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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 445 500
Rank change year-on-year -32 +55 +63
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 41 56 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.94% 1.34% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 47 68
10th Percentile £428 £413 £413
25th Percentile £469 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £731 £650 £589
90th Percentile £776 £688 £629
UK median daily rate £585 £535 £500
% change year-on-year +9.35% +7.00% -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 4,378 4,167 5,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 13.37% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,032 2,616 3,708
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 145 226
10th Percentile £36.15 £39.53 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.36%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 27 October 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 27 October 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 -16 33 £650 +18.18% 19
South East +8 4 £326 -23.41% 15
North of England -32 3 £663 +39.47% 6
North West -21 2 £663 +47.22% 4
Yorkshire -31 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 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 10 (24.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (46.34%) Azure
2 16 (39.02%) GitHub
3 13 (31.71%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.76%) AWS
5 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.88%) Datadog
6 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (43.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (46.34%) JIRA
2 6 (14.63%) Selenium
3 5 (12.20%) Git
4 4 (9.76%) Appium
4 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.76%) WebDriver
5 3 (7.32%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.32%) NUnit
6 2 (4.88%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.88%) CircleCI
6 2 (4.88%) GitLab
7 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.44%) Maven
7 1 (2.44%) MSTest
7 1 (2.44%) Postman
7 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Finance
3 9 (21.95%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Developer
2 18 (43.90%) Angular Developer
3 14 (34.15%) Senior
4 12 (29.27%) C# Developer
4 12 (29.27%) Senior Developer
5 9 (21.95%) .NET Developer
6 8 (19.51%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (14.63%) Senior C# Developer
7 6 (14.63%) Tester
8 5 (12.20%) Agile .NET Developer
8 5 (12.20%) Agile C# Developer
8 5 (12.20%) Agile Developer
8 5 (12.20%) Automation Tester
8 5 (12.20%) Test Engineer
9 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (7.32%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 3 (7.32%) Senior C# .NET Developer
10 3 (7.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (63.41%) Playwright
2 25 (60.98%) .NET
3 17 (41.46%) .NET Framework
3 17 (41.46%) Entity Framework
3 17 (41.46%) NHibernate
4 15 (36.59%) AngularJS
5 10 (24.39%) RESTful
6 3 (7.32%) REST
7 2 (4.88%) CSS
7 2 (4.88%) Gherkin
7 2 (4.88%) HTML
7 2 (4.88%) JSON
8 1 (2.44%) PySpark
8 1 (2.44%) pytest
8 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.88%) PKI
4 1 (2.44%) Equities
4 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Android
1 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (78.05%) Agile
2 21 (51.22%) Scrum
2 21 (51.22%) Test Automation
3 19 (46.34%) Microservices
4 18 (43.90%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (41.46%) Clean Code
5 17 (41.46%) Unit Testing
6 15 (36.59%) ETRM
7 14 (34.15%) Line Management
7 14 (34.15%) Risk Management
8 13 (31.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
9 12 (29.27%) DevOps
10 11 (26.83%) API Development
11 10 (24.39%) Test Scripting
12 9 (21.95%) API Design
12 9 (21.95%) Project Management
13 6 (14.63%) BDD
13 6 (14.63%) TDD
14 5 (12.20%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 38 (92.68%) C#
2 21 (51.22%) SQL
3 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.20%) Python
5 3 (7.32%) Java
5 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Databricks
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
1 4 (9.76%) Wind River
2 2 (4.88%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.88%) Charles River
3 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) SAP