Postman Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Postman
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Postman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing Postman 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.23% 1.56% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.76% 5.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £479 -
25th Percentile £463 £483 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% - -
75th Percentile £488 £494 -
90th Percentile - £498 -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £500 -
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -

All Development Application Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 132 38 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 29.80% 29.69% 46.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 22 27
10th Percentile £415 £313 £448
25th Percentile £450 £434 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £460 £535
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -14.02% -0.93%
75th Percentile £525 £485 £538
90th Percentile £553 £505 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £490 £450
% change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -16.36%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Postman job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Postman

Postman
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 15 February 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
Telford -37 1 £475 -2.76% 2
Postman
West Midlands

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus