Postman Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Postman
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Postman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 78 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Postman 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.55% 0.31% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.61% 2.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £391 -
25th Percentile £525 £434 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% - -
75th Percentile £575 £515 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £529 £468 £550
% change year-on-year +13.10% -15.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 152 122 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.00% 12.44% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 73 142
10th Percentile £358 £356 £414
25th Percentile £410 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £673 £625 £655
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £539
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.19% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 16
10th Percentile £40.00 £49.81 £55.00
25th Percentile £44.69 £60.81 £55.94
Median hourly rate £48.75 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £53.08 £70.63 -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Postman job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Postman

Postman
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Postman.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Postman

Postman
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Portsmouth - 5 - - 1
Farnborough -6 1 - -
Postman
South East

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Cucumber
2 5 (71.43%) Git
2 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 5 (71.43%) Selenium
2 5 (71.43%) WebDriver
3 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (28.57%) Gradle
4 2 (28.57%) JUnit
4 2 (28.57%) TestNG
5 1 (14.29%) Gatling
5 1 (14.29%) Maven
5 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
5 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Test Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) YAML
3 1 (14.29%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (57.14%) Exploratory Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
4 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) API Testing
5 2 (28.57%) BDD
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) Agile Testing
6 1 (14.29%) ATDD
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat