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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 294 274
Rank change year-on-year -60 -20 +99
Contract jobs citing Postman 81 75 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.55% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.24% 3.61% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 58 101
10th Percentile £363 £354 £375
25th Percentile £463 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £425 £480
Median % change year-on-year +31.76% -11.46% -12.73%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
England median daily rate £420 £450 £480
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -12.73%

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 2,503 2,075 2,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.66% 15.25% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,636 1,400 1,744
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £632 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 25
10th Percentile - £25.52 £23.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.13 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -48.28%
75th Percentile £72.88 £59.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.63 £71.63
England median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 £550 +29.41% 2
South London -15 2 - -
West London -16 1 £375 +7.91%
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 20 (24.69%) CMS
2 3 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.23%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.23%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.23%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.16%) AWS
2 18 (22.22%) Azure
2 18 (22.22%) GitHub
3 9 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon S3
4 7 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (8.64%) OCI
4 7 (8.64%) Serverless
5 6 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.41%) PaaS
6 5 (6.17%) GCP
7 4 (4.94%) BrowserStack
7 4 (4.94%) IaaS
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.47%) SaaS
9 1 (1.23%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.17%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (6.17%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.47%) Big Data
4 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.23%) Power BI
5 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (30.86%) Jenkins
2 23 (28.40%) Selenium
3 18 (22.22%) JMeter
4 16 (19.75%) Git
4 16 (19.75%) REST Assured
5 12 (14.81%) Cucumber
5 12 (14.81%) Cypress.io
5 12 (14.81%) GitLab
5 12 (14.81%) JIRA
6 6 (7.41%) JUnit
6 6 (7.41%) SoapUI
7 5 (6.17%) Appium
7 5 (6.17%) Mockito
7 5 (6.17%) WebDriver
8 4 (4.94%) LoadRunner
8 4 (4.94%) SpecFlow
9 3 (3.70%) Gatling
9 3 (3.70%) Maven
9 3 (3.70%) Robot Framework
10 2 (2.47%) NUnit
General
1 28 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.16%) Marketing
3 14 (17.28%) Finance
4 13 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
6 8 (9.88%) Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Military
8 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Front Office
8 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Legal
8 1 (1.23%) Legal Technology
8 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (29.63%) Analyst
2 12 (14.81%) Systems Analyst
2 12 (14.81%) Tester
3 8 (9.88%) Technical Analyst
3 8 (9.88%) Test Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Automation Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Test Automation Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Developer
5 6 (7.41%) QA Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Senior
6 5 (6.17%) Cloud Specialist
6 5 (6.17%) Integration Specialist
6 5 (6.17%) Oracle Specialist
7 4 (4.94%) Automation Tester
8 3 (3.70%) Lead
9 2 (2.47%) Integration Developer
9 2 (2.47%) Python Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) QA Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) Quality Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.16%) REST
2 15 (18.52%) Playwright
2 15 (18.52%) SOAP
3 13 (16.05%) JSON
4 10 (12.35%) XML
5 9 (11.11%) Swagger
6 8 (9.88%) OAuth
7 7 (8.64%) Gherkin
7 7 (8.64%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (7.41%) JWT
8 6 (7.41%) Kafka
8 6 (7.41%) Web Services
9 5 (6.17%) pytest
9 5 (6.17%) Spring
9 5 (6.17%) Spring Boot
9 5 (6.17%) WireMock
9 5 (6.17%) XSLT
9 5 (6.17%) YAML
10 4 (4.94%) RESTful
11 3 (3.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.86%) Product Ownership
2 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.88%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (6.17%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.94%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.70%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.23%) NHS
8 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Android
1 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (60.49%) DevOps
2 45 (55.56%) Agile
3 44 (54.32%) CI/CD
3 44 (54.32%) Test Automation
4 31 (38.27%) Scrum
5 27 (33.33%) API Testing
6 26 (32.10%) Sprint Planning
7 24 (29.63%) Microservices
8 22 (27.16%) Kanban
9 20 (24.69%) Product Vision
10 18 (22.22%) Performance Testing
11 17 (20.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (20.99%) User Stories
12 16 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (19.75%) Test Strategy
13 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (17.28%) Technical Analysis
14 13 (16.05%) Validation
15 12 (14.81%) Regression Testing
15 12 (14.81%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.69%) Java
2 17 (20.99%) Python
3 12 (14.81%) C#
4 10 (12.35%) SQL
5 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.64%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.41%) Bash
8 4 (4.94%) Ruby
8 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.23%) Groovy
9 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.99%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.23%) Degree
3 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (25.93%) QA
2 5 (6.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.23%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.23%) NIST
4 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.23%) PMO
4 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.64%) Ansible
2 7 (8.64%) Grafana
2 7 (8.64%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.47%) Kibana
4 1 (1.23%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) Oracle
2 3 (3.70%) Databricks
2 3 (3.70%) Micro Focus
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.70%) OpenText
3 2 (2.47%) Concur
3 2 (2.47%) HP
3 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.47%) SAP
4 1 (1.23%) Adobe
4 1 (1.23%) Aprimo
4 1 (1.23%) Avaloq
4 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.23%) Brio
4 1 (1.23%) Dell
4 1 (1.23%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.23%) Refinitiv
4 1 (1.23%) Reuters
4 1 (1.23%) SimCorp