Postman Contract Job Trends in the North East

Postman
England > North East

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 35 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Postman 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.95% 0.34% -
As % of the Development Applications category 12.00% 1.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £305 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% - -
75th Percentile £484 £338 -
90th Percentile £519 - -
England median daily rate £450 £468 £550
% change year-on-year -3.74% -15.00% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 75 66 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 24.59% 22.68% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 27 8
10th Percentile £380 £325 £387
25th Percentile £431 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £440 £448
Median % change year-on-year +17.05% -1.68% -18.64%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £494
90th Percentile £600 £597 £640
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £37.70 - -
25th Percentile £40.25 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% - -
75th Percentile £51.75 - -
90th Percentile £51.90 £56.08 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Postman job vacancy trend in the North East

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Postman.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Postman

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in the North East over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the North East

Postman
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the North East region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Tyne and Wear +1 8 £385 +18.46% 4
Durham - 1 - - 1
Postman
England

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 3 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Appium
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) JMeter
3 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
3 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Manual Tester
2 2 (22.22%) QA Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Software Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer in Test
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Playwright
1 3 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
2 2 (22.22%) Swagger
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) Functional Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 2 (22.22%) API Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Case Management
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Design Thinking
5 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Fintech
5 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (22.22%) UML
6 1 (11.11%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
2 2 (22.22%) QA
3 1 (11.11%) WCAG