SpecFlow Contracts in the UK excluding London

SpecFlow
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 317 385 377
Rank change year-on-year +68 -8 +34
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 19 14 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.067% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.11% 0.62% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 69
10th Percentile £310 £405 £285
25th Percentile £322 £435 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.63% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £447 £569 £538
90th Percentile £494 £585 £605
UK median daily rate £438 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -20.45% +10.00% +5.26%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in the UK excluding London

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK excluding London

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in the UK excluding London

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK excluding London

SpecFlow
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the UK excluding London 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
South East +49 9 - - 8
Wales - 4 £322 - 8
North of England +17 3 £390 -17.02% 9
Midlands +23 2 £413 +10.00% 5
North West +15 2 £390 -22.00% 6
West Midlands +14 1 £413 +10.00% 2
Scotland - 1 £425 - 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 1
SpecFlow
UK

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (15.79%) SaaS
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) OCI
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Selenium
2 4 (21.05%) Git
3 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
3 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
4 2 (10.53%) JIRA
4 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (5.26%) Appium
5 1 (5.26%) JMeter
5 1 (5.26%) Mocha
5 1 (5.26%) Postman
5 1 (5.26%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Electronics
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.79%) Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (5.26%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Test Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) CSS
1 7 (36.84%) HTML
2 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) Gherkin
2 4 (21.05%) Playwright
2 4 (21.05%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.53%) Blazor
3 2 (10.53%) Bootstrap
3 2 (10.53%) GWT
3 2 (10.53%) React
3 2 (10.53%) RESTful
3 2 (10.53%) Vue
3 2 (10.53%) YAML
4 1 (5.26%) boto
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) NHS
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Test Automation
2 15 (78.95%) Agile
3 10 (52.63%) DevOps
4 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 6 (31.58%) BDD
5 6 (31.58%) Scrum
5 6 (31.58%) Test Scripting
6 5 (26.32%) API Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Test Strategy
7 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (15.79%) Coaching
8 3 (15.79%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (15.79%) Integration Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
8 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 3 (15.79%) Product Management
8 3 (15.79%) Programme Management
8 3 (15.79%) System Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Test Planning
8 3 (15.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) C#
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) SAP
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft