Postman Contract Job Trends

Postman
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Postman skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 358 389
Rank change year-on-year -37 +31 +76
Contract jobs citing Postman 238 163 198
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.56% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.09% 3.94% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 132 143
10th Percentile £313 £307 £341
25th Percentile £358 £362 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -9.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £565 £528 £550
90th Percentile £588 £575 £624
UK excluding London median daily rate £397 £500 £509
% change year-on-year -20.63% -1.67% +5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £58.25 - -
25th Percentile £68.13 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year +40.00% - -

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 5,826 4,141 5,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.21% 14.20% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,828 2,767 3,440
10th Percentile £349 £340 £353
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £704 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 71 204
10th Percentile £36.45 £27.50 £33.60
25th Percentile £59.63 £49.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.38 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Postman job vacancy trend in the UK

Postman
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the UK

Postman
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Postman.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Postman

Postman
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Postman over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Postman in the UK

Postman
Top 17 Contract Job 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 9 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
England -56 199 £425 -5.56% 52
UK excluding London -52 112 £397 -20.63% 43
London -60 92 £550 +29.41% 12
Work from Home -16 77 £402 +0.50% 33
North of England -31 51 £400 -20.12% 9
Midlands -44 34 £354 -30.25% 9
West Midlands -40 31 £350 -36.36% 7
North West -20 20 £400 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire -45 20 £484 -5.10%
South East -59 17 £543 +8.50% 14
North East -9 11 £363 -14.32% 1
Wales -6 6 £485 +14.00%
Scotland -2 3 £325 -25.71%
East Midlands -33 3 £415 -7.78% 2
South West -35 2 - - 8
East of England -38 2 £300 -42.86% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 2

Postman
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:

Application Platforms
1 32 (13.45%) Confluence
2 17 (7.14%) CMS
3 2 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.84%) IIS
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (6.72%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.26%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.84%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.84%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (33.19%) Azure
2 75 (31.51%) AWS
3 47 (19.75%) GitHub
4 33 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (13.03%) GCP
5 31 (13.03%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (8.40%) OCI
7 19 (7.98%) PaaS
8 12 (5.04%) IaaS
9 8 (3.36%) BrowserStack
9 8 (3.36%) SaaS
10 7 (2.94%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.94%) Boomi
11 6 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.52%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.52%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.52%) Serverless
12 5 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.10%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.10%) HTTP
2 2 (0.84%) Firewall
2 2 (0.84%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.84%) Network Security
3 1 (0.42%) DSL
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.50%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (9.24%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (4.20%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.36%) MySQL
5 5 (2.10%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.68%) Big Data
6 4 (1.68%) Neo4j
6 4 (1.68%) Power BI
7 3 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.26%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.84%) Parquet
8 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.84%) Tableau
9 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.42%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 86 (36.13%) JIRA
2 81 (34.03%) Selenium
3 68 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 59 (24.79%) Git
5 50 (21.01%) Cucumber
6 47 (19.75%) GitLab
7 45 (18.91%) JMeter
7 45 (18.91%) REST Assured
8 31 (13.03%) Zephyr
9 24 (10.08%) Cypress.io
10 21 (8.82%) SoapUI
11 17 (7.14%) JUnit
12 15 (6.30%) Gatling
13 13 (5.46%) TestRail
13 13 (5.46%) WebDriver
14 10 (4.20%) LoadRunner
15 8 (3.36%) Appium
16 7 (2.94%) Maven
16 7 (2.94%) SpecFlow
16 7 (2.94%) TestNG
General
1 81 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 36 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.50%) Finance
5 16 (6.72%) Marketing
6 14 (5.88%) Banking
7 9 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.68%) Military
9 2 (0.84%) French Language
9 2 (0.84%) Police
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.42%) Front Office
10 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Legal
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (19.75%) Test Engineer
2 45 (18.91%) Tester
3 44 (18.49%) Analyst
4 24 (10.08%) Test Automation Engineer
5 20 (8.40%) Lead
6 17 (7.14%) QA Engineer
6 17 (7.14%) Test Analyst
7 16 (6.72%) Senior
8 15 (6.30%) Automation Tester
9 14 (5.88%) Cloud Specialist
9 14 (5.88%) Integration Specialist
9 14 (5.88%) Oracle Specialist
10 12 (5.04%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (5.04%) QA Tester
10 12 (5.04%) Quality Engineer
11 11 (4.62%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (4.20%) Automation Test Lead
12 10 (4.20%) Developer
13 9 (3.78%) Architect
13 9 (3.78%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (34.45%) REST
2 53 (22.27%) Playwright
3 49 (20.59%) JSON
4 37 (15.55%) SOAP
5 35 (14.71%) XML
6 26 (10.92%) RESTful
7 24 (10.08%) OAuth
7 24 (10.08%) Swagger
8 19 (7.98%) Oracle Fusion
8 19 (7.98%) Web Services
9 17 (7.14%) .NET
9 17 (7.14%) JWT
10 16 (6.72%) pytest
11 14 (5.88%) Gherkin
12 13 (5.46%) XSLT
13 12 (5.04%) OpenID
14 11 (4.62%) LDAP
15 10 (4.20%) Kafka
15 10 (4.20%) SailPoint
16 9 (3.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.91%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.46%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.78%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.52%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.10%) Digital Wallet
8 4 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.42%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.42%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.42%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.10%) Android
2 4 (1.68%) Linux
3 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (67.65%) Test Automation
2 142 (59.66%) Agile
3 116 (48.74%) CI/CD
4 96 (40.34%) DevOps
5 89 (37.39%) API Testing
6 63 (26.47%) Test Scripting
7 60 (25.21%) Scrum
8 51 (21.43%) Test Strategy
9 50 (21.01%) Scenario Testing
10 47 (19.75%) Validation
11 44 (18.49%) Manual Testing
12 43 (18.07%) ETL
13 42 (17.65%) Test Management
14 40 (16.81%) End-to-End Testing
15 39 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
15 39 (16.39%) Sprint Planning
16 38 (15.97%) Performance Testing
17 37 (15.55%) Integration Testing
18 36 (15.13%) BDD
19 35 (14.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 66 (27.73%) Java
2 58 (24.37%) Python
3 49 (20.59%) SQL
4 42 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.66%) C#
6 19 (7.98%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.04%) Ruby
8 11 (4.62%) Bash
8 11 (4.62%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.78%) Scala
10 6 (2.52%) PHP
11 4 (1.68%) Cypher
12 3 (1.26%) Go
12 3 (1.26%) Groovy
13 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.84%) XPath
14 1 (0.42%) AppleScript
14 1 (0.42%) C
14 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 90 (37.82%) Security Cleared
2 77 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.92%) ISTQB
4 10 (4.20%) Degree
5 7 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.84%) ISEB
7 2 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.42%) CBAP
8 1 (0.42%) CSPO
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (34.45%) QA
2 16 (6.72%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.10%) GDPR
3 5 (2.10%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.10%) PSD2
4 4 (1.68%) WCAG
5 3 (1.26%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.42%) MiFID
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (9.24%) Docker
2 5 (2.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (13.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.30%) Grafana
3 12 (5.04%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.20%) Ansible
5 8 (3.36%) Terraform
6 5 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.68%) Kibana
8 3 (1.26%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.84%) Podman
9 2 (0.84%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.42%) Consul
10 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (22.69%) Oracle
2 17 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 16 (6.72%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.78%) Splunk
4 9 (3.78%) Talend
5 8 (3.36%) SAP
6 6 (2.52%) Dell
7 5 (2.10%) Google
7 5 (2.10%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.68%) Sage
9 3 (1.26%) Denodo
9 3 (1.26%) HP
9 3 (1.26%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.26%) OpenText
9 3 (1.26%) Workday
10 2 (0.84%) Adobe
10 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.84%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.84%) PagerDuty