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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 266 294
Rank change year-on-year -27 +28 +101
Contract jobs citing Postman 98 87 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.64% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.36% 4.54% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 71 83
10th Percentile £346 £340 £335
25th Percentile £377 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -11.63%
75th Percentile £547 £454 £600
90th Percentile £644 £550 £738
England median daily rate £472 £425 £455
% change year-on-year +10.94% -6.49% -13.43%
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 £48.75 - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - -37.50%

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 2,250 1,918 2,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.14% 14.15% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 1,238 1,752
10th Percentile £356 £344 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -6.17% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £732 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £508 £535
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 18
10th Percentile £55.60 £22.25 £25.64
25th Percentile £74.50 £25.63 £32.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £98.75 £77.19 £58.44
90th Percentile £105.50 £87.88 £72.50
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 9 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 9 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 -16 12 £498 +17.06% 7
West London -20 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 (9.18%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.04%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.04%) Mule
3 1 (1.02%) CMS
Business Applications
1 16 (16.33%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.04%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.61%) Azure
2 22 (22.45%) OCI
3 21 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (21.43%) PaaS
4 15 (15.31%) GitHub
5 11 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (10.20%) AWS
6 10 (10.20%) IaaS
7 8 (8.16%) Serverless
8 6 (6.12%) Sentry
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Functions
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (5.10%) BrowserStack
9 5 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.08%) iPaaS
11 3 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) HTTP
2 1 (1.02%) DSL
2 1 (1.02%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.06%) Big Data
2 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.06%) Redis
3 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.02%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (38.78%) Selenium
2 25 (25.51%) JIRA
3 22 (22.45%) Jenkins
4 19 (19.39%) Cucumber
4 19 (19.39%) Git
5 17 (17.35%) REST Assured
6 16 (16.33%) GitLab
7 13 (13.27%) Cypress.io
8 12 (12.24%) JUnit
9 9 (9.18%) JMeter
9 9 (9.18%) SoapUI
10 7 (7.14%) TestRail
11 6 (6.12%) Appium
11 6 (6.12%) Charles Proxy
11 6 (6.12%) Katalon Studio
11 6 (6.12%) SonarQube
11 6 (6.12%) WebDriver
11 6 (6.12%) Zephyr
12 5 (5.10%) XCUITest
13 4 (4.08%) Serenity BDD
General
1 29 (29.59%) Public Sector
1 29 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.47%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Banking
4 8 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.08%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.08%) Military
6 3 (3.06%) Back Office
7 2 (2.04%) Front Office
7 2 (2.04%) Police
8 1 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.02%) Legal
8 1 (1.02%) Marketing
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
8 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (19.39%) Tester
2 15 (15.31%) Cloud Specialist
2 15 (15.31%) Integration Specialist
2 15 (15.31%) Oracle Specialist
3 11 (11.22%) Test Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Automation Tester
4 9 (9.18%) QA Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Senior
5 8 (8.16%) Analyst
5 8 (8.16%) Developer
5 8 (8.16%) Test Automation Engineer
6 6 (6.12%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) QA Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Quality Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Senior Quality Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Test Analyst
9 3 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (40.82%) REST
2 34 (34.69%) JSON
3 29 (29.59%) Web Services
4 28 (28.57%) SOAP
5 27 (27.55%) XML
6 21 (21.43%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (15.31%) Playwright
8 14 (14.29%) OAuth
9 13 (13.27%) XSLT
10 12 (12.24%) JWT
11 11 (11.22%) .NET
12 10 (10.20%) RESTful
13 9 (9.18%) Swagger
14 8 (8.16%) pytest
15 6 (6.12%) CSS
15 6 (6.12%) HTML
16 5 (5.10%) Gherkin
16 5 (5.10%) Spring
16 5 (5.10%) WireMock
17 4 (4.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Mobile App
1 11 (11.22%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.14%) Android
1 7 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.04%) Linux
2 2 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 46 (46.94%) Agile
3 43 (43.88%) API Testing
4 41 (41.84%) DevOps
5 39 (39.80%) CI/CD
6 26 (26.53%) ERP
7 24 (24.49%) Test Scripting
8 23 (23.47%) Unit Testing
8 23 (23.47%) Validation
9 19 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (19.39%) Scrum
10 17 (17.35%) Regression Testing
11 15 (15.31%) Test Strategy
12 14 (14.29%) Software Testing
13 12 (12.24%) SDLC
14 11 (11.22%) BDD
14 11 (11.22%) Data Validation
14 11 (11.22%) Sprint Planning
15 10 (10.20%) Microservices
16 9 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.51%) Java
2 20 (20.41%) C#
3 19 (19.39%) SQL
4 11 (11.22%) Python
5 10 (10.20%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.10%) Kotlin
6 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.10%) Swift
7 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.06%) VB.NET
8 3 (3.06%) XPath
9 2 (2.04%) DataWeave
9 2 (2.04%) Groovy
9 2 (2.04%) Ruby
9 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 33 (33.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.16%) Degree
4 7 (7.14%) ISTQB
5 5 (5.10%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (31.63%) QA
2 14 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.10%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.04%) WCAG
5 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.02%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.02%) MiFID
5 1 (1.02%) NCSC
5 1 (1.02%) NIST
5 1 (1.02%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.04%) Terraform
3 1 (1.02%) Grafana
3 1 (1.02%) Kibana
3 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (30.61%) Oracle
2 9 (9.18%) Splunk
3 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.06%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.06%) SAP
4 3 (3.06%) UiPath
5 2 (2.04%) Adobe
5 2 (2.04%) Concur
5 2 (2.04%) Dell
5 2 (2.04%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.04%) Pega
6 1 (1.02%) Google
6 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.02%) Sybase
6 1 (1.02%) Workday