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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 505 491
Rank change year-on-year -49 -14 +37
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 54 27 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.092% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.93% 0.67% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 16 85
10th Percentile £324 £416 £300
25th Percentile £344 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% -6.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £625
90th Percentile £701 £663 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £431 £450
% change year-on-year +28.17% -4.17% -2.70%

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 5,780 4,049 5,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.50% 13.74% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,671 3,586
10th Percentile £342 £330 £357
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £627
90th Percentile £688 £725 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 69 202
10th Percentile £33.58 £24.17 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.94 £71.25 £70.94
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 13 March 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 9 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 13 March 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 -65 47 £400 -23.81% 10
London -16 42 £400 -33.33% 2
Work from Home -18 16 £475 +8.57% 12
UK excluding London -98 7 £553 +28.17% 16
South East -59 3 £643 - 8
North of England -64 2 £419 +7.37%
Yorkshire - 2 £419 -
Wales -7 1 £675 +28.57% 5
Northern Ireland - 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 5 (9.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.85%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 15 (27.78%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.85%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 30 (55.56%) Azure
2 17 (31.48%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (27.78%) GitHub
3 15 (27.78%) Snowflake
4 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.70%) Serverless
7 1 (1.85%) AWS
7 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Einstein
7 1 (1.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.85%) Big Data
2 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (37.04%) Selenium
2 18 (33.33%) JIRA
3 17 (31.48%) Git
4 14 (25.93%) Cucumber
4 14 (25.93%) Postman
5 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
6 9 (16.67%) TestRail
6 9 (16.67%) Zephyr
7 6 (11.11%) NUnit
8 3 (5.56%) Cypress.io
8 3 (5.56%) JMeter
8 3 (5.56%) MSTest
8 3 (5.56%) REST Assured
8 3 (5.56%) Visual Studio
9 2 (3.70%) Jasmine
9 2 (3.70%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (3.70%) Maven
9 2 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (1.85%) FitNesse
10 1 (1.85%) JUnit
General
1 15 (27.78%) Finance
2 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.41%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (50.00%) Tester
2 20 (37.04%) Automation Tester
3 11 (20.37%) Senior
4 10 (18.52%) Developer
5 8 (14.81%) C# Developer
6 7 (12.96%) .NET Developer
7 5 (9.26%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Lead
8 4 (7.41%) Angular Developer
8 4 (7.41%) QA Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior C# Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Test Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Agile .NET Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (66.67%) Playwright
2 17 (31.48%) .NET
3 13 (24.07%) REST
4 9 (16.67%) JSON
4 9 (16.67%) XML
5 7 (12.96%) .NET Framework
6 5 (9.26%) AngularJS
7 4 (7.41%) Entity Framework
7 4 (7.41%) NHibernate
8 2 (3.70%) CSS
8 2 (3.70%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.70%) HTML
8 2 (3.70%) RESTful
9 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
9 1 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.56%) Equities
2 3 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (75.93%) Test Automation
2 38 (70.37%) Agile
3 24 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 18 (33.33%) DevOps
4 18 (33.33%) TDD
5 16 (29.63%) API Testing
6 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (27.78%) Test Scripting
7 14 (25.93%) Asset Management
8 12 (22.22%) Data Protection
8 12 (22.22%) Validation
9 11 (20.37%) Defect Management
10 10 (18.52%) SDLC
10 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (16.67%) Test Management
12 8 (14.81%) BDD
13 7 (12.96%) SDET
13 7 (12.96%) Sprint Planning
13 7 (12.96%) Sprint Retrospective
13 7 (12.96%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 51 (94.44%) C#
2 28 (51.85%) Python
3 23 (42.59%) SQL
4 19 (35.19%) JavaScript
4 19 (35.19%) TypeScript
5 12 (22.22%) Java
6 9 (16.67%) XPath
7 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.85%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.37%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (1.85%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) Databricks
2 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) Charles River
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle
3 4 (7.41%) Wind River
4 2 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) Aprimo
5 1 (1.85%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.85%) HP
5 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.85%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.85%) Workday