SpecFlow Contracts in England

SpecFlow
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SpecFlow skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SpecFlow over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 443 526
Rank change year-on-year -12 +83 +29
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 30 99 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.91% 2.32% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 76 98
10th Percentile £285 £407 £318
25th Percentile £386 £449 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £609
90th Percentile £663 £650 £715
UK median daily rate £438 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -20.45% +10.00% +5.26%

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 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow in England.

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow in England.

Hourly rate trend for SpecFlow in England

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 1 May 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 -30 15 £513 -6.82% 16
South East +49 9 - - 8
North of England +17 3 £390 -17.02% 8
Midlands +23 2 £413 +10.00% 4
North West +15 2 £390 -22.00% 5
West Midlands +14 1 £413 +10.00% 2
North East - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
SpecFlow
UK

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Selenium
2 6 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 5 (16.67%) Appium
3 5 (16.67%) Git
3 5 (16.67%) JMeter
4 4 (13.33%) CircleCI
4 4 (13.33%) Gatling
4 4 (13.33%) GitLab
4 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (13.33%) NeoLoad
5 3 (10.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (10.00%) JIRA
6 2 (6.67%) Postman
6 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (3.33%) Mocha
7 1 (3.33%) Moq
7 1 (3.33%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (3.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.33%) TestComplete
7 1 (3.33%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Electronics
4 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.00%) Marketing
4 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
1 9 (30.00%) Test Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Tester
4 4 (13.33%) Developer in Test
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Test Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Automation Tester
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) QA Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.67%) QA Leader
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Playwright
2 6 (20.00%) .NET
2 6 (20.00%) CSS
2 6 (20.00%) HTML
3 4 (13.33%) Gherkin
3 4 (13.33%) Play Framework
3 4 (13.33%) PySpark
4 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.00%) RESTful
5 2 (6.67%) Bootstrap
5 2 (6.67%) React
5 2 (6.67%) Vue
5 2 (6.67%) YAML
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.33%) Blazor
6 1 (3.33%) boto
6 1 (3.33%) SignalR
6 1 (3.33%) SOAP
6 1 (3.33%) Web Services
6 1 (3.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Derivative
2 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) NHS
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.33%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 24 (80.00%) Agile
3 15 (50.00%) DevOps
4 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
5 13 (43.33%) Scrum
6 9 (30.00%) BDD
6 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (30.00%) Software Testing
7 8 (26.67%) Integration Testing
8 6 (20.00%) Manual Testing
8 6 (20.00%) SDET
9 5 (16.67%) API Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Defect Management
9 5 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Kanban
9 5 (16.67%) Performance Testing
10 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (13.33%) Logistics
10 4 (13.33%) Test Strategy
10 4 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) C#
2 12 (40.00%) SQL
3 10 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 5 (16.67%) Java
6 4 (13.33%) C++
6 4 (13.33%) PHP
6 4 (13.33%) Python
6 4 (13.33%) Ruby
6 4 (13.33%) Scala
7 1 (3.33%) Bicep
7 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (43.33%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce