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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 518 457
Rank change year-on-year -126 -61 +85
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 30 38 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.056% 0.12% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.49% 0.77% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 89
10th Percentile £213 £286 £407
25th Percentile £363 £322 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £556 £681 £625
90th Percentile £640 £765 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £331 £500
% change year-on-year +10.22% -33.77% +5.26%

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 6,120 4,947 5,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 15.10% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 3,335 3,261
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £623
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 114 184
10th Percentile £35.13 £28.59 £28.98
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.58 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -112 21 £375 -39.39% 12
UK excluding London -98 14 £365 +10.22% 3
Work from Home -64 11 £475 +8.57% 3
London -81 10 £600 -7.69% 10
South East -52 8 £245 -24.88% 1
Scotland -14 3 £525 +23.53%
North West -44 3 £365 -44.91%
North of England -70 3 £365 -44.91%

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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (6.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) AWS
3 11 (36.67%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (26.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (26.67%) GitHub
5 7 (23.33%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (13.33%) Serverless
8 3 (10.00%) GCP
9 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
9 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
10 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Selenium
2 10 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 8 (26.67%) Git
4 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
4 7 (23.33%) JIRA
5 5 (16.67%) REST Assured
6 4 (13.33%) Cypress.io
6 4 (13.33%) Postman
7 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (10.00%) MSTest
7 3 (10.00%) Ranorex
7 3 (10.00%) TeamCity
7 3 (10.00%) WebDriver
8 2 (6.67%) Appium
8 2 (6.67%) NUnit
8 2 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (3.33%) FitNesse
9 1 (3.33%) HP UFT
9 1 (3.33%) JMeter
9 1 (3.33%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Automotive
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Front Office
5 1 (3.33%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Developer
1 10 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 10 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Azure Developer
2 8 (26.67%) C# Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Lead
4 6 (20.00%) Automation Tester
4 6 (20.00%) Tester
5 4 (13.33%) .NET Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (10.00%) Test Leader
7 2 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead .NET Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead Tester
7 2 (6.67%) Senior
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Automation Tester
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Tester
8 1 (3.33%) Front Office Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) Playwright
1 12 (40.00%) REST
2 11 (36.67%) Swagger
3 10 (33.33%) .NET
4 9 (30.00%) RESTful
5 8 (26.67%) .NET Core
6 7 (23.33%) OpenAPI
7 6 (20.00%) Gherkin
8 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
8 4 (13.33%) SOAP
8 4 (13.33%) Terraform
9 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
9 2 (6.67%) Kafka
9 2 (6.67%) React
10 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
10 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (3.33%) CSS
10 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (3.33%) Vue
10 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) Test Automation
2 20 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 19 (63.33%) BDD
4 18 (60.00%) DevOps
5 13 (43.33%) Agile
6 11 (36.67%) TDD
7 8 (26.67%) API Testing
7 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
7 8 (26.67%) Test Scripting
8 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (23.33%) Regression Testing
9 6 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (20.00%) API Development
9 6 (20.00%) CRM
9 6 (20.00%) OOP
9 6 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
9 6 (20.00%) SOLID
9 6 (20.00%) Validation
10 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 5 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) C#
2 14 (46.67%) SQL
3 11 (36.67%) Python
3 11 (36.67%) TypeScript
4 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 7 (23.33%) Java
6 2 (6.67%) Bicep
7 1 (3.33%) COBOL
7 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (26.67%) Degree
2 6 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Pega
4 1 (3.33%) UiPath