Postman Contract Job Trends in London

Postman
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Postman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 276 269
Rank change year-on-year -69 -7 +112
Contract jobs citing Postman 83 71 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.58% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.47% 3.79% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 57 95
10th Percentile £363 £351 £372
25th Percentile £459 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £425 £480
Median % change year-on-year +31.76% -11.46% -16.52%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £723
England median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -13.64%

All Development Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,390 1,873 2,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.67% 15.22% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,563 1,259 1,713
10th Percentile £360 £353 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £653 £671
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 27
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% -46.67%
75th Percentile £73.94 £52.50 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.88 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Postman job vacancy trend in London

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Postman

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in London

Postman
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
Central London -21 11 £550 +29.41% 1
South London -7 2 - -
West London -21 2 £375 +7.91%
Postman
England

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (22.89%) CMS
2 1 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.41%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (1.20%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.10%) AWS
1 20 (24.10%) Azure
2 17 (20.48%) GitHub
3 12 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.64%) OCI
5 7 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (8.43%) PaaS
6 6 (7.23%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.23%) Serverless
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.02%) BrowserStack
7 5 (6.02%) GCP
7 5 (6.02%) IaaS
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.41%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (2.41%) Boomi
8 2 (2.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) Firewall
1 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (4.82%) Big Data
2 4 (4.82%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Power BI
5 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (31.33%) Selenium
2 24 (28.92%) Jenkins
3 17 (20.48%) Git
4 16 (19.28%) JMeter
4 16 (19.28%) REST Assured
5 14 (16.87%) GitLab
6 12 (14.46%) Cypress.io
7 11 (13.25%) Cucumber
8 7 (8.43%) JIRA
9 6 (7.23%) SoapUI
10 5 (6.02%) Appium
10 5 (6.02%) Robot Framework
10 5 (6.02%) WebDriver
11 4 (4.82%) JUnit
11 4 (4.82%) Mockito
11 4 (4.82%) SpecFlow
12 3 (3.61%) LoadRunner
13 2 (2.41%) Browser DevTools
13 2 (2.41%) Maven
13 2 (2.41%) NUnit
General
1 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.30%) Marketing
3 15 (18.07%) Finance
4 13 (15.66%) Public Sector
5 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.43%) Banking
7 3 (3.61%) Military
8 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Front Office
8 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Legal
8 1 (1.20%) Legal Technology
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Police
8 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Analyst
2 13 (15.66%) Tester
3 11 (13.25%) Systems Analyst
4 8 (9.64%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) QA Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Technical Analyst
4 8 (9.64%) Test Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Test Automation Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Cloud Specialist
6 6 (7.23%) Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Integration Specialist
6 6 (7.23%) Oracle Specialist
6 6 (7.23%) Senior
7 5 (6.02%) Automation Tester
8 4 (4.82%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Lead
9 3 (3.61%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.41%) Integration Developer
10 2 (2.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (26.51%) REST
2 15 (18.07%) Playwright
3 14 (16.87%) SOAP
4 13 (15.66%) JSON
5 10 (12.05%) XML
6 9 (10.84%) OAuth
6 9 (10.84%) Swagger
7 8 (9.64%) Gherkin
7 8 (9.64%) Web Services
8 7 (8.43%) JWT
8 7 (8.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (8.43%) pytest
9 6 (7.23%) RESTful
9 6 (7.23%) XSLT
10 5 (6.02%) Kafka
11 4 (4.82%) .NET
11 4 (4.82%) Spring
11 4 (4.82%) Spring Boot
11 4 (4.82%) WireMock
11 4 (4.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.12%) Product Ownership
2 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.64%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (7.23%) Public Cloud
5 5 (6.02%) Mobile App
6 4 (4.82%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.20%) NHS
8 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Android
1 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.83%) DevOps
2 45 (54.22%) Agile
2 45 (54.22%) Test Automation
3 44 (53.01%) CI/CD
4 30 (36.14%) API Testing
4 30 (36.14%) Scrum
5 25 (30.12%) Sprint Planning
6 21 (25.30%) Microservices
7 20 (24.10%) Kanban
8 19 (22.89%) Product Vision
9 17 (20.48%) Performance Testing
10 16 (19.28%) Validation
11 15 (18.07%) User Stories
12 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (16.87%) Test Strategy
13 13 (15.66%) Test Scripting
14 12 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (14.46%) Technical Analysis
15 11 (13.25%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.69%) Python
2 16 (19.28%) Java
3 12 (14.46%) C#
4 11 (13.25%) SQL
5 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.43%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.23%) Bash
8 4 (4.82%) Ruby
8 4 (4.82%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.20%) Groovy
9 1 (1.20%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.61%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.20%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (27.71%) QA
2 6 (7.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.61%) GDPR
3 3 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.20%) NIST
4 1 (1.20%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
4 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (10.84%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.43%) Ansible
2 7 (8.43%) Grafana
2 7 (8.43%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.41%) Kibana
4 1 (1.20%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) Oracle
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) Concur
3 3 (3.61%) Databricks
3 3 (3.61%) Micro Focus
3 3 (3.61%) OpenText
3 3 (3.61%) SAP
4 2 (2.41%) Adobe
4 2 (2.41%) Dell
4 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.20%) Aprimo
5 1 (1.20%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.20%) Brio
5 1 (1.20%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.20%) HP
5 1 (1.20%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.20%) Reuters
5 1 (1.20%) SimCorp