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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 514 576
Rank change year-on-year -102 +62 +93
Contract jobs citing Postfix 19 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.021% 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.39% 0.17% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 -
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

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 4,830 3,580 4,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 12.51% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,228 2,413 3,178
10th Percentile £221 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £606 £600
90th Percentile £680 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.16% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 82 226
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.21 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +80.82% +21.84% -57.13%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £79.35 £88.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £36.65 £22.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% +66.57% -52.28%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postfix over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Postfix in the UK

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 23 May 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 -99 19 £525 +5.00% 1
UK excluding London -96 12 £475 -5.00% 1
West Midlands -57 11 £475 -5.00%
Midlands -65 11 £475 -5.00%
London - 10 £525 -
Work from Home -38 5 £475 -5.00% 1
South East -68 1 - - 1

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 7 (36.84%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
3 1 (5.26%) nginx
3 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) AWS
3 11 (57.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (57.89%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (57.89%) Amazon S3
3 11 (57.89%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (57.89%) AWS KMS
3 11 (57.89%) Route 53
4 6 (31.58%) Azure Key Vault
4 6 (31.58%) IaaS
4 6 (31.58%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) BIG-IP
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) NAS
3 1 (5.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (57.89%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (57.89%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (57.89%) DynamoDB
1 11 (57.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (78.95%) Git
1 15 (78.95%) Jenkins
2 11 (57.89%) DbUnit
2 11 (57.89%) jMock
2 11 (57.89%) JUnit
2 11 (57.89%) Maven
2 11 (57.89%) Mockito
2 11 (57.89%) SonarQube
3 9 (47.37%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 11 (57.89%) Public Sector
2 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 5 (26.32%) Banking
5 3 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
1 11 (57.89%) Java Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) Web Services
2 11 (57.89%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (57.89%) AngularJS
2 11 (57.89%) Hibernate
2 11 (57.89%) JPA
2 11 (57.89%) PowerMock
2 11 (57.89%) REST
2 11 (57.89%) SOAP
2 11 (57.89%) Spring
2 11 (57.89%) Spring Batch
2 11 (57.89%) Spring Boot
2 11 (57.89%) Spring Cloud
2 11 (57.89%) Spring Integration
3 9 (47.37%) Bootstrap
3 9 (47.37%) RESTful
4 7 (36.84%) Node.js
5 1 (5.26%) LAMP
5 1 (5.26%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (31.58%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (31.58%) Unix
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (57.89%) Agile
3 11 (57.89%) Containerisation
3 11 (57.89%) Microservices
3 11 (57.89%) Scrum
3 11 (57.89%) TDD
4 9 (47.37%) BDD
4 9 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (47.37%) Kanban
4 9 (47.37%) Open Source
5 8 (42.11%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (36.84%) BPMN
6 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 7 (36.84%) Decision-Making
6 7 (36.84%) Migration
7 6 (31.58%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (26.32%) Biometrics
9 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
9 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Bash
3 5 (26.32%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) Shell Script
4 4 (21.05%) Ruby
5 2 (10.53%) Perl
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (94.74%) Security Cleared
2 17 (89.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
3 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.26%) RHCA
4 1 (5.26%) RHCE
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Docker
2 7 (36.84%) Varnish
3 5 (26.32%) NFS
4 4 (21.05%) Sendmail
5 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
5 1 (5.26%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Grafana
2 8 (42.11%) HAProxy
3 5 (26.32%) Ansible
4 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
5 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Atlassian
1 11 (57.89%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) F5
2 1 (5.26%) Juniper
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat