Postman Contracts

Postman
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 404 476
Rank change year-on-year +52 +72 -49
Contract jobs citing Postman 172 198 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.45% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.20% 3.83% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 140 182
10th Percentile £313 £349 £350
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.37% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £575 £625 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £504 £475
% change year-on-year -0.84% +6.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Postman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the UK

Postman
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postman.

Daily rate trend for Postman in the UK

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the UK

Postman
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Postman.

Hourly rate trend for Postman in the UK

Postman
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +64 150 £450 -5.26% 100
London +17 89 £425 -10.99% 38
Work from Home +49 67 £413 -11.05% 57
UK excluding London +56 65 £500 -0.84% 72
North of England +34 22 £501 +11.28% 23
Midlands +42 21 £485 +27.63% 10
West Midlands +29 15 £550 +53.85% 4
Yorkshire +23 15 £510 +5.15% 7
South East +45 9 £488 -18.75% 13
East Midlands +15 6 £459 +20.72% 6
Scotland -4 6 £438 -15.87% 5
North West +7 5 £500 +11.11% 11
South West +42 4 £550 -5.17% 9
North East - 2 £423 - 5
East of England - 2 £525 - 7
Wales -5 1 £425 -16.42% 3

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (12.21%) Confluence
2 5 (2.91%) Moodle
3 4 (2.33%) CMS
4 2 (1.16%) nginx
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.58%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.16%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.49%) Azure
2 42 (24.42%) AWS
3 34 (19.77%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (14.53%) GitHub
5 16 (9.30%) BrowserStack
6 11 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (6.40%) SaaS
7 8 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.07%) GCP
8 7 (4.07%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.49%) Serverless
10 5 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.91%) Sauce Labs
11 4 (2.33%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.33%) PaaS
11 4 (2.33%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.74%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.49%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.74%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.74%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.74%) Redis
6 2 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.16%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.16%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.16%) Power BI
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.58%) Big Data
7 1 (0.58%) Metadata
7 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (38.37%) Selenium
2 61 (35.47%) JIRA
3 55 (31.98%) Git
4 52 (30.23%) Cypress.io
5 49 (28.49%) Jenkins
6 39 (22.67%) REST Assured
7 29 (16.86%) SoapUI
8 24 (13.95%) Cucumber
9 21 (12.21%) GitLab
10 20 (11.63%) JMeter
11 13 (7.56%) Appium
12 10 (5.81%) WebDriver
13 9 (5.23%) JUnit
14 8 (4.65%) Maven
15 6 (3.49%) Bitbucket
16 5 (2.91%) NUnit
16 5 (2.91%) PHPUnit
16 5 (2.91%) SonarQube
16 5 (2.91%) Subversion
16 5 (2.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.53%) Finance
3 16 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.40%) Banking
5 9 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.91%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.33%) Marketing
8 3 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Aviation
10 1 (0.58%) Billing
10 1 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Electronics
10 1 (0.58%) French Language
10 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
10 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (25.00%) Tester
2 38 (22.09%) Test Engineer
3 29 (16.86%) Senior
4 23 (13.37%) QA Engineer
5 22 (12.79%) Developer
6 20 (11.63%) Automation Tester
7 15 (8.72%) Analyst
7 15 (8.72%) Senior Test Engineer
7 15 (8.72%) Test Automation Engineer
8 12 (6.98%) QA Tester
9 11 (6.40%) Lead
10 9 (5.23%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Consultant
11 8 (4.65%) Quality Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) Test Analyst
13 6 (3.49%) QA Test Engineer
14 5 (2.91%) Moodle Developer
14 5 (2.91%) Senior Developer
14 5 (2.91%) Senior Tester
14 5 (2.91%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.51%) REST
2 24 (13.95%) Playwright
3 23 (13.37%) RESTful
4 17 (9.88%) .NET
5 16 (9.30%) Swagger
5 16 (9.30%) Web Services
6 15 (8.72%) JSON
6 15 (8.72%) pytest
7 14 (8.14%) SOAP
7 14 (8.14%) XML
8 12 (6.98%) HTML
9 10 (5.81%) CSS
9 10 (5.81%) HTML5
9 10 (5.81%) Kafka
9 10 (5.81%) OpenAPI
10 7 (4.07%) CSS3
10 7 (4.07%) React
11 6 (3.49%) GraphQL
11 6 (3.49%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (3.49%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.81%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.91%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.91%) VLE
7 4 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.74%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.74%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.74%) Vector Graphics
9 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.16%) Online Banking
9 2 (1.16%) PMI
9 2 (1.16%) Replication
9 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.33%) Windows
2 3 (1.74%) Linux
2 3 (1.74%) Unix
3 1 (0.58%) AIX
3 1 (0.58%) Android
3 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (65.70%) Test Automation
2 91 (52.91%) API Testing
3 87 (50.58%) Agile
4 74 (43.02%) CI/CD
5 62 (36.05%) DevOps
6 37 (21.51%) Test Scripting
7 33 (19.19%) BDD
7 33 (19.19%) Test Strategy
8 32 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (17.44%) Performance Testing
10 29 (16.86%) Scrum
11 28 (16.28%) Validation
12 24 (13.95%) Microservices
13 23 (13.37%) Manual Testing
14 22 (12.79%) Code Quality
15 20 (11.63%) End-to-End Testing
15 20 (11.63%) Regression Testing
16 17 (9.88%) Sprint Planning
17 16 (9.30%) Software Testing
17 16 (9.30%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 53 (30.81%) JavaScript
2 37 (21.51%) Java
3 30 (17.44%) Python
3 30 (17.44%) SQL
4 18 (10.47%) C#
5 15 (8.72%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.65%) ABAP
6 8 (4.65%) COBOL
7 7 (4.07%) PHP
8 6 (3.49%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.91%) Bash
10 4 (2.33%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.74%) C++
11 3 (1.74%) Groovy
11 3 (1.74%) VBA
11 3 (1.74%) VBScript
12 2 (1.16%) Go
12 2 (1.16%) SOQL
13 1 (0.58%) Rust
13 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.81%) Degree
3 10 (5.81%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.74%) CEH
4 3 (1.74%) CISSP
4 3 (1.74%) ISEB
4 3 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.16%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (37.21%) QA
2 19 (11.05%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.91%) WCAG
4 3 (1.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (12.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 13 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.33%) Grafana
2 4 (2.33%) Kibana
3 3 (1.74%) Terraform
4 2 (1.16%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) Argo
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.58%) Puppet
5 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.40%) SAP
3 8 (4.65%) Oracle
4 6 (3.49%) Splunk
5 4 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.74%) Informatica
6 3 (1.74%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.16%) Adobe
7 2 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.16%) Databricks
7 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.16%) Nintex
7 2 (1.16%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.16%) VMware
8 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco
8 1 (0.58%) Dell
8 1 (0.58%) Google
8 1 (0.58%) Kronos