SpecFlow Contracts

SpecFlow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 465 556
Rank change year-on-year -43 +91 +33
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 40 121 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.86% 2.24% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 97 93
10th Percentile £305 £411 £342
25th Percentile £330 £443 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +13.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £543
90th Percentile £735 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £372 £488 £433
% change year-on-year -23.73% +12.72% -3.89%

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 4,636 5,392 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 12.45% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,105 3,569 5,592
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £692 £725 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 251 237
10th Percentile £21.22 £31.25 £45.71
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £73.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.44 £85.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +10.81%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow.

Hourly rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Top 14 Contract 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 6 July 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
England -29 32 £444 -18.01% 161
London -42 22 £585 +6.36% 44
Work from Home +13 18 £438 -12.50% 49
UK excluding London +50 16 £372 -23.73% 133
Wales - 5 £312 - 3
North of England +2 4 £503 +11.67% 28
South East +37 3 £450 -5.26% 33
North West +6 2 £503 +14.86% 16
Scotland - 2 £425 - 5
Midlands - 2 £413 - 17
Yorkshire +5 1 - - 10
East Midlands - 1 - - 7
North East - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £413 - 10

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) Azure
2 17 (42.50%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (17.50%) GitHub
4 6 (15.00%) AWS
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.00%) OCI
5 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.50%) Datadog
6 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.50%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (55.00%) Selenium
2 9 (22.50%) Appium
2 9 (22.50%) JIRA
3 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
4 6 (15.00%) CircleCI
4 6 (15.00%) Cucumber
4 6 (15.00%) GitLab
5 5 (12.50%) Gatling
5 5 (12.50%) JMeter
6 4 (10.00%) Git
6 4 (10.00%) NeoLoad
7 3 (7.50%) Postman
7 3 (7.50%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.00%) NUnit
9 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.50%) JUnit
9 1 (2.50%) Moq
9 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.50%) TestComplete
9 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (17.50%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Test Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Lead
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Angular Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Tester
6 4 (10.00%) Developer in Test
6 4 (10.00%) Lead Test Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) QA Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) QA Leader
8 2 (5.00%) Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Automation Specialist
8 2 (5.00%) Automation Tester
8 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Mobile Specialist
8 2 (5.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (37.50%) Playwright
2 12 (30.00%) .NET
3 8 (20.00%) CSS
3 8 (20.00%) HTML
4 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 6 (15.00%) RESTful
5 5 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 5 (12.50%) Entity Framework
5 5 (12.50%) NHibernate
6 4 (10.00%) Blazor
6 4 (10.00%) Play Framework
7 3 (7.50%) Gherkin
7 3 (7.50%) GWT
8 2 (5.00%) JSON
9 1 (2.50%) REST
9 1 (2.50%) SignalR
9 1 (2.50%) SOAP
9 1 (2.50%) Web Services
9 1 (2.50%) XML
9 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) NHS
2 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
3 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.50%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Android
1 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (90.00%) Agile
2 34 (85.00%) Test Automation
3 21 (52.50%) Scrum
4 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (42.50%) DevOps
6 16 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (27.50%) Integration Testing
7 11 (27.50%) Software Testing
7 11 (27.50%) Test Strategy
8 10 (25.00%) Test Scripting
9 9 (22.50%) BDD
10 8 (20.00%) Kanban
10 8 (20.00%) SDET
11 7 (17.50%) API Testing
11 7 (17.50%) Coaching
11 7 (17.50%) Defect Management
11 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
11 7 (17.50%) Microservices
11 7 (17.50%) Performance Testing
11 7 (17.50%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 33 (82.50%) C#
2 15 (37.50%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) Java
4 5 (12.50%) Python
5 4 (10.00%) C++
5 4 (10.00%) PHP
5 4 (10.00%) Ruby
5 4 (10.00%) Scala
5 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (42.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce