Postman Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Postman
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Postman skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 483 443
Rank change year-on-year +49 -40 +8
Permanent jobs citing Postman 85 87 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.87% 2.39% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 73 50 104
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,344 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £75,375 £69,700
UK median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% - +4.17%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,196 3,633 3,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.23% 9.80% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,388 2,067 2,950
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £58,175
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -5.46% +5.77%
75th Percentile £66,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,900 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Postman job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Postman
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Postman.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Postman

Postman
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Postman in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
South East +52 48 £47,500 -29.63% 16
North of England +8 15 £55,000 +26.07% 20
South West +23 9 £41,250 - 6
Midlands +9 8 £47,500 -17.39% 5
Yorkshire -9 8 £37,500 -34.64% 13
North West +30 7 £75,000 +73.41% 6
West Midlands +27 6 £45,000 -21.74% 4
East of England +21 3 £60,000 +60.00% 6
East Midlands -29 2 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Wales +1 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Postman
UK

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (7.06%) CMS
2 5 (5.88%) Anypoint
3 2 (2.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.47%) AWS
2 10 (11.76%) Azure
3 6 (7.06%) GitHub
4 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.88%) Datadog
4 5 (5.88%) SaaS
5 4 (4.71%) Slack
5 4 (4.71%) Zapier
6 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.18%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) HTTP
2 1 (1.18%) FTP
2 1 (1.18%) RFID
2 1 (1.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.35%) CockroachDB
2 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.18%) MySQL
3 1 (1.18%) Parquet
3 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (63.53%) Selenium
2 42 (49.41%) SoapUI
3 39 (45.88%) JIRA
4 33 (38.82%) Team Foundation Server
5 32 (37.65%) WebDriver
6 12 (14.12%) Cypress.io
7 11 (12.94%) Cucumber
8 9 (10.59%) Jenkins
9 8 (9.41%) Git
9 8 (9.41%) REST Assured
10 4 (4.71%) GitLab
11 3 (3.53%) Appium
11 3 (3.53%) JMeter
11 3 (3.53%) JUnit
11 3 (3.53%) TestNG
12 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.35%) Charles Proxy
12 2 (2.35%) Fiddler
12 2 (2.35%) Gatling
12 2 (2.35%) TestRail
General
1 34 (40.00%) Finance
2 32 (37.65%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.24%) Law
5 4 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.71%) Marketing
6 3 (3.53%) Legal
7 2 (2.35%) Advertising
7 2 (2.35%) Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) Games
8 1 (1.18%) International Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) Analyst
1 22 (25.88%) Senior
1 22 (25.88%) Test Analyst
2 20 (23.53%) Lead
2 20 (23.53%) QA Engineer
3 12 (14.12%) Senior Analyst
3 12 (14.12%) Senior Test Analyst
3 12 (14.12%) Test Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) QA Automation Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Tester
6 7 (8.24%) Developer
6 7 (8.24%) Test Automation Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Test Leader
8 5 (5.88%) QA Leader
9 4 (4.71%) Integration Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.53%) Lead Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (47.06%) SOAP
2 37 (43.53%) .NET
3 34 (40.00%) HTML
4 12 (14.12%) Playwright
5 9 (10.59%) RESTful
6 8 (9.41%) pytest
7 5 (5.88%) JSON
7 5 (5.88%) JWT
7 5 (5.88%) OAuth
7 5 (5.88%) OpenAPI
7 5 (5.88%) RAML
7 5 (5.88%) REST
7 5 (5.88%) SAML
7 5 (5.88%) Swagger
8 4 (4.71%) Middleware
9 3 (3.53%) React
9 3 (3.53%) XML
10 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (1.18%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (10.59%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.35%) Over-the-Top Content
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) Android
1 2 (2.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (60.00%) Agile
1 51 (60.00%) API Testing
2 49 (57.65%) Software Testing
3 40 (47.06%) Scrum
4 37 (43.53%) Test Scripting
5 36 (42.35%) Non-Functional Testing
5 36 (42.35%) Test Management
6 35 (41.18%) Mentoring
7 33 (38.82%) Cross-Browser Testing
8 32 (37.65%) Test Automation
9 19 (22.35%) CI/CD
9 19 (22.35%) Logistics
10 13 (15.29%) Manual Testing
11 12 (14.12%) DevOps
12 11 (12.94%) Test Strategy
13 10 (11.76%) Fintech
14 8 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (9.41%) QA Automation
15 7 (8.24%) Exploratory Testing
16 6 (7.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (62.35%) SQL
2 48 (56.47%) C#
3 47 (55.29%) Java
4 18 (21.18%) JavaScript
5 16 (18.82%) Python
6 11 (12.94%) PHP
7 6 (7.06%) Go
7 6 (7.06%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.88%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (43.53%) ISTQB
2 32 (37.65%) Degree
3 31 (36.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (3.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) CloudHub
2 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.88%) MuleSoft
2 4 (4.71%) HubSpot
2 4 (4.71%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle
3 2 (2.35%) Roku
3 2 (2.35%) Splunk