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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 265 293
Rank change year-on-year -32 +28 +103
Contract jobs citing Postman 94 88 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.65% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.12% 4.61% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 73 82
10th Percentile £318 £340 £375
25th Percentile £373 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £551 £450 £600
90th Percentile £638 £559 £738
England median daily rate £465 £425 £465
% change year-on-year +9.41% -8.60% -11.43%
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 £47.50 - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - -38.78%

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 1,909 2,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.98% 14.17% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 1,248 1,719
10th Percentile £356 £341 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -4.89% -6.25%
75th Percentile £633 £675 £675
90th Percentile £726 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £505 £533
% change year-on-year -0.99% -5.21% -7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 21
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.25 £25.75
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.63 £31.71
Median hourly rate £66.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.41% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £58.75
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £72.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -14 11 £520 +22.35% 3
West London -24 2 £375 +9.97% 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 9 (9.57%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.13%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.13%) CMS
2 2 (2.13%) Mule
Business Applications
1 16 (17.02%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.13%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.79%) Azure
2 22 (23.40%) OCI
3 21 (22.34%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (22.34%) PaaS
4 14 (14.89%) GitHub
5 11 (11.70%) AWS
6 10 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (10.64%) IaaS
7 7 (7.45%) Serverless
8 6 (6.38%) BrowserStack
9 5 (5.32%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (5.32%) Sentry
10 4 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.26%) iPaaS
11 3 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) HTTP
2 1 (1.06%) DSL
2 1 (1.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.19%) Big Data
2 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.13%) Redis
3 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (40.43%) Selenium
2 23 (24.47%) JIRA
3 21 (22.34%) Jenkins
4 19 (20.21%) Cucumber
5 18 (19.15%) Git
6 16 (17.02%) GitLab
6 16 (17.02%) REST Assured
7 13 (13.83%) Cypress.io
8 11 (11.70%) JUnit
9 9 (9.57%) JMeter
10 8 (8.51%) SoapUI
11 7 (7.45%) TestRail
12 6 (6.38%) WebDriver
12 6 (6.38%) Zephyr
13 5 (5.32%) Appium
13 5 (5.32%) Charles Proxy
13 5 (5.32%) Katalon Studio
13 5 (5.32%) SonarQube
14 4 (4.26%) Serenity BDD
14 4 (4.26%) XCUITest
General
1 28 (29.79%) Public Sector
1 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.28%) Finance
3 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Banking
4 4 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.26%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.26%) Military
5 3 (3.19%) Back Office
6 2 (2.13%) Front Office
6 2 (2.13%) Marketing
6 2 (2.13%) Police
7 1 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Legal
7 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (20.21%) Tester
2 15 (15.96%) Cloud Specialist
2 15 (15.96%) Integration Specialist
2 15 (15.96%) Oracle Specialist
3 11 (11.70%) Test Engineer
4 9 (9.57%) Automation Tester
4 9 (9.57%) QA Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Developer
5 8 (8.51%) Senior
5 8 (8.51%) Test Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) QA Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Quality Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Test Analyst
10 3 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Lead
10 3 (3.19%) Senior Quality Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (40.43%) REST
2 32 (34.04%) JSON
3 27 (28.72%) Web Services
4 26 (27.66%) SOAP
5 25 (26.60%) XML
6 21 (22.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 16 (17.02%) Playwright
8 14 (14.89%) OAuth
9 13 (13.83%) XSLT
10 12 (12.77%) JWT
11 10 (10.64%) .NET
12 8 (8.51%) pytest
12 8 (8.51%) RESTful
13 6 (6.38%) Swagger
14 5 (5.32%) CSS
14 5 (5.32%) Gherkin
14 5 (5.32%) HTML
14 5 (5.32%) WireMock
15 4 (4.26%) React
15 4 (4.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Public Cloud
2 9 (9.57%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.19%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Android
1 6 (6.38%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.13%) Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (58.51%) Test Automation
2 44 (46.81%) Agile
3 42 (44.68%) API Testing
4 41 (43.62%) DevOps
5 40 (42.55%) CI/CD
6 26 (27.66%) ERP
7 24 (25.53%) Test Scripting
8 23 (24.47%) Validation
9 22 (23.40%) Unit Testing
10 19 (20.21%) Scrum
11 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (17.02%) Regression Testing
13 15 (15.96%) Test Strategy
14 13 (13.83%) Software Testing
15 12 (12.77%) Sprint Planning
16 11 (11.70%) BDD
16 11 (11.70%) Data Validation
17 10 (10.64%) Functional Testing
17 10 (10.64%) SDLC
18 9 (9.57%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.60%) Java
2 19 (20.21%) C#
3 17 (18.09%) SQL
4 11 (11.70%) Python
5 9 (9.57%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.26%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.26%) Swift
7 3 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.19%) VB.NET
7 3 (3.19%) XPath
8 2 (2.13%) DataWeave
8 2 (2.13%) Ruby
9 1 (1.06%) Groovy
9 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (37.23%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.04%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.45%) ISTQB
4 6 (6.38%) Degree
5 4 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (31.91%) QA
2 13 (13.83%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.32%) GDPR
4 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.13%) WCAG
5 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.06%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.06%) MiFID
5 1 (1.06%) NCSC
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (12.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Grafana
3 1 (1.06%) Kibana
3 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (29.79%) Oracle
2 7 (7.45%) Splunk
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.19%) SAP
4 3 (3.19%) UiPath
5 2 (2.13%) Adobe
5 2 (2.13%) Concur
5 2 (2.13%) Dell
5 2 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.13%) Pega
6 1 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) Sybase
6 1 (1.06%) Workday