Postman Job Trends

Postman
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 575 437
Rank change year-on-year +62 -138 -32
Permanent jobs citing Postman 134 129 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.24% 0.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.69% 2.32% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 105 79 256
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £69,500 £85,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -5.66%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,631 5,566 6,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.11% 10.27% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,387 3,219 5,115
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% +4.55%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Postman job vacancy trend in the UK

Postman
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Postman.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Postman

Postman
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Postman over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Postman in the UK

Postman
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +77 128 £52,500 -12.50% 76
UK excluding London +33 82 £47,500 -13.64% 66
Work from Home +79 71 £47,500 -24.00% 54
London +62 47 £65,000 -17.72% 17
South East +49 47 £47,500 -29.63% 22
North of England +7 15 £55,000 +26.07% 19
South West +16 8 £52,500 - 4
Yorkshire -14 8 £37,500 -34.64% 13
North West +18 7 £75,000 +73.41% 4
Midlands +5 7 £50,000 -13.04% 6
West Midlands +24 5 £42,500 -26.09% 4
East of England +24 3 £60,000 +60.00% 10
East Midlands -12 2 £60,000 +9.09% 2
Wales +2 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 6 (4.48%) CMS
1 6 (4.48%) Confluence
2 5 (3.73%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.24%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 38 (28.36%) Azure
2 21 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (14.18%) AWS
4 11 (8.21%) Datadog
4 11 (8.21%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.46%) GitHub
5 10 (7.46%) SaaS
6 7 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.99%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.99%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.99%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.99%) Serverless
7 4 (2.99%) Slack
7 4 (2.99%) Zapier
8 3 (2.24%) Azure App Service
8 3 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.24%) GCP
8 3 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) HTTP
2 1 (0.75%) FTP
2 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.48%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.24%) Mixpanel
2 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.24%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.49%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.75%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.75%) MySQL
4 1 (0.75%) Parquet
4 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.75%) Power BI
4 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 76 (56.72%) Selenium
2 63 (47.01%) JIRA
3 53 (39.55%) SoapUI
4 38 (28.36%) WebDriver
5 35 (26.12%) Team Foundation Server
6 24 (17.91%) Cypress.io
7 19 (14.18%) Cucumber
8 18 (13.43%) Jenkins
9 14 (10.45%) GitLab
10 13 (9.70%) Git
10 13 (9.70%) REST Assured
11 10 (7.46%) JMeter
12 6 (4.48%) Charles Proxy
12 6 (4.48%) TestNG
13 5 (3.73%) Fiddler
13 5 (3.73%) JUnit
14 4 (2.99%) Appium
14 4 (2.99%) Browser DevTools
14 4 (2.99%) LoadRunner
14 4 (2.99%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (36.57%) Finance
2 43 (32.09%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.43%) Law
4 14 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.46%) Marketing
6 6 (4.48%) Games
7 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.99%) Electronics
7 4 (2.99%) Legal
7 4 (2.99%) Retail
8 3 (2.24%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.49%) Advertising
9 2 (1.49%) Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.75%) International Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (24.63%) Lead
2 32 (23.88%) Analyst
3 29 (21.64%) Senior
4 23 (17.16%) Test Analyst
5 22 (16.42%) QA Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Test Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Test Leader
6 14 (10.45%) Tester
7 12 (8.96%) Senior Analyst
7 12 (8.96%) Senior Test Analyst
8 11 (8.21%) QA Leader
9 10 (7.46%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Developer
9 10 (7.46%) QA Automation Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Data Analyst
10 9 (6.72%) Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Integration Developer
11 5 (3.73%) Quality Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (32.09%) .NET
1 43 (32.09%) SOAP
2 40 (29.85%) HTML
3 22 (16.42%) RESTful
4 19 (14.18%) Swagger
5 17 (12.69%) OpenAPI
5 17 (12.69%) Playwright
6 16 (11.94%) REST
7 11 (8.21%) pytest
8 9 (6.72%) JSON
9 8 (5.97%) OAuth
10 7 (5.22%) JWT
10 7 (5.22%) Middleware
10 7 (5.22%) SAML
11 6 (4.48%) React
12 5 (3.73%) CSS
12 5 (3.73%) RAML
12 5 (3.73%) XML
13 3 (2.24%) Node.js
13 3 (2.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.70%) Data Structures
2 12 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.21%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.48%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.24%) W3C
7 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.49%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.75%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.75%) Derivative
8 1 (0.75%) Equities
8 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.75%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.24%) Android
1 3 (2.24%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.75%) Unix
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (58.21%) API Testing
2 71 (52.99%) Agile
3 65 (48.51%) Software Testing
4 54 (40.30%) Test Automation
5 49 (36.57%) Test Management
6 47 (35.07%) Mentoring
6 47 (35.07%) Scrum
7 46 (34.33%) Non-Functional Testing
8 39 (29.10%) Test Scripting
9 37 (27.61%) CI/CD
10 35 (26.12%) Cross-Browser Testing
11 34 (25.37%) DevOps
12 28 (20.90%) Test Strategy
13 25 (18.66%) Manual Testing
14 23 (17.16%) Validation
15 21 (15.67%) Logistics
16 17 (12.69%) BDD
17 16 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
18 15 (11.19%) ETL
19 13 (9.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 76 (56.72%) SQL
2 57 (42.54%) Java
3 55 (41.04%) C#
4 31 (23.13%) Python
5 28 (20.90%) JavaScript
6 13 (9.70%) PHP
7 10 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.48%) Go
9 5 (3.73%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 47 (35.07%) ISTQB
2 40 (29.85%) Degree
3 34 (25.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (2.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (2.24%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.24%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (48.51%) QA
2 6 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.73%) CloudHub
3 3 (2.24%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (8.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.73%) MuleSoft
3 4 (2.99%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.99%) HubSpot
3 4 (2.99%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.99%) SAP
4 3 (2.24%) Adobe
4 3 (2.24%) Splunk
4 3 (2.24%) Tealium
5 2 (1.49%) Google
5 2 (1.49%) Oracle
5 2 (1.49%) Roku
6 1 (0.75%) Charles River
6 1 (0.75%) Foundry
6 1 (0.75%) Murex
6 1 (0.75%) Pega
6 1 (0.75%) UiPath