Postfix Contracts

Postfix
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 586 677
Rank change year-on-year +67 +91 +187
Contract jobs citing Postfix 11 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.002% 0.016%
As % of the System Software category 0.29% 0.021% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £450 - £433
25th Percentile £475 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.04%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £515
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.04%

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 3,750 4,799 7,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.09% 11.06% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,445 3,308 5,066
10th Percentile £225 £206 £200
25th Percentile £381 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £607 £638
90th Percentile £690 £688 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £479
% change year-on-year - -0.84% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 220 255
10th Percentile £14.49 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £16.39 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -55.03% +166.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £59.20 £66.75
90th Percentile £89.85 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.88 £24.34 £31.00
% change year-on-year +125.45% -21.48% +67.57%

Postfix
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Postfix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Postfix in the UK

Postfix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postfix.

Daily rate trend for Postfix in the UK

Postfix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Postfix.

Hourly rate trend for Postfix in the UK

Postfix
Top 7 Contract 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 2 July 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
England - 11 £500 - 8
UK excluding London - 11 £500 - 3
Midlands - 10 £500 -
West Midlands - 10 £500 -
Work from Home +42 3 £500 - 2
London - 1 - - 5
South East - 1 £500 - 1

Postfix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
1 2 (18.18%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (90.91%) AWS KMS
2 10 (90.91%) Route 53
3 9 (81.82%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) IMAP
1 2 (18.18%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (18.18%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (81.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (90.91%) Git
3 9 (81.82%) JUnit
3 9 (81.82%) Maven
3 9 (81.82%) Mockito
4 8 (72.73%) Bitbucket Server
4 8 (72.73%) DbUnit
4 8 (72.73%) jMock
4 8 (72.73%) SonarQube
5 2 (18.18%) JIRA
5 2 (18.18%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (81.82%) Public Sector
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
1 9 (81.82%) Java Developer
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) ActiveMQ
1 9 (81.82%) Hibernate
1 9 (81.82%) JPA
1 9 (81.82%) REST
1 9 (81.82%) SOAP
1 9 (81.82%) Spring
1 9 (81.82%) Spring Boot
1 9 (81.82%) Spring Cloud
1 9 (81.82%) Web Services
2 8 (72.73%) AngularJS
2 8 (72.73%) Bootstrap
2 8 (72.73%) PowerMock
2 8 (72.73%) RESTful
2 8 (72.73%) Spring Batch
2 8 (72.73%) Spring Integration
3 2 (18.18%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (18.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Microservices
2 9 (81.82%) Scrum
2 9 (81.82%) TDD
3 8 (72.73%) BDD
3 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
3 8 (72.73%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (72.73%) Kanban
3 8 (72.73%) Open Source
4 6 (54.55%) Risk Management
5 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
5 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) Change Management
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) Biometrics
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (81.82%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Dovecot
2 2 (18.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Grafana
1 11 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (18.18%) Nessus
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (72.73%) Atlassian
3 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow