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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 452 432
Rank change year-on-year +60 -20 -47
Contract jobs citing Postman 195 238 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.42% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.80% 2.82% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 176 377
10th Percentile £355 £363 £328
25th Percentile £406 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £602 £569
90th Percentile £600 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £450
% change year-on-year +1.52% +9.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +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 5,137 8,429 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.80% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,946 11,103
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 228 212
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.06 £38.43
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +90 150 £475 -13.64% 46
London +126 109 £475 -13.64% 19
Work from Home +76 72 £463 -13.95% 29
UK excluding London -12 59 £500 +1.52% 26
Scotland +6 14 £375 -16.67% 2
North of England +3 14 £450 -14.29% 9
Wales +25 11 £509 -10.79%
South West +9 9 £590 +15.12% 2
South East -4 8 £600 - 7
North West +9 7 £450 -5.26% 4
Yorkshire +4 7 £485 -11.82% 4
Midlands +27 3 £380 +47.57% 3
West Midlands - 2 £358 - 3
East Midlands +11 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 31 (15.90%) Confluence
2 5 (2.56%) Apache
2 5 (2.56%) nginx
3 4 (2.05%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.03%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.51%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 44 (22.56%) Azure
2 26 (13.33%) GitHub
3 25 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.74%) AWS
5 12 (6.15%) PaaS
6 11 (5.64%) Azure API Management
6 11 (5.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (4.62%) Azure Storage
7 9 (4.62%) BrowserStack
7 9 (4.62%) Entra ID
7 9 (4.62%) Firebase
7 9 (4.62%) GCP
8 8 (4.10%) BlazeMeter
8 8 (4.10%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 5 (2.56%) Adobe Analytics
10 5 (2.56%) Google Analytics
11 4 (2.05%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.64%) HTTP
2 4 (2.05%) WinSCP
3 3 (1.54%) DNS
3 3 (1.54%) Firewall
3 3 (1.54%) Internet
3 3 (1.54%) SSL
3 3 (1.54%) VPN
4 1 (0.51%) 5G
4 1 (0.51%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (5.64%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.13%) MySQL
3 10 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.10%) Power BI
5 6 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.56%) Looker
6 5 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.56%) Tableau
7 4 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 55 (28.21%) Selenium
2 43 (22.05%) Cypress.io
2 43 (22.05%) Git
2 43 (22.05%) Jenkins
3 41 (21.03%) JIRA
4 37 (18.97%) Cucumber
4 37 (18.97%) SoapUI
5 32 (16.41%) Appium
6 27 (13.85%) JUnit
7 22 (11.28%) JMeter
8 20 (10.26%) GitLab
8 20 (10.26%) WebDriver
9 19 (9.74%) REST Assured
10 16 (8.21%) TestNG
11 14 (7.18%) Visual Studio
12 11 (5.64%) IntelliJ
12 11 (5.64%) SpecFlow
13 10 (5.13%) eggPlant
13 10 (5.13%) SOAtest
14 9 (4.62%) Maven
General
1 63 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.26%) Back Office
3 18 (9.23%) Finance
4 16 (8.21%) Banking
4 16 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.64%) Retail
7 8 (4.10%) Marketing
7 8 (4.10%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.56%) Advertising
9 3 (1.54%) Electronics
9 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.03%) Local Government
10 2 (1.03%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Front Office
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (26.15%) Senior
2 48 (24.62%) Analyst
3 38 (19.49%) Test Analyst
4 35 (17.95%) Developer
5 28 (14.36%) Tester
6 23 (11.79%) Test Engineer
7 17 (8.72%) Senior Analyst
7 17 (8.72%) Senior Test Analyst
8 16 (8.21%) Lead
8 16 (8.21%) QA Engineer
9 15 (7.69%) Automation Tester
10 14 (7.18%) Test Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.64%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) QA Tester
12 10 (5.13%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.62%) Business Analyst
13 9 (4.62%) Java Developer
13 9 (4.62%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (4.62%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.51%) REST
2 31 (15.90%) .NET
3 24 (12.31%) Swagger
4 20 (10.26%) Playwright
5 19 (9.74%) SOAP
6 18 (9.23%) Web Services
7 15 (7.69%) JSON
8 14 (7.18%) Node.js
8 14 (7.18%) React
8 14 (7.18%) WebdriverIO
9 13 (6.67%) .NET Framework
9 13 (6.67%) AngularJS
9 13 (6.67%) GraphQL
10 12 (6.15%) Spring Boot
11 11 (5.64%) CSS
11 11 (5.64%) HTML
11 11 (5.64%) Kafka
11 11 (5.64%) Middleware
11 11 (5.64%) Spring
12 10 (5.13%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.41%) Mobile App
2 28 (14.36%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.51%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.51%) Equities
6 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.31%) Android
2 16 (8.21%) Linux
3 7 (3.59%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.03%) Windows
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (70.77%) Agile
2 132 (67.69%) Test Automation
3 73 (37.44%) CI/CD
4 71 (36.41%) Continuous Integration
5 50 (25.64%) API Testing
6 44 (22.56%) Scrum
6 44 (22.56%) TDD
7 43 (22.05%) DevOps
8 42 (21.54%) BDD
9 39 (20.00%) Test Strategy
10 37 (18.97%) Software Testing
11 30 (15.38%) Manual Testing
12 27 (13.85%) Non-Functional Testing
12 27 (13.85%) Performance Testing
12 27 (13.85%) Software Engineering
13 23 (11.79%) Test Scripting
14 22 (11.28%) Continuous Deployment
15 18 (9.23%) Kanban
16 16 (8.21%) Analytics
16 16 (8.21%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 41 (21.03%) SQL
2 40 (20.51%) JavaScript
3 39 (20.00%) Java
4 30 (15.38%) C#
5 21 (10.77%) Kotlin
5 21 (10.77%) Python
6 13 (6.67%) PHP
6 13 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.08%) Swift
8 4 (2.05%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.54%) Bash
10 2 (1.03%) Ruby
11 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.59%) Degree
4 4 (2.05%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.51%) ISEB
6 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (30.77%) QA
2 20 (10.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.54%) WCAG
4 2 (1.03%) HL7
4 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (12.82%) Docker
2 9 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (5.64%) Ansible
2 9 (4.62%) Kibana
3 6 (3.08%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.56%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.54%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.54%) Packer
5 3 (1.54%) Terraform
6 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.51%) logstash
Vendors
1 43 (22.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.62%) SAP
3 8 (4.10%) Oracle
4 6 (3.08%) Google
5 5 (2.56%) Adobe
5 5 (2.56%) Ensighten
5 5 (2.56%) HP
5 5 (2.56%) Monetate
5 5 (2.56%) Omniture
5 5 (2.56%) Optimizely
5 5 (2.56%) Tealium
6 4 (2.05%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.54%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.54%) Splunk
8 2 (1.03%) Cadence
8 2 (1.03%) IBM
8 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.03%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.51%) NEC
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow