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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 263 325
Rank change year-on-year -33 +62 +68
Contract jobs citing Postman 72 126 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 0.79% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.39% 5.47% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 93 84
10th Percentile £343 £371 £377
25th Percentile £359 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +8.91%
75th Percentile £567 £551 £600
90th Percentile £638 £613 £725
England median daily rate £451 £468 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% -15.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

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 2,125 2,302 2,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.89% 14.39% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 1,536 2,196
10th Percentile £356 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 29
10th Percentile £36.63 £25.39 £31.00
25th Percentile £41.69 £31.71 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -19.57% +35.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.80 £75.00
90th Percentile £107.88 £71.88 £87.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 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
Central London +4 14 £368 -13.53% 3
East London 0 2 £450 +5.88% 1
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 8 (11.11%) Confluence
2 4 (5.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.39%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.39%) CICS
3 1 (1.39%) Mule
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (43.06%) Azure
2 14 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (13.89%) AWS
4 7 (9.72%) GitHub
4 7 (9.72%) PaaS
4 7 (9.72%) Serverless
5 6 (8.33%) OCI
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Functions
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (6.94%) Sentry
7 4 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (5.56%) BrowserStack
7 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.17%) GCP
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.78%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.94%) HTTP
2 1 (1.39%) DHCP
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.39%) Internet
2 1 (1.39%) SSL
2 1 (1.39%) VPN
2 1 (1.39%) Wireless
2 1 (1.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.72%) Redis
3 6 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.39%) DB2
5 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.39%) Metadata
5 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.39%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (31.94%) JIRA
2 20 (27.78%) Selenium
3 18 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 17 (23.61%) Jenkins
5 16 (22.22%) Git
6 13 (18.06%) Cucumber
6 13 (18.06%) SoapUI
7 12 (16.67%) JUnit
8 10 (13.89%) Maven
9 9 (12.50%) Cypress.io
9 9 (12.50%) SonarQube
10 8 (11.11%) Appium
10 8 (11.11%) GitLab
11 7 (9.72%) JMeter
12 6 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
12 6 (8.33%) Mockito
12 6 (8.33%) Subversion
12 6 (8.33%) Xcode
12 6 (8.33%) XCTest
General
1 26 (36.11%) Finance
2 22 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 14 (19.44%) Banking
4 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.56%) Back Office
6 4 (5.56%) Marketing
7 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Front Office
8 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.39%) Automotive
9 1 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Retail
9 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (19.44%) Tester
2 12 (16.67%) Senior
3 11 (15.28%) Analyst
4 10 (13.89%) Test Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Developer
5 7 (9.72%) Test Automation Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Automation Tester
7 5 (6.94%) QA Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Cloud Specialist
8 4 (5.56%) Integration Specialist
8 4 (5.56%) Oracle Specialist
8 4 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Business Analyst
9 3 (4.17%) Consultant
9 3 (4.17%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Tester
9 3 (4.17%) Test Analyst
10 2 (2.78%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (37.50%) REST
2 21 (29.17%) Web Services
3 17 (23.61%) SOAP
4 16 (22.22%) JSON
5 13 (18.06%) Swagger
6 11 (15.28%) XML
7 9 (12.50%) .NET
8 8 (11.11%) HTML
8 8 (11.11%) RESTful
8 8 (11.11%) Spring
9 7 (9.72%) CSS
9 7 (9.72%) Hibernate
9 7 (9.72%) JPA
9 7 (9.72%) Playwright
9 7 (9.72%) Spring Boot
10 6 (8.33%) J2EE
10 6 (8.33%) Material-UI
10 6 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (8.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Mobile App
2 9 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (9.72%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.39%) PMI
6 1 (1.39%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.39%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 7 (9.72%) Android
3 6 (8.33%) Unix
4 3 (4.17%) Linux
5 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (61.11%) Agile
2 39 (54.17%) Test Automation
3 27 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 27 (37.50%) DevOps
4 23 (31.94%) API Testing
5 22 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (26.39%) Microservices
6 19 (26.39%) Test Scripting
7 18 (25.00%) Scrum
8 15 (20.83%) Validation
9 13 (18.06%) Regression Testing
9 13 (18.06%) TDD
10 12 (16.67%) Test Strategy
10 12 (16.67%) Unit Testing
11 11 (15.28%) Computer Science
11 11 (15.28%) SDLC
11 11 (15.28%) Software Testing
12 10 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (12.50%) Code Quality
14 8 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (34.72%) Java
2 15 (20.83%) SQL
3 14 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 10 (13.89%) C#
5 7 (9.72%) Kotlin
6 6 (8.33%) Groovy
6 6 (8.33%) Python
6 6 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.33%) Swift
7 5 (6.94%) VB.NET
8 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.39%) Ada
10 1 (1.39%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.39%) Bash
10 1 (1.39%) COBOL
10 1 (1.39%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.39%) JCL
10 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.67%) Degree
2 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared
2 11 (15.28%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.94%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.39%) QA
2 11 (15.28%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.56%) WCAG
4 2 (2.78%) GDPR
5 1 (1.39%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Control-M
2 1 (1.39%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.39%) Kibana
2 1 (1.39%) logstash
2 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Oracle
1 14 (19.44%) Splunk
2 7 (9.72%) CA Agile Central
3 6 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 6 (8.33%) UiPath
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.78%) Google
6 2 (2.78%) Pega
7 1 (1.39%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.39%) Citrix
7 1 (1.39%) Databricks
7 1 (1.39%) Dell
7 1 (1.39%) Informatica
7 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.39%) SnapLogic
7 1 (1.39%) Spotify
7 1 (1.39%) Zscaler