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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 513 483
Rank change year-on-year -146 -30 +43
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 38 48 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.58% 0.94% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 64
10th Percentile £303 £341 £413
25th Percentile £365 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +10.26%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £650
90th Percentile £615 £765 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -18.89% -10.00% +6.67%

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 6,500 5,104 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 15.37% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,165 3,464 3,138
10th Percentile £354 £326 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £71.88
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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -140 26 £488 -25.00% 3
UK excluding London -94 16 £365 -18.89% 1
Work from Home -71 15 £500 +12.68% 3
London -98 14 £563 -13.46% 2
South East -62 9 £275 -15.51% 1
Scotland -19 4 £525 -
North West -48 3 £365 -44.91%
North of England -71 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 (7.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (5.26%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 23 (60.53%) Azure
2 17 (44.74%) AWS
3 15 (39.47%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (28.95%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (23.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (23.68%) GitHub
6 8 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (10.53%) GCP
7 4 (10.53%) Serverless
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (5.26%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (21.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (39.47%) Selenium
2 14 (36.84%) Cucumber
3 8 (21.05%) Cypress.io
3 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 8 (21.05%) JIRA
3 8 (21.05%) Postman
4 7 (18.42%) Git
4 7 (18.42%) REST Assured
5 3 (7.89%) Appium
5 3 (7.89%) Ranorex
6 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.26%) GitLab
6 2 (5.26%) JMeter
6 2 (5.26%) MSTest
6 2 (5.26%) TeamCity
6 2 (5.26%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.63%) HP UFT
7 1 (2.63%) NUnit
7 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
2 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Police
5 1 (2.63%) Automotive
5 1 (2.63%) Front Office
5 1 (2.63%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Developer
2 10 (26.32%) Azure Developer
2 10 (26.32%) Test Automation Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Test Engineer
3 9 (23.68%) Lead
4 8 (21.05%) C# Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Automation Tester
5 7 (18.42%) Tester
6 6 (15.79%) .NET Developer
7 5 (13.16%) QA Engineer
8 4 (10.53%) Senior
9 3 (7.89%) Automation Test Lead
9 3 (7.89%) Test Leader
10 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (5.26%) Lead .NET Developer
10 2 (5.26%) Lead Tester
10 2 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
10 2 (5.26%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (5.26%) Senior Automation Tester
10 2 (5.26%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) Playwright
2 15 (39.47%) REST
3 13 (34.21%) .NET
3 13 (34.21%) Swagger
4 12 (31.58%) .NET Core
5 11 (28.95%) RESTful
6 9 (23.68%) OpenAPI
7 8 (21.05%) Gherkin
8 6 (15.79%) Kafka
9 4 (10.53%) SOAP
9 4 (10.53%) Terraform
10 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
10 3 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (5.26%) GraphQL
11 2 (5.26%) React
12 1 (2.63%) Blazor
12 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) Test Automation
2 25 (65.79%) DevOps
3 24 (63.16%) CI/CD
4 23 (60.53%) BDD
5 17 (44.74%) Agile
6 13 (34.21%) TDD
7 11 (28.95%) Computer Science
8 10 (26.32%) API Testing
8 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (21.05%) API Development
9 8 (21.05%) Regression Testing
9 8 (21.05%) Re-Platforming
10 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
10 7 (18.42%) CRM
10 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven
10 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (18.42%) Test Scripting
11 6 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (13.16%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (92.11%) C#
2 18 (47.37%) SQL
3 13 (34.21%) Python
4 11 (28.95%) TypeScript
5 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
6 7 (18.42%) Java
7 3 (7.89%) Bicep
8 1 (2.63%) COBOL
8 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Degree
2 10 (26.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
4 7 (18.42%) DV Cleared
4 7 (18.42%) ISTQB
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.26%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.89%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) Pega
4 1 (2.63%) UiPath