SpecFlow Contracts in England

SpecFlow
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 553 551
Rank change year-on-year +113 -2 -23
Contract jobs citing SpecFlow 97 98 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.20% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.28% 1.39% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 185
10th Percentile £411 £369 £375
25th Percentile £450 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +7.89% +9.20%
75th Percentile £625 £576 £575
90th Percentile £650 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - +11.76%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,252 7,052 12,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.64% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,907 5,015 9,022
10th Percentile £352 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 203 186
10th Percentile £31.84 £43.17 £38.68
25th Percentile £54.38 £53.13 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.71
90th Percentile £78.68 £84.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

SpecFlow
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SpecFlow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow in England.

Daily rate trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SpecFlow in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SpecFlow in England.

Hourly rate trend for SpecFlow in England

SpecFlow
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpecFlow within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +132 85 £550 - 10
South East +5 6 £513 +20.23% 2
North West +15 4 £500 +69.49% 2
North of England +13 4 £500 +26.98% 5
South West +8 1 £525 - 1
SpecFlow
UK

SpecFlow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (3.09%) CMS
2 1 (1.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) EPiServer
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Endur
2 1 (1.03%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 57 (58.76%) Azure
2 52 (53.61%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (11.34%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.22%) Azure Pipelines
5 5 (5.15%) AWS
5 5 (5.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (4.12%) Azure App Service
6 4 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.06%) GCP
8 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.03%) PaaS
9 1 (1.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (41.24%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (45.36%) Selenium
2 21 (21.65%) Visual Studio
3 16 (16.49%) Git
4 14 (14.43%) Cucumber
5 13 (13.40%) WebDriver
6 11 (11.34%) Postman
7 9 (9.28%) JIRA
8 6 (6.19%) FitNesse
8 6 (6.19%) JMeter
9 5 (5.15%) TestRail
10 4 (4.12%) Moq
10 4 (4.12%) TeamCity
11 3 (3.09%) Jasmine
11 3 (3.09%) LoadRunner
11 3 (3.09%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
12 2 (2.06%) NUnit
12 2 (2.06%) SoapUI
13 1 (1.03%) Mercurial
13 1 (1.03%) MSTest
General
1 13 (13.40%) Finance
1 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.34%) Back Office
2 11 (11.34%) Banking
2 11 (11.34%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.25%) Front Office
4 7 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.12%) Local Government
6 1 (1.03%) Retail
6 1 (1.03%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (34.02%) Senior
2 32 (32.99%) Developer
3 18 (18.56%) Tester
4 16 (16.49%) Software Developer
5 14 (14.43%) C# Developer
6 13 (13.40%) Analyst
6 13 (13.40%) Senior Analyst
6 13 (13.40%) Senior Test Analyst
6 13 (13.40%) Test Analyst
7 12 (12.37%) Senior Developer
7 12 (12.37%) Senior Software Developer
8 8 (8.25%) QA Tester
9 7 (7.22%) Angular Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Automation Tester
9 7 (7.22%) QA Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) .NET Developer
11 5 (5.15%) Azure Developer
11 5 (5.15%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Software Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (55.67%) .NET
2 35 (36.08%) .NET Framework
3 32 (32.99%) XML
4 19 (19.59%) AngularJS
5 11 (11.34%) REST
6 9 (9.28%) Playwright
7 8 (8.25%) .NET Core
8 7 (7.22%) Entity Framework
8 7 (7.22%) KnockoutJS
9 5 (5.15%) HTML
9 5 (5.15%) JSON
10 3 (3.09%) CSS
10 3 (3.09%) LINQ
11 2 (2.06%) ASP.NET
11 2 (2.06%) React
12 1 (1.03%) Node.js
12 1 (1.03%) RESTful
12 1 (1.03%) Sass
12 1 (1.03%) SOAP
12 1 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.34%) Derivative
1 11 (11.34%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.12%) Hedge funds
3 4 (4.12%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.09%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.06%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.03%) Contactless
6 1 (1.03%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.03%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.03%) Android
1 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (58.76%) DevOps
2 55 (56.70%) Test Automation
3 52 (53.61%) Agile
3 52 (53.61%) CI/CD
4 38 (39.18%) Scrum
5 31 (31.96%) BDD
6 25 (25.77%) Performance Testing
7 22 (22.68%) TDD
8 19 (19.59%) Test Strategy
9 11 (11.34%) B2C
9 11 (11.34%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (11.34%) Manual Testing
10 10 (10.31%) API Testing
10 10 (10.31%) Microservices
10 10 (10.31%) Software Testing
11 9 (9.28%) ETRM
11 9 (9.28%) Regression Testing
11 9 (9.28%) SDET
12 8 (8.25%) Electronic Trading
12 8 (8.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 75 (77.32%) C#
2 29 (29.90%) PowerShell
3 23 (23.71%) SQL
4 12 (12.37%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.34%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.19%) Java
7 5 (5.15%) Python
8 4 (4.12%) Bicep
9 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.03%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (5.15%) ISTQB
1 5 (5.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (4.12%) Degree
3 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.68%) QA
2 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (11.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Ansible
1 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.03%) Puppet
1 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (35.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) Okta
3 6 (6.19%) Oracle
4 3 (3.09%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.06%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.03%) Google
6 1 (1.03%) NEC
6 1 (1.03%) OpenLink