Postfix Contract Job Trends

Postfix
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Postfix skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 561 619
Rank change year-on-year +28 +58 +199
Contract jobs citing Postfix 24 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.003% 0.026%
As % of the System Software category 0.62% 0.023% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 6
10th Percentile £453 - £388
25th Percentile £494 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £555 - £588
90th Percentile £580 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +34.50%

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 3,900 4,405 6,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 11.43% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,461 2,959 4,379
10th Percentile £218 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £670 £688 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 111 272
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.02 £17.69 £19.22
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -50.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £80.00 £61.19 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.05 £75.00 £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £28.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +126.09% -28.13% +100.00%

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
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 7 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 19 September 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 - 24 £500 - 2
UK excluding London - 23 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 22 £500 -
Midlands - 22 £500 -
London - 12 £513 - 2
Work from Home +30 7 £500 -
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 12 (50.00%) Confluence
1 12 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 18 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 18 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 18 (75.00%) AWS
1 18 (75.00%) AWS KMS
1 18 (75.00%) Route 53
2 12 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 12 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 10 (41.67%) Azure
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (75.00%) SMTP
2 16 (66.67%) DNS
3 12 (50.00%) IMAP
3 12 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (41.67%) Firewall
4 10 (41.67%) FTP
4 10 (41.67%) HTTP
4 10 (41.67%) SSH
5 6 (25.00%) DKIM
5 6 (25.00%) DMARC
5 6 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 18 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (75.00%) Git
1 18 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (50.00%) JIRA
2 12 (50.00%) Vagrant
3 6 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (25.00%) DbUnit
3 6 (25.00%) jMock
3 6 (25.00%) JUnit
3 6 (25.00%) Maven
3 6 (25.00%) Mockito
3 6 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (62.50%) Public Sector
3 10 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 12 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 12 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 12 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) AWS DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Architect
6 2 (8.33%) AWS Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) LDAP
2 6 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 6 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (25.00%) JPA
2 6 (25.00%) PowerMock
2 6 (25.00%) REST
2 6 (25.00%) RESTful
2 6 (25.00%) SOAP
2 6 (25.00%) Spring
2 6 (25.00%) Spring Batch
2 6 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
2 6 (25.00%) Spring Integration
2 6 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Replication
2 6 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (50.00%) VMS
3 10 (41.67%) Ubuntu
3 10 (41.67%) Windows
4 6 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) DevOps
2 12 (50.00%) Change Management
2 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 12 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 12 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (41.67%) Patch Management
4 7 (29.17%) Agile
5 6 (25.00%) BDD
5 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (25.00%) Kanban
5 6 (25.00%) Microservices
5 6 (25.00%) Open Source
5 6 (25.00%) Scrum
5 6 (25.00%) TDD
5 6 (25.00%) Validation
6 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) SQL
2 12 (50.00%) Groovy
2 12 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 10 (41.67%) Azure Certification
2 10 (41.67%) Degree
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) Docker
1 18 (75.00%) Dovecot
2 12 (50.00%) Squid
3 10 (41.67%) DFS Replication
4 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) Grafana
1 18 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 12 (50.00%) Nessus
2 12 (50.00%) Terraform
3 10 (41.67%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 6 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 6 (25.00%) Broadcom
3 6 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (25.00%) VMware