SpecFlow Contracts in England

SpecFlow
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 527 552
Rank change year-on-year +87 +25 -19
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 98 128 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.33% 1.70% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 98 186
10th Percentile £407 £318 £375
25th Percentile £449 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +9.47% +6.74%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £575
90th Percentile £650 £715 £681
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +11.76%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,209 7,543 12,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.94% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 5,319 9,056
10th Percentile £356 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.89%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £653
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 222 184
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.56 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.34 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% +21.82% +6.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.18
90th Percentile £84.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.27%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SpecFlow in England

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 28 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
London +124 82 £550 - 16
South East +3 6 £513 -2.38% 2
North of England +10 5 £470 +12.57% 3
North West +10 4 £500 +21.95% 2
South West +14 2 £563 +7.14% 2
West Midlands +27 1 £375 -25.00%
Midlands +22 1 £375 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire +17 1 £440 -7.37%
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 3 (3.06%) CMS
2 2 (2.04%) EPiServer
2 2 (2.04%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 59 (60.20%) Azure
2 53 (54.08%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (12.24%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
5 6 (6.12%) AWS
6 5 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.06%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.04%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.04%) GCP
9 2 (2.04%) PaaS
9 2 (2.04%) Serverless
10 1 (1.02%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (38.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (46.94%) Selenium
2 24 (24.49%) Visual Studio
3 17 (17.35%) Git
4 15 (15.31%) Cucumber
5 14 (14.29%) WebDriver
6 12 (12.24%) Postman
7 9 (9.18%) JIRA
8 7 (7.14%) JMeter
9 6 (6.12%) FitNesse
10 5 (5.10%) Moq
10 5 (5.10%) TeamCity
10 5 (5.10%) TestRail
11 4 (4.08%) Jasmine
11 4 (4.08%) LoadRunner
11 4 (4.08%) NUnit
12 3 (3.06%) SoapUI
12 3 (3.06%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (2.04%) Appium
13 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
13 2 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 13 (13.27%) Finance
2 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.22%) Back Office
4 9 (9.18%) Banking
5 7 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.10%) Front Office
8 3 (3.06%) Local Government
9 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.02%) Electronics
10 1 (1.02%) Law
10 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.02%) Marketing
10 1 (1.02%) Retail
10 1 (1.02%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (33.67%) Developer
2 31 (31.63%) Senior
3 19 (19.39%) Tester
4 15 (15.31%) C# Developer
5 14 (14.29%) Analyst
5 14 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 14 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
5 14 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 14 (14.29%) Test Analyst
6 10 (10.20%) .NET Developer
7 9 (9.18%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.18%) Senior Software Developer
8 8 (8.16%) Angular Developer
8 8 (8.16%) QA Tester
9 7 (7.14%) Automation Tester
9 7 (7.14%) QA Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Full Stack Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (54.08%) .NET
2 34 (34.69%) .NET Framework
3 29 (29.59%) XML
4 18 (18.37%) AngularJS
5 13 (13.27%) REST
6 12 (12.24%) .NET Core
7 10 (10.20%) Entity Framework
7 10 (10.20%) Playwright
8 7 (7.14%) KnockoutJS
9 5 (5.10%) ASP.NET
9 5 (5.10%) HTML
9 5 (5.10%) JSON
10 4 (4.08%) LINQ
11 3 (3.06%) CSS
11 3 (3.06%) Razor View Engine
12 2 (2.04%) ARM Templates
12 2 (2.04%) React
12 2 (2.04%) RESTful
12 2 (2.04%) Sass
12 2 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.16%) Derivative
3 4 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.08%) Hedge funds
3 4 (4.08%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.04%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.02%) Contactless
6 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.02%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (58.16%) Test Automation
2 56 (57.14%) DevOps
3 53 (54.08%) Agile
3 53 (54.08%) CI/CD
4 38 (38.78%) Scrum
5 29 (29.59%) BDD
6 25 (25.51%) Performance Testing
7 22 (22.45%) TDD
7 22 (22.45%) Test Strategy
8 11 (11.22%) API Testing
8 11 (11.22%) B2C
8 11 (11.22%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (11.22%) Manual Testing
8 11 (11.22%) Microservices
9 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (10.20%) Regression Testing
9 10 (10.20%) Software Testing
10 9 (9.18%) ETRM
10 9 (9.18%) Migration
11 8 (8.16%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 75 (76.53%) C#
2 27 (27.55%) PowerShell
3 23 (23.47%) SQL
4 11 (11.22%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.18%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.14%) Java
7 5 (5.10%) Python
8 4 (4.08%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.06%) Bicep
10 1 (1.02%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (7.14%) Degree
2 5 (5.10%) ISTQB
2 5 (5.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.43%) QA
2 6 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.06%) Terraform
2 1 (1.02%) Ansible
2 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.02%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.14%) Okta
3 6 (6.12%) Oracle
4 4 (4.08%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.02%) Google
6 1 (1.02%) HP
6 1 (1.02%) IBM
6 1 (1.02%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.02%) SAP
6 1 (1.02%) Wind River