SpecFlow Contracts in the Thames Valley

SpecFlow
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 96 139 147
Rank change year-on-year +43 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 6 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.39% 2.32% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £469 £258
25th Percentile - £478 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £513 £443
Median % change year-on-year - +15.82% -8.05%
75th Percentile - £553 £511
90th Percentile - £566 £514
South East median daily rate - £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% +10.53%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 177 259 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.71% 9.64% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 158 212
10th Percentile £359 £329 £363
25th Percentile £452 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.04% +12.37%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £629
90th Percentile £638 £688 £723
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile £26.28 - £53.13
25th Percentile £34.43 £46.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -10.20% -6.49%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £73.60 - £68.38
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in the Thames Valley

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in the Thames Valley

SpecFlow
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +32 6 - -
SpecFlow
South East

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Electronics
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Automation Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) PySpark
2 3 (50.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks
2 3 (50.00%) SAP