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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 287 266
Rank change year-on-year -81 -21 +101
Contract jobs citing Postman 75 77 120
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.57% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.95% 3.67% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 59 92
10th Percentile £356 £355 £375
25th Percentile £469 £373 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +2.46% -11.27%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £570
90th Percentile £632 £642 £692
England median daily rate £400 £470 £488
% change year-on-year -14.89% -3.69% -11.27%

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 2,544 2,098 2,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.64% 15.47% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,634 1,433 1,599
10th Percentile £363 £338 £363
25th Percentile £440 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 22
10th Percentile - £26.98 £22.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.70% -33.93%
75th Percentile £72.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £84.50 £71.81
England median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -23 15 £550 +46.67% 2
South London -8 2 - -
North London - 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 19 (25.33%) CMS
2 6 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.33%) Confluence
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.33%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (30.67%) AWS
2 19 (25.33%) Azure
3 18 (24.00%) GitHub
4 8 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (9.33%) GCP
6 6 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.00%) Serverless
7 5 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.00%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.67%) IaaS
9 2 (2.67%) OCI
9 2 (2.67%) PaaS
9 2 (2.67%) SaaS
10 1 (1.33%) Apigee
10 1 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (6.67%) Tableau
2 4 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (5.33%) DynamoDB
2 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.33%) Big Data
5 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.33%) Power BI
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 22 (29.33%) JMeter
2 22 (29.33%) Selenium
3 13 (17.33%) Cypress.io
3 13 (17.33%) REST Assured
4 12 (16.00%) Cucumber
4 12 (16.00%) Git
4 12 (16.00%) JIRA
5 11 (14.67%) GitLab
6 10 (13.33%) SoapUI
7 9 (12.00%) LoadRunner
8 5 (6.67%) Appium
8 5 (6.67%) eggPlant
8 5 (6.67%) JUnit
8 5 (6.67%) SonarQube
9 4 (5.33%) Mockito
9 4 (5.33%) SpecFlow
10 3 (4.00%) Maven
10 3 (4.00%) Newman
10 3 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (34.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (28.00%) Marketing
3 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (17.33%) Finance
5 8 (10.67%) Banking
6 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Front Office
8 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 22 (29.33%) Analyst
2 12 (16.00%) Systems Analyst
2 12 (16.00%) Tester
3 11 (14.67%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Lead
6 7 (9.33%) Senior
6 7 (9.33%) Technical Analyst
7 6 (8.00%) Developer
8 4 (5.33%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Automation Tester
9 3 (4.00%) Integration Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Integration Architect
10 2 (2.67%) IT Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.00%) REST
1 15 (20.00%) SOAP
2 14 (18.67%) Playwright
3 11 (14.67%) Kafka
3 11 (14.67%) XML
4 10 (13.33%) Swagger
5 9 (12.00%) JSON
6 8 (10.67%) .NET
7 7 (9.33%) Web Services
8 6 (8.00%) Gherkin
8 6 (8.00%) Middleware
9 5 (6.67%) HTML
9 5 (6.67%) OAuth
9 5 (6.67%) RESTful
10 4 (5.33%) Spring
10 4 (5.33%) Spring Boot
10 4 (5.33%) WireMock
10 4 (5.33%) XBRL
10 4 (5.33%) YAML
11 3 (4.00%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 23 (30.67%) Product Ownership
2 10 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 7 (9.33%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Linux
1 5 (6.67%) Unix
2 2 (2.67%) Android
2 2 (2.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (57.33%) Test Automation
2 42 (56.00%) DevOps
3 41 (54.67%) Agile
4 38 (50.67%) CI/CD
5 29 (38.67%) Scrum
6 25 (33.33%) API Testing
6 25 (33.33%) Microservices
7 22 (29.33%) Test Strategy
8 21 (28.00%) Kanban
8 21 (28.00%) Sprint Planning
9 20 (26.67%) Performance Testing
10 19 (25.33%) Product Vision
11 17 (22.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (22.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (21.33%) User Stories
13 14 (18.67%) Technical Analysis
14 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (17.33%) Validation
15 12 (16.00%) End-to-End Testing
16 11 (14.67%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.67%) Java
2 23 (30.67%) Python
3 15 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (18.67%) SQL
5 11 (14.67%) C#
6 6 (8.00%) Bash
6 6 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.33%) Ruby
7 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.00%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.33%) Groovy
9 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.00%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) ISEB
5 2 (2.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (25.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.33%) NIST
3 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.33%) PMO
3 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (9.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (17.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.33%) Ansible
2 7 (9.33%) Grafana
3 6 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.67%) HP Fortify
5 4 (5.33%) Control-M
6 1 (1.33%) HP ALM
6 1 (1.33%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.33%) Kibana
6 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Oracle
2 7 (9.33%) SAP
3 6 (8.00%) IBM
4 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.00%) Databricks
5 3 (4.00%) Micro Focus
5 3 (4.00%) OpenText
6 2 (2.67%) HP
7 1 (1.33%) Adobe
7 1 (1.33%) Aprimo
7 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.33%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.33%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.33%) Brio
7 1 (1.33%) Dell
7 1 (1.33%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.33%) Reuters
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.33%) SimCorp