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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 499 486
Rank change year-on-year -35 -13 +86
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 54 43 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.98% 0.98% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 28 88
10th Percentile £325 £401 £325
25th Percentile £350 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.67% +0.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £555 £625 £625
90th Percentile £716 £691 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £450 £461
% change year-on-year +1.39% -2.44% -2.89%

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 5,501 4,402 5,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.83% 13.27% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,789 2,764 3,791
10th Percentile £334 £327 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.20% -2.23%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.46% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 77 205
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.10 £42.59
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £48.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.65 £89.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 1 January 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 10 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 January 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 -39 43 £400 -23.81% 24
London -7 38 £400 -27.27% 10
Work from Home -5 15 £419 -16.42% 19
UK excluding London -52 9 £456 +1.39% 16
North of England -53 3 £463 +2.78% 9
South East -16 2 £326 - 4
Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 2
Wales - 2 £675 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
North West -27 1 £650 +44.44% 7

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 8 (14.81%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.85%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (48.15%) Azure
2 20 (37.04%) GitHub
3 17 (31.48%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (20.37%) Snowflake
5 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (9.26%) AWS
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.85%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.85%) Datadog
7 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.85%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (1.85%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.85%) Big Data
2 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (40.74%) JIRA
2 17 (31.48%) Selenium
3 13 (24.07%) Cucumber
3 13 (24.07%) Git
4 12 (22.22%) Postman
5 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
6 9 (16.67%) TestRail
6 9 (16.67%) Zephyr
7 3 (5.56%) Appium
7 3 (5.56%) GitLab
7 3 (5.56%) JMeter
7 3 (5.56%) NUnit
7 3 (5.56%) Visual Studio
8 2 (3.70%) MSTest
8 2 (3.70%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.85%) Gatling
9 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (1.85%) XCUITest
General
1 16 (29.63%) Finance
2 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) Tester
2 16 (29.63%) Automation Tester
3 14 (25.93%) Developer
4 13 (24.07%) Angular Developer
4 13 (24.07%) Senior
5 11 (20.37%) C# Developer
6 9 (16.67%) .NET Developer
7 8 (14.81%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (12.96%) Senior Developer
8 7 (12.96%) Test Engineer
9 5 (9.26%) Agile .NET Developer
9 5 (9.26%) Agile C# Developer
9 5 (9.26%) Agile Developer
9 5 (9.26%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (7.41%) Lead
10 4 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
11 3 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (68.52%) Playwright
2 19 (35.19%) .NET
3 14 (25.93%) REST
4 12 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 12 (22.22%) Entity Framework
4 12 (22.22%) NHibernate
5 10 (18.52%) JSON
6 9 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 9 (16.67%) XML
7 5 (9.26%) RESTful
8 2 (3.70%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
9 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 1 (1.85%) CSS
9 1 (1.85%) HTML
9 1 (1.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (9.26%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.70%) Equities
4 2 (3.70%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Android
1 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (75.93%) Agile
2 36 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 18 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 16 (29.63%) DevOps
4 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (29.63%) TDD
5 15 (27.78%) Test Scripting
6 14 (25.93%) API Testing
7 13 (24.07%) Clean Code
7 13 (24.07%) Microservices
8 12 (22.22%) Validation
9 11 (20.37%) Scrum
9 11 (20.37%) Unit Testing
10 10 (18.52%) Asset Management
10 10 (18.52%) Defect Management
10 10 (18.52%) ETRM
11 9 (16.67%) Data Protection
11 9 (16.67%) Line Management
11 9 (16.67%) Risk Management
12 8 (14.81%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (92.59%) C#
2 22 (40.74%) Python
2 22 (40.74%) SQL
3 17 (31.48%) JavaScript
4 13 (24.07%) Java
5 12 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 9 (16.67%) XPath
7 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) HP APS
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Databricks
2 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) Wind River
4 3 (5.56%) Charles River
5 2 (3.70%) SAP
6 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.85%) HP
6 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.85%) Workday