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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 497 518
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 +78
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 51 66 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.99% 1.35% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 56 87
10th Percentile £355 £413 £309
25th Percentile £450 £445 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £550
90th Percentile £754 £688 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +15.79% +1.33% +4.17%

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 5,153 4,897 6,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.38% 13.18% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,503 3,050 4,398
10th Percentile £329 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -1.08%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £645
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -3.06% -4.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 161 237
10th Percentile £20.42 £26.25 £45.88
25th Percentile £44.13 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £69.06 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.25 £73.75 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 23 October 2025.

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 13 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 23 October 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 -38 41 £650 +21.21% 29
London -7 33 £650 +18.18% 14
UK excluding London -10 14 £550 +15.79% 23
Work from Home +3 12 £450 -10.00% 13
South East +15 4 £326 -23.41% 11
North of England -29 3 £663 +39.47% 5
Wales - 3 £490 -
North West -17 2 £663 +47.22% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Yorkshire -26 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 2

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 10 (19.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (49.02%) Azure
2 17 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (33.33%) GitHub
3 7 (13.73%) AWS
4 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.88%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.92%) Datadog
5 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.96%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.96%) OCI
6 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.96%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (37.25%) JIRA
2 15 (29.41%) Selenium
3 7 (13.73%) Cucumber
4 6 (11.76%) Appium
4 6 (11.76%) Git
5 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
5 5 (9.80%) Postman
6 4 (7.84%) GitLab
6 4 (7.84%) WebDriver
7 3 (5.88%) JMeter
7 3 (5.88%) NUnit
8 2 (3.92%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.92%) CircleCI
8 2 (3.92%) MSTest
8 2 (3.92%) REST Assured
8 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.96%) Gatling
9 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.96%) XCUITest
General
1 18 (35.29%) Finance
2 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.65%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (37.25%) Developer
2 18 (35.29%) Angular Developer
3 17 (33.33%) Senior
4 12 (23.53%) C# Developer
4 12 (23.53%) Senior Developer
5 9 (17.65%) .NET Developer
5 9 (17.65%) Test Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (13.73%) Tester
8 6 (11.76%) Automation Tester
8 6 (11.76%) Senior C# Developer
9 5 (9.80%) Agile .NET Developer
9 5 (9.80%) Agile C# Developer
9 5 (9.80%) Agile Developer
10 4 (7.84%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (7.84%) Lead
10 4 (7.84%) Test Automation Engineer
11 3 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (54.90%) .NET
1 28 (54.90%) Playwright
2 17 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 17 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 17 (33.33%) NHibernate
3 15 (29.41%) AngularJS
4 10 (19.61%) RESTful
5 6 (11.76%) REST
6 4 (7.84%) CSS
6 4 (7.84%) HTML
7 3 (5.88%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.92%) JSON
9 1 (1.96%) Blazor
9 1 (1.96%) GWT
9 1 (1.96%) PySpark
9 1 (1.96%) pytest
9 1 (1.96%) React
9 1 (1.96%) WireMock
9 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.92%) PKI
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.96%) Equities
4 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Android
1 3 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (70.59%) Agile
2 30 (58.82%) Test Automation
3 22 (43.14%) Scrum
4 19 (37.25%) Microservices
5 18 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 18 (35.29%) Clean Code
5 18 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (33.33%) Unit Testing
7 16 (31.37%) DevOps
8 15 (29.41%) ETRM
9 14 (27.45%) Line Management
9 14 (27.45%) Risk Management
10 13 (25.49%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (23.53%) BDD
11 12 (23.53%) Test Scripting
12 11 (21.57%) API Development
13 9 (17.65%) API Design
13 9 (17.65%) Project Management
13 9 (17.65%) TDD
13 9 (17.65%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 46 (90.20%) C#
2 22 (43.14%) SQL
3 11 (21.57%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.80%) Java
4 5 (9.80%) Python
5 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Wind River
3 3 (5.88%) Databricks
4 2 (3.92%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.92%) Charles River
5 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) SAP