Postman Contracts in the North of England

Postman
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 170 178
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Postman 20 15 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 0.31% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.02% 2.97% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 33
10th Percentile £263 £318 £285
25th Percentile £352 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.28% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £550
90th Percentile - £517 £615
England median daily rate £450 £480 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% -12.73% +15.79%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 498 505 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 10.59% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 369 620
10th Percentile £335 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £600
90th Percentile £625 £646 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 17
10th Percentile £52.13 £44.09 £37.80
25th Percentile £54.48 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £73.75 £53.09 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +6.45% +17.35%
75th Percentile £77.81 £70.31 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £81.15 £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the North of England

Postman
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postman in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Postman in the North of England

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the North of England

Postman
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire +14 13 £510 +5.15% 7
North West +14 5 £500 +11.11% 11
North East - 2 £423 - 5
Postman
England

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (75.00%) Selenium
2 10 (50.00%) JIRA
3 6 (30.00%) Cypress.io
3 6 (30.00%) Git
4 5 (25.00%) IntelliJ
4 5 (25.00%) Maven
5 4 (20.00%) SoapUI
6 2 (10.00%) JMeter
7 1 (5.00%) Appium
7 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
7 1 (5.00%) GitLab
7 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
7 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
7 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Aviation
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Tester
2 6 (30.00%) Automation Tester
2 6 (30.00%) QA Tester
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Manual Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) QA Manual Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Software Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.00%) Chai
3 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.00%) Swagger
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 15 (75.00%) API Testing
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 7 (35.00%) DevOps
5 6 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 6 (30.00%) Test Strategy
6 5 (25.00%) Manual Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Agile Project Management
7 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (20.00%) OWASP
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Project Management
7 4 (20.00%) Security Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 2 (10.00%) BDD
9 2 (10.00%) Functional Testing
9 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 2 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Go
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (60.00%) QA
2 4 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) Virgin Media