SpecFlow
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SpecFlow skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SpecFlow over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 820 667 567
Rank change year-on-year -153 -100 -71
Permanent jobs citing SpecFlow 91 349 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.34% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.95% 2.35% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 61 256 703
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,679 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,574 14,863 35,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.72% 14.35% 22.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,738 9,098 15,951
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,210 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow.

Salary trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -114 84 £56,250 -13.46% 29
Work from Home -49 59 £55,000 -12.00% 17
London -12 47 £75,000 +11.11% 19
UK excluding London -98 38 £52,500 -8.70% 11
South East -8 15 £50,000 -13.04% 2
North of England +19 8 £52,500 -8.70% 3
Midlands +1 7 £57,500 -11.54% 3
East Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 1
South West -24 5 £50,000 +25.00% 2
Yorkshire +86 4 £58,750 - 2
North West +3 4 £43,750 -32.69% 1
Wales - 2 £63,750 -
East of England -1 1 £57,500 - 1
West Midlands -6 1 £55,000 -15.38% 2

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 14 (15.38%) CMS
2 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.20%) Confluence
4 1 (1.10%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.10%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 14 (15.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (15.38%) SDL Web 8
2 3 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.16%) Azure
2 15 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (15.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 14 (15.38%) NuGet
4 10 (10.99%) AWS
5 9 (9.89%) Serverless
6 6 (6.59%) Azure Functions
6 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.49%) BrowserStack
7 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.49%) Sauce Labs
8 4 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.30%) Azure API Management
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Storage
9 3 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.30%) Power BI
3 1 (1.10%) Big Data
3 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.10%) Event Store
3 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.10%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 42 (46.15%) Selenium
2 35 (38.46%) TeamCity
3 30 (32.97%) Cucumber
4 29 (31.87%) Postman
5 27 (29.67%) JIRA
6 26 (28.57%) Git
7 23 (25.27%) Visual Studio
8 22 (24.18%) Moq
9 21 (23.08%) Jenkins
10 18 (19.78%) JMeter
11 17 (18.68%) NUnit
12 15 (16.48%) Octopus Deploy
13 14 (15.38%) git-flow
13 14 (15.38%) Sourcetree
14 11 (12.09%) Appium
15 10 (10.99%) Cypress.io
15 10 (10.99%) JBehave
16 9 (9.89%) Gatling
17 6 (6.59%) SoapUI
17 6 (6.59%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (19.78%) Marketing
2 14 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.99%) Retail
5 7 (7.69%) Finance
6 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.10%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Developer
2 26 (28.57%) Senior
3 20 (21.98%) Tester
4 16 (17.58%) Full Stack Developer
5 15 (16.48%) Lead
5 15 (16.48%) Senior Developer
6 14 (15.38%) C# Developer
6 14 (15.38%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 14 (15.38%) Senior C# Developer
6 14 (15.38%) Senior Full Stack Developer
7 13 (14.29%) QA Engineer
7 13 (14.29%) Test Engineer
8 8 (8.79%) Senior Tester
9 7 (7.69%) Automation Tester
10 6 (6.59%) QA Leader
11 5 (5.49%) .NET Developer
11 5 (5.49%) Software Tester
11 5 (5.49%) Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (5.49%) Test Leader
12 4 (4.40%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (53.85%) .NET
2 34 (37.36%) .NET Framework
3 25 (27.47%) ASP.NET
4 21 (23.08%) React
5 20 (21.98%) ASP.NET MVC
5 20 (21.98%) RESTful
6 19 (20.88%) Entity Framework
7 17 (18.68%) CSS
8 16 (17.58%) SOAP
8 16 (17.58%) XML
9 15 (16.48%) Gherkin
9 15 (16.48%) HTML
9 15 (16.48%) jQuery
9 15 (16.48%) Web Services
10 14 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC 5
10 14 (15.38%) Autofac
10 14 (15.38%) Code First Entity Framework
10 14 (15.38%) Ninject
10 14 (15.38%) Semantic HTML
11 13 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.88%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (15.38%) Legacy Code
3 7 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.59%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.59%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.30%) W3C
7 2 (2.20%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.10%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.93%) Agile
2 57 (62.64%) Test Automation
3 47 (51.65%) DevOps
4 33 (36.26%) Scrum
5 32 (35.16%) API Testing
6 30 (32.97%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (29.67%) BDD
8 24 (26.37%) CI/CD
9 23 (25.27%) MVC
10 22 (24.18%) Software Testing
11 19 (20.88%) Mentoring
12 18 (19.78%) OO
12 18 (19.78%) SOLID
13 17 (18.68%) Architectural Design
13 17 (18.68%) Unit Testing
14 16 (17.58%) Computer Science
14 16 (17.58%) Full Stack Development
15 15 (16.48%) E-Commerce
16 14 (15.38%) Inversion of Control
16 14 (15.38%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 71 (78.02%) C#
2 45 (49.45%) SQL
3 33 (36.26%) JavaScript
4 16 (17.58%) T-SQL
5 14 (15.38%) XPath
6 12 (13.19%) Java
7 9 (9.89%) Python
8 4 (4.40%) Ruby
8 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.30%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (23.08%) Degree
2 5 (5.49%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.30%) ISEB
4 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (36.26%) QA
2 15 (16.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.40%) Docker
3 1 (1.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Adobe
1 14 (15.38%) Cognizant
2 12 (13.19%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.40%) Oracle
4 3 (3.30%) Xamarin
5 2 (2.20%) Databricks
5 2 (2.20%) Nintex