SpecFlow Contracts

SpecFlow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SpecFlow skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SpecFlow over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 491 546
Rank change year-on-year +7 +55 +19
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 35 109 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.85% 2.11% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 84 131
10th Percentile £305 £377 £340
25th Percentile £325 £441 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £372 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -25.63% +5.26% +11.76%

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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow.

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow.

Hourly rate trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Top 12 Contract 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 30 April 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 -7 29 £438 -20.45% 34
UK excluding London +58 18 £372 -25.63% 34
Work from Home +24 15 £438 -27.08% 32
London -33 15 £513 -6.82% 13
South East +46 9 - - 4
Wales - 4 £322 - 8
North of England +26 3 £390 -17.02% 8
North West +9 2 £390 -22.00% 5
Midlands +24 1 £413 +10.00% 3
West Midlands +16 1 £413 +10.00% 1
North East - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £425 - 6

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (8.57%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) SaaS
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.86%) Azure App Service
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.86%) OCI
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (48.57%) Selenium
2 7 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (17.14%) JMeter
4 5 (14.29%) Appium
4 5 (14.29%) Gatling
4 5 (14.29%) Git
4 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 4 (11.43%) CircleCI
5 4 (11.43%) Cypress.io
5 4 (11.43%) GitLab
5 4 (11.43%) NeoLoad
6 3 (8.57%) JIRA
7 2 (5.71%) Postman
7 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (2.86%) Mocha
8 1 (2.86%) Moq
8 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.86%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.86%) TestComplete
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Electronics
4 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.57%) Marketing
4 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Front Office
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Test Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Lead
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Tester
4 4 (11.43%) Developer in Test
4 4 (11.43%) QA Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Test Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Automation Tester
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) QA Leader
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Test Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) Playwright
2 9 (25.71%) CSS
2 9 (25.71%) HTML
3 6 (17.14%) .NET
4 4 (11.43%) Gherkin
4 4 (11.43%) Play Framework
4 4 (11.43%) PySpark
5 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.57%) Blazor
5 3 (8.57%) RESTful
6 2 (5.71%) Bootstrap
6 2 (5.71%) GWT
6 2 (5.71%) React
6 2 (5.71%) Vue
6 2 (5.71%) YAML
7 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.86%) boto
7 1 (2.86%) REST
7 1 (2.86%) SignalR
7 1 (2.86%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) NHS
1 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Derivative
2 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.86%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 28 (80.00%) Agile
3 16 (45.71%) CI/CD
3 16 (45.71%) DevOps
4 13 (37.14%) Scrum
5 9 (25.71%) BDD
5 9 (25.71%) Integration Testing
5 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.71%) Software Testing
6 7 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 7 (20.00%) Test Strategy
7 6 (17.14%) API Testing
7 6 (17.14%) End-to-End Testing
7 6 (17.14%) Performance Testing
7 6 (17.14%) SDET
7 6 (17.14%) Test Scripting
8 5 (14.29%) Coaching
8 5 (14.29%) Kanban
8 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 5 (14.29%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) C#
2 13 (37.14%) SQL
3 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 8 (22.86%) TypeScript
5 5 (14.29%) Java
6 4 (11.43%) C++
6 4 (11.43%) PHP
6 4 (11.43%) Python
6 4 (11.43%) Ruby
6 4 (11.43%) Scala
7 1 (2.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (8.57%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Databricks
2 3 (8.57%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce