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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 507 463
Rank change year-on-year -131 -44 +76
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 34 43 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.54% 0.86% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 81
10th Percentile £219 £291 £413
25th Percentile £363 £327 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -11.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £566 £678 £638
90th Percentile £623 £761 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £331 £500
% change year-on-year +10.22% -33.77% +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 6,243 5,018 5,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.21% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 3,389 3,252
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 111 178
10th Percentile £34.59 £30.75 £27.40
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.50 £50.81
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £87.50 £71.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -129 23 £375 -42.31% 5
UK excluding London -114 16 £365 +10.22% 1
Work from Home -66 14 £488 +11.43% 3
South East -59 10 £245 -24.88%
London -92 10 £600 -7.69% 3
Scotland -39 3 £525 +23.53%
North West -53 3 £365 -44.91%
North of England -70 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 (8.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (5.88%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) Azure
2 15 (44.12%) AWS
3 13 (38.24%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (29.41%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (23.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (23.53%) GitHub
6 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.82%) GCP
7 3 (8.82%) Serverless
8 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Selenium
2 11 (32.35%) Cucumber
3 8 (23.53%) JIRA
4 7 (20.59%) Git
4 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
5 5 (14.71%) REST Assured
6 4 (11.76%) Cypress.io
6 4 (11.76%) Postman
7 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
7 3 (8.82%) Ranorex
7 3 (8.82%) TeamCity
7 3 (8.82%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.88%) Appium
8 2 (5.88%) MSTest
9 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.94%) GitLab
9 1 (2.94%) Liquibase
9 1 (2.94%) NUnit
9 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Front Office
5 1 (2.94%) Military
5 1 (2.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Azure Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Test Automation Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Test Engineer
3 9 (26.47%) C# Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Lead
5 6 (17.65%) .NET Developer
5 6 (17.65%) Automation Tester
5 6 (17.65%) Tester
6 4 (11.76%) Senior
7 3 (8.82%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (8.82%) Test Leader
8 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Lead .NET Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Lead Tester
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Automation Tester
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) .NET
1 13 (38.24%) REST
1 13 (38.24%) Swagger
2 12 (35.29%) .NET Core
2 12 (35.29%) Playwright
3 11 (32.35%) RESTful
4 9 (26.47%) OpenAPI
5 7 (20.59%) Gherkin
6 4 (11.76%) Kafka
6 4 (11.76%) SOAP
6 4 (11.76%) Terraform
7 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
8 2 (5.88%) React
9 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (2.94%) Blazor
9 1 (2.94%) Vue
9 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (85.29%) Test Automation
2 21 (61.76%) CI/CD
2 21 (61.76%) DevOps
3 20 (58.82%) BDD
4 13 (38.24%) Agile
5 11 (32.35%) TDD
6 10 (29.41%) Computer Science
7 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (23.53%) API Development
8 8 (23.53%) API Testing
8 8 (23.53%) Re-Platforming
8 8 (23.53%) Test Scripting
9 6 (17.65%) CRM
9 6 (17.65%) Regression Testing
9 6 (17.65%) Validation
10 5 (14.71%) Acceptance Criteria
10 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven
10 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (14.71%) OOP
10 5 (14.71%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 33 (97.06%) C#
2 18 (52.94%) SQL
3 11 (32.35%) Python
4 10 (29.41%) TypeScript
5 7 (20.59%) Java
5 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.88%) Bicep
7 1 (2.94%) COBOL
7 1 (2.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (29.41%) Degree
2 8 (23.53%) Azure Certification
3 6 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 4 (11.76%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.94%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (5.88%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) Pega
4 1 (2.94%) UiPath