SpecFlow Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SpecFlow skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SpecFlow over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

SpecFlow UK
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	420	483	466
Rank change year-on-year	+63	-17
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow	189	168	175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.40%	0.32%	0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category	2.29%	2.04%	2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted	152	127	143
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£310	£314	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£530	£500	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£375	£325
% change year-on-year	-6.66%	+15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	1	0
Median hourly rate	£47.50	£36.00	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+31.94%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£47.50	£36.00	-
% change year-on-year	+31.94%	-

SpecFlow is in the development application skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract Development Application Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	8255	8238	7480
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	17.56%	15.52%	13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted	5637	5677	4940
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£313	£295
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£413	£400	£363
% change year-on-year	+3.12%	+10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted	150	125	128
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.25	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.59%	+14.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.50	£26.75	£22.18
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£61.69	£50.00	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.25	£42.00	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+2.97%	+13.51%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Development Applications category.

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SpecFlow.

Contractor daily rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SpecFlow over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow.

Contractor hourly rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Top 30 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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+52	179	£426	+6.50%	64
London	+41	112	£450	+10.70%	33
City of London	+6	27	£475	+11.76%	12
South East	-2	17	£370	+2.77%	9
South West	+7	13	£355	-21.11%	6
West Midlands	+31	12	£215	-38.57%
East of England	-4	10	£375	+50.00%	5
North West	+12	7	£345	-18.82%	2
Wiltshire	+11	6	£350	-
Glasgow	-	6	£310	-	1
Scotland	-	6	£310	-	2
Manchester	+16	5	£345	+17.44%	1
Swindon	-	5	£363	-
Norfolk	-	5	£450	-
Herefordshire	-	5	£215	-
Berkshire	+13	4	£380	+5.55%
Reading	+10	4	£380	+5.55%
Brighton	+4	4	-	-
East Sussex	+2	4	-	-
East Midlands	-6	4	£375	+19.52%	5
Staffordshire	-	4	£345	-
West Sussex	-	4	£438	-
Worthing	-	4	£438	-
Norwich	-	4	£450	-
Yorkshire	+27	3	£350	+7.69%	4
Nottingham	+1	3	£345	+9.52%	5
Nottinghamshire	-3	3	£345	+9.52%	5
Hampshire	-16	3	£325	-13.33%	5
Stoke-on-Trent	-	3	-	-
Bromley	-	3	£575	-

SpecFlow
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SpecFlow also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for SpecFlow.

1	283 (75.07%)	C#
2	278 (73.74%)	Agile Software Development
3	243 (64.46%)	Test Automation
4	239 (63.40%)	BDD
5	214 (56.76%)	.NET
6	179 (47.48%)	Selenium
7	156 (41.38%)	TDD
8	119 (31.56%)	SQL
9	116 (30.77%)	JavaScript
10	110 (29.18%)	TeamCity
11	105 (27.85%)	Microsoft
12	102 (27.06%)	Continuous Integration
13	99 (26.26%)	SQL Server
13	99 (26.26%)	Scrum
14	95 (25.20%)	QA

15	82 (21.75%)	Jenkins
16	80 (21.22%)	AngularJS
17	75 (19.89%)	Finance
18	74 (19.63%)	Gherkin
19	70 (18.57%)	Java
20	69 (18.30%)	Web Services
20	69 (18.30%)	Git (software)
21	66 (17.51%)	Team Foundation Server
21	66 (17.51%)	WebDriver
22	65 (17.24%)	Cucumber
23	62 (16.45%)	NUnit
24	58 (15.38%)	Microsoft Azure
25	56 (14.85%)	NoSQL
26	51 (13.53%)	ASP.NET
26	51 (13.53%)	HTML

SpecFlow
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	18 (4.77%)	NServiceBus
2	15 (3.98%)	IIS
3	13 (3.45%)	SharePoint
4	10 (2.65%)	CMS
5	7 (1.86%)	Confluence
5	7 (1.86%)	Elasticsearch
6	6 (1.59%)	Sitecore CMS
7	4 (1.06%)	SharePoint 2013
8	2 (0.53%)	Apache
9	1 (0.27%)	Apache Solr
9	1 (0.27%)	BizTalk Server
9	1 (0.27%)	EPiServer
9	1 (0.27%)	Umbraco
9	1 (0.27%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	3 (0.80%)	Microsoft Office
2	2 (0.53%)	Spreadsheet
3	1 (0.27%)	Mingle

Business Applications
1	10 (2.65%)	Oracle Applications
2	6 (1.59%)	Dynamics CRM
3	2 (0.53%)	Dynamics NAV
3	2 (0.53%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	1 (0.27%)	CODA-Financials
4	1 (0.27%)	Endur
4	1 (0.27%)	Sage CRM
4	1 (0.27%)	Sonata
4	1 (0.27%)	Tercero

Cloud Services
1	58 (15.38%)	Microsoft Azure
2	15 (3.98%)	Amazon AWS
3	8 (2.12%)	PaaS
4	5 (1.33%)	Google Cloud Platform
5	4 (1.06%)	IaaS
6	3 (0.80%)	GitHub
7	1 (0.27%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	1 (0.27%)	BrowserStack
7	1 (0.27%)	OpenShift

Communications & Networking
1	20 (5.31%)	PuTTY
1	20 (5.31%)	WinSCP
2	8 (2.12%)	AMQP
3	5 (1.33%)	LDAP
4	4 (1.06%)	Ethernet
4	4 (1.06%)	TCP/IP
5	3 (0.80%)	HTTP
5	3 (0.80%)	Internet
6	2 (0.53%)	DNS
6	2 (0.53%)	Kerberos

Database & Business Intelligence
1	99 (26.26%)	SQL Server
2	56 (14.85%)	NoSQL
3	34 (9.02%)	SQL Server 2012
4	29 (7.69%)	Oracle Database
5	27 (7.16%)	Oracle Database 11g
5	27 (7.16%)	SQL Server 2008
6	22 (5.84%)	MongoDB
7	21 (5.57%)	RavenDB
8	20 (5.31%)	Oracle Database 10g
9	19 (5.04%)	SQL Server 2005
10	16 (4.24%)	Oracle Reports
11	9 (2.39%)	Azure SQL Database
12	6 (1.59%)	Hadoop
12	6 (1.59%)	SQL Server 2014
12	6 (1.59%)	SQL Server 2016
12	6 (1.59%)	SQL Server Integration Services
12	6 (1.59%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
13	5 (1.33%)	Relational Database
14	4 (1.06%)	Big Data
14	4 (1.06%)	Neo4j

Development Applications
1	179 (47.48%)	Selenium
2	110 (29.18%)	TeamCity
3	82 (21.75%)	Jenkins
4	69 (18.30%)	Git (software)
5	66 (17.51%)	Team Foundation Server
5	66 (17.51%)	WebDriver
6	65 (17.24%)	Cucumber
7	62 (16.45%)	NUnit
8	47 (12.47%)	Visual Studio
9	43 (11.41%)	JIRA
10	42 (11.14%)	Octopus Deploy
11	36 (9.55%)	Subversion
12	30 (7.96%)	HP UFT
13	26 (6.90%)	Protractor
14	22 (5.84%)	SoapUI
15	20 (5.31%)	Oracle APEX
16	18 (4.77%)	Calabash
17	16 (4.24%)	TestNG
18	15 (3.98%)	MSTest
19	14 (3.71%)	Appium

General
1	75 (19.89%)	Finance
2	26 (6.90%)	Banking
3	13 (3.45%)	Retail
4	5 (1.33%)	Marketing
4	5 (1.33%)	Publishing
5	4 (1.06%)	Manufacturing
5	4 (1.06%)	Retail Banking
5	4 (1.06%)	Telecoms
6	3 (0.80%)	Advertising
6	3 (0.80%)	Prime Brokerage
7	2 (0.53%)	Electronics
7	2 (0.53%)	Front Office
7	2 (0.53%)	Investment Banking
7	2 (0.53%)	Law
8	1 (0.27%)	Automotive
8	1 (0.27%)	Legal

Job Titles
1	169 (44.83%)	Developer
2	77 (20.42%)	.NET Developer
3	70 (18.57%)	C# Developer
4	66 (17.51%)	Analyst
5	65 (17.24%)	Tester
6	53 (14.06%)	Automation Tester
7	48 (12.73%)	Test Analyst
8	43 (11.41%)	Full Stack Developer
9	37 (9.81%)	Automation Test Analyst
10	33 (8.75%)	C# .NET Developer
10	33 (8.75%)	Developer in Test
11	24 (6.37%)	Angular Developer
12	23 (6.10%)	Test Engineer
13	19 (5.04%)	JavaScript Developer
14	17 (4.51%)	Senior Developer
15	16 (4.24%)	Agile Test Analyst
16	14 (3.71%)	QA Analyst
16	14 (3.71%)	Test Automation Engineer
16	14 (3.71%)	UI Developer
16	14 (3.71%)	WPF Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	214 (56.76%)	.NET
2	80 (21.22%)	AngularJS
3	74 (19.63%)	Gherkin
4	69 (18.30%)	Web Services
5	51 (13.53%)	ASP.NET
5	51 (13.53%)	HTML
6	46 (12.20%)	React
7	42 (11.14%)	ASP.NET Web API
8	40 (10.61%)	.NET Framework
9	37 (9.81%)	XML
10	36 (9.55%)	HTML5
11	34 (9.02%)	CSS
12	32 (8.49%)	jQuery
13	29 (7.69%)	SignalR
14	27 (7.16%)	Angular 2
15	25 (6.63%)	Redux
16	24 (6.37%)	RESTful
16	24 (6.37%)	WebSockets
17	23 (6.10%)	Entity Framework
17	23 (6.10%)	Reactive Extensions

Miscellaneous
1	43 (11.41%)	Greenfield Project
2	18 (4.77%)	Analytical Skills
2	18 (4.77%)	Mobile App
3	16 (4.24%)	Hedge funds
4	15 (3.98%)	Fintech
5	9 (2.39%)	Computer Science
6	5 (1.33%)	Credit Risk
7	4 (1.06%)	Market Risk
7	4 (1.06%)	NHS
8	3 (0.80%)	Algorithms
8	3 (0.80%)	Blog
8	3 (0.80%)	Contactless
8	3 (0.80%)	Driving Licence
8	3 (0.80%)	Equities
8	3 (0.80%)	Reference Data
8	3 (0.80%)	User Experience
9	2 (0.53%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
10	1 (0.27%)	Client/Server
10	1 (0.27%)	Fat Client
10	1 (0.27%)	Thin Client

Operating Systems
1	34 (9.02%)	Windows
2	24 (6.37%)	Linux
3	22 (5.84%)	Windows Server
4	20 (5.31%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	19 (5.04%)	Windows Server 2012
6	16 (4.24%)	Android
6	16 (4.24%)	Apple iOS
7	4 (1.06%)	Windows Mobile
8	2 (0.53%)	Unix
9	1 (0.27%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	278 (73.74%)	Agile Software Development
2	243 (64.46%)	Test Automation
3	239 (63.40%)	BDD
4	156 (41.38%)	TDD
5	102 (27.06%)	Continuous Integration
6	99 (26.26%)	Scrum
7	50 (13.26%)	Regression Testing
8	49 (13.00%)	OO
9	46 (12.20%)	Test Scripting
10	45 (11.94%)	MVC
11	40 (10.61%)	Exploratory Testing
12	39 (10.34%)	Test Strategy
13	38 (10.08%)	SOLID
14	37 (9.81%)	DevOps
15	35 (9.28%)	E-Commerce
15	35 (9.28%)	Pair Programming
16	33 (8.75%)	MVVM
17	32 (8.49%)	SDET
18	31 (8.22%)	Integration Testing
19	28 (7.43%)	Unit Testing

Programming Languages
1	283 (75.07%)	C#
2	119 (31.56%)	SQL
3	116 (30.77%)	JavaScript
4	70 (18.57%)	Java
5	31 (8.22%)	F#
6	19 (5.04%)	PowerShell
6	19 (5.04%)	Ruby
7	18 (4.77%)	TypeScript
8	17 (4.51%)	Python
9	13 (3.45%)	T-SQL
9	13 (3.45%)	VB
10	12 (3.18%)	Shell Script
11	10 (2.65%)	ES6
11	10 (2.65%)	VBScript
12	8 (2.12%)	C++
13	6 (1.59%)	VB.NET
14	5 (1.33%)	C
15	3 (0.80%)	ECMAScript
16	2 (0.53%)	Objective-C
16	2 (0.53%)	Perl

Qualifications
1	33 (8.75%)	Security Cleared
2	31 (8.22%)	SC Cleared
3	29 (7.69%)	ISEB
4	19 (5.04%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
5	17 (4.51%)	ISTQB
6	13 (3.45%)	Degree
7	10 (2.65%)	ISEB Practitioner
8	3 (0.80%)	BPSS Clearance
8	3 (0.80%)	Computer Science Degree
8	3 (0.80%)	DV Cleared
8	3 (0.80%)	HNC
9	2 (0.53%)	AWS Certification
10	1 (0.27%)	HND
10	1 (0.27%)	Numerate Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	95 (25.20%)	QA
2	9 (2.39%)	MiFID
3	3 (0.80%)	Dodd-Frank
4	1 (0.27%)	Disclosure Scotland

System Software
1	20 (5.31%)	vSphere
2	13 (3.45%)	Virtual Machines
3	6 (1.59%)	Active Directory
3	6 (1.59%)	Terminal Services
4	5 (1.33%)	Docker
5	4 (1.06%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	2 (0.53%)	VirtualBox
7	1 (0.27%)	Hyper-V

Systems Management
1	19 (5.04%)	vRealize
2	7 (1.86%)	Control-M
3	3 (0.80%)	HP Quality Center
3	3 (0.80%)	Opscode Chef
4	2 (0.53%)	Kibana
5	1 (0.27%)	Ansible
5	1 (0.27%)	HP Fortify
5	1 (0.27%)	logstash
5	1 (0.27%)	Packer
5	1 (0.27%)	Puppet
5	1 (0.27%)	Terraform

Vendors
1	105 (27.85%)	Microsoft
2	43 (11.41%)	Oracle
3	27 (7.16%)	HP
4	21 (5.57%)	VMware
5	20 (5.31%)	Red Hat
6	15 (3.98%)	Xamarin
7	10 (2.65%)	Sencha
8	9 (2.39%)	Sitecore
9	6 (1.59%)	Google
10	4 (1.06%)	IBM
10	4 (1.06%)	New Relic
11	3 (0.80%)	DevExpress
11	3 (0.80%)	Infragistics
11	3 (0.80%)	Salesforce.com
11	3 (0.80%)	SAP
12	1 (0.27%)	Atlassian
12	1 (0.27%)	Avaloq
12	1 (0.27%)	CODA
12	1 (0.27%)	Informatica
12	1 (0.27%)	Sage