SpecFlow Contract Job Trends in England

SpecFlow
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SpecFlow skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 445 518
Rank change year-on-year -41 +73 +78
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 35 89 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.27% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.85% 2.02% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 74 57
10th Percentile £258 £413 £339
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £550
90th Percentile £788 £684 £625
UK median daily rate £463 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -11.90% +10.53% -9.52%

All Development Application Skills
England

SpecFlow falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,133 4,398 5,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.88% 13.35% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 2,820 3,960
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £602 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 170 230
10th Percentile £43.98 £37.47 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.81 £54.43 £52.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.88
90th Percentile £78.38 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SpecFlow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SpecFlow

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SpecFlow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SpecFlow

SpecFlow
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the England region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
London -37 26 £650 +20.93% 6
South East +14 4 £326 -33.23% 4
North of England -29 3 £663 +39.47% 1
North West -12 2 £663 +47.22% 1
Yorkshire -12 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
Midlands - 1 - - 3
SpecFlow
UK

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) GitHub
2 13 (37.14%) Azure
3 12 (34.29%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) AWS
5 2 (5.71%) Datadog
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (45.71%) JIRA
2 10 (28.57%) Selenium
3 6 (17.14%) Cucumber
4 4 (11.43%) Appium
4 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 4 (11.43%) WebDriver
5 3 (8.57%) Git
5 3 (8.57%) NUnit
6 2 (5.71%) Artifactory
6 2 (5.71%) CircleCI
6 2 (5.71%) GitLab
6 2 (5.71%) Postman
7 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.86%) JUnit
7 1 (2.86%) Maven
7 1 (2.86%) MSTest
7 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.86%) TestComplete
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Finance
3 8 (22.86%) Banking
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Angular Developer
1 14 (40.00%) Developer
2 12 (34.29%) Senior
3 10 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 8 (22.86%) C# Developer
5 5 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 5 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Test Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Agile .NET Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Agile C# Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Agile Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.57%) QA Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Automation Specialist
8 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Lead
8 2 (5.71%) Mobile Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (57.14%) Playwright
2 17 (48.57%) .NET
3 13 (37.14%) .NET Framework
3 13 (37.14%) AngularJS
3 13 (37.14%) Entity Framework
3 13 (37.14%) NHibernate
4 9 (25.71%) RESTful
5 4 (11.43%) CSS
5 4 (11.43%) HTML
6 2 (5.71%) Gherkin
6 2 (5.71%) JSON
6 2 (5.71%) REST
7 1 (2.86%) PySpark
7 1 (2.86%) pytest
7 1 (2.86%) SOAP
7 1 (2.86%) Web Services
7 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Android
1 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (85.71%) Agile
2 20 (57.14%) Scrum
2 20 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 17 (48.57%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (42.86%) Microservices
5 14 (40.00%) Clean Code
5 14 (40.00%) Unit Testing
6 13 (37.14%) CI/CD
7 12 (34.29%) DevOps
7 12 (34.29%) ETRM
8 11 (31.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (31.43%) Line Management
8 11 (31.43%) Risk Management
9 10 (28.57%) API Development
10 8 (22.86%) API Design
10 8 (22.86%) BDD
10 8 (22.86%) Project Management
11 7 (20.00%) Test Scripting
12 6 (17.14%) Test Strategy
13 5 (14.29%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (85.71%) C#
2 17 (48.57%) SQL
3 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.57%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) Python
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Databricks
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Salesforce