Postman
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 485 426
Rank change year-on-year +78 -59 +6
Contract jobs citing Postman 194 241 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.79% 2.66% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 183 391
10th Percentile £344 £350 £330
25th Percentile £406 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £564
90th Percentile £625 £670 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +7.05% +5.56% +5.88%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £68.17

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Postman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the UK

Postman
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postman.

Daily rate trend for Postman in the UK

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the UK

Postman
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Postman.

Hourly rate trend for Postman in the UK

Postman
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +88 145 £480 -12.73% 68
London +120 106 £480 -12.73% 27
Work from Home +77 66 £465 -11.43% 37
UK excluding London -6 62 £509 +7.05% 45
Scotland +11 19 £520 +15.56% 5
North of England +8 16 £450 -5.26% 14
Wales +24 11 £509 -13.08% 1
North West +4 9 £450 +5.88% 7
Yorkshire +10 7 £485 -11.82% 7
South East +5 7 £600 - 11
South West +17 6 £585 +14.15% 5
Midlands +22 3 £380 +43.40% 2
West Midlands +30 2 £358 -31.90% 2
East Midlands +17 1 £380 +47.57%

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (15.98%) Confluence
2 5 (2.58%) Apache
2 5 (2.58%) nginx
3 4 (2.06%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 5 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.84%) Azure
2 33 (17.01%) AWS
3 25 (12.89%) GitHub
4 21 (10.82%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.31%) GCP
6 12 (6.19%) Azure API Management
6 12 (6.19%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (6.19%) PaaS
7 10 (5.15%) Azure Key Vault
7 10 (5.15%) Azure Storage
7 10 (5.15%) Entra ID
8 9 (4.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (3.61%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.09%) BrowserStack
10 6 (3.09%) Firebase
11 5 (2.58%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (2.58%) BlazeMeter
11 5 (2.58%) Google Analytics
11 5 (2.58%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (2.06%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.19%) HTTP
2 5 (2.58%) 5G
2 5 (2.58%) WinSCP
3 3 (1.55%) DNS
3 3 (1.55%) Firewall
3 3 (1.55%) Internet
3 3 (1.55%) SSL
3 3 (1.55%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.82%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (5.67%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (5.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (5.15%) MySQL
6 7 (3.61%) Power BI
7 6 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.58%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.58%) Looker
8 5 (2.58%) Tableau
9 4 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 54 (27.84%) Selenium
2 53 (27.32%) Git
2 53 (27.32%) Jenkins
3 52 (26.80%) JIRA
4 50 (25.77%) SoapUI
5 41 (21.13%) Cucumber
6 35 (18.04%) Cypress.io
7 31 (15.98%) JUnit
8 28 (14.43%) Appium
9 20 (10.31%) Maven
9 20 (10.31%) WebDriver
10 19 (9.79%) JMeter
11 18 (9.28%) REST Assured
12 16 (8.25%) TestNG
13 15 (7.73%) GitLab
14 13 (6.70%) IntelliJ
15 12 (6.19%) SpecFlow
15 12 (6.19%) Visual Studio
16 10 (5.15%) eggPlant
16 10 (5.15%) SOAtest
General
1 62 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.28%) Finance
3 15 (7.73%) Banking
4 13 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.15%) Back Office
6 10 (5.15%) Retail
7 8 (4.12%) Marketing
8 6 (3.09%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.58%) Advertising
10 3 (1.55%) Electronics
10 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.03%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Front Office
12 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (24.74%) Developer
2 42 (21.65%) Senior
3 38 (19.59%) Analyst
4 28 (14.43%) Test Analyst
5 22 (11.34%) Tester
6 19 (9.79%) Test Engineer
7 15 (7.73%) Lead
8 14 (7.22%) QA Engineer
9 13 (6.70%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.67%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (5.67%) Test Automation Engineer
11 10 (5.15%) Automation Tester
11 10 (5.15%) Business Analyst
11 10 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (5.15%) Senior Developer
11 10 (5.15%) Senior Test Analyst
11 10 (5.15%) Technical Analyst
11 10 (5.15%) Technical Business Analyst
12 9 (4.64%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (4.12%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.65%) REST
2 30 (15.46%) .NET
3 25 (12.89%) Node.js
4 24 (12.37%) Swagger
5 21 (10.82%) Playwright
6 19 (9.79%) SOAP
7 16 (8.25%) React
7 16 (8.25%) Spring Boot
7 16 (8.25%) Web Services
8 15 (7.73%) JSON
8 15 (7.73%) Kafka
9 14 (7.22%) .NET Framework
9 14 (7.22%) Spring
10 12 (6.19%) Apache Camel
10 12 (6.19%) GraphQL
10 12 (6.19%) HTML
11 11 (5.67%) CSS
11 11 (5.67%) Gherkin
12 10 (5.15%) Laravel
12 10 (5.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.40%) Mobile App
2 23 (11.86%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.58%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.58%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.52%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.52%) Equities
6 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.52%) Replication
6 1 (0.52%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.79%) Android
2 16 (8.25%) Linux
3 6 (3.09%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.03%) Windows
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (69.07%) Agile
2 114 (58.76%) Test Automation
3 66 (34.02%) CI/CD
4 60 (30.93%) Continuous Integration
5 49 (25.26%) DevOps
6 43 (22.16%) TDD
7 42 (21.65%) API Testing
8 38 (19.59%) BDD
8 38 (19.59%) Scrum
9 32 (16.49%) Test Strategy
10 27 (13.92%) Software Testing
11 23 (11.86%) Software Engineering
12 22 (11.34%) Manual Testing
13 21 (10.82%) Continuous Deployment
13 21 (10.82%) Test Scripting
14 18 (9.28%) Performance Testing
15 17 (8.76%) User Stories
16 15 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (7.73%) Kanban
16 15 (7.73%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.77%) SQL
2 44 (22.68%) Java
3 39 (20.10%) JavaScript
4 29 (14.95%) C#
5 22 (11.34%) Python
6 16 (8.25%) Kotlin
7 14 (7.22%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.70%) PHP
9 6 (3.09%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.58%) Swift
11 3 (1.55%) Bash
12 2 (1.03%) Ruby
12 2 (1.03%) VB
13 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.61%) Degree
4 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.52%) ISEB
6 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (28.35%) QA
2 21 (10.82%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.06%) WCAG
4 2 (1.03%) HL7
4 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (13.92%) Docker
2 10 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (5.67%) Kibana
2 10 (5.15%) Ansible
3 6 (3.09%) HP ALM
3 6 (3.09%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.55%) Kustomize
4 3 (1.55%) Packer
4 3 (1.55%) Terraform
5 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 33 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.15%) Oracle
2 10 (5.15%) SAP
3 6 (3.09%) Google
3 6 (3.09%) HP
4 5 (2.58%) Adobe
4 5 (2.58%) Ensighten
4 5 (2.58%) Monetate
4 5 (2.58%) Omniture
4 5 (2.58%) Optimizely
4 5 (2.58%) Tealium
5 3 (1.55%) Checkmarx
5 3 (1.55%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.55%) Splunk
6 2 (1.03%) Cadence
6 2 (1.03%) IBM
6 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.52%) Xamarin