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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 503 460
Rank change year-on-year -112 -43 +85
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 41 41 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.12% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.66% 0.85% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 94
10th Percentile £229 £296 £413
25th Percentile £363 £325 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £536
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -18.41% +12.89%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £625
90th Percentile £696 £728 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £331 £488
% change year-on-year +10.22% -32.07% +2.63%

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 6,199 4,843 5,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.76% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,977 3,281 3,331
10th Percentile £350 £322 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 105 220
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £84.65 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -115 33 £375 -15.49% 3
London -70 20 £625 +6.84% 3
UK excluding London -94 16 £365 +10.22% 1
Work from Home -60 13 £488 +13.04% 2
South East -62 10 £325 -0.15% 1
Scotland -12 3 £525 +23.53%
North West -51 3 £365 -43.85%
North of England -72 3 £365 -43.85%

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 4 (9.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.44%) Mingle
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Aladdin
2 3 (7.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (56.10%) Azure
2 14 (34.15%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (26.83%) AWS
3 11 (26.83%) GitHub
4 8 (19.51%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (12.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (9.76%) Serverless
6 4 (9.76%) Snowflake
7 3 (7.32%) Azure AKS
7 3 (7.32%) GCP
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Einstein
9 1 (2.44%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (41.46%) Selenium
2 12 (29.27%) Cucumber
2 12 (29.27%) Git
3 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
3 9 (21.95%) JIRA
4 7 (17.07%) Postman
5 6 (14.63%) REST Assured
6 5 (12.20%) NUnit
7 4 (9.76%) Cypress.io
7 4 (9.76%) MSTest
7 4 (9.76%) TeamCity
8 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
8 3 (7.32%) Ranorex
8 3 (7.32%) WebDriver
9 2 (4.88%) Appium
9 2 (4.88%) Jasmine
9 2 (4.88%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (4.88%) Maven
9 2 (4.88%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (2.44%) FitNesse
General
1 11 (26.83%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Automotive
5 1 (2.44%) Front Office
5 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) Test Automation Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Test Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Tester
3 9 (21.95%) C# Developer
3 9 (21.95%) Lead
4 8 (19.51%) Automation Tester
5 7 (17.07%) Azure Developer
6 6 (14.63%) .NET Developer
6 6 (14.63%) Senior
7 3 (7.32%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (7.32%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.88%) Lead .NET Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead Tester
8 2 (4.88%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Automation Tester
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (43.90%) Playwright
2 13 (31.71%) .NET
3 11 (26.83%) REST
3 11 (26.83%) Swagger
4 8 (19.51%) RESTful
5 7 (17.07%) .NET Core
6 6 (14.63%) AngularJS
6 6 (14.63%) Gherkin
6 6 (14.63%) OpenAPI
7 4 (9.76%) SOAP
8 3 (7.32%) .NET Framework
9 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (4.88%) CSS
9 2 (4.88%) GraphQL
9 2 (4.88%) HTML
9 2 (4.88%) Kafka
9 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (4.88%) React
10 1 (2.44%) Blazor
10 1 (2.44%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.76%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Equities
5 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (82.93%) Test Automation
2 28 (68.29%) CI/CD
3 23 (56.10%) BDD
4 21 (51.22%) DevOps
5 20 (48.78%) Agile
6 15 (36.59%) TDD
7 12 (29.27%) API Testing
8 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (24.39%) Regression Testing
8 10 (24.39%) Test Scripting
9 8 (19.51%) Computer Science
9 8 (19.51%) SOLID
10 7 (17.07%) CRM
10 7 (17.07%) OOP
10 7 (17.07%) Validation
11 6 (14.63%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (14.63%) End-to-End Testing
11 6 (14.63%) SDET
12 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (95.12%) C#
2 17 (41.46%) SQL
3 16 (39.02%) TypeScript
4 15 (36.59%) Python
5 11 (26.83%) JavaScript
6 8 (19.51%) Java
7 2 (4.88%) Bicep
8 1 (2.44%) COBOL
8 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (19.51%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Azure Certification
2 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (34.15%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Salesforce
2 4 (9.76%) Databricks
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Aprimo
4 1 (2.44%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.44%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.44%) Charles River
4 1 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) Pega
4 1 (2.44%) UiPath