SpecFlow Contracts

SpecFlow
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 550 560
Rank change year-on-year +60 +10 -19
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 108 170 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.11% 1.88% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 133 242
10th Percentile £377 £342 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.30% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% +3.66%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +96 98 £550 +4.76% 21
London +117 82 £550 - 15
Work from Home +93 40 £600 +18.81% 13
UK excluding London -8 14 £500 +5.26% 7
South East +9 6 £513 -2.38% 2
North of England +11 5 £470 +12.57% 1
North West +3 4 £500 +21.95% 1
South West +21 2 £563 +7.14% 2
West Midlands +25 1 £375 -25.00%
Midlands +17 1 £375 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire +14 1 £440 -7.37%

SpecFlow
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 6 (5.56%) NServiceBus
2 3 (2.78%) CMS
3 2 (1.85%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 68 (62.96%) Azure
2 54 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.48%) Azure Pipelines
5 6 (5.56%) AWS
6 5 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.70%) GitHub
7 4 (3.70%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.85%) Azure App Service
9 2 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.85%) GCP
9 2 (1.85%) PaaS
9 2 (1.85%) Serverless
10 1 (0.93%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (36.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 51 (47.22%) Selenium
2 25 (23.15%) Visual Studio
3 19 (17.59%) Cucumber
4 17 (15.74%) Git
5 15 (13.89%) WebDriver
6 12 (11.11%) Postman
7 9 (8.33%) JIRA
8 8 (7.41%) NUnit
9 7 (6.48%) JMeter
10 6 (5.56%) FitNesse
11 5 (4.63%) Moq
11 5 (4.63%) TeamCity
11 5 (4.63%) TestRail
12 4 (3.70%) Jasmine
12 4 (3.70%) JUnit
12 4 (3.70%) LoadRunner
12 4 (3.70%) TestNG
13 3 (2.78%) SoapUI
13 3 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
1 14 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.04%) Finance
3 11 (10.19%) Back Office
4 9 (8.33%) Banking
5 7 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.63%) Front Office
8 3 (2.78%) Local Government
9 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Electronics
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (35.19%) Developer
2 32 (29.63%) Senior
3 19 (17.59%) Tester
4 15 (13.89%) Analyst
4 15 (13.89%) C# Developer
4 15 (13.89%) Software Developer
4 15 (13.89%) Test Analyst
5 14 (12.96%) .NET Developer
5 14 (12.96%) Senior Analyst
5 14 (12.96%) Senior Test Analyst
6 10 (9.26%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.26%) Senior Software Developer
7 8 (7.41%) Angular Developer
7 8 (7.41%) QA Tester
8 7 (6.48%) Automation Tester
8 7 (6.48%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Full Stack Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (53.70%) .NET
2 35 (32.41%) .NET Framework
3 30 (27.78%) XML
4 18 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 16 (14.81%) .NET Core
6 13 (12.04%) REST
7 10 (9.26%) Entity Framework
7 10 (9.26%) Playwright
8 9 (8.33%) ASP.NET
9 7 (6.48%) KnockoutJS
9 7 (6.48%) Razor View Engine
10 6 (5.56%) YAML
11 5 (4.63%) HTML
11 5 (4.63%) JSON
12 4 (3.70%) LINQ
13 3 (2.78%) CSS
14 2 (1.85%) ARM Templates
14 2 (1.85%) React
14 2 (1.85%) RESTful
14 2 (1.85%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.41%) Derivative
3 4 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.70%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.70%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.78%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.85%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.93%) Contactless
6 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.93%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.63%) Test Automation
2 58 (53.70%) CI/CD
3 57 (52.78%) DevOps
4 54 (50.00%) Agile
5 39 (36.11%) Scrum
6 35 (32.41%) BDD
7 26 (24.07%) Performance Testing
8 22 (20.37%) TDD
8 22 (20.37%) Test Strategy
9 11 (10.19%) API Testing
9 11 (10.19%) B2C
9 11 (10.19%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (10.19%) Manual Testing
9 11 (10.19%) Microservices
9 11 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (10.19%) Software Testing
10 10 (9.26%) Regression Testing
11 9 (8.33%) ETRM
11 9 (8.33%) Migration
12 8 (7.41%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 84 (77.78%) C#
2 28 (25.93%) PowerShell
3 23 (21.30%) SQL
4 11 (10.19%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.48%) Java
7 5 (4.63%) Python
8 4 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.93%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (7.41%) Degree
2 5 (4.63%) ISTQB
2 5 (4.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.78%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.15%) QA
2 6 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Ansible
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (34.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.48%) Okta
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle
4 4 (3.70%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) HP
6 1 (0.93%) IBM
6 1 (0.93%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) Wind River