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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 513 450
Rank change year-on-year -119 -63 +93
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 35 39 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.12% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% 0.79% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 93
10th Percentile £214 £291 £409
25th Percentile £363 £327 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £678 £625
90th Percentile £704 £761 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £372 £500
% change year-on-year -1.84% -25.63% +5.26%

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 6,218 4,950 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.62% 15.08% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,000 3,338 3,271
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 114 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £84.58 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -130 27 £375 -36.17% 6
London -77 16 £625 -3.85% 6
UK excluding London -116 14 £365 -1.84% 1
Work from Home -68 10 £475 +10.14% 3
South East -53 8 £245 -24.88% 1
Scotland -13 3 £525 +23.53%
North West -35 3 £365 -44.91%
North of England -57 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 4 (11.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.86%) Mingle
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Aladdin
1 3 (8.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 14 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (34.29%) AWS
4 9 (25.71%) GitHub
5 8 (22.86%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (14.29%) Serverless
8 3 (8.57%) GCP
8 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
9 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
10 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Einstein
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (42.86%) Selenium
2 11 (31.43%) Cucumber
3 10 (28.57%) Git
4 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
4 8 (22.86%) JIRA
5 5 (14.29%) Cypress.io
5 5 (14.29%) Postman
5 5 (14.29%) REST Assured
6 4 (11.43%) MSTest
6 4 (11.43%) NUnit
6 4 (11.43%) TeamCity
7 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket
7 3 (8.57%) Ranorex
7 3 (8.57%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.71%) Appium
8 2 (5.71%) Jasmine
8 2 (5.71%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.86%) Liquibase
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Front Office
6 1 (2.86%) Military
6 1 (2.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 9 (25.71%) Lead
4 8 (22.86%) C# Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Tester
5 7 (20.00%) Azure Developer
6 6 (17.14%) .NET Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Automation Tester
7 4 (11.43%) Senior
8 3 (8.57%) Automation Test Lead
8 3 (8.57%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Test Leader
9 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Lead .NET Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Lead Tester
9 2 (5.71%) Senior Automation Tester
9 2 (5.71%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) Playwright
2 12 (34.29%) REST
3 11 (31.43%) .NET
4 10 (28.57%) Swagger
5 8 (22.86%) RESTful
6 7 (20.00%) .NET Core
7 6 (17.14%) AngularJS
7 6 (17.14%) Gherkin
7 6 (17.14%) OpenAPI
8 5 (14.29%) Terraform
9 4 (11.43%) SOAP
10 3 (8.57%) Kafka
11 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
11 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (5.71%) CSS
11 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
11 2 (5.71%) HTML
11 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (5.71%) React
12 1 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Equities
4 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (82.86%) Test Automation
2 24 (68.57%) CI/CD
3 21 (60.00%) BDD
3 21 (60.00%) DevOps
4 18 (51.43%) Agile
5 14 (40.00%) TDD
6 9 (25.71%) API Testing
6 9 (25.71%) Test Scripting
7 8 (22.86%) Computer Science
7 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (22.86%) SOLID
8 7 (20.00%) CRM
8 7 (20.00%) OOP
8 7 (20.00%) Regression Testing
8 7 (20.00%) Validation
9 6 (17.14%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (17.14%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (17.14%) SDET
10 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 34 (97.14%) C#
2 16 (45.71%) SQL
3 14 (40.00%) Python
3 14 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 10 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 8 (22.86%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) Bicep
7 1 (2.86%) COBOL
7 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) DV Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 4 (11.43%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.86%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Aprimo
5 1 (2.86%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.86%) Charles River
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Pega
5 1 (2.86%) UiPath