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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 263 291
Rank change year-on-year -59 +28 +113
Contract jobs citing Postman 92 86 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.69% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.92% 4.75% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 72 82
10th Percentile £356 £340 £375
25th Percentile £413 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £466
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -8.85% -15.23%
75th Percentile £575 £480 £550
90th Percentile £650 £565 £699
England median daily rate £450 £448 £466
% change year-on-year +0.56% -4.02% -15.23%

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 2,346 1,809 2,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.12% 14.60% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,551 1,231 1,639
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £672 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £778
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 26
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% +6.16% -46.72%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.75 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.45% -7.31% +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -13 12 £550 +29.41% 2
West London -25 2 £375 +9.97%
South London -12 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 16 (17.39%) CMS
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 2 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 14 (15.22%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.09%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.74%) AWS
1 20 (21.74%) Azure
2 18 (19.57%) OCI
3 16 (17.39%) GitHub
3 16 (17.39%) PaaS
4 13 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (10.87%) IaaS
6 8 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.43%) BrowserStack
7 5 (5.43%) GCP
7 5 (5.43%) Serverless
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.17%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (2.17%) Boomi
10 2 (2.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) DSL
1 1 (1.09%) Firewall
1 1 (1.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (4.35%) Big Data
2 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.09%) Power BI
3 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (32.61%) Selenium
2 24 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 18 (19.57%) Git
3 18 (19.57%) REST Assured
4 15 (16.30%) JMeter
5 14 (15.22%) Cucumber
6 13 (14.13%) GitLab
7 12 (13.04%) Cypress.io
7 12 (13.04%) JIRA
8 8 (8.70%) SoapUI
9 6 (6.52%) JUnit
9 6 (6.52%) SpecFlow
10 5 (5.43%) Appium
10 5 (5.43%) WebDriver
11 4 (4.35%) Robot Framework
12 3 (3.26%) LoadRunner
12 3 (3.26%) Mockito
13 2 (2.17%) Maven
13 2 (2.17%) NUnit
13 2 (2.17%) TestNG
General
1 33 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.65%) Public Sector
3 16 (17.39%) Marketing
4 14 (15.22%) Finance
5 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.52%) Banking
7 4 (4.35%) Military
8 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Front Office
9 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Legal
9 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Police
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (20.65%) Analyst
2 16 (17.39%) Tester
3 12 (13.04%) Cloud Specialist
3 12 (13.04%) Integration Specialist
3 12 (13.04%) Oracle Specialist
4 9 (9.78%) QA Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Systems Analyst
5 8 (8.70%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (7.61%) Automation Tester
6 7 (7.61%) Test Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) QA Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Senior
7 5 (5.43%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Lead
9 3 (3.26%) Architect
10 2 (2.17%) Oracle Developer
10 2 (2.17%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (34.78%) REST
2 23 (25.00%) JSON
3 22 (23.91%) SOAP
4 19 (20.65%) XML
5 18 (19.57%) Playwright
6 17 (18.48%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (16.30%) OAuth
7 15 (16.30%) Web Services
8 13 (14.13%) JWT
9 11 (11.96%) XSLT
10 8 (8.70%) Gherkin
11 7 (7.61%) pytest
11 7 (7.61%) RESTful
11 7 (7.61%) Swagger
12 4 (4.35%) .NET
12 4 (4.35%) Kafka
12 4 (4.35%) WireMock
13 3 (3.26%) CSS
13 3 (3.26%) HTML
13 3 (3.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.91%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.96%) Public Cloud
3 9 (9.78%) Cloud Native
4 8 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (5.43%) Mobile App
6 4 (4.35%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.09%) NHS
8 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Android
1 2 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (56.52%) DevOps
2 49 (53.26%) Test Automation
3 46 (50.00%) Agile
3 46 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 33 (35.87%) API Testing
5 28 (30.43%) Scrum
6 24 (26.09%) Sprint Planning
7 20 (21.74%) ERP
8 19 (20.65%) Validation
9 18 (19.57%) Microservices
10 16 (17.39%) Kanban
10 16 (17.39%) Performance Testing
10 16 (17.39%) Product Vision
11 15 (16.30%) Unit Testing
12 14 (15.22%) Test Scripting
12 14 (15.22%) Test Strategy
13 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (14.13%) Sprint Retrospective
13 13 (14.13%) User Stories
14 11 (11.96%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.83%) Java
2 18 (19.57%) Python
3 14 (15.22%) C#
4 10 (10.87%) SQL
5 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.52%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.43%) Bash
8 3 (3.26%) Ruby
8 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.17%) XPath
10 1 (1.09%) Groovy
10 1 (1.09%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (27.17%) QA
2 6 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.35%) GDPR
4 3 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.09%) MiFID
6 1 (1.09%) NCSC
6 1 (1.09%) NIST
6 1 (1.09%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.09%) PMO
6 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (14.13%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.52%) Ansible
2 6 (6.52%) Grafana
2 6 (6.52%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.17%) Kibana
3 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.09%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (22.83%) Oracle
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.26%) Micro Focus
3 3 (3.26%) OpenText
3 3 (3.26%) SAP
4 2 (2.17%) Adobe
4 2 (2.17%) Concur
4 2 (2.17%) Dell
4 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.09%) Aprimo
5 1 (1.09%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.09%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.09%) Brio
5 1 (1.09%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.09%) HP
5 1 (1.09%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.09%) Reuters
5 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.09%) Workday