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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 488 419
Rank change year-on-year -117 -69 +109
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 24 29 108
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.053% 0.11% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.46% 0.71% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 88
10th Percentile £211 £257 £411
25th Percentile £263 £395 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £586 £525
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +11.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £703 £625
90th Percentile £685 £788 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +10.53%

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 5,200 4,065 4,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.76% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 2,815 2,824
10th Percentile £358 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 97 181
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.35 £33.07
25th Percentile £57.75 £51.06 £54.00
Median hourly rate £68.11 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -77 13 £600 -3.03% 2
South East -62 8 £245 -24.88% 1
North West -37 3 £365 -44.91%
North of England -66 3 £365 -44.91%
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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (8.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) GitHub
3 5 (20.83%) Serverless
4 4 (16.67%) AWS
4 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Selenium
2 8 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 7 (29.17%) Git
3 7 (29.17%) JIRA
4 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
5 4 (16.67%) MSTest
5 4 (16.67%) NUnit
5 4 (16.67%) TeamCity
6 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (12.50%) Ranorex
6 3 (12.50%) WebDriver
7 2 (8.33%) Jasmine
7 2 (8.33%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
7 2 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (4.17%) Liquibase
8 1 (4.17%) Postman
8 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Police
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Test Automation Engineer
1 9 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Lead
3 5 (20.83%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Tester
4 4 (16.67%) Automation Tester
5 3 (12.50%) Automation Test Lead
5 3 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Test Leader
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead .NET Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Tester
7 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) Playwright
2 7 (29.17%) REST
3 6 (25.00%) Gherkin
4 5 (20.83%) .NET
4 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
4 5 (20.83%) Swagger
5 4 (16.67%) SOAP
5 4 (16.67%) Terraform
6 3 (12.50%) RESTful
7 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (8.33%) .NET Framework
7 2 (8.33%) CSS
7 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
7 2 (8.33%) HTML
7 2 (8.33%) Kafka
7 2 (8.33%) React
8 1 (4.17%) Blazor
8 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
8 1 (4.17%) Vue
8 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Test Automation
2 17 (70.83%) BDD
3 14 (58.33%) Agile
3 14 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 11 (45.83%) DevOps
5 9 (37.50%) TDD
6 7 (29.17%) OOP
6 7 (29.17%) SOLID
7 6 (25.00%) CRM
7 6 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 6 (25.00%) Regression Testing
7 6 (25.00%) Test Scripting
7 6 (25.00%) Validation
8 5 (20.83%) API Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (20.83%) Microservices
8 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.83%) SDET
8 5 (20.83%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) C#
2 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 10 (41.67%) TypeScript
3 9 (37.50%) Python
4 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (20.83%) Java
6 2 (8.33%) Bicep
7 1 (4.17%) COBOL
7 1 (4.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) ISEB
2 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (41.67%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Pega
4 1 (4.17%) UiPath