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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 599 697
Rank change year-on-year +85 +98 +146
Contract jobs citing Postfix 5 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.002% 0.027%
As % of the System Software category 0.14% 0.021% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile - - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £455
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.21%
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £455
% change year-on-year - - -30.00%

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 3,664 4,691 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.53% 10.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,206 5,629
10th Percentile £214 £198 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +29.55% -47.46% +131.16%

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 5 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 30 April 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
UK excluding London - 5 £500 -
England - 5 £500 -
West Midlands - 4 £500 -
Midlands - 4 £500 -
South East - 1 £500 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (80.00%) AWS KMS
2 4 (80.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Mockito
2 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (80.00%) DbUnit
2 4 (80.00%) Git
2 4 (80.00%) jMock
2 4 (80.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) JPA
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (80.00%) Bootstrap
2 4 (80.00%) PowerMock
2 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Batch
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (80.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (80.00%) Jaspersoft