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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 274 292
Rank change year-on-year -19 +18 +113
Contract jobs citing Postman 99 82 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.61% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.27% 4.37% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 69 79
10th Percentile £345 £340 £375
25th Percentile £375 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £419 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.50% -16.30% -9.09%
75th Percentile £578 £450 £600
90th Percentile £650 £562 £750
England median daily rate £467 £425 £459
% change year-on-year +9.76% -7.36% -12.62%
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 2,319 1,878 2,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.93% 14.00% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,576 1,239 1,724
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -6.61% -5.42%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £675
90th Percentile £726 £800 £782
England median daily rate £500 £504 £535
% change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 24
10th Percentile - £34.75 £25.11
25th Percentile £18.75 £45.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £67.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.30% +63.64% -28.26%
75th Percentile £95.00 £83.13 £60.81
90th Percentile £101.00 £90.25 £73.16
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 23 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 23 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 -9 13 £535 +25.88% 3
West London -24 2 £375 +9.97% 3
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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.02%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.02%) CMS
2 2 (2.02%) Mule
Business Applications
1 17 (17.17%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.02%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.30%) Azure
2 23 (23.23%) OCI
3 22 (22.22%) PaaS
4 21 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (17.17%) GitHub
6 11 (11.11%) AWS
6 11 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (11.11%) IaaS
7 7 (7.07%) Serverless
8 6 (6.06%) BrowserStack
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (4.04%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.04%) iPaaS
10 4 (4.04%) Sentry
11 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) HTTP
2 1 (1.01%) DSL
2 1 (1.01%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.04%) Big Data
3 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.02%) Redis
4 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.01%) Power BI
5 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (41.41%) Selenium
2 24 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 22 (22.22%) JIRA
4 21 (21.21%) Cucumber
5 20 (20.20%) Git
6 18 (18.18%) REST Assured
7 17 (17.17%) GitLab
8 14 (14.14%) Cypress.io
9 11 (11.11%) JUnit
10 9 (9.09%) JMeter
11 8 (8.08%) SoapUI
12 7 (7.07%) SpecFlow
13 6 (6.06%) TestRail
13 6 (6.06%) WebDriver
14 5 (5.05%) Maven
14 5 (5.05%) SonarQube
14 5 (5.05%) Zephyr
15 4 (4.04%) Appium
15 4 (4.04%) Bitbucket
15 4 (4.04%) Robot Framework
General
1 33 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.28%) Public Sector
3 21 (21.21%) Finance
4 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.08%) Banking
6 4 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.04%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.04%) Military
7 3 (3.03%) Back Office
7 3 (3.03%) Front Office
8 2 (2.02%) Marketing
8 2 (2.02%) Police
9 1 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Legal
9 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Retail
9 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (19.19%) Tester
2 16 (16.16%) Cloud Specialist
2 16 (16.16%) Integration Specialist
2 16 (16.16%) Oracle Specialist
3 11 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 10 (10.10%) Automation Tester
4 10 (10.10%) QA Engineer
4 10 (10.10%) Senior
5 9 (9.09%) Developer
6 8 (8.08%) Test Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Analyst
8 6 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Lead
10 4 (4.04%) QA Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.03%) Quality Engineer
11 3 (3.03%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.03%) Test Analyst
12 2 (2.02%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (39.39%) REST
2 34 (34.34%) JSON
3 26 (26.26%) SOAP
3 26 (26.26%) Web Services
3 26 (26.26%) XML
4 22 (22.22%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (18.18%) Playwright
6 16 (16.16%) OAuth
7 14 (14.14%) XSLT
8 13 (13.13%) JWT
9 10 (10.10%) .NET
10 9 (9.09%) pytest
10 9 (9.09%) RESTful
11 6 (6.06%) CSS
11 6 (6.06%) HTML
11 6 (6.06%) Swagger
12 5 (5.05%) Gherkin
12 5 (5.05%) WireMock
13 4 (4.04%) React
13 4 (4.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.12%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.08%) Mobile App
3 6 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.03%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Android
1 5 (5.05%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.02%) Linux
3 1 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (57.58%) Test Automation
2 46 (46.46%) CI/CD
3 45 (45.45%) Agile
4 44 (44.44%) API Testing
5 43 (43.43%) DevOps
6 27 (27.27%) ERP
7 23 (23.23%) Unit Testing
7 23 (23.23%) Validation
8 22 (22.22%) Test Scripting
9 20 (20.20%) Scrum
10 19 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (18.18%) Regression Testing
12 16 (16.16%) Test Strategy
13 13 (13.13%) Software Testing
14 12 (12.12%) BDD
14 12 (12.12%) SDLC
14 12 (12.12%) Sprint Planning
15 11 (11.11%) Data Validation
15 11 (11.11%) Functional Testing
16 9 (9.09%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.26%) Java
2 21 (21.21%) C#
3 18 (18.18%) SQL
4 13 (13.13%) Python
5 11 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.03%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.03%) Swift
7 3 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.03%) VB.NET
7 3 (3.03%) XPath
8 2 (2.02%) DataWeave
8 2 (2.02%) Groovy
8 2 (2.02%) Ruby
9 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (35.35%) Security Cleared
2 32 (32.32%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.07%) ISTQB
4 6 (6.06%) Degree
5 3 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (3.03%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (32.32%) QA
2 12 (12.12%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.06%) GDPR
4 3 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.02%) WCAG
6 1 (1.01%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.01%) MiFID
6 1 (1.01%) NCSC
6 1 (1.01%) NIST
6 1 (1.01%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (12.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) Terraform
3 2 (2.02%) Grafana
3 2 (2.02%) Kibana
3 2 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.01%) Ansible
4 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (29.29%) Oracle
2 6 (6.06%) Splunk
3 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.03%) SAP
5 3 (3.03%) UiPath
6 2 (2.02%) Adobe
6 2 (2.02%) Concur
6 2 (2.02%) Dell
6 2 (2.02%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.01%) Aprimo
7 1 (1.01%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.01%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.01%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.01%) Pega
7 1 (1.01%) Reuters
7 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.01%) Sybase