Postman Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Postman
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Postman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 45 63
Rank change year-on-year -29 +18 +13
Contract jobs citing Postman 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.32% 1.15% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.46% 12.50% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £450 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £190
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile - £550 £195
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £350 £550 £358
% change year-on-year -36.36% +53.85% -31.90%

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

Postman falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 122 48 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.16% 9.18% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 28 43
10th Percentile £347 £443 £259
25th Percentile £425 £463 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +25.00% -28.89%
75th Percentile £540 £648 £475
90th Percentile £575 £689 £525
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £25.26 - £55.25
25th Percentile £25.65 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £26.61 - £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.49%
75th Percentile £50.95 - -
90th Percentile £65.38 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.75 £57.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +14.35% +2.22% +68.49%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Postman relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Postman job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Postman.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Postman

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) TestNG
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) JDBC
1 1 (33.33%) ODBC
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) ATDD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Workday
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