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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 293 252
Rank change year-on-year -84 -41 +91
Contract jobs citing Postman 72 81 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.60% 0.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.80% 3.79% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 60 102
10th Percentile £328 £350 £375
25th Percentile £375 £374 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £477
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +2.20% -13.27%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £565
90th Percentile £575 £638 £636
England median daily rate £400 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -11.11% -7.69% -11.36%

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 2,572 2,139 2,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.65% 15.86% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 1,444 1,613
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £437 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £37.00 £24.60
25th Percentile £27.38 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +20.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £73.56 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.66 £105.75 £71.38
England median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -18 12 £550 +49.66% 1
South London -7 2 - -
North London - 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 14 (19.44%) CMS
2 8 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (8.33%) Confluence
4 4 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (1.39%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.72%) Azure
2 24 (33.33%) AWS
3 16 (22.22%) GitHub
4 11 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (13.89%) GCP
6 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.33%) Serverless
8 5 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.78%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (2.78%) BrowserStack
11 2 (2.78%) ChatGPT
11 2 (2.78%) Figma
11 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) Tableau
2 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.78%) Power BI
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (36.11%) Selenium
2 25 (34.72%) JMeter
3 24 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 16 (22.22%) Cypress.io
5 15 (20.83%) Git
6 14 (19.44%) JIRA
7 13 (18.06%) Cucumber
7 13 (18.06%) REST Assured
8 10 (13.89%) LoadRunner
8 10 (13.89%) SoapUI
9 9 (12.50%) GitLab
10 6 (8.33%) JUnit
10 6 (8.33%) SonarQube
11 5 (6.94%) eggPlant
11 5 (6.94%) Newman
12 4 (5.56%) Appium
13 3 (4.17%) Gatling
13 3 (4.17%) Mockito
13 3 (4.17%) WebDriver
14 2 (2.78%) TestRail
General
1 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.22%) Marketing
3 15 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.89%) Finance
5 8 (11.11%) Banking
6 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Legal Technology
7 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Analyst
2 13 (18.06%) Automation Engineer
3 11 (15.28%) Test Engineer
3 11 (15.28%) Tester
4 10 (13.89%) Systems Analyst
4 10 (13.89%) Test Automation Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Lead
6 5 (6.94%) Developer
6 5 (6.94%) QA Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Senior
7 4 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Test Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Integration Developer
9 2 (2.78%) Architect
9 2 (2.78%) Integration Architect
9 2 (2.78%) IT Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) QA Test Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) QA Tester
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.39%) Playwright
1 19 (26.39%) REST
2 14 (19.44%) SOAP
3 12 (16.67%) Kafka
3 12 (16.67%) Swagger
4 11 (15.28%) XML
5 10 (13.89%) .NET
6 9 (12.50%) JSON
7 8 (11.11%) Middleware
8 6 (8.33%) RESTful
8 6 (8.33%) Web Services
9 5 (6.94%) Gherkin
10 4 (5.56%) HTML
10 4 (5.56%) XBRL
11 3 (4.17%) Spring
11 3 (4.17%) Spring Boot
11 3 (4.17%) WireMock
11 3 (4.17%) YAML
12 2 (2.78%) GraphQL
12 2 (2.78%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.39%) Product Ownership
2 11 (15.28%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.78%) Life Science
4 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.78%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.39%) Contactless
5 1 (1.39%) NHS
5 1 (1.39%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.94%) Linux
1 5 (6.94%) Unix
2 2 (2.78%) Android
2 2 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (65.28%) Test Automation
2 39 (54.17%) Agile
2 39 (54.17%) DevOps
3 38 (52.78%) CI/CD
4 27 (37.50%) API Testing
5 25 (34.72%) Performance Testing
6 24 (33.33%) Scrum
7 22 (30.56%) Microservices
8 21 (29.17%) Test Strategy
9 17 (23.61%) Sprint Planning
9 17 (23.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
10 16 (22.22%) Kanban
10 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (20.83%) Manual Testing
12 14 (19.44%) Product Vision
12 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (19.44%) Validation
13 13 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (18.06%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 27 (37.50%) Python
2 26 (36.11%) Java
3 18 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 18 (25.00%) SQL
4 10 (13.89%) C#
5 7 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.33%) Bash
6 6 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.56%) Ruby
8 3 (4.17%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (34.72%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) ISTQB
4 4 (5.56%) ISEB
5 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.78%) Degree
6 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (33.33%) QA
2 6 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.17%) GDPR
4 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.39%) GRC
5 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.39%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.39%) NIST
5 1 (1.39%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.39%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.72%) Ansible
3 6 (8.33%) Grafana
3 6 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.94%) HP Fortify
5 4 (5.56%) Control-M
6 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.39%) HP ALM
7 1 (1.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 8 (11.11%) Oracle
2 7 (9.72%) IBM
2 7 (9.72%) SAP
3 3 (4.17%) Databricks
3 3 (4.17%) Micro Focus
3 3 (4.17%) OpenText
4 2 (2.78%) HP
4 2 (2.78%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.39%) Adobe
5 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.39%) Brio
5 1 (1.39%) Concur
5 1 (1.39%) Dell
5 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.39%) Foundry
5 1 (1.39%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.39%) SimCorp