SpecFlow Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SpecFlow
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SpecFlow skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SpecFlow over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 308 399
Rank change year-on-year +21 +91 +46
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 15 41 75
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.01% 2.21% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 58
10th Percentile £326 £417 £313
25th Percentile £406 £475 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £475 £650 £575
90th Percentile £621 £700 £715
UK median daily rate £438 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -20.45% +10.00% +5.26%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

SpecFlow falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,485 1,853 3,927
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.00% 12.10% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,814
10th Percentile £340 £360 £394
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 112
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £53.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £79.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

SpecFlow
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SpecFlow trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) OCI
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Selenium
2 5 (33.33%) Appium
2 5 (33.33%) Gatling
2 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) JMeter
3 4 (26.67%) CircleCI
3 4 (26.67%) GitLab
3 4 (26.67%) NeoLoad
4 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (6.67%) JIRA
5 1 (6.67%) Postman
5 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
5 1 (6.67%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (6.67%) TestComplete
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Developer in Test
3 4 (26.67%) Software Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Tester
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Playwright
2 4 (26.67%) Play Framework
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) Blazor
4 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
4 1 (6.67%) GWT
4 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) NHS
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Test Automation
2 11 (73.33%) Agile
3 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) SDET
5 5 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 5 (33.33%) Manual Testing
5 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 4 (26.67%) BDD
6 4 (26.67%) Defect Management
6 4 (26.67%) Kanban
6 4 (26.67%) Logistics
6 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
7 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 2 (13.33%) API Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) C#
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) C++
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) PHP
3 4 (26.67%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) Ruby
3 4 (26.67%) Scala
3 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce