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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 452 434
Rank change year-on-year -108 -18 +100
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 37 24 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.089% 0.10% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.74% 0.73% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 80
10th Percentile £266 £285 £412
25th Percentile £320 £386 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -20.45% +7.32%
75th Percentile £629 £681 £625
90th Percentile £694 £750 £676
UK median daily rate £375 £438 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -20.45% +15.79%

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 4,995 3,302 4,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.03% 13.87% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,286 2,244 2,903
10th Percentile £350 £342 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 60 199
10th Percentile £35.50 £27.35 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.88 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.27% -7.50% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -54 27 £400 -31.91% 2
South East -58 7 £375 - 2
North West -34 3 £365 +10.61% 2
North of England -72 3 £365 +10.61% 2
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 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.70%) Mingle
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Azure
2 12 (32.43%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (27.03%) Snowflake
4 6 (16.22%) GitHub
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.11%) Serverless
6 2 (5.41%) AWS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Einstein
7 1 (2.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Selenium
2 11 (29.73%) Git
3 9 (24.32%) JIRA
4 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
5 7 (18.92%) Cucumber
6 6 (16.22%) Postman
7 5 (13.51%) NUnit
8 4 (10.81%) MSTest
8 4 (10.81%) TeamCity
9 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
9 3 (8.11%) Ranorex
9 3 (8.11%) REST Assured
9 3 (8.11%) WebDriver
10 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
10 2 (5.41%) Jasmine
10 2 (5.41%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (5.41%) Maven
10 2 (5.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (5.41%) TestRail
10 2 (5.41%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.11%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Tester
2 13 (35.14%) Automation Tester
3 8 (21.62%) Lead
4 7 (18.92%) Developer
5 5 (13.51%) .NET Developer
5 5 (13.51%) C# Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior
5 5 (13.51%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Test Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (8.11%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Test Leader
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.41%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (54.05%) Playwright
2 8 (21.62%) .NET
3 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
3 5 (13.51%) Gherkin
4 4 (10.81%) REST
5 3 (8.11%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (5.41%) CSS
6 2 (5.41%) HTML
6 2 (5.41%) JSON
6 2 (5.41%) Kafka
6 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.41%) Swagger
6 2 (5.41%) XML
7 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.70%) Blazor
7 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.70%) React
7 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Equities
3 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (81.08%) Test Automation
2 21 (56.76%) Agile
3 19 (51.35%) CI/CD
4 14 (37.84%) BDD
4 14 (37.84%) DevOps
4 14 (37.84%) TDD
5 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (32.43%) Test Scripting
6 10 (27.03%) Asset Management
6 10 (27.03%) Data Protection
7 9 (24.32%) API Testing
7 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (21.62%) Regression Testing
9 7 (18.92%) OOP
9 7 (18.92%) SOLID
9 7 (18.92%) Validation
10 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.51%) Defect Management
10 5 (13.51%) Test Planning
10 5 (13.51%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (91.89%) C#
2 18 (48.65%) SQL
3 17 (45.95%) Python
3 17 (45.95%) TypeScript
4 13 (35.14%) JavaScript
5 8 (21.62%) Java
6 2 (5.41%) XPath
7 1 (2.70%) Bicep
7 1 (2.70%) COBOL
7 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Databricks
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Aprimo
3 1 (2.70%) Avaloq
3 1 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (2.70%) Charles River
3 1 (2.70%) IBM
3 1 (2.70%) Pega
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.70%) UiPath
3 1 (2.70%) Workday