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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 494 516
Rank change year-on-year -24 +22 +75
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 56 57 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.05% 1.19% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 46 88
10th Percentile £340 £413 £325
25th Percentile £426 £451 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £575
90th Percentile £750 £688 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £475 £469
% change year-on-year -3.95% +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 5,358 4,810 6,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.48% 13.17% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,686 3,014 4,213
10th Percentile £326 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.41% -1.98%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £681 £721 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £507
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.89% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 136 236
10th Percentile £19.63 £25.07 £45.24
25th Percentile £48.13 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.25 £74.22 £85.78
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 6 November 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 11 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 6 November 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 -9 43 £563 +2.27% 37
London -14 36 £585 +6.36% 16
Work from Home +10 16 £438 -12.50% 16
UK excluding London -34 13 £456 -3.95% 29
North of England -31 5 £556 +17.11% 8
Yorkshire -26 3 £419 -16.25% 3
Wales - 3 £490 -
South East +1 2 £326 -23.41% 14
North West -15 2 £663 +47.22% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Scotland - 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 10 (17.86%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) CMS
2 1 (1.79%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) Azure
2 22 (39.29%) GitHub
3 18 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.50%) AWS
4 7 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (10.71%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.57%) Datadog
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.79%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.79%) OCI
7 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.79%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) HTTP
2 2 (3.57%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (42.86%) JIRA
2 18 (32.14%) Selenium
3 10 (17.86%) Git
3 10 (17.86%) Postman
4 9 (16.07%) Cucumber
4 9 (16.07%) Jenkins
5 6 (10.71%) Appium
6 5 (8.93%) TestRail
6 5 (8.93%) Zephyr
7 4 (7.14%) GitLab
7 4 (7.14%) NUnit
8 3 (5.36%) JMeter
8 3 (5.36%) WebDriver
9 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.57%) CircleCI
9 2 (3.57%) MSTest
9 2 (3.57%) REST Assured
9 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.79%) Maven
10 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (33.93%) Finance
2 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Banking
4 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Developer
2 18 (32.14%) Angular Developer
3 17 (30.36%) Senior
4 12 (21.43%) C# Developer
4 12 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 12 (21.43%) Tester
5 9 (16.07%) .NET Developer
5 9 (16.07%) Automation Tester
5 9 (16.07%) Test Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Agile .NET Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Agile C# Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Agile Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Lead
9 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (60.71%) Playwright
2 26 (46.43%) .NET
3 17 (30.36%) .NET Framework
3 17 (30.36%) Entity Framework
3 17 (30.36%) NHibernate
4 15 (26.79%) AngularJS
5 11 (19.64%) REST
6 10 (17.86%) RESTful
7 6 (10.71%) JSON
8 5 (8.93%) XML
9 4 (7.14%) Gherkin
10 2 (3.57%) CSS
10 2 (3.57%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.57%) HTML
11 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 1 (1.79%) Blazor
11 1 (1.79%) PySpark
11 1 (1.79%) pytest
11 1 (1.79%) React
11 1 (1.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.36%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.57%) PKI
3 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Equities
4 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Android
1 3 (5.36%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (75.00%) Agile
2 34 (60.71%) Test Automation
3 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
3 19 (33.93%) Microservices
3 19 (33.93%) Scrum
4 18 (32.14%) Clean Code
5 17 (30.36%) DevOps
5 17 (30.36%) Unit Testing
6 16 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (26.79%) ETRM
8 14 (25.00%) Line Management
8 14 (25.00%) Risk Management
9 13 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (23.21%) Test Scripting
10 11 (19.64%) API Development
10 11 (19.64%) API Testing
10 11 (19.64%) TDD
11 10 (17.86%) BDD
12 9 (16.07%) API Design
12 9 (16.07%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (91.07%) C#
2 22 (39.29%) SQL
3 13 (23.21%) Python
4 11 (19.64%) JavaScript
5 9 (16.07%) Java
6 6 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.93%) XPath
8 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) QA
2 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Databricks
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) Wind River
3 2 (3.57%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.57%) Charles River
4 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.79%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) Sitecore