Postman Contracts in the Midlands

Postman
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 137 147
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing Postman 16 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.70% 0.10% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.91% 1.01% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £205 £219 £248
25th Percentile £243 £270 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £380 £569
Median % change year-on-year +16.78% -33.19% +30.15%
75th Percentile £536 £471 £650
90th Percentile £575 £511 £658
England median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 326 296 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.16% 9.99% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 221 292
10th Percentile £276 £263 £300
25th Percentile £368 £358 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -6.32% -2.56%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £551
90th Percentile £575 £588 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 2
10th Percentile - £10.50 £32.20
25th Percentile - £43.88 £32.96
Median hourly rate £18.20 £56.88 £35.94
Median % change year-on-year -68.00% +58.24% -24.33%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £38.96
90th Percentile - - £39.73
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Postman in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 July 2025. 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
West Midlands +10 9 £550 +53.85% 14
East Midlands +7 7 £438 +15.13% 6
Postman
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
1 3 (18.75%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) BrowserStack
1 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) JMeter
2 5 (31.25%) Selenium
3 4 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 4 (25.00%) JIRA
4 3 (18.75%) GitLab
4 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
4 3 (18.75%) PHPUnit
4 3 (18.75%) REST Assured
4 3 (18.75%) TestNG
4 3 (18.75%) Travis CI
5 2 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Tester
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Automation Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Junior
3 3 (18.75%) Junior Automation Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Junior Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Moodle Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Tester
5 1 (6.25%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (18.75%) Behat
2 3 (18.75%) JSON
2 3 (18.75%) XML
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) e-Learning
1 3 (18.75%) VLE
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) API Testing
1 12 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Validation
4 4 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
5 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (18.75%) Functional Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) SIEM
5 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) PHP
3 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CEH
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kibana
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Nintex