Postman Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Postman
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Postman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 78 87
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +29
Contract jobs citing Postman 10 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.88% 0.44% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.95% 3.25% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 16
10th Percentile £374 £375 £285
25th Percentile £391 £393 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £445 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -20.89% +20.32%
75th Percentile - £484 £625
90th Percentile - £494 £643
North West median daily rate £400 £445 £563
% change year-on-year -10.11% -20.89% +22.28%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 168 154 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.84% 13.47% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 104 162
10th Percentile £333 £320 £363
25th Percentile £384 £363 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -11.98% -7.05%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £619
90th Percentile £638 £638 £668
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £49.25
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.78%
75th Percentile - - £77.81
90th Percentile - - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £47.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +33.22% +3.05% +2.62%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Postman relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Postman job vacancy trend in Manchester

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Postman.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Postman

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Cucumber
General
1 6 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
1 6 (60.00%) Help Desk Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) API Testing
1 8 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 6 (60.00%) ITSM
2 6 (60.00%) Process Improvement
2 6 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 6 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Virgin Media