Postman Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Postman
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Postman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 104 114
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing Postman 2 6 25
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.14% 0.37% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.75% 2.31% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £389 £375
25th Percentile £313 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £420 £470
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -10.64% +4.44%
75th Percentile £338 £430 £554
90th Percentile - £435 £590
UK median daily rate £453 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +6.59% -15.00% -

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 268 260 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.43% 16.24% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 169 276
10th Percentile £358 £356 £388
25th Percentile £408 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.30% -9.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £560 £519 £588
90th Percentile £625 £550 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £54.06 - £39.81
25th Percentile £54.53 - £47.02
Median hourly rate £58.11 - £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.44%
75th Percentile £61.08 - £66.39
90th Percentile £61.18 - £70.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Postman job vacancy trend in Scotland

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Postman.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Postman

Postman
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. 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
Edinburgh -3 2 £325 -21.21% 1
Postman
UK

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) QA Officer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA