SpecFlow Contracts with Work from Home Options

SpecFlow
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SpecFlow skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SpecFlow over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 400 429
Rank change year-on-year +85 +29 -29
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 39 80 190
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.10% 2.00% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 62 156
10th Percentile £419 £329 £363
25th Percentile £494 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% +12.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £538
90th Percentile £700 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £489
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.30% +15.00%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

SpecFlow is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,853 3,992 8,281
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.01% 15.34% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 2,862 5,991
10th Percentile £360 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 117 102
10th Percentile £27.62 £44.84 -
25th Percentile £47.06 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £61.61
90th Percentile - £78.50 £67.77
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.89%

SpecFlow
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SpecFlow trend for jobs with a WFH option

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SpecFlow.

SpecFlow daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

SpecFlow daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (12.82%) NServiceBus
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) EPiServer
Cloud Services
1 30 (76.92%) Azure
2 25 (64.10%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.69%) AWS
4 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.13%) Serverless
6 1 (2.56%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.56%) PaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (38.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) Selenium
2 12 (30.77%) Visual Studio
3 6 (15.38%) Postman
3 6 (15.38%) WebDriver
4 5 (12.82%) Git
4 5 (12.82%) Moq
4 5 (12.82%) NUnit
5 4 (10.26%) Cucumber
5 4 (10.26%) JMeter
6 3 (7.69%) LoadRunner
7 2 (5.13%) FitNesse
7 2 (5.13%) JIRA
7 2 (5.13%) SoapUI
7 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
7 2 (5.13%) TestRail
8 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.56%) Jasmine
8 1 (2.56%) Mercurial
8 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (2.56%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Back Office
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Front Office
5 1 (2.56%) Electronics
5 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Marketing
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Developer
2 11 (28.21%) Senior
3 9 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Software Developer
4 8 (20.51%) C# Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Analyst
5 6 (15.38%) Test Analyst
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Software Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Test Analyst
6 5 (12.82%) Tester
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Developer
7 4 (10.26%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (7.69%) .NET Software Developer
8 3 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Test Automation Manager
8 3 (7.69%) Test Manager
9 2 (5.13%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (58.97%) .NET
2 17 (43.59%) .NET Framework
3 11 (28.21%) XML
4 7 (17.95%) .NET Core
5 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 6 (15.38%) Entity Framework
6 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
6 5 (12.82%) Razor View Engine
6 5 (12.82%) REST
6 5 (12.82%) YAML
7 4 (10.26%) Playwright
8 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.56%) HTML
8 1 (2.56%) LINQ
8 1 (2.56%) Node.js
8 1 (2.56%) RESTful
8 1 (2.56%) SOAP
8 1 (2.56%) Swagger
8 1 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Derivative
1 4 (10.26%) Interest Rate Derivative
1 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Contactless
2 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.56%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 25 (64.10%) DevOps
3 23 (58.97%) Test Automation
4 19 (48.72%) Agile
5 13 (33.33%) BDD
6 12 (30.77%) Performance Testing
6 12 (30.77%) Scrum
7 10 (25.64%) Test Strategy
8 9 (23.08%) API Testing
8 9 (23.08%) TDD
9 7 (17.95%) Manual Testing
10 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (12.82%) ETRM
12 4 (10.26%) B2C
12 4 (10.26%) Code Quality
12 4 (10.26%) Electronic Trading
12 4 (10.26%) Full Stack Development
12 4 (10.26%) Load Testing
12 4 (10.26%) Software Testing
12 4 (10.26%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (79.49%) C#
2 11 (28.21%) PowerShell
2 11 (28.21%) SQL
3 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.13%) Java
5 2 (5.13%) Python
6 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) HP
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) Optimizely
3 1 (2.56%) SAP