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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 271 291
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 +103
Contract jobs citing Postman 95 84 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.61% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.24% 4.39% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 68 86
10th Percentile £344 £340 £350
25th Percentile £379 £367 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £422 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -15.65% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £442 £600
90th Percentile £648 £553 £738
England median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -6.40%
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 2,239 1,914 2,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.27% 14.00% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 1,240 1,766
10th Percentile £351 £341 £380
25th Percentile £420 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £573
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.55% -4.58%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 19
10th Percentile £55.60 £22.25 £25.68
25th Percentile £74.50 £25.63 £33.75
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £98.75 £77.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £105.50 £87.88 £73.67
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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -8 12 £498 +17.06% 6
West London -27 2 £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 9 (9.47%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.11%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.11%) CMS
2 2 (2.11%) Mule
Business Applications
1 16 (16.84%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.11%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.05%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.58%) Azure
2 22 (23.16%) OCI
3 21 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (22.11%) PaaS
4 14 (14.74%) GitHub
5 10 (10.53%) AWS
5 10 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (10.53%) IaaS
6 8 (8.42%) Serverless
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (5.26%) BrowserStack
7 5 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.26%) Sentry
8 4 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.21%) iPaaS
9 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) HTTP
2 1 (1.05%) DSL
2 1 (1.05%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.16%) Big Data
2 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.16%) Redis
3 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (37.89%) Selenium
2 25 (26.32%) JIRA
3 21 (22.11%) Jenkins
4 19 (20.00%) Cucumber
5 18 (18.95%) Git
6 17 (17.89%) REST Assured
7 15 (15.79%) GitLab
8 13 (13.68%) Cypress.io
9 12 (12.63%) JUnit
10 9 (9.47%) SoapUI
11 8 (8.42%) JMeter
12 7 (7.37%) TestRail
13 6 (6.32%) Appium
13 6 (6.32%) Charles Proxy
13 6 (6.32%) Katalon Studio
13 6 (6.32%) SonarQube
13 6 (6.32%) WebDriver
13 6 (6.32%) Zephyr
14 5 (5.26%) XCUITest
15 4 (4.21%) Serenity BDD
General
1 30 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 27 (28.42%) Public Sector
3 23 (24.21%) Finance
4 9 (9.47%) Banking
5 8 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Military
7 3 (3.16%) Back Office
7 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Front Office
8 2 (2.11%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.05%) Legal
9 1 (1.05%) Police
9 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Retail
9 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (20.00%) Tester
2 15 (15.79%) Cloud Specialist
2 15 (15.79%) Integration Specialist
2 15 (15.79%) Oracle Specialist
3 11 (11.58%) Test Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) Automation Tester
4 9 (9.47%) QA Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Analyst
5 8 (8.42%) Developer
5 8 (8.42%) Senior
5 8 (8.42%) Test Automation Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Lead
9 3 (3.16%) Quality Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (42.11%) REST
2 33 (34.74%) JSON
3 29 (30.53%) Web Services
4 28 (29.47%) SOAP
5 26 (27.37%) XML
6 21 (22.11%) Oracle Fusion
7 14 (14.74%) OAuth
7 14 (14.74%) Playwright
8 13 (13.68%) XSLT
9 12 (12.63%) JWT
10 10 (10.53%) RESTful
11 9 (9.47%) .NET
12 8 (8.42%) Swagger
13 7 (7.37%) pytest
14 6 (6.32%) CSS
14 6 (6.32%) HTML
15 5 (5.26%) Gherkin
15 5 (5.26%) Spring
15 5 (5.26%) WireMock
16 4 (4.21%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) Mobile App
1 11 (11.58%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.32%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.16%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.37%) Android
1 7 (7.37%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.11%) Linux
2 2 (2.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (56.84%) Test Automation
2 46 (48.42%) Agile
3 42 (44.21%) API Testing
4 41 (43.16%) DevOps
5 37 (38.95%) CI/CD
6 25 (26.32%) ERP
7 23 (24.21%) Test Scripting
7 23 (24.21%) Unit Testing
8 21 (22.11%) Validation
9 20 (21.05%) Scrum
10 18 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (16.84%) Regression Testing
12 15 (15.79%) Test Strategy
13 12 (12.63%) Software Testing
14 11 (11.58%) Microservices
14 11 (11.58%) SDLC
14 11 (11.58%) Sprint Planning
15 10 (10.53%) BDD
15 10 (10.53%) Data Validation
16 9 (9.47%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.32%) Java
2 18 (18.95%) C#
3 17 (17.89%) SQL
4 10 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.53%) Python
5 5 (5.26%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.26%) Swift
6 4 (4.21%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.16%) VB.NET
7 3 (3.16%) XPath
8 2 (2.11%) DataWeave
8 2 (2.11%) Groovy
8 2 (2.11%) Ruby
8 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (34.74%) Security Cleared
2 31 (32.63%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) Degree
4 7 (7.37%) ISTQB
5 5 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (31.58%) QA
2 13 (13.68%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.26%) GDPR
4 2 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.11%) WCAG
5 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.05%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.05%) MiFID
5 1 (1.05%) NCSC
5 1 (1.05%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (13.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.11%) Terraform
3 1 (1.05%) Grafana
3 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (29.47%) Oracle
2 9 (9.47%) Splunk
3 6 (6.32%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.16%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.16%) SAP
4 3 (3.16%) UiPath
5 2 (2.11%) Adobe
5 2 (2.11%) Concur
5 2 (2.11%) Dell
5 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.11%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.11%) Pega
6 1 (1.05%) Google
6 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.05%) Sybase
6 1 (1.05%) Workday