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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 461 473
Rank change year-on-year -39 +12 +59
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 41 33 76
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.87% 0.91% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 59
10th Percentile - £423 £413
25th Percentile £325 £456 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £631 £625
90th Percentile £730 £705 £675
UK median daily rate £414 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -24.77% +10.00% -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 4,688 3,626 4,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.81% 13.26% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,251 2,266 3,072
10th Percentile £333 £334 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £736 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 65 193
10th Percentile £39.81 £46.18 £44.85
25th Percentile £54.25 £54.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.40 £75.85 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -6 37 £400 -33.33% 3
North of England -47 3 £463 +2.78%
Yorkshire - 2 £419 -
North West -25 1 £650 +44.44%
South East -28 1 £201 - 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 8 (19.51%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (7.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (26.83%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) Azure
1 16 (39.02%) GitHub
2 11 (26.83%) Snowflake
3 10 (24.39%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.44%) AWS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.44%) Datadog
5 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Big Data
2 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (46.34%) JIRA
2 10 (24.39%) Git
3 8 (19.51%) Selenium
4 7 (17.07%) Cucumber
4 7 (17.07%) Jenkins
5 6 (14.63%) Postman
5 6 (14.63%) TestRail
5 6 (14.63%) Zephyr
6 3 (7.32%) NUnit
7 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio
8 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.44%) Maven
8 1 (2.44%) MSTest
8 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
8 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (2.44%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Tester
2 14 (34.15%) Automation Tester
2 14 (34.15%) Developer
3 13 (31.71%) Angular Developer
4 11 (26.83%) C# Developer
4 11 (26.83%) Senior
5 9 (21.95%) .NET Developer
6 8 (19.51%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (17.07%) Senior Developer
8 5 (12.20%) Agile .NET Developer
8 5 (12.20%) Agile C# Developer
8 5 (12.20%) Agile Developer
8 5 (12.20%) Senior C# Developer
9 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 3 (7.32%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (7.32%) Senior C# .NET Developer
10 3 (7.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 2 (4.88%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (75.61%) Playwright
2 18 (43.90%) .NET
3 12 (29.27%) .NET Framework
3 12 (29.27%) Entity Framework
3 12 (29.27%) NHibernate
4 9 (21.95%) AngularJS
5 8 (19.51%) REST
6 6 (14.63%) JSON
6 6 (14.63%) XML
7 5 (12.20%) RESTful
8 2 (4.88%) Gherkin
9 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (12.20%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.88%) Equities
4 2 (4.88%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.44%) PKI
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (80.49%) Agile
2 25 (60.98%) Test Automation
3 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (31.71%) Microservices
4 13 (31.71%) Test Scripting
5 12 (29.27%) Clean Code
5 12 (29.27%) TDD
6 11 (26.83%) Unit Testing
7 10 (24.39%) Asset Management
7 10 (24.39%) CI/CD
7 10 (24.39%) ETRM
7 10 (24.39%) Scrum
8 9 (21.95%) Data Protection
8 9 (21.95%) DevOps
8 9 (21.95%) Line Management
8 9 (21.95%) Risk Management
9 8 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (19.51%) Validation
10 7 (17.07%) API Testing
10 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (95.12%) C#
2 21 (51.22%) SQL
3 18 (43.90%) Python
4 14 (34.15%) JavaScript
5 11 (26.83%) TypeScript
6 9 (21.95%) Java
7 6 (14.63%) XPath
8 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) HP APS
2 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) HP ALM
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Databricks
2 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.76%) Wind River
4 3 (7.32%) Charles River
5 2 (4.88%) SAP
6 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.44%) HP
6 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle
6 1 (2.44%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.44%) Workday