Postman Contracts in the UK excluding London

Postman
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Postman skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Postman over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 336 330
Rank change year-on-year +63 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing Postman 63 63 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.30% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.68% 2.78% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 44 105
10th Percentile £296 £357 £319
25th Percentile £420 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +7.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £580
90th Percentile £575 £590 £640
UK median daily rate £430 £480 £525
% change year-on-year -10.36% -8.57% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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

Postman
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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
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

Postman
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 1 May 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
Midlands +40 21 £485 +27.63% 10
North of England +24 20 £501 +11.28% 23
West Midlands +27 15 £550 +53.85% 5
Yorkshire +14 13 £510 +5.15% 7
South East +49 10 £500 -16.67% 22
East Midlands +15 6 £459 +20.72% 5
Scotland 0 6 £438 -15.87% 5
North West +14 5 £500 +11.11% 11
South West +41 3 £568 -2.99% 9
East of England - 2 £525 - 6
North East - 2 £423 - 5
Wales -9 1 £425 -16.42% 2
Postman
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 5 (7.94%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) Moodle
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.98%) Azure
2 12 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (15.87%) AWS
4 7 (11.11%) SaaS
5 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.35%) GitHub
6 4 (6.35%) PaaS
6 4 (6.35%) PowerApps
7 3 (4.76%) Azure API Management
7 3 (4.76%) BrowserStack
7 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.76%) IaaS
7 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.76%) Serverless
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.17%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.59%) Metadata
5 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.59%) Power BI
5 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (44.44%) Selenium
2 21 (33.33%) Git
3 18 (28.57%) Cypress.io
3 18 (28.57%) JIRA
4 9 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 9 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 9 (14.29%) SoapUI
5 7 (11.11%) JMeter
6 5 (7.94%) GitLab
6 5 (7.94%) IntelliJ
6 5 (7.94%) Maven
6 5 (7.94%) WebDriver
7 4 (6.35%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.76%) NUnit
8 3 (4.76%) PHPUnit
8 3 (4.76%) Subversion
8 3 (4.76%) TeamCity
8 3 (4.76%) TestNG
8 3 (4.76%) Travis CI
9 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Finance
3 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Aviation
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Electronics
5 1 (1.59%) French Language
5 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.59%) Marketing
5 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Tester
2 11 (17.46%) Test Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Developer
3 10 (15.87%) QA Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Senior
5 7 (11.11%) QA Tester
6 6 (9.52%) Automation Tester
6 6 (9.52%) Consultant
7 5 (7.94%) Analyst
7 5 (7.94%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) QA Test Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) SAP Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) Moodle Developer
9 3 (4.76%) SAP Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior QA Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) .NET
2 7 (11.11%) Playwright
2 7 (11.11%) REST
3 6 (9.52%) RESTful
4 5 (7.94%) CSS
4 5 (7.94%) CSS3
4 5 (7.94%) HTML
4 5 (7.94%) HTML5
4 5 (7.94%) jQuery
4 5 (7.94%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (7.94%) SAPUI5
4 5 (7.94%) SOAP
4 5 (7.94%) Web Services
5 4 (6.35%) JSON
5 4 (6.35%) XML
6 3 (4.76%) Behat
7 2 (3.17%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.17%) Gherkin
7 2 (3.17%) Middleware
7 2 (3.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
1 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.76%) Client/Server
2 3 (4.76%) e-Learning
2 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.76%) VLE
3 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.17%) Replication
4 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) PMI
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) AIX
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
1 1 (1.59%) Unix
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (65.08%) Test Automation
2 32 (50.79%) API Testing
3 29 (46.03%) Agile
4 20 (31.75%) DevOps
5 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
6 15 (23.81%) Manual Testing
6 15 (23.81%) Validation
7 11 (17.46%) Non-Functional Testing
8 10 (15.87%) Code Quality
8 10 (15.87%) Test Strategy
9 9 (14.29%) BDD
9 9 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
9 9 (14.29%) Microservices
9 9 (14.29%) Scrum
9 9 (14.29%) Test Scripting
10 8 (12.70%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (12.70%) Computer Science
10 8 (12.70%) Functional Testing
10 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.70%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) JavaScript
2 16 (25.40%) SQL
3 14 (22.22%) Java
4 8 (12.70%) C#
5 7 (11.11%) ABAP
5 7 (11.11%) COBOL
5 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.35%) PHP
6 4 (6.35%) Python
7 3 (4.76%) Bash
7 3 (4.76%) C++
7 3 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.76%) VBA
7 3 (4.76%) VBScript
8 2 (3.17%) Go
9 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 6 (9.52%) ISTQB
3 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) CEH
4 3 (4.76%) CISSP
4 3 (4.76%) ISEB
4 3 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (44.44%) QA
2 7 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Kibana
1 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
1 8 (12.70%) SAP
2 2 (3.17%) Adobe
2 2 (3.17%) Nintex
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle
3 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.59%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.59%) Snow
3 1 (1.59%) Splunk
3 1 (1.59%) Virgin Media