SpecFlow Contract Job Trends

SpecFlow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SpecFlow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 495 485
Rank change year-on-year -107 -10 +82
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 38 31 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.64% 0.72% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 85
10th Percentile £256 £305 £392
25th Percentile £319 £325 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -20.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £625
90th Percentile £695 £713 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £372 £488
% change year-on-year +0.85% -23.73% +13.70%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,916 4,302 5,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.86% 14.65% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,826 2,879 3,517
10th Percentile £350 £330 £355
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £686 £694 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 80 232
10th Percentile £34.85 £20.74 £31.30
25th Percentile £56.40 £45.82 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.04 £77.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +5.69%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SpecFlow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SpecFlow job vacancy trend in the UK

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SpecFlow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SpecFlow

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SpecFlow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SpecFlow

SpecFlow
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 June 2026. 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
England -99 34 £375 -14.29% 2
London -65 23 £550 +7.32% 1
UK excluding London -97 14 £375 +0.85% 3
Work from Home -51 10 £590 +36.81% 1
South East -53 8 £375 - 1
Scotland -11 3 £525 +23.53% 1
North West -42 3 £365 -27.36% 1
North of England -78 3 £365 -27.36% 1

SpecFlow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.63%) Mingle
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (21.05%) GitHub
3 8 (21.05%) Snowflake
4 5 (13.16%) AWS
4 5 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (7.89%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) Serverless
6 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Einstein
7 1 (2.63%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (42.11%) Selenium
2 12 (31.58%) Git
3 10 (26.32%) Jenkins
4 8 (21.05%) Cucumber
4 8 (21.05%) Postman
5 7 (18.42%) JIRA
5 7 (18.42%) REST Assured
6 6 (15.79%) Cypress.io
7 5 (13.16%) NUnit
8 4 (10.53%) MSTest
8 4 (10.53%) TeamCity
9 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket
9 3 (7.89%) Ranorex
9 3 (7.89%) WebDriver
10 2 (5.26%) Appium
10 2 (5.26%) Jasmine
10 2 (5.26%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (5.26%) Maven
10 2 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (2.63%) JUnit
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Finance
4 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Front Office
6 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Tester
2 12 (31.58%) Automation Tester
3 9 (23.68%) Lead
4 7 (18.42%) Developer
4 7 (18.42%) Senior
4 7 (18.42%) Test Engineer
5 6 (15.79%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) .NET Developer
6 5 (13.16%) C# Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (7.89%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (7.89%) QA Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Test Leader
8 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Lead Tester
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Automation Tester
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (55.26%) Playwright
2 9 (23.68%) .NET
3 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
3 5 (13.16%) Gherkin
4 4 (10.53%) REST
5 3 (7.89%) .NET Framework
5 3 (7.89%) Swagger
6 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (5.26%) CSS
6 2 (5.26%) HTML
6 2 (5.26%) Kafka
6 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.63%) Blazor
7 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.63%) React
7 1 (2.63%) SailPoint
7 1 (2.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Equities
4 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (81.58%) Test Automation
2 21 (55.26%) CI/CD
3 20 (52.63%) Agile
4 18 (47.37%) BDD
5 16 (42.11%) DevOps
6 15 (39.47%) TDD
7 12 (31.58%) API Testing
7 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (31.58%) Test Scripting
8 9 (23.68%) Regression Testing
9 8 (21.05%) Asset Management
9 8 (21.05%) Data Protection
10 7 (18.42%) OOP
10 7 (18.42%) SOLID
10 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (15.79%) Validation
12 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (13.16%) Test Planning
12 5 (13.16%) Test Strategy
12 5 (13.16%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (92.11%) C#
2 19 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 16 (42.11%) Python
3 16 (42.11%) SQL
4 14 (36.84%) JavaScript
5 9 (23.68%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) COBOL
7 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) ISTQB
1 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.89%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (36.84%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Databricks
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Aprimo
4 1 (2.63%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.63%) Charles River
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) Pega
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.63%) UiPath