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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 492 485
Rank change year-on-year -34 -7 +86
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 58 52 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.05% 1.15% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 94
10th Percentile £325 £413 £350
25th Percentile £356 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £519
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +3.61% -1.19%
75th Percentile £590 £641 £625
90th Percentile £725 £694 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -3.16%

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 5,525 4,538 5,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.00% 13.27% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,795 2,867 3,981
10th Percentile £342 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £638
90th Percentile £692 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 89 215
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.75 £51.00 £50.00
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 £77.02
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.00 £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 19 December 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 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 19 December 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 -33 46 £438 -20.45% 14
London -7 41 £438 -20.45% 6
Work from Home -2 18 £419 -16.42% 11
UK excluding London -39 10 £450 -10.00% 12
North of England -49 3 £463 -2.63% 1
Wales - 3 £490 -
South East -29 2 £326 - 8
Yorkshire -40 2 £419 -16.25%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North West -27 1 £650 +44.44% 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 9 (15.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) CMS
2 1 (1.72%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.72%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.00%) Azure
2 22 (37.93%) GitHub
3 19 (32.76%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (15.52%) Snowflake
5 6 (10.34%) AWS
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.72%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.72%) Datadog
6 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.72%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) HTTP
2 1 (1.72%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 24 (41.38%) JIRA
2 19 (32.76%) Selenium
3 13 (22.41%) Cucumber
3 13 (22.41%) Git
4 12 (20.69%) Jenkins
4 12 (20.69%) Postman
5 9 (15.52%) TestRail
5 9 (15.52%) Zephyr
6 5 (8.62%) Appium
7 4 (6.90%) GitLab
7 4 (6.90%) NUnit
8 3 (5.17%) JMeter
8 3 (5.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (3.45%) CircleCI
9 2 (3.45%) MSTest
9 2 (3.45%) REST Assured
9 2 (3.45%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.72%) Gatling
10 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (1.72%) XCUITest
General
1 18 (31.03%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Banking
4 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Tester
2 16 (27.59%) Developer
3 15 (25.86%) Angular Developer
3 15 (25.86%) Senior
4 14 (24.14%) Automation Tester
5 11 (18.97%) C# Developer
6 9 (15.52%) .NET Developer
6 9 (15.52%) Senior Developer
6 9 (15.52%) Test Engineer
7 8 (13.79%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Agile .NET Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Agile C# Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Agile Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Lead
8 5 (8.62%) Senior C# Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (63.79%) Playwright
2 21 (36.21%) .NET
3 14 (24.14%) .NET Framework
3 14 (24.14%) Entity Framework
3 14 (24.14%) NHibernate
3 14 (24.14%) REST
4 11 (18.97%) AngularJS
5 10 (17.24%) JSON
6 9 (15.52%) XML
7 7 (12.07%) RESTful
8 2 (3.45%) CSS
8 2 (3.45%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.45%) HTML
9 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 1 (1.72%) Blazor
9 1 (1.72%) GWT
9 1 (1.72%) PySpark
9 1 (1.72%) pytest
9 1 (1.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (8.62%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.45%) Equities
3 2 (3.45%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.72%) NHS
4 1 (1.72%) PKI
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Android
1 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) Agile
2 38 (65.52%) Test Automation
3 20 (34.48%) CI/CD
4 18 (31.03%) DevOps
5 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (27.59%) Test Scripting
7 15 (25.86%) Clean Code
7 15 (25.86%) Microservices
8 14 (24.14%) API Testing
8 14 (24.14%) Scrum
8 14 (24.14%) TDD
9 13 (22.41%) Unit Testing
10 12 (20.69%) ETRM
10 12 (20.69%) Validation
11 11 (18.97%) Defect Management
11 11 (18.97%) Line Management
11 11 (18.97%) Risk Management
12 10 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (13.79%) SDET
13 8 (13.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (93.10%) C#
2 23 (39.66%) SQL
3 21 (36.21%) Python
4 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
5 13 (22.41%) Java
6 10 (17.24%) TypeScript
7 9 (15.52%) XPath
8 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Degree
2 2 (3.45%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) HP APS
3 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Databricks
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.90%) Wind River
4 3 (5.17%) Charles River
5 2 (3.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.72%) HP
6 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.72%) Workday