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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 273 300
Rank change year-on-year -9 +27 +95
Contract jobs citing Postman 99 97 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.64% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.36% 4.65% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 78 83
10th Percentile £336 £341 £384
25th Percentile £363 £376 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £535
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -20.56% +7.00%
75th Percentile £565 £478 £600
90th Percentile £638 £588 £675
England median daily rate £468 £428 £538
% change year-on-year +9.47% -20.50% +7.55%
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 - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - -37.50%

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 2,270 2,086 2,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.78% 13.84% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,550 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £357 £349 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 22
10th Percentile £38.80 £28.75 £25.80
25th Percentile £42.44 £41.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £50.75 £67.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.81% +31.71% -10.87%
75th Percentile £75.31 £83.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £90.25 £73.74
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 19 December 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 19 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
Central London -1 15 £450 +5.88% 2
East London 0 2 £450 +5.88%
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 12 (12.12%) Confluence
2 4 (4.04%) CMS
3 2 (2.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.02%) Anypoint
3 2 (2.02%) Mule
4 1 (1.01%) CICS
Business Applications
1 11 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.01%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.36%) Azure
2 19 (19.19%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (17.17%) OCI
3 17 (17.17%) PaaS
4 15 (15.15%) AWS
5 13 (13.13%) GitHub
6 10 (10.10%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (9.09%) Serverless
8 8 (8.08%) IaaS
9 5 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Functions
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (5.05%) Sentry
10 4 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.04%) BrowserStack
10 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.04%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.04%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.07%) HTTP
2 1 (1.01%) DHCP
2 1 (1.01%) DNS
2 1 (1.01%) DSL
2 1 (1.01%) Firewall
2 1 (1.01%) Internet
2 1 (1.01%) SSL
2 1 (1.01%) VPN
2 1 (1.01%) Wireless
2 1 (1.01%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.06%) Redis
3 5 (5.05%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.02%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.02%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.01%) Big Data
5 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.01%) DB2
5 1 (1.01%) Metadata
5 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.01%) Power BI
5 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (33.33%) Selenium
2 30 (30.30%) JIRA
3 23 (23.23%) Jenkins
4 20 (20.20%) Cucumber
5 19 (19.19%) REST Assured
6 18 (18.18%) Git
7 15 (15.15%) JUnit
8 14 (14.14%) SoapUI
9 12 (12.12%) GitLab
10 11 (11.11%) Cypress.io
11 9 (9.09%) Maven
11 9 (9.09%) SonarQube
12 8 (8.08%) JMeter
13 7 (7.07%) TestRail
14 6 (6.06%) Appium
14 6 (6.06%) Bitbucket
14 6 (6.06%) Charles Proxy
14 6 (6.06%) Katalon Studio
14 6 (6.06%) Xcode
14 6 (6.06%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (35.35%) Social Skills
2 29 (29.29%) Finance
3 21 (21.21%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.12%) Banking
5 8 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.06%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.05%) Back Office
8 4 (4.04%) Marketing
9 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.03%) Front Office
10 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.01%) Legal
11 1 (1.01%) Military
11 1 (1.01%) Police
11 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.01%) Retail
11 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (20.20%) Tester
2 12 (12.12%) Test Engineer
3 11 (11.11%) Analyst
3 11 (11.11%) Cloud Specialist
3 11 (11.11%) Integration Specialist
3 11 (11.11%) Oracle Specialist
3 11 (11.11%) Senior
4 9 (9.09%) Automation Tester
4 9 (9.09%) Developer
4 9 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) QA Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Senior Tester
8 3 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Consultant
8 3 (3.03%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Senior Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (37.37%) REST
2 31 (31.31%) JSON
3 28 (28.28%) Web Services
4 27 (27.27%) SOAP
5 24 (24.24%) XML
6 16 (16.16%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (12.12%) Playwright
7 12 (12.12%) RESTful
7 12 (12.12%) Swagger
8 11 (11.11%) OAuth
9 10 (10.10%) .NET
9 10 (10.10%) HTML
9 10 (10.10%) XSLT
10 9 (9.09%) CSS
10 9 (9.09%) JWT
11 8 (8.08%) Spring
12 7 (7.07%) Hibernate
12 7 (7.07%) Spring Boot
13 6 (6.06%) Bootstrap
13 6 (6.06%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.08%) Mobile App
2 8 (8.08%) Public Cloud
3 7 (7.07%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.01%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.01%) PKI
6 1 (1.01%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.01%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.01%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.08%) Apple iOS
2 7 (7.07%) Android
3 5 (5.05%) Unix
4 4 (4.04%) Linux
5 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 53 (53.54%) Agile
3 40 (40.40%) DevOps
4 37 (37.37%) API Testing
5 36 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 25 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (25.25%) Scrum
6 25 (25.25%) Validation
7 24 (24.24%) Test Scripting
8 22 (22.22%) Unit Testing
9 20 (20.20%) ERP
9 20 (20.20%) Microservices
10 19 (19.19%) Regression Testing
11 17 (17.17%) Test Strategy
12 15 (15.15%) SDLC
12 15 (15.15%) TDD
13 13 (13.13%) Software Testing
14 11 (11.11%) Computer Science
14 11 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (10.10%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.33%) Java
2 21 (21.21%) SQL
3 16 (16.16%) C#
3 16 (16.16%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.10%) Python
5 5 (5.05%) Groovy
5 5 (5.05%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.05%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.05%) Swift
5 5 (5.05%) VB.NET
6 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.03%) XPath
8 2 (2.02%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.01%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.01%) Bash
9 1 (1.01%) COBOL
9 1 (1.01%) JCL
9 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.01%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 26 (26.26%) Security Cleared
2 25 (25.25%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.12%) Degree
4 6 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.05%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.04%) ISTQB
7 3 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (25.25%) QA
2 12 (12.12%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.04%) GDPR
4 3 (3.03%) WCAG
5 1 (1.01%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.01%) MiFID
5 1 (1.01%) NCSC
5 1 (1.01%) NIST
5 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.01%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (14.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.02%) Terraform
3 1 (1.01%) Control-M
3 1 (1.01%) Grafana
3 1 (1.01%) Kibana
3 1 (1.01%) logstash
3 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (27.27%) Oracle
2 13 (13.13%) Splunk
3 6 (6.06%) CA Agile Central
3 6 (6.06%) UiPath
4 5 (5.05%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.04%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.02%) Adobe
7 2 (2.02%) Dell
7 2 (2.02%) Google
7 2 (2.02%) Pega
7 2 (2.02%) SAP
8 1 (1.01%) Citrix
8 1 (1.01%) Concur
8 1 (1.01%) Informatica
8 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.01%) SnapLogic
8 1 (1.01%) Sybase
8 1 (1.01%) Workday