Postman Job Trends in the South East

Postman
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Postman skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 284 224
Rank change year-on-year +33 -60 +136
Permanent jobs citing Postman 32 26 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.23% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.79% 2.09% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 31 19 47
10th Percentile £32,750 £46,250 £38,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £59,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £72,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +38.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £73,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £74,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 668 1,244 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.43% 10.97% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 375 667 781
10th Percentile £30,800 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,125 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Postman job vacancy trend in the South East

Postman
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Postman.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Postman

Postman
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Postman in the South East over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Postman in the South East

Postman
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postman within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 November 2025. 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
Thames Valley +15 13 £47,500 - 11
Surrey +15 10 £42,500 -41.38%
Berkshire +6 10 £47,500 - 4
Hampshire - 7 £52,500 - 2
Buckinghamshire +3 2 £47,500 - 4
East Sussex +10 1 £60,000 -25.00%
West Sussex +1 1 £65,000 -10.34%
Oxfordshire - 1 £42,500 - 3
Postman
England

Postman
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.13%) Azure
1 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (3.13%) GitHub
1 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.25%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (71.88%) Selenium
2 21 (65.63%) SoapUI
3 16 (50.00%) JIRA
3 16 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 16 (50.00%) WebDriver
4 4 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.13%) Appium
6 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.13%) NUnit
6 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
General
1 21 (65.63%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Legal
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Advertising
6 1 (3.13%) Automotive
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Games
6 1 (3.13%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Analyst
1 11 (34.38%) Test Analyst
2 10 (31.25%) QA Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Senior
3 9 (28.13%) Senior Analyst
3 9 (28.13%) Senior Test Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) QA Automation Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 3 (9.38%) Test Leader
6 3 (9.38%) Tester
7 2 (6.25%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Junior
7 2 (6.25%) Junior C# Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Junior Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Test Specialist
8 1 (3.13%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (65.63%) SOAP
2 19 (59.38%) .NET
3 17 (53.13%) HTML
4 4 (12.50%) pytest
5 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.25%) WPF
6 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.13%) CSS
6 1 (3.13%) Playwright
6 1 (3.13%) REST
6 1 (3.13%) RESTful
6 1 (3.13%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Agile
1 20 (62.50%) API Testing
1 20 (62.50%) Scrum
2 18 (56.25%) Mentoring
2 18 (56.25%) Test Scripting
3 17 (53.13%) Software Testing
3 17 (53.13%) Test Management
4 16 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 16 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 8 (25.00%) Logistics
6 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
7 6 (18.75%) User Experience
8 5 (15.63%) Fintech
8 5 (15.63%) Manual Testing
9 4 (12.50%) DevOps
9 4 (12.50%) QA Automation
9 4 (12.50%) Test Strategy
10 3 (9.38%) Batch Processing
10 3 (9.38%) SOLID
11 2 (6.25%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 29 (90.63%) SQL
2 23 (71.88%) C#
3 21 (65.63%) Java
4 5 (15.63%) Python
5 4 (12.50%) Go
5 4 (12.50%) PHP
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (56.25%) Degree
2 17 (53.13%) ISTQB
3 16 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Firmware