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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 265 297
Rank change year-on-year -58 +32 +127
Contract jobs citing Postman 93 86 97
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.68% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.91% 4.79% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 76 80
10th Percentile £363 £340 £375
25th Percentile £400 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £480 £600
90th Percentile £650 £570 £800
England median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.67% -5.26% -9.52%

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 2,381 1,795 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.03% 14.25% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 1,216 1,642
10th Percentile £356 £341 £363
25th Percentile £423 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £553
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -5.06% -7.83%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 23
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.60
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.81
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £73.56 £67.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £93.18 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -21 12 £535 +25.88% 9
West London -28 2 £375 +9.97% 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 9 (9.68%) CMS
2 6 (6.45%) Confluence
3 2 (2.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.08%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.08%) Mule
Business Applications
1 15 (16.13%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.15%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.08%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.96%) Azure
2 20 (21.51%) OCI
3 18 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (19.35%) GitHub
3 18 (19.35%) PaaS
4 16 (17.20%) AWS
5 11 (11.83%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.83%) IaaS
6 5 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.38%) BrowserStack
6 5 (5.38%) GCP
6 5 (5.38%) Serverless
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.23%) iPaaS
9 2 (2.15%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (2.15%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) HTTP
2 1 (1.08%) DSL
2 1 (1.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) Big Data
2 3 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.08%) Power BI
4 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (39.78%) Selenium
2 24 (25.81%) Jenkins
3 20 (21.51%) Git
3 20 (21.51%) REST Assured
4 19 (20.43%) Cucumber
5 16 (17.20%) GitLab
5 16 (17.20%) JIRA
6 14 (15.05%) Cypress.io
7 10 (10.75%) JMeter
8 9 (9.68%) JUnit
9 8 (8.60%) SoapUI
10 7 (7.53%) SpecFlow
11 5 (5.38%) Appium
11 5 (5.38%) WebDriver
12 4 (4.30%) Robot Framework
12 4 (4.30%) TestRail
12 4 (4.30%) Zephyr
13 3 (3.23%) Bitbucket
13 3 (3.23%) Maven
13 3 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 33 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.73%) Public Sector
3 18 (19.35%) Finance
4 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.68%) Banking
5 9 (9.68%) Marketing
6 4 (4.30%) Military
7 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Front Office
7 3 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.15%) Back Office
8 2 (2.15%) Police
9 1 (1.08%) Legal
9 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (15.05%) Tester
2 13 (13.98%) Analyst
2 13 (13.98%) Cloud Specialist
2 13 (13.98%) Integration Specialist
2 13 (13.98%) Oracle Specialist
3 10 (10.75%) Test Engineer
4 9 (9.68%) Automation Tester
4 9 (9.68%) QA Engineer
5 8 (8.60%) Test Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Senior
7 5 (5.38%) Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Lead
7 5 (5.38%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (4.30%) QA Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (3.23%) Architect
9 3 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (37.63%) REST
2 28 (30.11%) JSON
3 25 (26.88%) SOAP
4 23 (24.73%) XML
5 20 (21.51%) Playwright
6 19 (20.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (20.43%) Web Services
7 16 (17.20%) OAuth
8 14 (15.05%) JWT
9 12 (12.90%) XSLT
10 8 (8.60%) .NET
10 8 (8.60%) pytest
10 8 (8.60%) RESTful
11 7 (7.53%) Gherkin
12 5 (5.38%) CSS
12 5 (5.38%) HTML
12 5 (5.38%) Kafka
12 5 (5.38%) Spring
12 5 (5.38%) WireMock
13 4 (4.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Product Ownership
2 12 (12.90%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.45%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.30%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.23%) Android
1 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (54.84%) Test Automation
2 46 (49.46%) DevOps
3 44 (47.31%) Agile
3 44 (47.31%) CI/CD
4 38 (40.86%) API Testing
5 24 (25.81%) Scrum
6 22 (23.66%) ERP
7 19 (20.43%) Validation
8 18 (19.35%) Sprint Planning
8 18 (19.35%) Unit Testing
9 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (18.28%) Test Scripting
10 15 (16.13%) Regression Testing
11 14 (15.05%) Microservices
12 13 (13.98%) BDD
13 12 (12.90%) Software Testing
13 12 (12.90%) Test Strategy
14 11 (11.83%) Sprint Retrospective
15 10 (10.75%) Kanban
15 10 (10.75%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.11%) Java
2 19 (20.43%) C#
3 14 (15.05%) Python
4 13 (13.98%) SQL
5 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.23%) XPath
7 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.15%) Ruby
7 2 (2.15%) Swift
7 2 (2.15%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.08%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 28 (30.11%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.30%) Degree
5 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (30.11%) QA
2 8 (8.60%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.30%) GDPR
4 3 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.08%) MiFID
6 1 (1.08%) NCSC
6 1 (1.08%) NIST
6 1 (1.08%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.08%) PMO
6 1 (1.08%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (10.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.15%) Grafana
2 2 (2.15%) Kibana
2 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) Ansible
3 1 (1.08%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (26.88%) Oracle
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.23%) Micro Focus
3 3 (3.23%) OpenText
3 3 (3.23%) SAP
4 2 (2.15%) Adobe
4 2 (2.15%) Concur
4 2 (2.15%) Dell
4 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.15%) UiPath
5 1 (1.08%) Aprimo
5 1 (1.08%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.08%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.08%) HP
5 1 (1.08%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.08%) Reuters
5 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.08%) Sybase
5 1 (1.08%) Workday