Postfix Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Postfix
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Postfix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Postfix 21 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.03% - -
As % of the System Software category 5.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile £581 - -
England median daily rate £500 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +26.37%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 379 222 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.63% 11.71% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 156 211
10th Percentile £223 £166 £163
25th Percentile £400 £299 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £418
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +19.76% +4.38%
75th Percentile £582 £613 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £17.53
25th Percentile £54.75 £31.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.85% +71.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58.25 £33.75 £28.19
90th Percentile - - £28.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.29% +84.21%

Postfix
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Postfix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Postfix job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Postfix
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Postfix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Postfix

Postfix
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Postfix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Postfix

Postfix
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postfix within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 November 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
Birmingham - 12 £500 - 3
Warwickshire - 5 £581 -
Solihull - 4 £450 -
Postfix
England

Postfix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 12 (57.14%) Confluence
1 12 (57.14%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 16 (76.19%) Amazon EC2
1 16 (76.19%) Amazon S3
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
1 16 (76.19%) AWS KMS
1 16 (76.19%) Route 53
2 12 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (57.14%) Amazon ELB
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 10 (47.62%) Azure
4 5 (23.81%) SaaS
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (80.95%) SMTP
2 15 (71.43%) DNS
3 12 (57.14%) IMAP
3 12 (57.14%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (47.62%) Firewall
4 10 (47.62%) FTP
4 10 (47.62%) HTTP
4 10 (47.62%) SSH
5 5 (23.81%) DKIM
5 5 (23.81%) DMARC
5 5 (23.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (76.19%) Amazon Aurora
1 16 (76.19%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (76.19%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (19.05%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (76.19%) Git
1 16 (76.19%) Jenkins
2 12 (57.14%) JIRA
2 12 (57.14%) Vagrant
3 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (19.05%) DbUnit
3 4 (19.05%) jMock
3 4 (19.05%) JUnit
3 4 (19.05%) Maven
3 4 (19.05%) Mockito
3 4 (19.05%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (61.90%) Public Sector
3 10 (47.62%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
1 12 (57.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 12 (57.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 12 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) AWS DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) LDAP
2 4 (19.05%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
2 4 (19.05%) Bootstrap
2 4 (19.05%) Hibernate
2 4 (19.05%) JPA
2 4 (19.05%) PowerMock
2 4 (19.05%) REST
2 4 (19.05%) RESTful
2 4 (19.05%) SOAP
2 4 (19.05%) Spring
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Batch
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Integration
2 4 (19.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Replication
2 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (57.14%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (57.14%) VMS
3 10 (47.62%) Ubuntu
3 10 (47.62%) Windows
4 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) DevOps
2 12 (57.14%) Change Management
2 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 12 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 12 (57.14%) Configuration Management
2 12 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (47.62%) Patch Management
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Validation
5 4 (19.05%) BDD
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (19.05%) Kanban
5 4 (19.05%) Microservices
5 4 (19.05%) Open Source
5 4 (19.05%) Scrum
5 4 (19.05%) TDD
6 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
6 1 (4.76%) Servant Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) SQL
2 12 (57.14%) Groovy
2 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 12 (57.14%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) AWS Certification
2 10 (47.62%) Azure Certification
2 10 (47.62%) Degree
System Software
1 17 (80.95%) Dovecot
2 16 (76.19%) Docker
3 12 (57.14%) Squid
4 10 (47.62%) DFS Replication
5 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (76.19%) Grafana
1 16 (76.19%) Prometheus
2 12 (57.14%) Nessus
2 12 (57.14%) Terraform
3 10 (47.62%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (57.14%) ServiceNow
3 5 (23.81%) Broadcom
3 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
3 5 (23.81%) VMware
4 4 (19.05%) Atlassian