Hybrid/Remote Postfix Contract Job Trends

Postfix
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Postfix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 - 360
Rank change year-on-year - - +136
Contract jobs citing Postfix 4 0 7
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.038% - 0.042%
As % of the System Software category 0.30% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £508 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.79%
75th Percentile £545 - £588
90th Percentile £548 - -
UK median daily rate £537 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +26.37%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Postfix falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,329 1,209 1,689
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.47% 11.22% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 839 1,208
10th Percentile £325 £340 £270
25th Percentile £420 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £715 £763 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £488
% change year-on-year -2.91% +5.64% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 17 57
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £33.00 £38.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £63.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +29.90% -25.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £71.90
90th Percentile £73.41 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £43.79
% change year-on-year +36.39% -29.78% +25.12%

Postfix
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Postfix and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Postfix job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Postfix
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Postfix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Postfix

Postfix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Route 53
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SMTP
2 3 (75.00%) DKIM
2 3 (75.00%) DMARC
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) FTP
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) IMAP
3 1 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (25.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) SCADA
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (25.00%) VMS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Dovecot
1 1 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow