Postman Contracts in the UK excluding London

Postman
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Postman skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Postman over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 330 316
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 -6
Contract jobs citing Postman 63 127 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.54% 0.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.84% 3.83% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 100 152
10th Percentile £357 £337 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.94% +6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £582 £594 £501
90th Percentile £590 £628 £606
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +36.33%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Postman is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,222 3,314 4,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.83% 14.10% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,344 3,209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £362
25th Percentile £413 £420 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 177 104
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.75 £37.55
25th Percentile £55.75 £52.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +12.33% +21.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.75 £78.00 £68.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Postman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postman in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Postman in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Scotland +20 19 £520 +15.56% 4
North of England +6 14 £450 -10.00% 17
Wales +27 11 £509 -13.08%
South West +17 9 £590 +15.12% 4
Yorkshire +17 7 £485 -11.82% 10
North West +14 7 £450 -5.26% 7
South East -8 7 £600 - 11
Midlands +29 3 £380 +43.40% 5
West Midlands +26 2 £358 -31.90% 5
East Midlands +17 1 £380 +47.57%
Postman
UK

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (28.57%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) Apache
3 2 (3.17%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.57%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (15.87%) GitHub
4 5 (7.94%) AWS
5 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.76%) PaaS
5 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.17%) Azure API Management
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.17%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.17%) Serverless
6 2 (3.17%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.59%) Commercetools
7 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 8 (12.70%) MySQL
3 3 (4.76%) Power BI
4 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.17%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 25 (39.68%) Git
2 20 (31.75%) JIRA
3 19 (30.16%) Jenkins
4 17 (26.98%) Cypress.io
5 15 (23.81%) Cucumber
6 13 (20.63%) Selenium
7 12 (19.05%) JUnit
8 10 (15.87%) IntelliJ
8 10 (15.87%) Visual Studio
9 7 (11.11%) GitLab
10 6 (9.52%) NUnit
10 6 (9.52%) SpecFlow
11 4 (6.35%) SoapUI
12 2 (3.17%) JMeter
12 2 (3.17%) Zephyr
13 1 (1.59%) Android Studio
13 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
13 1 (1.59%) Mercurial
13 1 (1.59%) TeamCity
13 1 (1.59%) Xcode
General
1 20 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (3.17%) Finance
2 2 (3.17%) Retail
3 1 (1.59%) Electronics
3 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.59%) Marketing
3 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (36.51%) Developer
2 20 (31.75%) Senior
3 12 (19.05%) Test Engineer
4 11 (17.46%) Java Developer
5 8 (12.70%) Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Senior Test Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Test Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Tester
6 7 (11.11%) PHP Developer
6 7 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (9.52%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 6 (9.52%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Automation Tester
8 5 (7.94%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.94%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (6.35%) QA Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) QA Analyst
10 3 (4.76%) QA Test Analyst
10 3 (4.76%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) Playwright
1 14 (22.22%) REST
2 12 (19.05%) Apache Camel
2 12 (19.05%) Kafka
2 12 (19.05%) React
2 12 (19.05%) Spring Boot
3 11 (17.46%) GraphQL
4 9 (14.29%) .NET
4 9 (14.29%) J2EE
4 9 (14.29%) Spring
5 8 (12.70%) Laravel
6 7 (11.11%) AngularJS
6 7 (11.11%) Vue
7 6 (9.52%) HTML
7 6 (9.52%) Node.js
8 5 (7.94%) CSS
8 5 (7.94%) Jest
8 5 (7.94%) JSON
9 3 (4.76%) Swagger
10 2 (3.17%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 8 (12.70%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.59%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Android
3 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (71.43%) Agile
2 38 (60.32%) Test Automation
3 22 (34.92%) CI/CD
4 18 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (25.40%) DevOps
6 15 (23.81%) TDD
7 14 (22.22%) API Testing
7 14 (22.22%) Manual Testing
7 14 (22.22%) Project Management
7 14 (22.22%) Scrum
8 13 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (19.05%) Test Strategy
10 11 (17.46%) BDD
10 11 (17.46%) End-to-End Testing
11 10 (15.87%) Kanban
12 9 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
13 8 (12.70%) Data Protection
13 8 (12.70%) Front End Development
13 8 (12.70%) Full Stack Development
14 7 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.27%) SQL
2 19 (30.16%) Java
3 13 (20.63%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.29%) PHP
5 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.52%) C#
7 5 (7.94%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.59%) Python
8 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (31.75%) QA
2 6 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) Kibana
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.59%) HP
4 1 (1.59%) SAP
4 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.59%) Splunk