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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 467 445
Rank change year-on-year -119 -22 +91
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 34 32 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.076% 0.12% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.65% 0.83% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 95
10th Percentile £214 £314 £413
25th Percentile £319 £431 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £444 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -17.44% +7.50%
75th Percentile £637 £675 £625
90th Percentile £704 £780 £665
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £538
% change year-on-year +8.57% -18.60% +13.16%

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 5,245 3,862 4,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.20% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 2,644 3,017
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £629
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 90 221
10th Percentile £28.08 £35.70 £31.71
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.08 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.72% -2.31% +4.00%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -82 21 £613 +4.70% 2
South East -57 10 £325 -27.78% 3
North West -47 3 £365 -27.36%
North of England -75 3 £365 -27.36% 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 4 (11.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.94%) Mingle
1 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Aladdin
2 3 (8.82%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) Azure
2 11 (32.35%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) GitHub
4 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (14.71%) Snowflake
5 4 (11.76%) Serverless
6 3 (8.82%) AWS
6 3 (8.82%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Einstein
8 1 (2.94%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Selenium
2 10 (29.41%) Git
3 9 (26.47%) Cucumber
3 9 (26.47%) JIRA
4 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
5 5 (14.71%) NUnit
6 4 (11.76%) MSTest
6 4 (11.76%) Postman
6 4 (11.76%) TeamCity
7 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
7 3 (8.82%) Ranorex
7 3 (8.82%) REST Assured
7 3 (8.82%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.88%) Jasmine
8 2 (5.88%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (5.88%) Maven
8 2 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (2.94%) FitNesse
9 1 (2.94%) HP UFT
9 1 (2.94%) JUnit
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Lead
1 9 (26.47%) Test Automation Engineer
1 9 (26.47%) Test Engineer
1 9 (26.47%) Tester
2 7 (20.59%) Automation Tester
2 7 (20.59%) Developer
3 6 (17.65%) .NET Developer
4 4 (11.76%) C# Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Automation Test Lead
5 3 (8.82%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Test Leader
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead .NET Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Tester
6 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (47.06%) Playwright
2 8 (23.53%) .NET
3 6 (17.65%) AngularJS
3 6 (17.65%) Gherkin
3 6 (17.65%) REST
3 6 (17.65%) Swagger
4 4 (11.76%) SOAP
5 3 (8.82%) .NET Framework
5 3 (8.82%) RESTful
6 2 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (5.88%) CSS
6 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.88%) HTML
6 2 (5.88%) Kafka
6 2 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.88%) React
7 1 (2.94%) Blazor
7 1 (2.94%) OpenAPI
7 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Equities
5 1 (2.94%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) Test Automation
2 20 (58.82%) BDD
2 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 19 (55.88%) Agile
4 13 (38.24%) DevOps
4 13 (38.24%) TDD
5 9 (26.47%) API Testing
5 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (26.47%) Regression Testing
5 9 (26.47%) Test Scripting
6 8 (23.53%) SOLID
7 7 (20.59%) CRM
7 7 (20.59%) OOP
8 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
8 6 (17.65%) SDET
8 6 (17.65%) Validation
9 5 (14.71%) Design Patterns
9 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 32 (94.12%) C#
2 14 (41.18%) TypeScript
3 13 (38.24%) Python
3 13 (38.24%) SQL
4 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
5 5 (14.71%) Java
6 2 (5.88%) Bicep
7 1 (2.94%) COBOL
7 1 (2.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
1 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (41.18%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Terraform
2 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Databricks
1 5 (14.71%) Salesforce
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Aprimo
4 1 (2.94%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.94%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.94%) Charles River
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) Pega
4 1 (2.94%) UiPath