SpecFlow
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SpecFlow skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SpecFlow over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 624 556 546
Rank change year-on-year -68 -10 -133
Permanent jobs citing SpecFlow 117 626 680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.51% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.69% 2.80% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 105 464 552
10th Percentile £45,950 £41,475 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,400 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,903 22,328 26,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 18.01% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,279 12,623 16,358
10th Percentile £42,255 £39,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,581 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,548 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow.

Salary trend for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SpecFlow in the UK

SpecFlow
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
England -8 113 £59,000 -5.60% 40
London +102 69 £65,500 -9.59% 20
Work from Home +43 59 £56,250 -2.17% 33
UK excluding London +10 45 £52,500 -4.55% 26
South East +40 16 £50,000 -13.04% 8
South West +51 15 £47,500 -10.80% 4
West Midlands +127 5 £55,000 - 1
Midlands +110 5 £55,000 - 3
North of England +93 5 £65,000 +20.93% 7
North West +84 4 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £50,000 -
North East +50 1 £55,000 - 1
Scotland +44 1 £65,000 +13.54% 2
Wales +16 1 £45,000 -30.77% 2

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 13 (11.11%) NServiceBus
2 9 (7.69%) Confluence
3 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.71%) CMS
4 2 (1.71%) IIS
4 2 (1.71%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.71%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (4.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.33%) Azure
2 32 (27.35%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (16.24%) BrowserStack
4 11 (9.40%) GitHub
5 6 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.27%) AWS
6 5 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.42%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.42%) Serverless
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.56%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.56%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (1.71%) Azure App Service
9 2 (1.71%) IaaS
9 2 (1.71%) PaaS
9 2 (1.71%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.24%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.55%) Event Store
2 10 (8.55%) RavenDB
3 3 (2.56%) Power BI
3 3 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.71%) Tableau
5 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (57.26%) Selenium
2 56 (47.86%) Postman
3 38 (32.48%) Git
4 28 (23.93%) Jenkins
5 27 (23.08%) JIRA
5 27 (23.08%) Visual Studio
6 22 (18.80%) Cucumber
7 21 (17.95%) Cypress.io
7 21 (17.95%) NUnit
8 18 (15.38%) JMeter
9 17 (14.53%) TeamCity
10 12 (10.26%) Gatling
10 12 (10.26%) WebDriver
11 11 (9.40%) Mercurial
12 9 (7.69%) Appium
13 8 (6.84%) git-flow
14 7 (5.98%) Bitbucket
14 7 (5.98%) Tricentis qTest
15 5 (4.27%) SoapUI
16 4 (3.42%) MSTest
General
1 19 (16.24%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.82%) Finance
3 10 (8.55%) Games
3 10 (8.55%) Retail
4 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.27%) Banking
7 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.56%) Front Office
8 3 (2.56%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Law
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (27.35%) Senior
2 29 (24.79%) QA Engineer
3 20 (17.09%) Senior QA Engineer
4 15 (12.82%) Software Engineer
5 14 (11.97%) Test Engineer
5 14 (11.97%) Tester
6 13 (11.11%) Lead
7 12 (10.26%) Developer
8 11 (9.40%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (9.40%) QA Automation Engineer
9 10 (8.55%) Automation Tester
10 9 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
11 8 (6.84%) Test Leader
12 7 (5.98%) Senior Automation Engineer
12 7 (5.98%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (5.13%) Selenium Automation Tester
13 6 (5.13%) Selenium Tester
14 5 (4.27%) .NET Developer
14 5 (4.27%) Lead Developer
15 3 (2.56%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (39.32%) .NET
2 23 (19.66%) REST
3 20 (17.09%) .NET Framework
4 19 (16.24%) Gherkin
5 16 (13.68%) React
6 10 (8.55%) Apache Cordova
7 9 (7.69%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.84%) Playwright
9 7 (5.98%) AngularJS
9 7 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (4.27%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (4.27%) Entity Framework
11 5 (4.27%) Kafka
11 5 (4.27%) Web Services
11 5 (4.27%) WireMock
11 5 (4.27%) XML
12 4 (3.42%) .NET Core
12 4 (3.42%) Spring
12 4 (3.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 11 (9.40%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (8.55%) Virtual Team
4 6 (5.13%) Hedge funds
5 5 (4.27%) FMCG
6 4 (3.42%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.71%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.85%) Online Games
9 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.85%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.40%) Windows
2 3 (2.56%) Android
2 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.85%) Debian
3 1 (0.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (60.68%) Test Automation
2 62 (52.99%) Agile
3 42 (35.90%) DevOps
4 41 (35.04%) BDD
5 36 (30.77%) Scrum
6 35 (29.91%) TDD
7 31 (26.50%) Software Testing
8 28 (23.93%) API Testing
8 28 (23.93%) SDLC
9 27 (23.08%) Manual Testing
10 25 (21.37%) CI/CD
11 23 (19.66%) SOLID
12 19 (16.24%) Microservices
12 19 (16.24%) SDET
13 18 (15.38%) Test Strategy
14 17 (14.53%) Functional Testing
15 16 (13.68%) Design Patterns
15 16 (13.68%) Software Engineering
16 15 (12.82%) Integration Testing
16 15 (12.82%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 103 (88.03%) C#
2 40 (34.19%) SQL
3 27 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.40%) Java
5 10 (8.55%) Python
6 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.71%) C++
7 2 (1.71%) Groovy
7 2 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (15.38%) ISTQB
2 17 (14.53%) ISEB
3 11 (9.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 9 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (41.88%) QA
2 13 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (10.26%) Docker
2 5 (4.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.27%) HP ALM
3 3 (2.56%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (9.40%) Microsoft
1 11 (9.40%) Xamarin
2 7 (5.98%) Atlassian
2 7 (5.98%) Spotify
3 5 (4.27%) HP
4 4 (3.42%) OpenText
4 4 (3.42%) Siebel
5 3 (2.56%) New Relic
5 3 (2.56%) Splunk
6 2 (1.71%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.85%) Nintex
7 1 (0.85%) VMware