Postman Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Postman
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Postman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 143 163
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 +28
Contract jobs citing Postman 59 19 23
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.26% 0.53% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.61% 3.64% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 16 20
10th Percentile £321 £288 £325
25th Percentile £358 £363 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £471 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% -19.79% +24.08%
75th Percentile £473 £549 £606
90th Percentile £536 £611 £637
England median daily rate £468 £428 £538
% change year-on-year +9.47% -20.50% +7.55%

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 892 522 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.03% 14.53% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 332 434
10th Percentile £325 £325 £352
25th Percentile £388 £389 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -5.50% -8.26%
75th Percentile £543 £573 £597
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 40
10th Percentile £39.00 - £45.88
25th Percentile £43.26 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% - -1.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £53.13 £64.06
90th Percentile £72.98 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Postman job vacancy trend in the North of England

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 -26 26 £375 -24.05% 8
North West 0 24 £400 -10.11% 8
North East +2 9 £498 +53.08% 1
Postman
England

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (3.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.76%) Azure
2 21 (35.59%) AWS
3 18 (30.51%) GCP
4 8 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (13.56%) GitHub
5 7 (11.86%) SaaS
6 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.78%) Apigee
7 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.08%) npm
9 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) HTTP
2 4 (6.78%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.39%) Firewall
3 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.17%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) Power BI
3 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (42.37%) JIRA
2 21 (35.59%) Jenkins
3 18 (30.51%) Cucumber
4 15 (25.42%) Git
5 12 (20.34%) SoapUI
6 11 (18.64%) Selenium
7 9 (15.25%) REST Assured
7 9 (15.25%) TestRail
8 6 (10.17%) GitLab
8 6 (10.17%) JUnit
9 3 (5.08%) Babel
9 3 (5.08%) webpack
9 3 (5.08%) Zephyr
10 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
10 2 (3.39%) SpecFlow
11 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.69%) JMeter
11 1 (1.69%) Maven
11 1 (1.69%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
3 9 (15.25%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (30.51%) Analyst
2 14 (23.73%) Test Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Developer
3 10 (16.95%) Senior
4 9 (15.25%) Java Developer
4 9 (15.25%) Test Analyst
5 8 (13.56%) Tester
6 7 (11.86%) Test Automation Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Help Desk Analyst
7 6 (10.17%) Lead
8 5 (8.47%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Apigee Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Automation Test Lead
9 4 (6.78%) Automation Tester
10 3 (5.08%) Business Analyst
10 3 (5.08%) Lead Test Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Manual Tester
10 3 (5.08%) Senior Tester
10 3 (5.08%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.81%) REST
2 13 (22.03%) JSON
3 10 (16.95%) Spring
4 9 (15.25%) RESTful
4 9 (15.25%) Spring Boot
5 8 (13.56%) Playwright
5 8 (13.56%) React
5 8 (13.56%) XML
6 7 (11.86%) .NET
7 6 (10.17%) LDAP
7 6 (10.17%) OpenID
7 6 (10.17%) SailPoint
8 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
8 5 (8.47%) jQuery
8 5 (8.47%) POJO
8 5 (8.47%) Thymeleaf
9 4 (6.78%) JAX-RS
9 4 (6.78%) JWT
9 4 (6.78%) OAuth2
9 4 (6.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.39%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) NHS
4 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (66.10%) API Testing
2 35 (59.32%) Agile
3 34 (57.63%) CI/CD
4 23 (38.98%) Test Automation
5 17 (28.81%) DevOps
6 16 (27.12%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (23.73%) Scrum
7 14 (23.73%) Software Testing
7 14 (23.73%) Test Scripting
8 13 (22.03%) BDD
8 13 (22.03%) Test Management
8 13 (22.03%) Unit Testing
9 12 (20.34%) Process Improvement
9 12 (20.34%) TDD
10 11 (18.64%) Kanban
10 11 (18.64%) Test Strategy
11 10 (16.95%) Microservices
11 10 (16.95%) Privileged Access Management
11 10 (16.95%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.29%) Java
2 14 (23.73%) Python
3 13 (22.03%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.95%) SQL
5 6 (10.17%) PHP
6 2 (3.39%) C#
6 2 (3.39%) Ruby
6 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.39%) XPath
7 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) ISTQB
2 8 (13.56%) CISM
2 8 (13.56%) CISSP
2 8 (13.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (13.56%) Degree
3 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.03%) QA
2 10 (16.95%) Accessibility
3 8 (13.56%) PCI DSS
4 6 (10.17%) GDPR
4 6 (10.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (10.17%) NIST
4 6 (10.17%) SLA
5 2 (3.39%) PSD2
6 1 (1.69%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Ansible
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (3.39%) Puppet
3 2 (3.39%) SCCM
4 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.95%) CyberArk
3 9 (15.25%) BeyondTrust
3 9 (15.25%) Thycotic
4 8 (13.56%) Google
5 6 (10.17%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.78%) Splunk
7 2 (3.39%) MuleSoft
7 2 (3.39%) Virgin Media
7 2 (3.39%) VMware
8 1 (1.69%) AppDynamics