Postman Contracts in the UK excluding London

Postman
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 331 316
Rank change year-on-year -15 -15 -8
Contract jobs citing Postman 52 116 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.51% 0.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.31% 3.78% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 88 161
10th Percentile £352 £330 £313
25th Percentile £419 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £518
90th Percentile £590 £658 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +11.76%
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 median hourly rate - £53.75 £68.17
% change year-on-year - -21.15% +36.33%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,252 3,071 4,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.80% 13.40% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 2,142 3,168
10th Percentile £350 £337 £360
25th Percentile £413 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.73%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £583
90th Percentile £660 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 166 110
10th Percentile £40.00 £48.13 £41.41
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.84
90th Percentile £78.00 £79.00 £76.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%

Postman
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Postman as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Postman in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Postman in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Postman in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Postman in the UK excluding London

Postman
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +6 13 £450 -14.29% 5
Wales +26 11 £509 -10.79% 1
South West +11 10 £585 +14.15% 5
Scotland +19 8 £375 -18.92% 2
North West +5 7 £450 -7.69% 2
South East -11 7 £506 -15.63% 12
Yorkshire +10 6 £501 -8.91% 2
Midlands +25 3 £380 +47.57% 5
West Midlands - 2 £358 - 5
East Midlands +8 1 £380 +47.57%
Postman
UK

Postman
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (13.46%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) Apache
2 2 (3.85%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.92%) Mendix
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) Azure
2 14 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (19.23%) GitHub
4 5 (9.62%) AWS
5 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.85%) BrowserStack
7 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.85%) PaaS
7 2 (3.85%) Serverless
7 2 (3.85%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.92%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.92%) Commercetools
8 1 (1.92%) Figma
8 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) MySQL
1 8 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.77%) Power BI
3 2 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Cypress.io
2 14 (26.92%) Git
3 13 (25.00%) Selenium
4 10 (19.23%) Visual Studio
5 9 (17.31%) JIRA
6 8 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
7 7 (13.46%) GitLab
8 6 (11.54%) NUnit
8 6 (11.54%) SpecFlow
9 5 (9.62%) JUnit
9 5 (9.62%) SoapUI
10 4 (7.69%) IntelliJ
11 2 (3.85%) JMeter
11 2 (3.85%) Zephyr
12 1 (1.92%) Android Studio
12 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.92%) Gatling
12 1 (1.92%) Katalon Studio
12 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Finance
3 2 (3.85%) Retail
4 1 (1.92%) Electronics
4 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.92%) Marketing
4 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Developer
2 14 (26.92%) Senior
3 12 (23.08%) Test Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Analyst
4 9 (17.31%) Test Analyst
5 8 (15.38%) Senior Test Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) PHP Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Test Automation Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) Tester
7 6 (11.54%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (11.54%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 6 (11.54%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) Automation Tester
9 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
9 4 (7.69%) QA Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) QA Analyst
10 3 (5.77%) QA Test Analyst
10 3 (5.77%) Test Automation Manager
10 3 (5.77%) Test Manager
11 2 (3.85%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) Playwright
2 9 (17.31%) .NET
3 8 (15.38%) Laravel
3 8 (15.38%) React
4 7 (13.46%) AngularJS
4 7 (13.46%) GraphQL
4 7 (13.46%) REST
4 7 (13.46%) Vue
5 5 (9.62%) Apache Camel
5 5 (9.62%) Kafka
5 5 (9.62%) Spring Boot
6 4 (7.69%) J2EE
6 4 (7.69%) JSON
6 4 (7.69%) Spring
7 2 (3.85%) Gherkin
7 2 (3.85%) HTML
7 2 (3.85%) Node.js
7 2 (3.85%) SOAP
7 2 (3.85%) Swagger
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.62%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.92%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Android
3 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (73.08%) Test Automation
2 37 (71.15%) Agile
3 21 (40.38%) CI/CD
4 16 (30.77%) DevOps
5 15 (28.85%) Scrum
6 14 (26.92%) Manual Testing
6 14 (26.92%) Project Management
7 13 (25.00%) API Testing
7 13 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (23.08%) Test Strategy
9 11 (21.15%) BDD
9 11 (21.15%) Kanban
9 11 (21.15%) TDD
10 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (13.46%) Performance Testing
11 7 (13.46%) Waterfall
12 6 (11.54%) E-Commerce
12 6 (11.54%) Software Testing
12 6 (11.54%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 19 (36.54%) SQL
2 12 (23.08%) Java
3 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
3 9 (17.31%) PHP
4 8 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.62%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.92%) Python
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (38.46%) QA
2 6 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Kibana
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.92%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle
3 2 (3.85%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.92%) HP
4 1 (1.92%) SAP
4 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk