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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 444 457
Rank change year-on-year -100 +13 +79
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 37 29 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.091% 0.12% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.74% 0.87% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 77
10th Percentile £266 £285 £411
25th Percentile £320 £386 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -20.45% +7.32%
75th Percentile £629 £625 £625
90th Percentile £694 £663 £650
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 5,014 3,334 4,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.30% 13.72% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,240 2,883
10th Percentile £342 £341 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 65 191
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.68 £33.00
25th Percentile £59.81 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.74% -6.92% +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 9 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 9 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 -53 30 £363 -29.27% 1
South East -66 7 £375 - 3
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 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (32.43%) 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%) Big Data
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (40.54%) 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%) NUnit
6 6 (16.22%) Postman
7 4 (10.81%) MSTest
7 4 (10.81%) TeamCity
8 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
8 3 (8.11%) REST Assured
8 3 (8.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (8.11%) WebDriver
9 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
9 2 (5.41%) Jasmine
9 2 (5.41%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (5.41%) Maven
9 2 (5.41%) TestRail
9 2 (5.41%) Zephyr
10 1 (2.70%) FitNesse
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Tester
2 14 (37.84%) Automation Tester
3 7 (18.92%) Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior
5 5 (13.51%) .NET Developer
5 5 (13.51%) C# Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Lead
5 5 (13.51%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Test Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) C# .NET Developer
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%) Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Front Office Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (59.46%) Playwright
2 8 (21.62%) .NET
3 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
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%) Gherkin
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%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.70%) React
7 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.41%) Equities
2 2 (5.41%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (81.08%) Test Automation
2 24 (64.86%) Agile
3 20 (54.05%) CI/CD
4 16 (43.24%) TDD
5 15 (40.54%) DevOps
5 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (37.84%) Test Scripting
7 12 (32.43%) Asset Management
7 12 (32.43%) Data Protection
8 11 (29.73%) BDD
9 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (24.32%) API Testing
11 7 (18.92%) SOLID
11 7 (18.92%) Validation
12 5 (13.51%) OOP
12 5 (13.51%) Regression Testing
12 5 (13.51%) SDET
12 5 (13.51%) Test Strategy
12 5 (13.51%) Unit Testing
13 4 (10.81%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (91.89%) C#
2 21 (56.76%) SQL
3 19 (51.35%) Python
3 19 (51.35%) TypeScript
4 16 (43.24%) 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%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
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%) HP APS
2 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) 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
3 1 (2.70%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Databricks
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Charles River
5 1 (2.70%) Aprimo
5 1 (2.70%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.70%) HP
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) Pega
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) UiPath
5 1 (2.70%) Workday