Postman Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Postman
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Postman skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 119 138
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 +11
Contract jobs citing Postman 5 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.75% 2.42% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £488 £406 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -31.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £503 £534 £625
90th Percentile £508 £604 £685
South East median daily rate £500 £413 £600
% change year-on-year +21.21% -31.25% -

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 182 248 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.89% 11.06% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 160 196
10th Percentile £325 £348 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £600 £671 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 3
10th Percentile £47.99 £37.25 £23.25
25th Percentile £63.56 £60.12 £33.75
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.03% +24.76% -18.52%
75th Percentile £87.97 £84.00 £56.63
90th Percentile £89.63 £95.00 £58.35
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -7.36%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Postman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the Thames Valley

Postman
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Postman.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Postman

Postman
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Berkshire +11 5 £500 - 2
Postman
South East

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure API Management
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) Swagger
2 2 (40.00%) WSDL
2 2 (40.00%) XSLT
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Snow