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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 492 483
Rank change year-on-year -69 -9 +56
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 55 29 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.100% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.94% 0.72% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 17 89
10th Percentile £319 £410 £300
25th Percentile £331 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £502 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% -8.73% +6.80%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £625
90th Percentile £711 £655 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +8.82% -3.41% -4.86%

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 5,837 4,030 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.24% 13.88% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,907 2,707 3,499
10th Percentile £343 £339 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £608 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 72 184
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.33 £35.53
25th Percentile £59.75 £50.30 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.40% +1.22%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £82.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +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 27 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 27 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 -88 48 £400 -23.81% 7
London -38 42 £400 -33.33% 1
Work from Home -34 17 £443 +1.14% 8
UK excluding London -104 8 £463 +8.82% 9
South East -54 4 £509 - 5
North of England -69 2 £419 +7.37% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 1
Wales -9 1 £675 +28.57% 2
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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
2 1 (1.82%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (7.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.82%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 15 (27.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.82%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (58.18%) Azure
2 19 (34.55%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (27.27%) GitHub
3 15 (27.27%) Snowflake
4 9 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.64%) Serverless
7 1 (1.82%) AWS
7 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Einstein
7 1 (1.82%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) Big Data
2 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (38.18%) Selenium
2 19 (34.55%) JIRA
3 18 (32.73%) Git
4 14 (25.45%) Cucumber
4 14 (25.45%) Postman
5 12 (21.82%) Jenkins
6 9 (16.36%) TestRail
6 9 (16.36%) Zephyr
7 6 (10.91%) NUnit
8 3 (5.45%) Cypress.io
8 3 (5.45%) JMeter
8 3 (5.45%) MSTest
8 3 (5.45%) REST Assured
8 3 (5.45%) Visual Studio
9 2 (3.64%) Jasmine
9 2 (3.64%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (3.64%) Maven
9 2 (3.64%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (3.64%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.82%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (27.27%) Finance
2 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.27%) Banking
5 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 27 (49.09%) Tester
2 20 (36.36%) Automation Tester
3 11 (20.00%) Senior
4 10 (18.18%) Developer
5 8 (14.55%) C# Developer
6 7 (12.73%) .NET Developer
7 5 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Lead
8 4 (7.27%) QA Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Test Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Angular Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Senior C# Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Senior Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (63.64%) Playwright
2 17 (30.91%) .NET
3 13 (23.64%) REST
4 9 (16.36%) JSON
4 9 (16.36%) XML
5 6 (10.91%) .NET Framework
5 6 (10.91%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.45%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.45%) NHibernate
7 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.64%) CSS
7 2 (3.64%) Gherkin
7 2 (3.64%) HTML
7 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.64%) RESTful
8 1 (1.82%) Blazor
8 1 (1.82%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (1.82%) Swagger
8 1 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.45%) Equities
2 3 (5.45%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (76.36%) Test Automation
2 38 (69.09%) Agile
3 26 (47.27%) CI/CD
4 20 (36.36%) DevOps
5 18 (32.73%) TDD
6 17 (30.91%) API Testing
7 16 (29.09%) Test Scripting
8 15 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (25.45%) Asset Management
10 13 (23.64%) Validation
11 12 (21.82%) Data Protection
12 11 (20.00%) Defect Management
13 10 (18.18%) SDLC
13 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (16.36%) BDD
14 9 (16.36%) Test Management
15 7 (12.73%) SDET
15 7 (12.73%) Sprint Planning
15 7 (12.73%) Sprint Retrospective
15 7 (12.73%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 52 (94.55%) C#
2 28 (50.91%) Python
3 24 (43.64%) SQL
4 20 (36.36%) TypeScript
5 19 (34.55%) JavaScript
6 13 (23.64%) Java
7 9 (16.36%) XPath
8 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.82%) Bicep
9 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.82%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Terraform
2 1 (1.82%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) Databricks
2 10 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) Charles River
3 4 (7.27%) Oracle
3 4 (7.27%) Wind River
4 2 (3.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Aprimo
5 1 (1.82%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.82%) HP
5 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.82%) Workday