Newman Contract Job Trends

Postman Newman
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Newman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 536 597
Rank change year-on-year -35 +61 +181
Contract jobs citing Newman 4 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.012% 0.005%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.073% 0.092% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £401 £491 -
25th Percentile £403 £549 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £599 £300
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +99.58% -41.46%
75th Percentile £419 £623 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £599 -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,478 4,361 5,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.77% 13.28% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,763 2,737 3,812
10th Percentile £335 £326 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.41% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 76 208
10th Percentile £39.00 £34.38 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.81 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.60 £75.75 £89.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Newman
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Newman job vacancy trend in the UK

Newman
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Newman
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 January 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
England -53 2 £400 -33.19% 5
Work from Home -1 1 £400 -34.96% 4
UK excluding London -54 1 - - 7
London - 1 £400 -
East of England - 1 - - 1

Newman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
2 3 (75.00%) BrowserStack
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Pa11y
2 3 (75.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Locust
3 1 (25.00%) Robot Framework
3 1 (25.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Gherkin
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) OWASP
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform