Postman Contracts

Postman
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Postman skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Postman over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 456 436
Rank change year-on-year +49 -20 -44
Contract jobs citing Postman 187 240 472
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.43% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.57% 3.01% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 173 371
10th Percentile £359 £350 £320
25th Percentile £406 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £575
90th Percentile £615 £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £51.63 -
25th Percentile - £52.19 £68.08
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £68.17
Median % change year-on-year - -21.15% +36.33%
75th Percentile - £54.69 £68.25
90th Percentile - £54.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £53.75 £68.17
% change year-on-year - -21.15% +36.33%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Postman is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,240 7,964 15,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.28% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,499 5,618 11,089
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £662 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 223 202
10th Percentile £30.60 £45.24 £38.03
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.70 £82.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Postman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the UK

Postman
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Postman in the UK

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the UK

Postman
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Postman.

Hourly rate trend for Postman in the UK

Postman
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 2024. 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
England +61 160 £475 -13.64% 56
London +111 122 £480 -16.52% 18
Work from Home +76 68 £465 -15.45% 39
UK excluding London -14 48 £500 - 38
North of England -4 13 £450 -16.28% 8
Wales +26 11 £509 -10.79% 1
South West +15 10 £585 +14.15% 4
North West +8 7 £450 -14.29% 3
South East -9 7 £506 -15.63% 14
Yorkshire +4 6 £501 -8.91% 4
Scotland +15 4 £375 -18.92% 2
Midlands +20 3 £380 +47.57% 5
West Midlands - 2 £358 - 5
East Midlands +7 1 £380 +47.57%

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (10.70%) Confluence
2 2 (1.07%) Apache
2 2 (1.07%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.53%) Mendix
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.53%) nginx
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.06%) Azure
2 28 (14.97%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (12.30%) GitHub
4 19 (10.16%) AWS
5 15 (8.02%) Azure API Management
6 12 (6.42%) PaaS
7 11 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (5.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (5.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (5.35%) Azure Storage
8 10 (5.35%) BrowserStack
8 10 (5.35%) Entra ID
8 10 (5.35%) Firebase
9 9 (4.81%) BlazeMeter
9 9 (4.81%) Power Platform
10 8 (4.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 7 (3.74%) GCP
12 6 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.21%) Serverless
13 5 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.14%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (5.88%) MySQL
2 11 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.35%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.28%) Power BI
5 5 (2.67%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.67%) Looker
5 5 (2.67%) Tableau
6 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (27.81%) Selenium
2 47 (25.13%) Cypress.io
3 35 (18.72%) SoapUI
4 34 (18.18%) Git
5 33 (17.65%) Appium
6 30 (16.04%) Jenkins
6 30 (16.04%) JIRA
7 25 (13.37%) Cucumber
7 25 (13.37%) JMeter
8 22 (11.76%) GitLab
9 19 (10.16%) JUnit
9 19 (10.16%) WebDriver
10 18 (9.63%) REST Assured
11 14 (7.49%) TestNG
11 14 (7.49%) Visual Studio
12 11 (5.88%) SpecFlow
13 10 (5.35%) eggPlant
13 10 (5.35%) SOAtest
14 8 (4.28%) NUnit
15 7 (3.74%) LoadRunner
General
1 49 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.90%) Finance
3 21 (11.23%) Banking
4 20 (10.70%) Back Office
5 14 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.49%) Retail
6 13 (6.95%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.28%) Marketing
8 6 (3.21%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.67%) Advertising
10 3 (1.60%) Electronics
10 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.07%) Local Government
11 2 (1.07%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Front Office
12 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (27.27%) Analyst
2 50 (26.74%) Senior
3 36 (19.25%) Test Analyst
4 33 (17.65%) Developer
5 32 (17.11%) Tester
6 22 (11.76%) Test Engineer
7 20 (10.70%) Senior Analyst
8 19 (10.16%) Automation Tester
9 17 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
10 14 (7.49%) Lead
11 13 (6.95%) QA Engineer
11 13 (6.95%) Test Automation Engineer
12 12 (6.42%) Senior Developer
13 11 (5.88%) Business Analyst
13 11 (5.88%) Python Developer
13 11 (5.88%) QA Tester
13 11 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
13 11 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
14 9 (4.81%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.04%) .NET
2 29 (15.51%) Swagger
3 28 (14.97%) REST
4 20 (10.70%) Web Services
5 17 (9.09%) SOAP
6 15 (8.02%) AngularJS
7 14 (7.49%) JSON
7 14 (7.49%) Playwright
8 13 (6.95%) WebdriverIO
9 12 (6.42%) .NET Framework
9 12 (6.42%) Middleware
9 12 (6.42%) Node.js
10 11 (5.88%) GraphQL
10 11 (5.88%) Laravel
11 10 (5.35%) Gherkin
11 10 (5.35%) Vue
12 9 (4.81%) React
12 9 (4.81%) RESTful
13 7 (3.74%) CSS
13 7 (3.74%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (19.79%) Mobile App
2 28 (14.97%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.67%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.53%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.53%) Equities
6 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.37%) Android
2 14 (7.49%) Linux
3 8 (4.28%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.07%) Windows
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (75.94%) Agile
2 131 (70.05%) Test Automation
3 78 (41.71%) CI/CD
4 71 (37.97%) Continuous Integration
5 52 (27.81%) API Testing
5 52 (27.81%) Scrum
6 49 (26.20%) DevOps
7 43 (22.99%) TDD
7 43 (22.99%) Test Strategy
8 40 (21.39%) BDD
9 37 (19.79%) Software Testing
10 36 (19.25%) Software Engineering
11 32 (17.11%) Non-Functional Testing
12 28 (14.97%) Manual Testing
12 28 (14.97%) Performance Testing
13 25 (13.37%) Continuous Deployment
13 25 (13.37%) Test Scripting
14 20 (10.70%) Test Management
15 18 (9.63%) Acceptance Criteria
15 18 (9.63%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.25%) Java
2 35 (18.72%) SQL
3 32 (17.11%) JavaScript
4 28 (14.97%) C#
5 24 (12.83%) Python
6 22 (11.76%) Kotlin
7 12 (6.42%) PHP
7 12 (6.42%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.74%) Swift
9 2 (1.07%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.07%) Ruby
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.02%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.74%) Degree
4 4 (2.14%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) ISEB
6 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (31.02%) QA
2 20 (10.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.60%) WCAG
5 2 (1.07%) HL7
5 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (9.09%) Docker
2 10 (5.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (4.28%) Ansible
2 5 (2.67%) Terraform
3 4 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.14%) Podman
4 3 (1.60%) Kibana
5 2 (1.07%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.53%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.53%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.53%) logstash
6 1 (0.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 50 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.74%) Google
3 6 (3.21%) Checkmarx
4 5 (2.67%) Adobe
4 5 (2.67%) Ensighten
4 5 (2.67%) Monetate
4 5 (2.67%) Omniture
4 5 (2.67%) Optimizely
4 5 (2.67%) Oracle
4 5 (2.67%) Tealium
5 4 (2.14%) HP
5 4 (2.14%) SAP
6 3 (1.60%) Splunk
7 2 (1.07%) IBM
7 2 (1.07%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.53%) NEC
8 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow