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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 491 480
Rank change year-on-year -117 -11 +88
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 37 31 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.11% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.63% 0.74% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 86
10th Percentile £256 £305 £394
25th Percentile £319 £325 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -20.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £625
90th Percentile £695 £713 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 £331 £488
% change year-on-year +11.73% -32.07% +13.70%

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 5,833 4,205 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.92% 14.59% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,790 2,805 3,443
10th Percentile £350 £340 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 75 221
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.85 £26.24
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.21 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -105 35 £375 -14.29% 6
London -64 24 £519 -11.70% 2
UK excluding London -103 12 £370 +11.73% 7
Work from Home -44 10 £590 +36.81% 5
South East -54 8 £375 - 1
North West -27 3 £365 +10.61% 2
North of England -73 3 £365 +10.61% 2
Scotland -9 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 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.70%) Mingle
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Azure
2 12 (32.43%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (24.32%) Snowflake
4 6 (16.22%) GitHub
5 3 (8.11%) AWS
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.11%) Serverless
6 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.70%) GCP
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Einstein
7 1 (2.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Selenium
2 11 (29.73%) Git
3 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
4 7 (18.92%) JIRA
5 6 (16.22%) Cucumber
5 6 (16.22%) Postman
6 5 (13.51%) NUnit
6 5 (13.51%) REST Assured
7 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
7 4 (10.81%) MSTest
7 4 (10.81%) TeamCity
8 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
8 3 (8.11%) Ranorex
8 3 (8.11%) WebDriver
9 2 (5.41%) Jasmine
9 2 (5.41%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (5.41%) Maven
9 2 (5.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (2.70%) Fiddler
10 1 (2.70%) FitNesse
General
1 7 (18.92%) Finance
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Front Office
4 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Tester
2 12 (32.43%) Automation Tester
3 9 (24.32%) Lead
4 7 (18.92%) Developer
5 6 (16.22%) Senior
5 6 (16.22%) Test Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) .NET Developer
6 5 (13.51%) C# Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (8.11%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (8.11%) QA Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Test Leader
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Lead Tester
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (54.05%) Playwright
2 9 (24.32%) .NET
3 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
3 5 (13.51%) Gherkin
4 4 (10.81%) REST
5 3 (8.11%) .NET Framework
5 3 (8.11%) Swagger
6 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (5.41%) CSS
6 2 (5.41%) HTML
6 2 (5.41%) Kafka
6 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.70%) Blazor
7 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.70%) OAuth
7 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.70%) React
7 1 (2.70%) SailPoint
7 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Equities
4 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (81.08%) Test Automation
2 19 (51.35%) Agile
2 19 (51.35%) CI/CD
3 16 (43.24%) BDD
4 14 (37.84%) DevOps
4 14 (37.84%) TDD
5 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (29.73%) Test Scripting
6 10 (27.03%) API Testing
7 9 (24.32%) Asset Management
7 9 (24.32%) Data Protection
7 9 (24.32%) Regression Testing
8 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (18.92%) OOP
9 7 (18.92%) SOLID
10 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.51%) SDET
10 5 (13.51%) Test Planning
10 5 (13.51%) Unit Testing
10 5 (13.51%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (91.89%) C#
2 18 (48.65%) TypeScript
3 17 (45.95%) SQL
4 15 (40.54%) Python
5 13 (35.14%) JavaScript
6 7 (18.92%) Java
7 2 (5.41%) Bicep
8 1 (2.70%) COBOL
8 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) ISTQB
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (37.84%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Databricks
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Aprimo
4 1 (2.70%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.70%) Charles River
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) Pega
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) UiPath