Postman Contracts in the North West

Postman
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 115 129 135
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Postman 5 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.29% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.82% 2.66% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 19
10th Percentile £364 £313 £285
25th Percentile £423 £378 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £481 £526
90th Percentile £551 £526 £625
England median daily rate £450 £480 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% -12.73% +15.79%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 274 301 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.92% 10.93% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 231 322
10th Percentile £329 £375 £325
25th Percentile £391 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £675 £656
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £54.02 £40.52 £38.16
25th Percentile £63.25 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.63 £53.44
90th Percentile £81.35 £81.45 £56.38
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Postman in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +16 5 £500 +11.11% 9
Postman
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (20.00%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aviation
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) Chai
2 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) B2C
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Content Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (20.00%) Virgin Media