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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 277 308
Rank change year-on-year -22 +31 +78
Contract jobs citing Postman 83 96 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.61% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.63% 4.42% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 71 89
10th Percentile £315 £350 £380
25th Percentile £363 £378 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% +9.45%
75th Percentile £567 £558 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £738
England median daily rate £475 £445 £550
% change year-on-year +6.74% -19.09% +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 2,284 2,170 2,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.13% 13.81% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,566 1,429 2,019
10th Percentile £350 £356 £400
25th Percentile £425 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
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 9 6 29
10th Percentile £39.95 £26.54 £29.15
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.87 £41.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £49.47 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -10.06% +4.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.80 £73.65
90th Percentile £110.00 £83.13 £79.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 21 November 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 21 November 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 0 14 £513 +20.59% 18
East London +3 2 £450 +5.88% 2
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 11 (13.25%) Confluence
2 4 (4.82%) CMS
3 2 (2.41%) Anypoint
3 2 (2.41%) Mule
4 1 (1.20%) CICS
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (39.76%) Azure
2 16 (19.28%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (15.66%) AWS
4 10 (12.05%) GitHub
5 9 (10.84%) PaaS
5 9 (10.84%) Serverless
6 8 (9.64%) OCI
7 7 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.02%) Azure Functions
8 5 (6.02%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (6.02%) Sentry
9 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.82%) BrowserStack
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.61%) GCP
10 3 (3.61%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) HTTP
2 1 (1.20%) DHCP
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) Internet
2 1 (1.20%) SSL
2 1 (1.20%) VPN
2 1 (1.20%) Wireless
2 1 (1.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.23%) Redis
3 5 (6.02%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.20%) DB2
5 1 (1.20%) Metadata
5 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.20%) Power BI
5 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (32.53%) JIRA
1 27 (32.53%) Selenium
2 20 (24.10%) Jenkins
3 18 (21.69%) Cucumber
3 18 (21.69%) Git
4 16 (19.28%) REST Assured
5 14 (16.87%) JUnit
6 11 (13.25%) Cypress.io
6 11 (13.25%) GitLab
7 10 (12.05%) Maven
7 10 (12.05%) SoapUI
8 9 (10.84%) SonarQube
9 7 (8.43%) Appium
9 7 (8.43%) JMeter
10 6 (7.23%) Bitbucket
10 6 (7.23%) Charles Proxy
10 6 (7.23%) Katalon Studio
10 6 (7.23%) TestRail
10 6 (7.23%) Xcode
11 5 (6.02%) XCUITest
General
1 27 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 26 (31.33%) Finance
3 15 (18.07%) Public Sector
4 13 (15.66%) Banking
5 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.43%) Investment Banking
7 5 (6.02%) Back Office
8 4 (4.82%) Marketing
9 3 (3.61%) Front Office
10 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.20%) Automotive
11 1 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.20%) Police
11 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.20%) Retail
11 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (21.69%) Tester
2 13 (15.66%) Test Engineer
3 12 (14.46%) Senior
4 11 (13.25%) Analyst
5 10 (12.05%) Test Automation Engineer
6 9 (10.84%) Developer
7 8 (9.64%) Automation Tester
8 5 (6.02%) Cloud Specialist
8 5 (6.02%) Integration Specialist
8 5 (6.02%) Oracle Specialist
8 5 (6.02%) QA Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Senior Tester
10 3 (3.61%) Consultant
10 3 (3.61%) Quality Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Quality Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Test Analyst
11 2 (2.41%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.53%) REST
2 21 (25.30%) Web Services
3 20 (24.10%) JSON
4 18 (21.69%) SOAP
5 14 (16.87%) XML
6 12 (14.46%) Swagger
7 11 (13.25%) .NET
8 9 (10.84%) HTML
8 9 (10.84%) Playwright
8 9 (10.84%) RESTful
9 8 (9.64%) CSS
9 8 (9.64%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (9.64%) Spring
10 7 (8.43%) Hibernate
10 7 (8.43%) Spring Boot
11 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
11 6 (7.23%) Bootstrap
11 6 (7.23%) HTML5
11 6 (7.23%) JPA
11 6 (7.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Mobile App
2 8 (9.64%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.20%) PKI
7 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.20%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Apple iOS
2 7 (8.43%) Android
3 5 (6.02%) Unix
4 4 (4.82%) Linux
5 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.83%) Test Automation
2 46 (55.42%) Agile
3 31 (37.35%) API Testing
3 31 (37.35%) DevOps
4 30 (36.14%) CI/CD
5 25 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (28.92%) Scrum
7 21 (25.30%) Test Scripting
8 20 (24.10%) Microservices
9 19 (22.89%) Validation
10 16 (19.28%) Unit Testing
11 15 (18.07%) Regression Testing
11 15 (18.07%) Test Strategy
12 14 (16.87%) Software Testing
12 14 (16.87%) TDD
13 13 (15.66%) SDLC
14 12 (14.46%) Computer Science
15 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 10 (12.05%) ERP
17 9 (10.84%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (36.14%) Java
2 19 (22.89%) SQL
3 14 (16.87%) C#
3 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.43%) Python
5 6 (7.23%) Kotlin
5 6 (7.23%) VB.NET
6 5 (6.02%) Groovy
6 5 (6.02%) Shell Script
6 5 (6.02%) Swift
7 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.82%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.41%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.20%) Bash
9 1 (1.20%) COBOL
9 1 (1.20%) JCL
9 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.20%) SOQL
9 1 (1.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) SC Cleared
1 18 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.66%) Degree
3 7 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.02%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.61%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (26.51%) QA
2 13 (15.66%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.82%) WCAG
4 2 (2.41%) GDPR
5 1 (1.20%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.20%) NIST
5 1 (1.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (16.87%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) Control-M
3 1 (1.20%) Grafana
3 1 (1.20%) Kibana
3 1 (1.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Oracle
2 13 (15.66%) Splunk
3 7 (8.43%) UiPath
4 6 (7.23%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (6.02%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.82%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.41%) Google
8 2 (2.41%) Pega
9 1 (1.20%) Citrix
9 1 (1.20%) Databricks
9 1 (1.20%) Dell
9 1 (1.20%) Informatica
9 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.20%) SnapLogic
9 1 (1.20%) Spotify
9 1 (1.20%) Sybase
9 1 (1.20%) Zscaler