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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 509 478
Rank change year-on-year -141 -31 +62
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 35 48 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.55% 0.94% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 69
10th Percentile £283 £281 £413
25th Percentile £365 £317 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -13.95% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £684 £650
90th Percentile £620 £769 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £322 £513
% change year-on-year +13.50% -37.25% +7.89%

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 6,371 5,092 5,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.60% 15.40% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,070 3,437 3,152
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 111 172
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.43
25th Percentile £50.29 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £73.98
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 1 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 1 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 -115 24 £475 -26.92% 22
UK excluding London -99 15 £365 +13.50% 12
Work from Home -66 14 £500 +14.29% 9
London -100 12 £588 -9.62% 15
South East -54 9 £275 -15.51% 3
Scotland -19 3 £525 - 2
North West -47 3 £365 -44.91%
North of England -73 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 (8.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (5.71%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 16 (45.71%) AWS
3 14 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (31.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (25.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (22.86%) GitHub
7 7 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (11.43%) Serverless
9 3 (8.57%) GCP
10 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (5.71%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
10 2 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
10 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
11 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (22.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Cucumber
2 12 (34.29%) Selenium
3 8 (22.86%) JIRA
4 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 6 (17.14%) Git
5 6 (17.14%) REST Assured
6 5 (14.29%) Cypress.io
6 5 (14.29%) Postman
7 3 (8.57%) Ranorex
8 2 (5.71%) Appium
8 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket
8 2 (5.71%) GitLab
8 2 (5.71%) JMeter
8 2 (5.71%) MSTest
8 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
8 2 (5.71%) WebDriver
9 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.86%) NUnit
9 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Police
5 1 (2.86%) Automotive
5 1 (2.86%) Front Office
5 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Azure Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) C# Developer
4 7 (20.00%) Lead
5 6 (17.14%) .NET Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Automation Tester
5 6 (17.14%) Tester
6 4 (11.43%) Senior
7 3 (8.57%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (8.57%) QA Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Test Leader
8 2 (5.71%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Lead .NET Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) REST
2 13 (37.14%) .NET
2 13 (37.14%) Playwright
2 13 (37.14%) Swagger
3 12 (34.29%) .NET Core
4 11 (31.43%) RESTful
5 9 (25.71%) OpenAPI
6 8 (22.86%) Gherkin
7 6 (17.14%) Kafka
8 4 (11.43%) SOAP
8 4 (11.43%) Terraform
9 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
9 3 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
10 2 (5.71%) React
11 1 (2.86%) Blazor
11 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 22 (62.86%) DevOps
3 21 (60.00%) BDD
3 21 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (40.00%) Agile
5 12 (34.29%) TDD
6 10 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (22.86%) API Development
8 8 (22.86%) Re-Platforming
9 7 (20.00%) API Testing
9 7 (20.00%) Event-Driven
9 7 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (20.00%) Test Scripting
10 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
10 6 (17.14%) CRM
10 6 (17.14%) Regression Testing
11 5 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
11 5 (14.29%) Manual Testing
11 5 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (94.29%) C#
2 18 (51.43%) SQL
3 12 (34.29%) Python
4 10 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 7 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (17.14%) Java
7 3 (8.57%) Bicep
8 1 (2.86%) COBOL
8 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (28.57%) Degree
2 8 (22.86%) Azure Certification
3 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) ISTQB
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.71%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.57%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) Pega
4 1 (2.86%) UiPath