Newman Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Postman Newman
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Newman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 328 -
Rank change year-on-year -109 - -
Contract jobs citing Newman 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.024% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% - -
UK median daily rate £406 £525 £300
% change year-on-year -22.62% +75.00% -42.86%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Newman 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,792 1,769 2,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.33% 13.89% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,784 1,180 1,444
10th Percentile £325 £321 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £639 £613 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 58 178
10th Percentile £39.53 £23.76 £40.94
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £79.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +5.69%

Newman
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Newman relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Newman job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Newman
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Newman.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Newman

Newman
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Newman within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South East - 1 £400 -
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Newman
UK

Newman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Gatling
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) Great Expectations
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) Life Science
2 1 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (33.33%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk