Postman Contracts in England

Postman
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Postman skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Postman over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 381 452
Rank change year-on-year +61 +71 -29
Contract jobs citing Postman 158 158 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.43% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.66% 3.69% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 126 135
10th Percentile £300 £360 £375
25th Percentile £375 £408 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £625
90th Percentile £575 £613 £690
UK median daily rate £428 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £55.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -19.31%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,392 4,282 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.11% 11.64% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,301 2,913 4,826
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 206 201
10th Percentile £27.54 £31.71 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +22.75%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.88 £77.75 £83.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.70%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Postman in England

Postman
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postman in England.

Daily rate trend for Postman in England

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in England

Postman
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Postman in England.

Hourly rate trend for Postman in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
London +10 81 £425 -10.53% 36
North of England +35 37 £460 +2.22% 26
Yorkshire +40 28 £488 +0.52% 16
Midlands +36 22 £450 +18.42% 14
West Midlands +29 15 £550 +53.85% 8
South East +62 11 £500 -1.23% 15
East Midlands +16 7 £438 +15.13% 6
North West +8 5 £445 -1.11% 8
North East - 4 £371 - 2
East of England - 3 £525 - 5
South West +35 1 - - 7
Postman
UK

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (11.39%) Confluence
2 5 (3.16%) Moodle
3 4 (2.53%) CMS
4 2 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.27%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.63%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.78%) Azure
2 34 (21.52%) AWS
3 21 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (7.59%) GitHub
5 10 (6.33%) BrowserStack
5 10 (6.33%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.80%) SaaS
6 6 (3.80%) Serverless
7 5 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.53%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.90%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.90%) Azure API Management
9 3 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.90%) GCP
9 3 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.90%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.70%) Firewall
1 9 (5.70%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.90%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.90%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.90%) Redis
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.27%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.27%) Power BI
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.63%) Big Data
6 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.63%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (41.14%) Selenium
2 52 (32.91%) Jenkins
3 50 (31.65%) JIRA
4 46 (29.11%) Git
5 39 (24.68%) REST Assured
6 38 (24.05%) Cypress.io
7 26 (16.46%) Cucumber
7 26 (16.46%) SoapUI
8 20 (12.66%) JMeter
9 19 (12.03%) GitLab
10 15 (9.49%) Maven
11 13 (8.23%) JUnit
12 12 (7.59%) Appium
13 11 (6.96%) TestNG
14 6 (3.80%) WebDriver
15 5 (3.16%) IntelliJ
15 5 (3.16%) LoadRunner
15 5 (3.16%) PHPUnit
15 5 (3.16%) SonarQube
15 5 (3.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.82%) Finance
3 16 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.59%) Banking
5 7 (4.43%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.90%) Marketing
6 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.27%) French Language
7 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.27%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.63%) Aviation
8 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.63%) Publishing
8 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (22.78%) Test Engineer
2 33 (20.89%) Tester
3 32 (20.25%) Senior
4 20 (12.66%) Developer
5 15 (9.49%) Analyst
5 15 (9.49%) QA Engineer
6 14 (8.86%) Automation Tester
7 13 (8.23%) Senior Test Engineer
8 12 (7.59%) Test Automation Engineer
9 10 (6.33%) QA Tester
10 8 (5.06%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Consultant
11 7 (4.43%) Lead
12 6 (3.80%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (3.80%) Test Analyst
12 6 (3.80%) Windows Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Moodle Developer
13 5 (3.16%) Senior QA Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.25%) REST
2 22 (13.92%) RESTful
3 16 (10.13%) Playwright
4 14 (8.86%) pytest
4 14 (8.86%) Swagger
4 14 (8.86%) Web Services
5 13 (8.23%) HTML
5 13 (8.23%) SOAP
6 11 (6.96%) CSS
6 11 (6.96%) HTML5
6 11 (6.96%) JSON
6 11 (6.96%) Kafka
6 11 (6.96%) XML
7 9 (5.70%) .NET
7 9 (5.70%) OpenAPI
8 8 (5.06%) CSS3
8 8 (5.06%) React
9 6 (3.80%) SAP Fiori
9 6 (3.80%) SAPUI5
10 5 (3.16%) Behat
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.70%) Mobile App
1 9 (5.70%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.80%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.16%) e-Learning
4 5 (3.16%) VLE
5 4 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.90%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.90%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.27%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.27%) PMI
7 2 (1.27%) Replication
7 2 (1.27%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.70%) Windows
2 7 (4.43%) Unix
3 6 (3.80%) Linux
4 4 (2.53%) AIX
5 3 (1.90%) Android
5 3 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.90%) Solaris
5 3 (1.90%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (62.66%) Test Automation
2 83 (52.53%) Agile
3 81 (51.27%) API Testing
4 57 (36.08%) CI/CD
5 53 (33.54%) DevOps
6 29 (18.35%) Test Scripting
7 27 (17.09%) Validation
8 26 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (16.46%) Test Strategy
9 24 (15.19%) BDD
10 22 (13.92%) Microservices
10 22 (13.92%) Scrum
11 21 (13.29%) Manual Testing
12 20 (12.66%) Code Quality
12 20 (12.66%) Performance Testing
13 16 (10.13%) End-to-End Testing
13 16 (10.13%) Non-Functional Testing
13 16 (10.13%) TDD
14 15 (9.49%) Regression Testing
14 15 (9.49%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 45 (28.48%) Java
2 41 (25.95%) JavaScript
3 35 (22.15%) Python
4 24 (15.19%) SQL
5 14 (8.86%) C#
6 8 (5.06%) ABAP
6 8 (5.06%) COBOL
7 6 (3.80%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.16%) PHP
9 4 (2.53%) Bash
9 4 (2.53%) Groovy
10 3 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.27%) Go
11 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.27%) SOQL
12 1 (0.63%) Ada
12 1 (0.63%) JCL
12 1 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (14.56%) SC Cleared
1 23 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (5.70%) Degree
3 7 (4.43%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.90%) CEH
4 3 (1.90%) CISSP
5 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (30.38%) QA
2 17 (10.76%) Accessibility
3 10 (6.33%) WCAG
4 2 (1.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (13.92%) Docker
2 9 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 11 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.33%) Ansible
3 9 (5.70%) Puppet
4 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (2.53%) Kibana
5 4 (2.53%) SCCM
6 3 (1.90%) Grafana
7 2 (1.27%) Terraform
8 1 (0.63%) Argo
8 1 (0.63%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 23 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.96%) MuleSoft
3 9 (5.70%) SAP
3 9 (5.70%) VMware
4 7 (4.43%) Oracle
5 4 (2.53%) Splunk
6 3 (1.90%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.90%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.27%) Adobe
7 2 (1.27%) Databricks
7 2 (1.27%) Nintex
8 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.63%) Informatica
8 1 (0.63%) Instagram
8 1 (0.63%) Okta
8 1 (0.63%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (0.63%) Snow