Postman Contracts in the West Midlands

Postman
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 105 118
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 +45
Contract jobs citing Postman 11 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.66% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.02% 1.05% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £232 £218 £540
25th Percentile £313 £267 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £358 £600
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -40.42% +20.00%
75th Percentile £581 £452 -
90th Percentile £603 £503 -
England median daily rate £450 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -7.79% -11.27% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 219 191 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.14% 10.34% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 141 165
10th Percentile £356 £338 £319
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.72% +8.28%
75th Percentile £515 £612 £600
90th Percentile £588 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £37.20 -
25th Percentile £54.75 £55.63 £31.69
Median hourly rate £56.50 £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +68.49% -
75th Percentile £58.25 £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - £65.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Postman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Postman in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Birmingham +8 4 £325 +71.05% 3
Worcestershire - 1 £575 - 2
Postman
England

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
1 3 (27.27%) Moodle
2 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) Datadog
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (9.09%) npm
1 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
1 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) Selenium
3 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
3 3 (27.27%) JMeter
3 3 (27.27%) PHPUnit
3 3 (27.27%) REST Assured
3 3 (27.27%) TestNG
3 3 (27.27%) Travis CI
4 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
4 1 (9.09%) Gradle
4 1 (9.09%) JUnit
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) Snyk
4 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
1 4 (36.36%) Tester
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Moodle Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Tester
4 1 (9.09%) QA Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Integration Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) JSON
2 3 (27.27%) Behat
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 3 (27.27%) XML
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) e-Learning
1 3 (27.27%) VLE
2 1 (9.09%) EPoS
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) API Testing
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
3 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (27.27%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) PHP
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) CEH
2 3 (27.27%) CISSP
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Kibana
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Podman
3 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk