Postman Job Trends in England

Postman
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Postman skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 512 569
Rank change year-on-year -30 +57 -80
Permanent jobs citing Postman 123 119 254
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.30% 3.12% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 96 100 237
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

All Development Application Skills
England

Postman falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,723 3,813 7,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.60% 9.74% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,510 2,642 6,038
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,628 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Postman job vacancy trend in England

Postman
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Postman.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Postman

Postman
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Postman in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Postman in England

Postman
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -11 45 £65,000 +3.17% 12
South East -2 33 £49,250 +15.88% 14
North of England -49 23 £50,000 -2.73% 12
North West +3 13 £51,250 +2.50% 10
West Midlands -23 9 £42,500 -17.07% 7
Midlands -30 9 £42,500 -5.56% 9
South West -55 8 £35,000 -54.84% 9
Yorkshire -58 6 £50,000 -16.39%
North East -43 4 £47,500 -5.00% 2
East of England -6 1 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Postman
UK

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (2.44%) CMS
1 3 (2.44%) Confluence
1 3 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.81%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 56 (45.53%) Azure
2 32 (26.02%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (10.57%) SaaS
4 10 (8.13%) AWS
4 10 (8.13%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.69%) BrowserStack
6 6 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.07%) Apigee
7 5 (4.07%) GitHub
8 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.25%) GCP
8 4 (3.25%) Serverless
9 3 (2.44%) Anthos
9 3 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.44%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (2.44%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (1.63%) Kong
11 1 (0.81%) Figma
11 1 (0.81%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.81%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.07%) HTTP
2 1 (0.81%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.25%) Relational Database
1 4 (3.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.44%) Power BI
3 2 (1.63%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.81%) Metadata
4 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.81%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 54 (43.90%) Selenium
2 51 (41.46%) JIRA
3 37 (30.08%) SoapUI
4 24 (19.51%) Cypress.io
4 24 (19.51%) Team Foundation Server
5 22 (17.89%) REST Assured
5 22 (17.89%) WebDriver
6 17 (13.82%) JMeter
7 14 (11.38%) Cucumber
8 13 (10.57%) Jenkins
9 11 (8.94%) Git
10 10 (8.13%) GitLab
11 8 (6.50%) SpecFlow
12 7 (5.69%) LoadRunner
13 6 (4.88%) JUnit
14 5 (4.07%) Gatling
15 4 (3.25%) Burp Suite
15 4 (3.25%) SonarQube
15 4 (3.25%) TestNG
15 4 (3.25%) TestRail
General
1 41 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.02%) Finance
3 14 (11.38%) Law
4 9 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.25%) Retail
7 3 (2.44%) Marketing
7 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.63%) Advertising
8 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Billing
9 1 (0.81%) Games
9 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 38 (30.89%) Analyst
2 24 (19.51%) Lead
3 17 (13.82%) Test Analyst
4 16 (13.01%) Data Analyst
5 13 (10.57%) QA Engineer
6 11 (8.94%) Test Engineer
7 10 (8.13%) Tester
8 9 (7.32%) Senior
8 9 (7.32%) Test Leader
9 8 (6.50%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.69%) Head of Testing
11 6 (4.88%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.07%) Architect
13 4 (3.25%) Automation Tester
13 4 (3.25%) Developer
13 4 (3.25%) Head of Engineering
13 4 (3.25%) QA Leader
13 4 (3.25%) Test Manager
14 3 (2.44%) Apigee Architect
14 3 (2.44%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (30.08%) .NET
2 29 (23.58%) SOAP
3 27 (21.95%) HTML
4 25 (20.33%) REST
4 25 (20.33%) Swagger
5 23 (18.70%) Playwright
6 18 (14.63%) RESTful
7 17 (13.82%) OpenAPI
8 12 (9.76%) JSON
9 7 (5.69%) pytest
10 6 (4.88%) .NET Framework
11 5 (4.07%) AngularJS
11 5 (4.07%) JWT
11 5 (4.07%) SAML
12 4 (3.25%) ASP.NET Web API
13 3 (2.44%) CSS
13 3 (2.44%) OAuth
13 3 (2.44%) Spring
13 3 (2.44%) Spring Boot
13 3 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.01%) Data Structures
2 10 (8.13%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.63%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.81%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.81%) Derivative
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.25%) Kali Linux
1 4 (3.25%) Linux
2 3 (2.44%) Android
2 3 (2.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (56.10%) Agile
2 64 (52.03%) API Testing
3 58 (47.15%) Test Automation
4 43 (34.96%) Software Testing
5 40 (32.52%) DevOps
6 39 (31.71%) CI/CD
6 39 (31.71%) Test Management
7 37 (30.08%) Scrum
8 29 (23.58%) Test Scripting
9 28 (22.76%) Non-Functional Testing
10 27 (21.95%) Test Strategy
11 26 (21.14%) Mentoring
12 25 (20.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
13 24 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (15.45%) Manual Testing
15 18 (14.63%) AI
15 18 (14.63%) BDD
15 18 (14.63%) ETL
15 18 (14.63%) Validation
16 17 (13.82%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.97%) SQL
2 48 (39.02%) Java
3 41 (33.33%) C#
4 36 (29.27%) Python
5 22 (17.89%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.32%) PHP
7 4 (3.25%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.44%) Bash
8 3 (2.44%) Go
9 2 (1.63%) C
9 2 (1.63%) Lua
10 1 (0.81%) JCL
10 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (26.83%) Degree
2 31 (25.20%) ISTQB
3 19 (15.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 7 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (4.07%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.07%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (38.21%) QA
2 6 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.63%) GDPR
4 2 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.63%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (8.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.25%) Grafana
2 4 (3.25%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 25 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.50%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.25%) Oracle
3 4 (3.25%) Veracode
4 3 (2.44%) Foundry
4 3 (2.44%) Google
4 3 (2.44%) Splunk
5 2 (1.63%) BT
5 2 (1.63%) Roku
6 1 (0.81%) Aderant
6 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.81%) IFS
6 1 (0.81%) Pega
6 1 (0.81%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (0.81%) SAP
6 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow