SpecFlow Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SpecFlow skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SpecFlow over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

SpecFlow UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	420	458	468
Rank change year-on-year	+38	+10
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow	182	166	159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.42%	0.33%	0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category	2.38%	2.13%	2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted	148	125	129
Median daily rate	£432	£400	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.06%	+14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£314	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£536	£519	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£375	£325
% change year-on-year	-6.66%	+15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	1	0
Median hourly rate	£47.50	£36.00	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+31.94%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£47.50	£36.00	-
% change year-on-year	+31.94%	-

SpecFlow is in the development application skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract Development Application Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	7654	7779	6772
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	17.70%	15.69%	13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted	5234	5421	4527
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£315	£293
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£413	£400	£363
% change year-on-year	+3.12%	+10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted	139	125	102
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.35	£37.45
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.35%	+13.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.50	£26.00	£22.18
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£61.69	£50.00	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.25	£42.00	£37.04
% change year-on-year	+2.97%	+13.39%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Development Applications category.

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SpecFlow in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SpecFlow in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow in England.

Contractor 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 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+47	112	£450	+7.78%	31
South East	-19	18	£375	-	9
South West	+7	14	£355	-21.11%	7
West Midlands	+28	12	£215	-38.57%	1
East of England	0	10	£375	+50.00%	5
North West	+10	8	£345	-18.82%	2
East Midlands	-3	4	£375	+19.52%	3
Yorkshire	+32	3	£350	+7.69%	4
North East	-	1	£463	-
SpecFlow UK

SpecFlow
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SpecFlow also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for SpecFlow.

1	270 (75.21%)	Agile Software Development
2	267 (74.37%)	C#
3	232 (64.62%)	BDD
4	228 (63.51%)	Test Automation
5	208 (57.94%)	.NET
6	166 (46.24%)	Selenium
7	155 (43.18%)	TDD
8	115 (32.03%)	JavaScript
9	113 (31.48%)	SQL
10	103 (28.69%)	TeamCity
11	102 (28.41%)	Microsoft
12	99 (27.58%)	Continuous Integration
13	96 (26.74%)	SQL Server
13	96 (26.74%)	Scrum
14	94 (26.18%)	QA

15	79 (22.01%)	AngularJS
16	77 (21.45%)	Jenkins
17	72 (20.06%)	Finance
18	68 (18.94%)	Gherkin
19	66 (18.38%)	Team Foundation Server
19	66 (18.38%)	Web Services
20	65 (18.11%)	Git (software)
21	64 (17.83%)	Java
22	62 (17.27%)	Cucumber
23	59 (16.43%)	Microsoft Azure
24	57 (15.88%)	NUnit
25	56 (15.60%)	WebDriver
26	54 (15.04%)	NoSQL
27	50 (13.93%)	Regression Testing
27	50 (13.93%)	ASP.NET

SpecFlow
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	18 (5.01%)	NServiceBus
2	15 (4.18%)	IIS
3	13 (3.62%)	SharePoint
4	10 (2.79%)	CMS
5	7 (1.95%)	Elasticsearch
6	6 (1.67%)	Sitecore CMS
7	4 (1.11%)	Confluence
7	4 (1.11%)	SharePoint 2013
8	2 (0.56%)	Apache
9	1 (0.28%)	Apache Solr
9	1 (0.28%)	BizTalk Server
9	1 (0.28%)	EPiServer
9	1 (0.28%)	Umbraco
9	1 (0.28%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	3 (0.84%)	Microsoft Office
2	2 (0.56%)	Spreadsheet
3	1 (0.28%)	Mingle

Business Applications
1	10 (2.79%)	Oracle Applications
2	6 (1.67%)	Dynamics CRM
3	2 (0.56%)	Dynamics NAV
3	2 (0.56%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	1 (0.28%)	CODA-Financials
4	1 (0.28%)	Endur
4	1 (0.28%)	Sage CRM
4	1 (0.28%)	Sonata
4	1 (0.28%)	Tercero

Cloud Services
1	59 (16.43%)	Microsoft Azure
2	15 (4.18%)	Amazon AWS
3	9 (2.51%)	PaaS
4	5 (1.39%)	Google Cloud Platform
4	5 (1.39%)	IaaS
5	3 (0.84%)	GitHub
6	1 (0.28%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	1 (0.28%)	BrowserStack
6	1 (0.28%)	OpenShift

Communications & Networking
1	20 (5.57%)	PuTTY
1	20 (5.57%)	WinSCP
2	8 (2.23%)	AMQP
3	5 (1.39%)	LDAP
4	4 (1.11%)	Ethernet
4	4 (1.11%)	TCP/IP
5	3 (0.84%)	HTTP
5	3 (0.84%)	Internet
6	2 (0.56%)	DNS
6	2 (0.56%)	Kerberos

Database & Business Intelligence
1	96 (26.74%)	SQL Server
2	54 (15.04%)	NoSQL
3	31 (8.64%)	SQL Server 2012
4	29 (8.08%)	Oracle Database
5	27 (7.52%)	Oracle Database 11g
5	27 (7.52%)	SQL Server 2008
6	21 (5.85%)	RavenDB
7	20 (5.57%)	MongoDB
7	20 (5.57%)	Oracle Database 10g
8	19 (5.29%)	SQL Server 2005
9	16 (4.46%)	Oracle Reports
10	9 (2.51%)	Azure SQL Database
11	7 (1.95%)	SQL Server 2014
11	7 (1.95%)	SQL Server 2016
11	7 (1.95%)	SQL Server Integration Services
11	7 (1.95%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
12	6 (1.67%)	Hadoop
13	4 (1.11%)	Apache Cassandra
13	4 (1.11%)	Big Data
13	4 (1.11%)	Neo4j

Development Applications
1	166 (46.24%)	Selenium
2	103 (28.69%)	TeamCity
3	77 (21.45%)	Jenkins
4	66 (18.38%)	Team Foundation Server
5	65 (18.11%)	Git (software)
6	62 (17.27%)	Cucumber
7	57 (15.88%)	NUnit
8	56 (15.60%)	WebDriver
9	43 (11.98%)	Visual Studio
10	40 (11.14%)	JIRA
11	38 (10.58%)	Octopus Deploy
12	35 (9.75%)	Subversion
13	30 (8.36%)	HP UFT
14	26 (7.24%)	Protractor
15	22 (6.13%)	SoapUI
16	20 (5.57%)	Oracle APEX
17	16 (4.46%)	Calabash
17	16 (4.46%)	TestNG
18	15 (4.18%)	MSTest
19	14 (3.90%)	Ant

General
1	72 (20.06%)	Finance
2	26 (7.24%)	Banking
3	12 (3.34%)	Retail
4	5 (1.39%)	Marketing
4	5 (1.39%)	Publishing
5	4 (1.11%)	Manufacturing
5	4 (1.11%)	Retail Banking
5	4 (1.11%)	Telecoms
6	3 (0.84%)	Advertising
6	3 (0.84%)	Prime Brokerage
7	2 (0.56%)	Electronics
7	2 (0.56%)	Front Office
7	2 (0.56%)	Investment Banking
7	2 (0.56%)	Law
8	1 (0.28%)	Automotive
8	1 (0.28%)	Legal

Job Titles
1	167 (46.52%)	Developer
2	74 (20.61%)	.NET Developer
3	71 (19.78%)	C# Developer
4	60 (16.71%)	Analyst
5	58 (16.16%)	Tester
6	46 (12.81%)	Automation Tester
7	43 (11.98%)	Full Stack Developer
7	43 (11.98%)	Test Analyst
8	34 (9.47%)	C# .NET Developer
8	34 (9.47%)	Developer in Test
9	32 (8.91%)	Automation Test Analyst
10	24 (6.69%)	Angular Developer
11	23 (6.41%)	Test Engineer
12	19 (5.29%)	JavaScript Developer
13	17 (4.74%)	Senior Developer
14	16 (4.46%)	Agile Test Analyst
15	14 (3.90%)	Software Developer
15	14 (3.90%)	Test Automation Engineer
15	14 (3.90%)	UI Developer
15	14 (3.90%)	WPF Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	208 (57.94%)	.NET
2	79 (22.01%)	AngularJS
3	68 (18.94%)	Gherkin
4	66 (18.38%)	Web Services
5	50 (13.93%)	ASP.NET
6	49 (13.65%)	HTML
7	47 (13.09%)	React
8	41 (11.42%)	.NET Framework
8	41 (11.42%)	ASP.NET Web API
9	37 (10.31%)	XML
10	35 (9.75%)	HTML5
11	32 (8.91%)	CSS
12	31 (8.64%)	jQuery
13	29 (8.08%)	SignalR
14	27 (7.52%)	Angular 2
15	26 (7.24%)	Redux
16	25 (6.96%)	RESTful
17	24 (6.69%)	Entity Framework
17	24 (6.69%)	WebSockets
18	23 (6.41%)	Reactive Extensions

Miscellaneous
1	42 (11.70%)	Greenfield Project
2	18 (5.01%)	Analytical Skills
2	18 (5.01%)	Mobile App
3	16 (4.46%)	Hedge funds
4	15 (4.18%)	Fintech
5	8 (2.23%)	Computer Science
6	5 (1.39%)	Credit Risk
7	4 (1.11%)	Market Risk
7	4 (1.11%)	NHS
8	3 (0.84%)	Algorithms
8	3 (0.84%)	Blog
8	3 (0.84%)	Contactless
8	3 (0.84%)	Driving Licence
8	3 (0.84%)	Equities
8	3 (0.84%)	Reference Data
8	3 (0.84%)	User Experience
9	2 (0.56%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
10	1 (0.28%)	Client/Server
10	1 (0.28%)	Fat Client
10	1 (0.28%)	Thin Client

Operating Systems
1	34 (9.47%)	Windows
2	24 (6.69%)	Linux
3	22 (6.13%)	Windows Server
4	20 (5.57%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	19 (5.29%)	Windows Server 2012
6	16 (4.46%)	Android
6	16 (4.46%)	Apple iOS
7	4 (1.11%)	Windows Mobile
8	2 (0.56%)	Unix
9	1 (0.28%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	270 (75.21%)	Agile Software Development
2	232 (64.62%)	BDD
3	228 (63.51%)	Test Automation
4	155 (43.18%)	TDD
5	99 (27.58%)	Continuous Integration
6	96 (26.74%)	Scrum
7	50 (13.93%)	Regression Testing
8	49 (13.65%)	OO
9	45 (12.53%)	MVC
10	43 (11.98%)	Test Scripting
11	40 (11.14%)	Exploratory Testing
12	39 (10.86%)	Test Strategy
13	38 (10.58%)	SOLID
14	37 (10.31%)	DevOps
15	35 (9.75%)	E-Commerce
15	35 (9.75%)	Pair Programming
16	33 (9.19%)	MVVM
16	33 (9.19%)	SDET
17	30 (8.36%)	Integration Testing
18	27 (7.52%)	Software Engineering

Programming Languages
1	267 (74.37%)	C#
2	115 (32.03%)	JavaScript
3	113 (31.48%)	SQL
4	64 (17.83%)	Java
5	32 (8.91%)	F#
6	20 (5.57%)	PowerShell
7	18 (5.01%)	TypeScript
8	16 (4.46%)	Ruby
9	14 (3.90%)	Python
9	14 (3.90%)	T-SQL
10	13 (3.62%)	VB
11	12 (3.34%)	Shell Script
12	11 (3.06%)	ES6
13	10 (2.79%)	VBScript
14	8 (2.23%)	C++
15	6 (1.67%)	VB.NET
16	5 (1.39%)	C
17	3 (0.84%)	ECMAScript
18	2 (0.56%)	Objective-C
18	2 (0.56%)	Perl

Qualifications
1	32 (8.91%)	Security Cleared
2	30 (8.36%)	SC Cleared
3	27 (7.52%)	ISEB
4	19 (5.29%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
5	16 (4.46%)	ISTQB
6	12 (3.34%)	Degree
7	10 (2.79%)	ISEB Practitioner
8	3 (0.84%)	BPSS Clearance
8	3 (0.84%)	DV Cleared
8	3 (0.84%)	HNC
9	2 (0.56%)	AWS Certification
9	2 (0.56%)	Computer Science Degree
10	1 (0.28%)	HND
10	1 (0.28%)	Numerate Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	94 (26.18%)	QA
2	9 (2.51%)	MiFID
3	3 (0.84%)	Dodd-Frank
4	1 (0.28%)	Disclosure Scotland

System Software
1	20 (5.57%)	vSphere
2	13 (3.62%)	Virtual Machines
3	6 (1.67%)	Active Directory
3	6 (1.67%)	Terminal Services
4	5 (1.39%)	Docker
5	4 (1.11%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	2 (0.56%)	VirtualBox
7	1 (0.28%)	Hyper-V

Systems Management
1	19 (5.29%)	vRealize
2	7 (1.95%)	Control-M
3	3 (0.84%)	HP Quality Center
3	3 (0.84%)	Opscode Chef
4	2 (0.56%)	Kibana
5	1 (0.28%)	Ansible
5	1 (0.28%)	HP Fortify
5	1 (0.28%)	logstash
5	1 (0.28%)	Packer
5	1 (0.28%)	Puppet
5	1 (0.28%)	Terraform

Vendors
1	102 (28.41%)	Microsoft
2	43 (11.98%)	Oracle
3	26 (7.24%)	HP
4	21 (5.85%)	VMware
5	20 (5.57%)	Red Hat
6	15 (4.18%)	Xamarin
7	10 (2.79%)	Sencha
8	9 (2.51%)	Sitecore
9	6 (1.67%)	Google
10	4 (1.11%)	IBM
10	4 (1.11%)	New Relic
11	3 (0.84%)	DevExpress
11	3 (0.84%)	Infragistics
11	3 (0.84%)	Salesforce.com
11	3 (0.84%)	SAP
12	1 (0.28%)	Atlassian
12	1 (0.28%)	CODA
12	1 (0.28%)	ESRI
12	1 (0.28%)	Informatica
12	1 (0.28%)	Sage