SpecFlow Contracts in the North of England

SpecFlow
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 191 225
Rank change year-on-year +7 +34 -51
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 4 22 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.086% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.83% 2.80% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 19
10th Percentile £430 £283 £363
25th Percentile £456 £285 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £534 £513 £488
90th Percentile £555 £575 £490
England median daily rate £550 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +7.32% +7.89% +8.26%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 484 786 1,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.39% 13.77% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 602 836
10th Percentile £367 £358 £361
25th Percentile £416 £438 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £575
90th Percentile £646 £700 £650
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 19
10th Percentile £38.38 £37.80 £37.10
25th Percentile £45.88 £42.01 £38.68
Median hourly rate £53.09 £51.00 £44.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +14.15% +31.41%
75th Percentile £74.17 £56.10 £54.23
90th Percentile £80.82 £61.54 £61.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +9.31%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in the North of England

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in the North of England

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in the North of England

SpecFlow
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
North West +15 4 £500 +19.76% 1
SpecFlow
England

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Mercurial
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) ATDD
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA