Postman Contracts in Manchester

Postman
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Postman skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Postman over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 87 85
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +35
Contract jobs citing Postman 7 2 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.70% 0.16% 1.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.30% 1.71% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 25
10th Percentile £336 - £285
25th Percentile £353 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -18.18% +27.91%
75th Percentile £484 £475 £625
90th Percentile £539 - £632
North West median daily rate £388 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -13.89% -18.18% +29.41%

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 132 117 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.15% 9.64% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 79 168
10th Percentile £332 £350 £351
25th Percentile £400 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £663 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £427 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.11% -9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £70.50 - £46.10
25th Percentile £71.25 £46.25 £55.84
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -25.49% -15.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £48.75 £68.13
90th Percentile £78.25 - £73.75
North West median hourly rate £73.75 £43.10 £46.18
% change year-on-year +71.10% -6.66% -38.43%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Postman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Postman in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postman in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Postman in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Appium
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Aviation
2 1 (14.29%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Help Desk Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Chai
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) API Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) ITSM
2 4 (57.14%) Process Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Service Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft