SpecFlow Contracts in the Thames Valley

SpecFlow
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SpecFlow skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SpecFlow over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 140 155
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -22
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 6 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.29% 1.23% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile £469 £258 £446
25th Percentile £478 £325 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £443 £481
Median % change year-on-year +15.82% -8.05% -1.28%
75th Percentile £553 £511 £528
90th Percentile £566 £514 £560
South East median daily rate £513 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.38% +10.53% -5.00%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

SpecFlow 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 Thames Valley with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 262 326 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.79% 11.27% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 224 261
10th Percentile £324 £363 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +13.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £719 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile - £53.13 £55.35
25th Percentile £46.25 £55.94 £58.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -6.49% +31.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.94 £67.25
90th Percentile - £68.38 £67.85
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £56.47 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.68% +2.67% +14.35%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in the Thames Valley

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in the Thames Valley

SpecFlow
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire -1 5 £550 +24.29%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £475 - 1
SpecFlow
South East

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Android Studio
3 1 (16.67%) Appium
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) MSTest
3 1 (16.67%) NUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (16.67%) Xcode
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Playwright
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) OO
5 1 (16.67%) OOP
5 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
5 1 (16.67%) SDET
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google