Cataleg D ocupacions capçalera

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Catalogue of occupations

Ocupacions

Postman/postwoman

Latest available data: June 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Bicycle messenger Bike courier Bike messenger Courier Delivery man Delivery woman Driver messenger In house courier In house messenger Mail carrier Mailman Mailwoman Motorcycle messenger Postal carrier Postal service worker Postman Postman/postwoman Postwoman Urban bike messenger

Postmen/postwomen deliver mails and parcel posts to residences and businesses. They perform mail delivery and collect signatures from the recipients. They perform other duties in connection with mail services from post offices or related organisations.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Performing mail-handling duties in public post offices or privately owned delivery establishments;
(b) Sorting and delivering mail to private houses and businesses;
(c) Providing delivery confirmation records when requested by the client;
(d) Sorting and keeping simple records of incoming and outgoing correspondence and dispatching outgoing mail in various establishments;

Knowledge

  • Database and network design and administration
  • Law
  • Earth sciences

Digital competencies

  • Planning events and programmes
  • Developing professional relationships or networks
  • Communicating with colleagues and clients
  • Complying with operational procedures
  • Performing general clerical and administrative tasks

Digital competencies

  • Managing, gathering and storing digital data

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Following ethical code of conduct
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts

Professional groups of the occupation

Professionals

Information and communications technology professionals

Software and applications developers and analysts

Software developers

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Software developers

6.695

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

69,07%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

58,39% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

,87%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

20,27%

Part-time contracts

3,62% Turnover index

631

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-10%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Information and communications technology professionals

71%

29%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Information and communications technology professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Software and applications developers and analysts

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Software developers

No experience
12%
Less than 1 year
17%
Between 1 and 2 years
12%
Between 2 and 4 years
30%
Between 4 and 8 years
4%
More than 8 years
25%
Information and communication
37%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
35%
Administrative and support service activities
8%
Manufacturing
6%
Other service activities
3%
Others
11%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.