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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 270 289
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 +97
Contract jobs citing Postman 93 86 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.62% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.20% 4.45% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 69 84
10th Percentile £344 £341 £371
25th Percentile £373 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £558 £475 £600
90th Percentile £648 £571 £723
England median daily rate £472 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +10.94% -15.00% -
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 2,212 1,934 2,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.48% 13.93% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,514 1,258 1,722
10th Percentile £356 £341 £396
25th Percentile £425 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -6.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £513 £543
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.53% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile £42.55 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% - -15.22%
75th Percentile £110.00 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - £87.88 £73.66
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -4 10 £475 +11.76% 6
East London -2 1 £360 -12.73%
West London -22 1 £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 10 (10.75%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) CMS
3 2 (2.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.15%) Anypoint
3 2 (2.15%) Mule
Business Applications
1 14 (15.05%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.08%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.18%) Azure
2 20 (21.51%) OCI
3 19 (20.43%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (20.43%) PaaS
4 13 (13.98%) GitHub
5 11 (11.83%) AWS
6 9 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.68%) IaaS
7 8 (8.60%) Serverless
8 5 (5.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (5.38%) Azure Functions
8 5 (5.38%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (5.38%) BrowserStack
8 5 (5.38%) Sentry
9 4 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (4.30%) iPaaS
10 3 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) HTTP
2 1 (1.08%) DSL
2 1 (1.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.23%) Big Data
2 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.23%) Redis
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (34.41%) Selenium
2 24 (25.81%) JIRA
3 20 (21.51%) Jenkins
4 19 (20.43%) Cucumber
5 16 (17.20%) Git
6 15 (16.13%) REST Assured
7 13 (13.98%) GitLab
8 11 (11.83%) JUnit
9 10 (10.75%) Cypress.io
10 9 (9.68%) SoapUI
11 7 (7.53%) JMeter
11 7 (7.53%) TestRail
12 6 (6.45%) Appium
12 6 (6.45%) Charles Proxy
12 6 (6.45%) Katalon Studio
12 6 (6.45%) SonarQube
12 6 (6.45%) Zephyr
13 5 (5.38%) Maven
13 5 (5.38%) XCUITest
14 4 (4.30%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.88%) Public Sector
3 21 (22.58%) Finance
4 8 (8.60%) Banking
5 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.23%) Back Office
7 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Marketing
7 3 (3.23%) Military
8 2 (2.15%) Front Office
9 1 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.08%) Legal
9 1 (1.08%) Police
9 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Retail
9 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (19.35%) Tester
2 13 (13.98%) Cloud Specialist
2 13 (13.98%) Integration Specialist
2 13 (13.98%) Oracle Specialist
3 12 (12.90%) Test Engineer
4 10 (10.75%) Analyst
4 10 (10.75%) Senior
5 9 (9.68%) QA Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Developer
6 8 (8.60%) Test Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Automation Tester
8 5 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) QA Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.23%) Consultant
10 3 (3.23%) Quality Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Senior Tester
10 3 (3.23%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (37.63%) REST
2 32 (34.41%) JSON
3 27 (29.03%) Web Services
4 26 (27.96%) SOAP
5 24 (25.81%) XML
6 19 (20.43%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (13.98%) OAuth
7 13 (13.98%) Playwright
8 12 (12.90%) RESTful
8 12 (12.90%) XSLT
9 11 (11.83%) JWT
10 9 (9.68%) .NET
11 8 (8.60%) Swagger
12 7 (7.53%) HTML
12 7 (7.53%) pytest
13 6 (6.45%) CSS
14 4 (4.30%) Gherkin
14 4 (4.30%) React
14 4 (4.30%) Spring
14 4 (4.30%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Public Cloud
2 9 (9.68%) Mobile App
3 7 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Android
1 7 (7.53%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.15%) Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (55.91%) Test Automation
2 46 (49.46%) Agile
3 39 (41.94%) API Testing
3 39 (41.94%) DevOps
4 35 (37.63%) CI/CD
5 23 (24.73%) ERP
6 22 (23.66%) Validation
7 21 (22.58%) Scrum
7 21 (22.58%) Test Scripting
7 21 (22.58%) Unit Testing
8 18 (19.35%) Regression Testing
9 16 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (17.20%) Test Strategy
10 13 (13.98%) Microservices
11 11 (11.83%) Data Validation
12 10 (10.75%) Functional Testing
12 10 (10.75%) Scenario Testing
12 10 (10.75%) SDLC
12 10 (10.75%) Software Testing
13 9 (9.68%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.88%) Java
2 17 (18.28%) SQL
3 15 (16.13%) C#
4 12 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.75%) Python
6 5 (5.38%) Kotlin
6 5 (5.38%) Swift
7 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.23%) VB.NET
8 3 (3.23%) XPath
9 2 (2.15%) DataWeave
9 2 (2.15%) Groovy
9 2 (2.15%) Ruby
9 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.08%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.08%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 29 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.60%) Degree
4 6 (6.45%) ISTQB
5 5 (5.38%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (29.03%) QA
2 13 (13.98%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.38%) GDPR
4 3 (3.23%) WCAG
5 2 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.08%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.08%) MiFID
6 1 (1.08%) NCSC
6 1 (1.08%) NIST
6 1 (1.08%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) Grafana
3 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (27.96%) Oracle
2 9 (9.68%) Splunk
3 6 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.30%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.23%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.23%) UiPath
6 2 (2.15%) Adobe
6 2 (2.15%) Dell
6 2 (2.15%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.15%) Google
6 2 (2.15%) Pega
6 2 (2.15%) SAP
7 1 (1.08%) Concur
7 1 (1.08%) Informatica
7 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.08%) SnapLogic
7 1 (1.08%) Sybase
7 1 (1.08%) Workday