SpecFlow Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SpecFlow
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SpecFlow skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 550 507
Rank change year-on-year +39 -43 +30
Permanent jobs citing SpecFlow 12 29 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.078% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.55% 0.79% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 36
10th Percentile £44,550 £44,000 £45,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,500 - £65,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

SpecFlow falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,200 3,670 3,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.23% 9.84% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,393 2,100 2,940
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SpecFlow relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SpecFlow job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SpecFlow
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SpecFlow.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SpecFlow

SpecFlow
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SpecFlow in the UK excluding London

SpecFlow
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +25 5 £45,000 -14.29% 7
Wales +5 3 £41,000 -15.46%
North of England +15 2 £60,000 +36.36% 10
North East +6 2 £60,000 -
East of England - 2 £65,000 - 1
SpecFlow
UK

SpecFlow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 3 (25.00%) Appium
3 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) TestNG
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) JMeter
4 2 (16.67%) MSTest
4 2 (16.67%) NUnit
5 1 (8.33%) Git
5 1 (8.33%) JUnit
5 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Automation Test Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 2 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (41.67%) Playwright
3 4 (33.33%) Gherkin
4 3 (25.00%) REST
4 3 (25.00%) Web Services
5 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (91.67%) BDD
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 4 (33.33%) Project Planning
4 4 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (25.00%) API Testing
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) QA Automation
6 2 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) ISEB
1 4 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 4 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft