Postman Contract Job Trends in Central London

Postman
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Postman skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 112 139
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 +48
Contract jobs citing Postman 13 21 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.67% 0.91% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.53% 6.80% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 16
10th Percentile £284 £375 £322
25th Percentile £359 £403 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% -17.07% +7.89%
75th Percentile £390 £504 £619
90th Percentile £640 £564 £725
London median daily rate £488 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +2.63% -13.64% +4.76%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 287 309 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.71% 13.40% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 206 303
10th Percentile £354 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £595
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.04% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £701
90th Percentile £700 £785 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -2.70% -31.48% +55.87%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Postman in Central London

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Postman.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Postman

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in Central London over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in Central London

Postman
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 14 September 2025. 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
City of London -12 6 £625 +47.06% 2
City of Westminster - 1 £230 -
Postman
London

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) BrowserStack
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) dbt
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Database
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (38.46%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) JIRA
2 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 8 (61.54%) REST Assured
3 7 (53.85%) Git
4 6 (46.15%) JUnit
4 6 (46.15%) SoapUI
5 5 (38.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (38.46%) Maven
5 5 (38.46%) Mockito
5 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
5 5 (38.46%) Subversion
5 5 (38.46%) Xcode
5 5 (38.46%) XCTest
6 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
6 3 (23.08%) GitLab
6 3 (23.08%) Selenium
7 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
7 1 (7.69%) JMeter
7 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
7 1 (7.69%) TestNG
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 6 (46.15%) Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Back Office
5 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
6 1 (7.69%) Automotive
6 1 (7.69%) Front Office
6 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) AngularJS
2 5 (38.46%) Bootstrap
2 5 (38.46%) CSS
2 5 (38.46%) CSS3
2 5 (38.46%) Hibernate
2 5 (38.46%) HTML
2 5 (38.46%) HTML5
2 5 (38.46%) J2EE
2 5 (38.46%) JPA
2 5 (38.46%) Kafka
2 5 (38.46%) Material-UI
2 5 (38.46%) SOAP
2 5 (38.46%) Spring
2 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
2 5 (38.46%) Spring Cloud
2 5 (38.46%) Spring MVC
2 5 (38.46%) Swagger
2 5 (38.46%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) PMI
2 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) Code Quality
3 7 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (53.85%) TDD
4 6 (46.15%) Integration Patterns
5 5 (38.46%) Architectural Design
5 5 (38.46%) Concurrent Programming
5 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 5 (38.46%) Front End Development
5 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
5 5 (38.46%) Microservices
5 5 (38.46%) Multithreading
5 5 (38.46%) MVC
5 5 (38.46%) SDLC
5 5 (38.46%) Software Architecture
5 5 (38.46%) Static Code Analysis
5 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) Groovy
3 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) Python
5 1 (7.69%) COBOL
5 1 (7.69%) JCL
5 1 (7.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (15.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) CA Agile Central
1 5 (38.46%) Dynatrace
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
1 5 (38.46%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) UiPath