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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 387 458
Rank change year-on-year +42 +71 -22
Contract jobs citing Postman 178 195 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.46% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.27% 3.80% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 147 177
10th Percentile £293 £355 £363
25th Percentile £359 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £524 £550 £625
90th Percentile £575 £610 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 4,164 5,125 8,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 12.05% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,788 3,445 5,951
10th Percentile £338 £353 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 207 231
10th Percentile £25.00 £32.48 £42.81
25th Percentile £47.21 £46.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £57.75 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.38 £70.00 £71.89
90th Percentile £82.96 £78.30 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -6.92% +5.69% +11.82%

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 21 May 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 21 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
England +38 153 £441 -7.11% 196
London +8 84 £425 -10.53% 86
UK excluding London +76 75 £475 -5.00% 153
Work from Home +42 72 £400 -13.51% 105
North of England +36 29 £460 +2.22% 41
Midlands +34 21 £475 +25.00% 19
Yorkshire +26 19 £475 -2.06% 16
West Midlands +23 15 £550 +53.85% 9
South East +45 11 £500 -16.67% 40
East Midlands +16 6 £444 +16.78% 9
North West +8 6 £473 +5.00% 19
Scotland -1 6 £438 +16.67% 5
North East - 4 £371 - 6
South West +32 3 £568 -3.81% 13
East of England - 3 £525 - 13
Wales -7 2 £419 -17.65% 10

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 19 (10.67%) Confluence
2 5 (2.81%) Moodle
3 4 (2.25%) CMS
4 2 (1.12%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.12%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.12%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 54 (30.34%) Azure
2 39 (21.91%) AWS
3 38 (21.35%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (14.04%) GitHub
5 13 (7.30%) BrowserStack
6 11 (6.18%) SaaS
7 10 (5.62%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.93%) GCP
9 7 (3.93%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.37%) Serverless
11 5 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.81%) Sauce Labs
12 4 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.25%) PaaS
12 4 (2.25%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.25%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.25%) Redis
4 4 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.12%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) Metadata
7 1 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (41.57%) Selenium
2 61 (34.27%) JIRA
3 55 (30.90%) Git
4 53 (29.78%) Cypress.io
4 53 (29.78%) Jenkins
5 46 (25.84%) REST Assured
6 31 (17.42%) Cucumber
7 28 (15.73%) GitLab
7 28 (15.73%) SoapUI
8 27 (15.17%) JMeter
9 15 (8.43%) JUnit
10 14 (7.87%) Maven
11 12 (6.74%) Appium
11 12 (6.74%) TestNG
12 9 (5.06%) WebDriver
13 7 (3.93%) Bitbucket
14 6 (3.37%) LoadRunner
14 6 (3.37%) SonarQube
14 6 (3.37%) Subversion
14 6 (3.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.92%) Finance
3 16 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.74%) Banking
5 4 (2.25%) Marketing
5 4 (2.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.12%) French Language
7 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.56%) Aviation
8 1 (0.56%) Billing
8 1 (0.56%) Electronics
8 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.56%) Publishing
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (23.60%) Tester
2 41 (23.03%) Test Engineer
3 29 (16.29%) Senior
4 23 (12.92%) Automation Tester
5 21 (11.80%) Developer
5 21 (11.80%) QA Engineer
6 18 (10.11%) Analyst
7 16 (8.99%) Senior Test Engineer
8 15 (8.43%) Test Automation Engineer
9 10 (5.62%) Lead
9 10 (5.62%) QA Tester
10 9 (5.06%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Test Analyst
11 8 (4.49%) Consultant
11 8 (4.49%) Quality Engineer
12 6 (3.37%) Technical Analyst
13 5 (2.81%) Automation Engineer
13 5 (2.81%) Moodle Developer
13 5 (2.81%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.81%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (21.91%) REST
2 30 (16.85%) Playwright
3 25 (14.04%) RESTful
4 19 (10.67%) SOAP
5 18 (10.11%) .NET
6 16 (8.99%) JSON
6 16 (8.99%) Swagger
6 16 (8.99%) XML
7 15 (8.43%) pytest
7 15 (8.43%) Web Services
8 13 (7.30%) HTML
9 11 (6.18%) CSS
9 11 (6.18%) HTML5
9 11 (6.18%) Kafka
10 10 (5.62%) OpenAPI
11 8 (4.49%) CSS3
11 8 (4.49%) React
12 6 (3.37%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (3.37%) SAPUI5
12 6 (3.37%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.74%) Mobile App
1 12 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.49%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.93%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.81%) e-Learning
5 5 (2.81%) VLE
6 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.69%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.69%) Vector Graphics
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.12%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.12%) PMI
8 2 (1.12%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.25%) Unix
1 4 (2.25%) Windows
2 2 (1.12%) Android
2 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.12%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (66.29%) Test Automation
2 92 (51.69%) Agile
2 92 (51.69%) API Testing
3 77 (43.26%) CI/CD
4 63 (35.39%) DevOps
5 40 (22.47%) Test Scripting
6 37 (20.79%) Test Strategy
7 35 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (18.54%) BDD
9 30 (16.85%) Scrum
9 30 (16.85%) Validation
10 29 (16.29%) Performance Testing
11 26 (14.61%) Microservices
12 25 (14.04%) Code Quality
13 24 (13.48%) Manual Testing
14 23 (12.92%) TDD
15 21 (11.80%) Regression Testing
16 19 (10.67%) End-to-End Testing
17 18 (10.11%) Software Testing
17 18 (10.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 57 (32.02%) JavaScript
2 47 (26.40%) Java
3 34 (19.10%) SQL
4 28 (15.73%) Python
5 21 (11.80%) C#
6 15 (8.43%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.49%) ABAP
7 8 (4.49%) COBOL
8 6 (3.37%) PHP
8 6 (3.37%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.25%) Bash
9 4 (2.25%) Groovy
9 4 (2.25%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.69%) C++
10 3 (1.69%) VBA
10 3 (1.69%) VBScript
11 2 (1.12%) Go
11 2 (1.12%) SOQL
12 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (6.18%) Degree
3 11 (6.18%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.25%) ISEB
5 3 (1.69%) CEH
5 3 (1.69%) CISSP
5 3 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (34.27%) QA
2 26 (14.61%) Accessibility
3 11 (6.18%) WCAG
4 3 (1.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.56%) SEPA
5 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (15.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.25%) Kibana
3 3 (1.69%) Grafana
4 2 (1.12%) Argo
4 2 (1.12%) Terraform
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.18%) SAP
3 8 (4.49%) Oracle
4 5 (2.81%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.25%) Splunk
6 3 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.69%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.69%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.12%) Adobe
7 2 (1.12%) Databricks
7 2 (1.12%) Dell
7 2 (1.12%) Nintex
7 2 (1.12%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco
8 1 (0.56%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.56%) Facebook
8 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.56%) Informatica
8 1 (0.56%) WSO2