Postman Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Postman
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Postman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 61 73
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +16
Contract jobs citing Postman 2 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.34% 0.50% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.69% 2.97% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £403 £424
25th Percentile £313 £406 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £338 £419 £459
90th Percentile - £423 £476
Scotland median daily rate £325 £420 £470
% change year-on-year -22.62% -10.64% +4.44%

All Development Application Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 118 101 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.31% 16.72% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 66 110
10th Percentile £377 £381 £399
25th Percentile £419 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -3.65% +6.67%
75th Percentile £541 £518 £543
90th Percentile £625 £538 £588
Scotland median daily rate £470 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +3.30% -9.00% +7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.11 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +12.44%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Postman job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Postman

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) QA Officer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA