Postman Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Postman
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Postman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Postman 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.58% 0.20% -
As % of the Development Applications category 2.37% 1.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £339 - -
25th Percentile £346 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £388 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +3.33% -31.82% +19.57%

All Development Application Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 169 72 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.56% 14.60% 23.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 47 66
10th Percentile £311 £309 £265
25th Percentile £358 £364 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.61% +0.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £488 £578 £564
90th Percentile £580 £657 £587
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £515
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.62% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £39.00 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.75% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 -
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £46.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.35% +1.43% +2.62%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Postman job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Postman

Postman
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Knutsford - 3 £358 -
Postman
North West

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Apigee
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
1 3 (75.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Apigee Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (75.00%) JAX-RS
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) JWT
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Nightwatchjs
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) API Design
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk