Postman Job Trends in the West Midlands

Postman
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Postman skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 190 174
Rank change year-on-year +25 -16 +91
Permanent jobs citing Postman 6 6 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.00% 1.83% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile - - £34,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £56,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +19.79% -12.73%
75th Percentile £51,250 £62,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 -
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +8.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 200 328 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.80% 7.73% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 147 162 268
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,750 £35,644
25th Percentile £30,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,850 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Postman job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Postman.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Postman

Postman
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Postman in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Postman in the West Midlands

Postman
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Birmingham +19 4 £47,500 -17.39% 3
Coventry - 2 £40,000 - 2
Postman
England

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) RFID
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) Gatling
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) QA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
3 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
4 3 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (33.33%) API Testing
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
5 2 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Validation
6 1 (16.67%) Logistics
6 1 (16.67%) OWASP
6 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware