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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 268 304
Rank change year-on-year -38 +36 +121
Contract jobs citing Postman 92 81 91
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 0.63% 0.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.88% 4.44% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 71 79
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £387 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £585 £475 £600
90th Percentile £650 £565 £750
England median daily rate £450 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +4.59% -9.42% -9.52%

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 2,373 1,825 2,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.48% 14.17% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 1,250 1,651
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -5.78% -6.25%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £675
90th Percentile £729 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £502 £525
% change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 19
10th Percentile - £22.93 £24.40
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £28.98
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £76.75 £71.25 £58.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -9 13 £535 +25.88% 10
West London -25 2 £375 +9.97%
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 6 (6.52%) CMS
1 6 (6.52%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.17%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.17%) Mule
Business Applications
1 15 (16.30%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.09%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.26%) Azure
2 20 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
2 20 (21.74%) OCI
3 18 (19.57%) GitHub
3 18 (19.57%) PaaS
4 13 (14.13%) AWS
5 11 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.96%) IaaS
6 5 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.43%) BrowserStack
6 5 (5.43%) Serverless
7 4 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.26%) iPaaS
9 2 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (2.17%) Sentry
9 2 (2.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) HTTP
2 1 (1.09%) DSL
2 1 (1.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) Big Data
1 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.09%) Power BI
4 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.09%) Redis
4 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (41.30%) Selenium
2 25 (27.17%) Jenkins
3 22 (23.91%) Git
4 20 (21.74%) Cucumber
4 20 (21.74%) REST Assured
5 17 (18.48%) JIRA
6 16 (17.39%) GitLab
7 13 (14.13%) Cypress.io
8 10 (10.87%) JUnit
9 9 (9.78%) JMeter
9 9 (9.78%) SoapUI
10 7 (7.61%) SpecFlow
11 5 (5.43%) WebDriver
12 4 (4.35%) Appium
12 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket
12 4 (4.35%) Maven
12 4 (4.35%) Mockito
12 4 (4.35%) Robot Framework
12 4 (4.35%) TestRail
12 4 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 19 (20.65%) Finance
4 11 (11.96%) Banking
5 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.52%) Marketing
7 4 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.35%) Military
8 3 (3.26%) Back Office
8 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Front Office
9 2 (2.17%) Police
10 1 (1.09%) Legal
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (16.30%) Tester
2 13 (14.13%) Cloud Specialist
2 13 (14.13%) Integration Specialist
2 13 (14.13%) Oracle Specialist
3 12 (13.04%) Test Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Analyst
4 10 (10.87%) Automation Tester
5 9 (9.78%) QA Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Test Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Developer
6 7 (7.61%) Senior
7 5 (5.43%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Lead
8 4 (4.35%) QA Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) Architect
10 2 (2.17%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.04%) REST
2 29 (31.52%) JSON
3 25 (27.17%) SOAP
4 24 (26.09%) XML
5 20 (21.74%) Web Services
6 19 (20.65%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (20.65%) Playwright
7 15 (16.30%) OAuth
8 13 (14.13%) JWT
9 12 (13.04%) XSLT
10 10 (10.87%) .NET
11 9 (9.78%) pytest
12 8 (8.70%) RESTful
13 7 (7.61%) Gherkin
14 6 (6.52%) CSS
14 6 (6.52%) HTML
14 6 (6.52%) Spring
15 5 (5.43%) Kafka
15 5 (5.43%) Spring Boot
15 5 (5.43%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.52%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.26%) Android
1 3 (3.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (56.52%) Test Automation
2 45 (48.91%) CI/CD
3 44 (47.83%) Agile
3 44 (47.83%) DevOps
4 40 (43.48%) API Testing
5 23 (25.00%) Scrum
6 22 (23.91%) ERP
7 20 (21.74%) Validation
8 19 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (20.65%) Unit Testing
9 18 (19.57%) Test Scripting
10 15 (16.30%) Regression Testing
10 15 (16.30%) Sprint Planning
11 13 (14.13%) BDD
11 13 (14.13%) Software Testing
12 11 (11.96%) Microservices
12 11 (11.96%) SDLC
12 11 (11.96%) Test Strategy
13 10 (10.87%) Data Validation
13 10 (10.87%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 29 (31.52%) Java
2 20 (21.74%) C#
3 15 (16.30%) SQL
4 13 (14.13%) Python
5 10 (10.87%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.26%) VB.NET
6 3 (3.26%) XPath
7 2 (2.17%) DataWeave
7 2 (2.17%) Groovy
7 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.17%) Ruby
7 2 (2.17%) Swift
8 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.35%) Degree
5 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (29.35%) QA
2 8 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.35%) GDPR
4 3 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.09%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.09%) MiFID
6 1 (1.09%) NCSC
6 1 (1.09%) NIST
6 1 (1.09%) PMO
6 1 (1.09%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (11.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Grafana
2 2 (2.17%) Kibana
2 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.09%) Ansible
3 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (28.26%) Oracle
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.26%) SAP
3 3 (3.26%) UiPath
4 2 (2.17%) Adobe
4 2 (2.17%) Concur
4 2 (2.17%) Dell
4 2 (2.17%) Micro Focus
4 2 (2.17%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.17%) OpenText
4 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.17%) Splunk
5 1 (1.09%) Aprimo
5 1 (1.09%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.09%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.09%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.09%) Reuters
5 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.09%) Sybase