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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 496 503
Rank change year-on-year -20 +7 +72
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 58 56 121
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.06% 1.17% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 45 92
10th Percentile £345 £413 £328
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £595
90th Percentile £750 £688 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -3.95% +3.26% +2.22%

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 5,451 4,797 6,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 13.16% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,754 3,002 4,201
10th Percentile £329 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £501
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.60% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 133 239
10th Percentile £23.44 £24.93 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.25 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.35 £89.00
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 13 November 2025.

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 11 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 13 November 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 -50 45 £563 +2.27% 21
London -6 38 £563 +2.27% 8
Work from Home +8 18 £438 -12.50% 16
UK excluding London -37 13 £456 -3.95% 20
North of England -34 5 £556 +17.11% 7
Yorkshire -31 3 £419 -16.25% 3
Wales - 3 £490 - 5
South East -1 2 £326 -23.41% 5
North West -22 2 £663 +47.22% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

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 10 (17.24%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) CMS
2 1 (1.72%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.00%) Azure
2 24 (41.38%) GitHub
3 19 (32.76%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (12.07%) AWS
6 6 (10.34%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.45%) Datadog
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.72%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.72%) OCI
8 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.72%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) HTTP
2 2 (3.45%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.31%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 26 (44.83%) JIRA
2 19 (32.76%) Selenium
3 12 (20.69%) Git
4 11 (18.97%) Cucumber
4 11 (18.97%) Postman
5 10 (17.24%) Jenkins
6 7 (12.07%) TestRail
6 7 (12.07%) Zephyr
7 6 (10.34%) Appium
8 4 (6.90%) GitLab
8 4 (6.90%) NUnit
9 3 (5.17%) JMeter
9 3 (5.17%) WebDriver
10 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
10 2 (3.45%) CircleCI
10 2 (3.45%) MSTest
10 2 (3.45%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.72%) Maven
General
1 19 (32.76%) Finance
2 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Banking
4 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Developer
2 18 (31.03%) Angular Developer
3 17 (29.31%) Senior
4 14 (24.14%) Tester
5 12 (20.69%) C# Developer
5 12 (20.69%) Senior Developer
6 10 (17.24%) Automation Tester
7 9 (15.52%) .NET Developer
7 9 (15.52%) Test Engineer
8 8 (13.79%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (10.34%) Senior C# Developer
10 5 (8.62%) Agile .NET Developer
10 5 (8.62%) Agile C# Developer
10 5 (8.62%) Agile Developer
10 5 (8.62%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (8.62%) Lead
11 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (6.90%) Test Automation Engineer
12 3 (5.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (60.34%) Playwright
2 26 (44.83%) .NET
3 17 (29.31%) .NET Framework
3 17 (29.31%) Entity Framework
3 17 (29.31%) NHibernate
4 15 (25.86%) AngularJS
5 13 (22.41%) REST
6 10 (17.24%) RESTful
7 8 (13.79%) JSON
8 7 (12.07%) XML
9 4 (6.90%) Gherkin
10 2 (3.45%) CSS
10 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.45%) HTML
11 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 1 (1.72%) GWT
11 1 (1.72%) pytest
11 1 (1.72%) React
11 1 (1.72%) WireMock
11 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.45%) PKI
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Equities
4 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Android
1 3 (5.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) Agile
2 35 (60.34%) Test Automation
3 20 (34.48%) CI/CD
4 19 (32.76%) Microservices
4 19 (32.76%) Scrum
5 18 (31.03%) Clean Code
5 18 (31.03%) DevOps
6 17 (29.31%) Unit Testing
7 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (25.86%) ETRM
9 14 (24.14%) Line Management
9 14 (24.14%) Risk Management
10 13 (22.41%) API Testing
10 13 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (22.41%) Test Scripting
11 11 (18.97%) API Development
11 11 (18.97%) TDD
12 10 (17.24%) BDD
12 10 (17.24%) Validation
13 9 (15.52%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (91.38%) C#
2 22 (37.93%) SQL
3 15 (25.86%) Python
4 11 (18.97%) Java
4 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.07%) XPath
6 6 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Databricks
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Wind River
3 2 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.45%) Charles River
4 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.72%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) Sitecore