.25% +53.85%

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 3 March 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 -76 13 £525 - 7
West Midlands -43 11 £537 - 3
Midlands -47 11 £537 - 3
UK excluding London -70 11 £537 - 4
Work from Home - 6 £508 - 1
London - 4 £525 - 3

Postfix
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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (53.85%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (53.85%) Amazon S3
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) AWS KMS
2 7 (53.85%) Route 53
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (15.38%) IaaS
4 2 (15.38%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) SMTP
2 4 (30.77%) DKIM
2 4 (30.77%) DMARC
3 3 (23.08%) DNS
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) FTP
4 1 (7.69%) HTTP
4 1 (7.69%) IMAP
4 1 (7.69%) Network Security
4 1 (7.69%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (53.85%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (46.15%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Git
1 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) DbUnit
2 6 (46.15%) jMock
2 6 (46.15%) JUnit
2 6 (46.15%) Maven
2 6 (46.15%) Mockito
2 6 (46.15%) SonarQube
3 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (23.08%) JIRA
5 1 (7.69%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (46.15%) AngularJS
1 6 (46.15%) Hibernate
1 6 (46.15%) JPA
1 6 (46.15%) PowerMock
1 6 (46.15%) REST
1 6 (46.15%) SOAP
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Batch
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Cloud
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Integration
1 6 (46.15%) Web Services
2 5 (38.46%) LDAP
2 5 (38.46%) Node.js
3 4 (30.77%) Bootstrap
3 4 (30.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (23.08%) SCADA
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) CentOS
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Ubuntu
3 2 (15.38%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (7.69%) VMS
4 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
2 6 (46.15%) Microservices
2 6 (46.15%) Scrum
2 6 (46.15%) TDD
3 5 (38.46%) BPMN
3 5 (38.46%) Load Balancing
3 5 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (30.77%) BDD
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (30.77%) High Availability
4 4 (30.77%) Kanban
4 4 (30.77%) Open Source
4 4 (30.77%) SIEM
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Biometrics
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Kernel Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Bash
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) RHCA
4 1 (7.69%) RHCE
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Varnish
3 1 (7.69%) DFS Replication
3 1 (7.69%) Dovecot
3 1 (7.69%) NFS
3 1 (7.69%) Sendmail
3 1 (7.69%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) HAProxy
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Nessus
3 1 (7.69%) Proxmox
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (46.15%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.69%) Foundry
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow