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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 386 373
Rank change year-on-year +56 -13 +50
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 13 11 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.100% 0.053% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.72% 0.49% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 43
10th Percentile £309 £413 £285
25th Percentile £319 £425 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -32.07% +14.71% -
75th Percentile £428 £528 £494
90th Percentile £478 £556 £571
UK median daily rate £438 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -20.45% +15.79% -5.00%

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 1,806 2,245 3,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.86% 10.83% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 1,452 2,126
10th Percentile £325 £350 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £656 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 190 165
10th Percentile £21.27 £40.00 £47.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £78.12 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.14%

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 31 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 31 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
Wales - 4 £322 -
North of England +18 3 £330 -28.65% 11
South East +40 2 - - 9
Midlands - 2 £413 - 3
Scotland - 2 £425 - 3
North West +8 1 £330 -28.65% 9
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £413 -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) OCI
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Postman
4 1 (7.69%) Appium
4 1 (7.69%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
4 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Test Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Software Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) CSS
1 5 (38.46%) HTML
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
3 3 (23.08%) Playwright
4 2 (15.38%) Blazor
4 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
4 2 (15.38%) GWT
5 1 (7.69%) boto
5 1 (7.69%) JSON
5 1 (7.69%) WireMock
5 1 (7.69%) XML
5 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) API Testing
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Scrum
3 6 (46.15%) Test Scripting
4 5 (38.46%) BDD
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
6 3 (23.08%) Coaching
6 3 (23.08%) Integration Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Open Source
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Product Management
6 3 (23.08%) Product Requirements
6 3 (23.08%) Test Planning
7 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Kanban
7 2 (15.38%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) C#
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle