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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 449 485
Rank change year-on-year -68 +36 +41
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 43 31 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.90% 0.88% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 61
10th Percentile £319 £378 £425
25th Percentile £325 £431 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £460 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -23.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £531 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £630 £675
UK median daily rate £400 £502 £550
% change year-on-year -20.32% -8.73% +4.76%

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 4,762 3,503 4,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.98% 13.48% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,278 2,194 3,108
10th Percentile £339 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 60 206
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £48.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SpecFlow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

SpecFlow job vacancy trend 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 15 February 2026.

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 15 February 2026. 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 -1 39 £370 -38.33% 3
South East -37 2 £509 - 6
North of England -63 2 £419 +7.37% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 1
SpecFlow
UK

SpecFlow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (16.28%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) CMS
2 1 (2.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (6.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (32.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) Azure
2 14 (32.56%) Snowflake
3 12 (27.91%) GitHub
4 9 (20.93%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Big Data
2 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (39.53%) JIRA
2 10 (23.26%) Git
2 10 (23.26%) Selenium
3 6 (13.95%) Cucumber
3 6 (13.95%) TestRail
3 6 (13.95%) Zephyr
4 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.63%) Postman
5 2 (4.65%) NUnit
5 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 11 (25.58%) Finance
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Tester
2 17 (39.53%) Automation Tester
3 13 (30.23%) Developer
4 12 (27.91%) C# Developer
5 11 (25.58%) Angular Developer
6 10 (23.26%) Senior
7 9 (20.93%) .NET Developer
8 8 (18.60%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (11.63%) Agile .NET Developer
9 5 (11.63%) Agile C# Developer
9 5 (11.63%) Agile Developer
9 5 (11.63%) Senior C# Developer
9 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
10 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 3 (6.98%) QA Engineer
11 3 (6.98%) Senior .NET Developer
11 3 (6.98%) Senior C# .NET Developer
11 3 (6.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (76.74%) Playwright
2 17 (39.53%) .NET
3 11 (25.58%) .NET Framework
4 10 (23.26%) Entity Framework
4 10 (23.26%) NHibernate
5 8 (18.60%) REST
6 6 (13.95%) AngularJS
6 6 (13.95%) JSON
6 6 (13.95%) XML
7 3 (6.98%) RESTful
8 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
8 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.65%) Equities
4 2 (4.65%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) Agile
2 28 (65.12%) Test Automation
3 16 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (32.56%) TDD
4 14 (32.56%) Test Scripting
5 13 (30.23%) Asset Management
6 12 (27.91%) Data Protection
7 10 (23.26%) Clean Code
7 10 (23.26%) Microservices
7 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
9 8 (18.60%) Defect Management
9 8 (18.60%) DevOps
9 8 (18.60%) Line Management
10 7 (16.28%) API Testing
10 7 (16.28%) ETRM
10 7 (16.28%) Risk Management
10 7 (16.28%) Scrum
10 7 (16.28%) Unit Testing
10 7 (16.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (95.35%) C#
2 23 (53.49%) Python
3 21 (48.84%) SQL
4 15 (34.88%) JavaScript
4 15 (34.88%) TypeScript
5 8 (18.60%) Java
6 6 (13.95%) XPath
7 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) HP APS
3 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) HP ALM
1 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (32.56%) Databricks
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) Wind River
4 3 (6.98%) Charles River
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle
5 2 (4.65%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) HP
6 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.33%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.33%) Workday