SpecFlow Contracts with Work from Home Options

SpecFlow
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 404 444
Rank change year-on-year +97 +40 -32
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 40 63 178
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.23% 1.65% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 50 149
10th Percentile £417 £321 £363
25th Percentile £450 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +5.56% +6.51%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £519
90th Percentile £700 £678 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - +11.76%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,796 3,827 8,224
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.90% 15.23% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 2,743 5,934
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 108 100
10th Percentile £26.24 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.32 £60.54
90th Percentile - £83.19 £67.05
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

SpecFlow
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SpecFlow trend for jobs with a WFH option

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SpecFlow.

SpecFlow daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

SpecFlow daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (5.00%) NServiceBus
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 30 (75.00%) Azure
2 28 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.50%) AWS
4 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) PaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (45.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Selenium
2 11 (27.50%) Visual Studio
3 6 (15.00%) Git
3 6 (15.00%) Postman
3 6 (15.00%) WebDriver
4 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 4 (10.00%) JMeter
4 4 (10.00%) Moq
5 3 (7.50%) LoadRunner
5 3 (7.50%) NUnit
6 2 (5.00%) FitNesse
6 2 (5.00%) JIRA
6 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (5.00%) TestRail
7 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.50%) Mercurial
7 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.50%) Rational Performance Tester
7 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Back Office
4 3 (7.50%) Front Office
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Developer
2 14 (35.00%) Senior
3 11 (27.50%) Software Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 7 (17.50%) C# Developer
6 6 (15.00%) Analyst
6 6 (15.00%) Test Analyst
6 6 (15.00%) Tester
7 5 (12.50%) .NET Developer
7 5 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
8 4 (10.00%) Azure Developer
9 3 (7.50%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (7.50%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (7.50%) Test Automation Manager
9 3 (7.50%) Test Manager
10 2 (5.00%) .NET Software Developer
10 2 (5.00%) Automation Tester
10 2 (5.00%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (60.00%) .NET
2 19 (47.50%) .NET Framework
3 14 (35.00%) XML
4 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.50%) Entity Framework
4 5 (12.50%) REST
5 4 (10.00%) Playwright
6 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
7 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (5.00%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (5.00%) YAML
8 1 (2.50%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.50%) HTML
8 1 (2.50%) LINQ
8 1 (2.50%) Node.js
8 1 (2.50%) RESTful
8 1 (2.50%) SOAP
8 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Derivative
2 4 (10.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Contactless
3 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) DevOps
2 26 (65.00%) CI/CD
3 24 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 22 (55.00%) Agile
5 14 (35.00%) BDD
5 14 (35.00%) Scrum
6 12 (30.00%) Performance Testing
7 10 (25.00%) Test Strategy
8 8 (20.00%) API Testing
8 8 (20.00%) Manual Testing
8 8 (20.00%) TDD
9 5 (12.50%) ETRM
9 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.50%) Software Testing
10 4 (10.00%) B2C
10 4 (10.00%) Code Quality
10 4 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
10 4 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
10 4 (10.00%) Load Testing
10 4 (10.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (77.50%) C#
2 14 (35.00%) PowerShell
3 12 (30.00%) SQL
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) Java
6 2 (5.00%) Python
7 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) HP
3 1 (2.50%) IBM
3 1 (2.50%) NEC
3 1 (2.50%) Optimizely