Postman Contracts in the UK excluding London

Postman
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Postman skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Postman over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 325 327
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Postman 62 134 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.56% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.78% 3.89% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 105 148
10th Percentile £351 £319 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £566 £580 £500
90th Percentile £590 £665 £588
UK median daily rate £480 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -8.57% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.17

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Postman is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,234 3,443 4,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.75% 14.26% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 2,429 3,222
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.28%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 186 115
10th Percentile £40.00 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £51.88 £52.19 £42.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.63% +20.00% +13.26%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Postman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postman in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Postman in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Postman in the UK excluding London

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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 Postman within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Scotland +11 19 £520 +15.56% 5
North of England +3 16 £450 -5.26% 13
Wales +24 11 £509 -13.08% 1
North West +9 9 £450 +5.88% 6
Yorkshire +10 7 £485 -11.82% 7
South East +4 7 £600 - 11
South West +18 6 £585 +14.15% 5
Midlands +27 3 £380 +43.40% 2
West Midlands +31 2 £358 -31.90% 2
East Midlands +21 1 £380 +47.57%
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UK

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (29.03%) Confluence
2 3 (4.84%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.42%) Azure
2 12 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (16.13%) GitHub
4 6 (9.68%) AWS
5 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.84%) PaaS
6 2 (3.23%) Azure API Management
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.23%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.23%) Serverless
6 2 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.61%) Commercetools
7 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.61%) Figma
7 1 (1.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) Relational Database
2 8 (12.90%) MySQL
3 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.23%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (38.71%) Git
2 21 (33.87%) JIRA
3 20 (32.26%) Jenkins
4 17 (27.42%) Cypress.io
5 15 (24.19%) Cucumber
6 13 (20.97%) Selenium
7 12 (19.35%) JUnit
8 10 (16.13%) IntelliJ
9 7 (11.29%) GitLab
9 7 (11.29%) Visual Studio
10 6 (9.68%) SpecFlow
11 5 (8.06%) SoapUI
12 4 (6.45%) NUnit
13 3 (4.84%) JMeter
14 2 (3.23%) Zephyr
15 1 (1.61%) Android Studio
15 1 (1.61%) Gatling
15 1 (1.61%) Katalon Studio
15 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
15 1 (1.61%) TestRail
General
1 20 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (3.23%) Finance
2 2 (3.23%) Retail
3 1 (1.61%) Electronics
3 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.61%) Marketing
3 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (37.10%) Developer
2 18 (29.03%) Senior
3 11 (17.74%) Java Developer
4 10 (16.13%) Test Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Tester
6 8 (12.90%) Analyst
6 8 (12.90%) Test Analyst
7 7 (11.29%) PHP Developer
8 6 (9.68%) Automation Tester
8 6 (9.68%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (9.68%) Full Stack PHP Developer
8 6 (9.68%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (8.06%) Senior Developer
9 5 (8.06%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (8.06%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (6.45%) QA Engineer
10 4 (6.45%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 3 (4.84%) QA Analyst
11 3 (4.84%) QA Test Analyst
11 3 (4.84%) Test Automation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) REST
2 13 (20.97%) React
3 12 (19.35%) Apache Camel
3 12 (19.35%) Kafka
3 12 (19.35%) Playwright
3 12 (19.35%) Spring Boot
4 9 (14.52%) GraphQL
4 9 (14.52%) J2EE
4 9 (14.52%) Spring
5 8 (12.90%) Laravel
6 7 (11.29%) Node.js
6 7 (11.29%) Vue
7 6 (9.68%) .NET
7 6 (9.68%) HTML
7 6 (9.68%) Jest
8 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
8 5 (8.06%) CSS
8 5 (8.06%) JSON
9 3 (4.84%) Swagger
10 2 (3.23%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Product Ownership
2 9 (14.52%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.84%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (69.35%) Agile
2 37 (59.68%) Test Automation
3 20 (32.26%) CI/CD
4 18 (29.03%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (24.19%) DevOps
6 13 (20.97%) API Testing
6 13 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (20.97%) Project Management
6 13 (20.97%) TDD
7 12 (19.35%) Manual Testing
7 12 (19.35%) Scrum
8 11 (17.74%) End-to-End Testing
9 10 (16.13%) Test Strategy
10 9 (14.52%) BDD
10 9 (14.52%) Data Protection
10 9 (14.52%) Scenario Testing
11 8 (12.90%) Full Stack Development
11 8 (12.90%) Kanban
12 7 (11.29%) Front End Development
13 6 (9.68%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.71%) SQL
2 19 (30.65%) Java
3 13 (20.97%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.52%) PHP
5 6 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.06%) C#
6 5 (8.06%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.61%) Python
7 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (32.26%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (30.65%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Kibana
2 1 (1.61%) Ansible
2 1 (1.61%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.61%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Oracle
3 1 (1.61%) HP
3 1 (1.61%) SAP
3 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.61%) Splunk
3 1 (1.61%) Xamarin