Postman Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Postman
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Postman skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 21 32
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +11
Contract jobs citing Postman 7 14 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.54% 6.17% 0.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.00% 28.57% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 2
10th Percentile £220 £453 £431
25th Percentile £278 £485 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +1.46% -10.09%
75th Percentile £397 £544 £559
90th Percentile £410 £551 £584
South Wales median daily rate £375 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -27.88% +1.46% -8.48%

All Development Application Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 28 49 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 14.14% 21.59% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 40 17
10th Percentile £217 £204 £413
25th Percentile £304 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.37% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £441 £544 £613
90th Percentile £525 £551 £665
South Wales median daily rate £310 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -38.36% -8.64% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
South Wales median hourly rate - £20.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year - -22.17% -

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Postman in Cardiff

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Postman

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in Cardiff over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in Cardiff

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Zephyr
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Business Test Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Test Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) SOAP
1 6 (85.71%) XML
2 5 (71.43%) JSON
2 5 (71.43%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) FHIR
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (71.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Business Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
2 5 (71.43%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) Translating Business Requirements
2 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (14.29%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
1 5 (71.43%) ISEB
1 5 (71.43%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) SEPA
2 1 (14.29%) HL7
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) RedGate