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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 242 358
Rank change year-on-year -38 +116 +39
Contract jobs citing Postman 81 138 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.86% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.86% 5.84% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 99 78
10th Percentile £350 £375 £379
25th Percentile £374 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -12.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £690
England median daily rate £450 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -7.69% -11.36% +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 2,099 2,365 3,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.85% 14.70% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 1,595 2,409
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £419 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £768 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.28 £32.38
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £52.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £105.75 £71.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Postman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Postman 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -5 13 £368 -13.53% 2
East London +4 2 £450 +5.88%
South London -7 1 - -
West London - 1 £395 - 1
Postman
England

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.41%) Confluence
2 4 (4.94%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) CICS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.23%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 35 (43.21%) Azure
2 16 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (18.52%) AWS
4 13 (16.05%) GitHub
5 10 (12.35%) Serverless
6 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Functions
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (6.17%) BrowserStack
6 5 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.17%) PaaS
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (4.94%) GCP
7 4 (4.94%) OCI
7 4 (4.94%) Sentry
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.64%) HTTP
2 1 (1.23%) DHCP
2 1 (1.23%) DNS
2 1 (1.23%) Internet
2 1 (1.23%) SSL
2 1 (1.23%) VPN
2 1 (1.23%) Wireless
2 1 (1.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.64%) Redis
3 6 (7.41%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.23%) Big Data
6 1 (1.23%) DB2
6 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.23%) Metadata
6 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.23%) Power BI
6 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (30.86%) JIRA
2 23 (28.40%) REST Assured
3 20 (24.69%) Selenium
4 19 (23.46%) Jenkins
5 18 (22.22%) Git
6 17 (20.99%) SoapUI
7 12 (14.81%) JUnit
8 11 (13.58%) Cypress.io
9 10 (12.35%) Maven
10 9 (11.11%) Cucumber
10 9 (11.11%) JMeter
11 8 (9.88%) Appium
12 7 (8.64%) SonarQube
13 6 (7.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (7.41%) Bitbucket
13 6 (7.41%) GitLab
13 6 (7.41%) Mockito
13 6 (7.41%) Subversion
13 6 (7.41%) Xcode
13 6 (7.41%) XCTest
General
1 29 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 26 (32.10%) Finance
3 13 (16.05%) Banking
4 12 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.94%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.94%) Marketing
6 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Back Office
7 2 (2.47%) Retail
7 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.23%) Automotive
8 1 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.23%) French Language
8 1 (1.23%) Front Office
8 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (18.52%) Analyst
1 15 (18.52%) Tester
2 10 (12.35%) Senior
2 10 (12.35%) Test Engineer
3 9 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Developer
4 7 (8.64%) Test Automation Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Quality Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) Automation Tester
6 5 (6.17%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Lead
7 4 (4.94%) QA Tester
7 4 (4.94%) Test Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Cloud Specialist
8 3 (3.70%) Consultant
8 3 (3.70%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Oracle Specialist
8 3 (3.70%) Senior Quality Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.04%) REST
2 22 (27.16%) Web Services
3 18 (22.22%) Swagger
4 17 (20.99%) SOAP
5 14 (17.28%) JSON
6 11 (13.58%) HTML
7 10 (12.35%) CSS
7 10 (12.35%) RESTful
7 10 (12.35%) XML
8 9 (11.11%) HTML5
8 9 (11.11%) Kafka
8 9 (11.11%) OpenAPI
8 9 (11.11%) Playwright
9 7 (8.64%) Hibernate
9 7 (8.64%) JPA
9 7 (8.64%) Spring
9 7 (8.64%) Spring Boot
10 6 (7.41%) .NET
10 6 (7.41%) J2EE
10 6 (7.41%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Mobile App
2 10 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.17%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.70%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.47%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.23%) PKI
8 1 (1.23%) PMI
8 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.23%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.64%) Apple iOS
2 6 (7.41%) Android
2 6 (7.41%) Unix
3 2 (2.47%) Linux
4 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (60.49%) Agile
2 43 (53.09%) Test Automation
3 32 (39.51%) CI/CD
4 31 (38.27%) DevOps
5 27 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (30.86%) API Testing
7 23 (28.40%) Microservices
8 21 (25.93%) Scrum
9 20 (24.69%) Test Scripting
10 19 (23.46%) Validation
11 18 (22.22%) Regression Testing
12 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (14.81%) SDLC
12 12 (14.81%) Software Testing
12 12 (14.81%) TDD
13 11 (13.58%) Performance Testing
13 11 (13.58%) Unit Testing
14 10 (12.35%) Code Quality
14 10 (12.35%) Computer Science
14 10 (12.35%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.63%) Java
2 20 (24.69%) JavaScript
3 17 (20.99%) SQL
4 11 (13.58%) C#
5 10 (12.35%) Python
6 6 (7.41%) Groovy
6 6 (7.41%) Kotlin
6 6 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 5 (6.17%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.17%) Swift
8 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.70%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.47%) Bash
10 2 (2.47%) COBOL
10 2 (2.47%) JCL
11 1 (1.23%) ABAP
11 1 (1.23%) Ada
11 1 (1.23%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Degree
2 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
2 10 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.17%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (30.86%) QA
2 10 (12.35%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.94%) WCAG
4 2 (2.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (12.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.47%) Kibana
2 2 (2.47%) Terraform
3 1 (1.23%) Control-M
3 1 (1.23%) Grafana
3 1 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) Oracle
2 11 (13.58%) Splunk
3 7 (8.64%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (7.41%) Dynatrace
5 5 (6.17%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.94%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.94%) UiPath
7 2 (2.47%) Databricks
7 2 (2.47%) Google
7 2 (2.47%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.47%) Pega
7 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.23%) Citrix
8 1 (1.23%) Dell
8 1 (1.23%) Informatica
8 1 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.23%) SAP
8 1 (1.23%) SnapLogic
8 1 (1.23%) Spotify
8 1 (1.23%) Zscaler