SpecFlow Contract Job Trends

SpecFlow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SpecFlow skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 464 546
Rank change year-on-year -57 +82 +73
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 47 95 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.25% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.94% 1.86% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 78 76
10th Percentile £291 £413 £333
25th Percentile £327 £450 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £678 £638 £539
90th Percentile £761 £688 £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £331 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -33.77% +5.26% +5.56%

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 5,003 5,115 6,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 13.28% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,364 3,269 4,608
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 176 245
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.62 £46.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.05 £72.81 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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
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 18 September 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 13 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 18 September 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 -39 35 £650 +23.81% 15
London -31 26 £650 +20.93% 8
Work from Home +13 16 £438 -12.50% 14
UK excluding London -1 16 £331 -33.77% 11
Wales - 5 £309 -
South East +21 4 £326 -33.23% 7
North of England -15 3 £663 +47.22% 1
North West -16 2 £663 +51.43% 1
Scotland - 2 £425 -
Yorkshire -15 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
Midlands - 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.89%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (38.30%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (34.04%) GitHub
3 7 (14.89%) AWS
4 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.26%) Datadog
5 2 (4.26%) OCI
5 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.13%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.13%) GCP
6 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.13%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (42.55%) Selenium
2 16 (34.04%) JIRA
3 9 (19.15%) Cucumber
4 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
5 5 (10.64%) Appium
5 5 (10.64%) Postman
6 4 (8.51%) Git
6 4 (8.51%) GitLab
6 4 (8.51%) WebDriver
7 3 (6.38%) NUnit
7 3 (6.38%) REST Assured
8 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
8 2 (4.26%) CircleCI
8 2 (4.26%) Cypress.io
8 2 (4.26%) Gatling
8 2 (4.26%) JMeter
9 1 (2.13%) MSTest
9 1 (2.13%) SoapUI
9 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.13%) TestComplete
General
1 20 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.79%) Finance
3 9 (19.15%) Banking
4 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Local Government
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Angular Developer
1 14 (29.79%) Developer
2 13 (27.66%) Senior
3 12 (25.53%) Test Engineer
4 10 (21.28%) Senior Developer
5 8 (17.02%) C# Developer
5 8 (17.02%) Lead
6 5 (10.64%) .NET Developer
6 5 (10.64%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Lead Test Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) QA Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Tester
8 3 (6.38%) Agile .NET Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Agile C# Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Agile Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (48.94%) Playwright
2 18 (38.30%) .NET
3 13 (27.66%) .NET Framework
3 13 (27.66%) AngularJS
3 13 (27.66%) Entity Framework
3 13 (27.66%) NHibernate
4 9 (19.15%) CSS
4 9 (19.15%) HTML
4 9 (19.15%) RESTful
5 5 (10.64%) REST
6 3 (6.38%) Blazor
6 3 (6.38%) Gherkin
6 3 (6.38%) GWT
7 2 (4.26%) JSON
8 1 (2.13%) PySpark
8 1 (2.13%) pytest
8 1 (2.13%) SOAP
8 1 (2.13%) Web Services
8 1 (2.13%) XML
8 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
1 5 (10.64%) NHS
2 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.26%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Android
1 3 (6.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (82.98%) Agile
2 32 (68.09%) Test Automation
3 21 (44.68%) Scrum
4 18 (38.30%) CI/CD
5 17 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (34.04%) DevOps
7 15 (31.91%) Clean Code
7 15 (31.91%) Microservices
8 14 (29.79%) Unit Testing
9 13 (27.66%) Test Scripting
10 12 (25.53%) ETRM
10 12 (25.53%) Test Strategy
11 11 (23.40%) BDD
11 11 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (23.40%) Line Management
11 11 (23.40%) Risk Management
12 10 (21.28%) API Development
13 9 (19.15%) Coaching
13 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
14 8 (17.02%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 39 (82.98%) C#
2 19 (40.43%) SQL
3 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.51%) Java
5 3 (6.38%) Python
6 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Degree
2 5 (10.64%) ISTQB
3 4 (8.51%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.66%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 1 (2.13%) Databricks
3 1 (2.13%) Salesforce