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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 303 267
Rank change year-on-year -80 -36 +65
Contract jobs citing Postman 82 72 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.54% 0.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.14% 3.38% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 53 94
10th Percentile £313 £318 £372
25th Percentile £363 £359 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year - +9.59% -17.05%
75th Percentile £565 £567 £551
90th Percentile £575 £638 £613
England median daily rate £400 £450 £468
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.74% -15.00%

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 2,609 2,133 2,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.90% 16.04% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,706 1,455 1,554
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £435 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £655
90th Percentile £741 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 12
10th Percentile £19.25 £36.63 £25.99
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.69 £29.93
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -2.70% -19.57%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £107.88 £71.81
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 12 October 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 October 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 -24 17 £538 +46.26% 10
South London - 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 9 (10.98%) CMS
2 8 (9.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.10%) Confluence
4 4 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.44%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.44%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (1.22%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.22%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.22%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 29 (35.37%) Azure
2 21 (25.61%) AWS
3 20 (24.39%) GitHub
4 17 (20.73%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (13.41%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.32%) GCP
6 6 (7.32%) Serverless
7 5 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.88%) SaaS
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.66%) Boomi
10 2 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (2.44%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (2.44%) ChatGPT
10 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) Tableau
2 4 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.88%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.44%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.44%) Power BI
3 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (40.24%) Selenium
2 28 (34.15%) Jenkins
3 25 (30.49%) JMeter
4 19 (23.17%) Cypress.io
5 18 (21.95%) JIRA
6 16 (19.51%) Cucumber
6 16 (19.51%) SoapUI
7 15 (18.29%) Git
8 14 (17.07%) REST Assured
9 12 (14.63%) LoadRunner
10 9 (10.98%) GitLab
11 8 (9.76%) JUnit
12 7 (8.54%) eggPlant
12 7 (8.54%) SonarQube
13 5 (6.10%) Appium
13 5 (6.10%) Newman
13 5 (6.10%) TestNG
13 5 (6.10%) TestRail
13 5 (6.10%) Zephyr
14 4 (4.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 29 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.07%) Finance
3 13 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.63%) Banking
4 12 (14.63%) Marketing
5 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.88%) Social Housing
7 2 (2.44%) Local Government
7 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Police
8 1 (1.22%) Advertising
8 1 (1.22%) French Language
8 1 (1.22%) German Language
8 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.22%) Legal Technology
8 1 (1.22%) Retail
8 1 (1.22%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (26.83%) Automation Engineer
2 15 (18.29%) Lead
3 14 (17.07%) Analyst
3 14 (17.07%) Test Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Test Automation Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Tester
5 10 (12.20%) QA Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) QA Automation Engineer
7 7 (8.54%) Senior
7 7 (8.54%) Systems Analyst
8 5 (6.10%) Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Quality Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Test Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) Test Leader
10 3 (3.66%) Architect
10 3 (3.66%) Integration Developer
10 3 (3.66%) QA Leader
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Test Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Integration Architect
11 2 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (30.49%) REST
2 20 (24.39%) Playwright
3 15 (18.29%) Kafka
3 15 (18.29%) SOAP
4 14 (17.07%) Middleware
4 14 (17.07%) Swagger
5 11 (13.41%) JSON
6 10 (12.20%) XML
7 9 (10.98%) .NET
8 6 (7.32%) HTML
8 6 (7.32%) Web Services
8 6 (7.32%) XBRL
9 5 (6.10%) RESTful
10 4 (4.88%) Gherkin
10 4 (4.88%) OpenAPI
11 3 (3.66%) BAPI
11 3 (3.66%) SAP ALE
11 3 (3.66%) Terraform
12 2 (2.44%) Spring
12 2 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.98%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.44%) Housing Association
6 2 (2.44%) Life Science
6 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.44%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.22%) Contactless
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.22%) NHS
7 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Linux
1 5 (6.10%) Unix
2 3 (3.66%) Android
2 3 (3.66%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (74.39%) Test Automation
2 49 (59.76%) Agile
3 45 (54.88%) CI/CD
4 40 (48.78%) DevOps
5 33 (40.24%) API Testing
6 30 (36.59%) Performance Testing
6 30 (36.59%) Test Strategy
7 24 (29.27%) Scrum
8 20 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (24.39%) Manual Testing
9 19 (23.17%) Software Testing
9 19 (23.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (20.73%) Microservices
10 17 (20.73%) Validation
11 16 (19.51%) End-to-End Testing
11 16 (19.51%) Test Scripting
11 16 (19.51%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (18.29%) Security Testing
13 13 (15.85%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.78%) Python
2 27 (32.93%) Java
3 26 (31.71%) JavaScript
4 21 (25.61%) SQL
5 12 (14.63%) C#
6 8 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.32%) Bash
7 6 (7.32%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.88%) Ruby
9 3 (3.66%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (40.24%) Security Cleared
2 30 (36.59%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.41%) ISTQB
4 6 (7.32%) Degree
5 5 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.10%) ISEB
6 3 (3.66%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (37.80%) QA
2 8 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.88%) GDPR
4 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.44%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.22%) GRC
6 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.22%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.76%) Ansible
3 6 (7.32%) Grafana
3 6 (7.32%) HP Fortify
3 6 (7.32%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.10%) Control-M
5 3 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.41%) IBM
3 9 (10.98%) Oracle
3 9 (10.98%) SAP
4 3 (3.66%) Databricks
4 3 (3.66%) Dell
4 3 (3.66%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.66%) Splunk
5 2 (2.44%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.22%) Adobe
6 1 (1.22%) Brio
6 1 (1.22%) Concur
6 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.22%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.22%) HP
6 1 (1.22%) NEC
6 1 (1.22%) Okta
6 1 (1.22%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.22%) Salesforce